by The Carr Center | Oct 11, 2021 | Meet The Artist
Master Teacher Kris Nobles of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy is a highly accomplished professional dancer and instructor. He has won the Tanzolymp Danz Festival in Berlin, Germany competing in classical ballet. He has also been invited to perform solo in the “Duke...
by The Carr Center | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
From one of the earliest performances by African American musicians on sound film (1923) to Canada’s first foray with jazz on film (1949), guest curator Marcus Turner explores the interconnected histories of jazz and film as he samples groundbreaking film performances...
by The Carr Center | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Announcing our 30th anniversary year of exciting events. Under the direction of Oliver Ragsdale, Jr., President and CEO, and Artistic Director, three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and educator Terri Lyne Carrington, The Carr Center’s Season begins in...
by The Carr Center | Oct 7, 2021 | Press Releases
Detroit’s Carr Center marks its 30th anniversary this season, returning from a nearly two-year hiatus from live performance and a focus on “the new.” “We never focused on when we might reopen,” said Carr Center President and CEO Oliver Ragsdale Jr. “We focused on what...
by The Carr Center | Oct 3, 2021 | Press Releases
Carr Center staffers were scoping out their new digs in Midtown Detroit when they had an “accident by divine order,” as director Oliver Ragsdale put it. At the Park Shelton on Woodward, the long-running Black arts organization had secured a former retail space to be...
