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DANCE MUSIC THEATRE VISUAL ART
OUR 37TH SEASON
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From the Principal Mrs. Casandra D. Robinson I am exceptionally proud and honored to be the Principal of Dillard High School. The pride that permeates throughout the campus and community is contagious. I love that Panther Pride! Dillard High School, where teaching and learning is our first priority, has a rich history of over 100 years. With a wide variety of rigorous academic and artistic courses, we are uniquely qualified to work with students from all over Broward County, under the expertise of master teachers. . We are committed to the challenge of equipping our students with skills that will help them to take their rightful place among the many distinguished Dillard alumni. That commitment extends through DIllard Center for the Arts, Broward County’s exclusive high school visual and performing arts magnet program. By helping young people “find their voice,” the blending of both academic and artistic connections toward a quality, well-rounded education allows us to help high school students immerse themselves in their element, their passion and their creativity. I invite you to explore our programs and performances. Discover what makes Dillard Center for the Arts a special place for students with great interest and abilities in music, visual arts, theater, and dance. We’re a family at Dillard High School. We believe we can all achieve and we believe, Together We Make Great Things Happen through Proper Planning, Professionalism and with Panther Pride!
Casnadra D. Robinson CASANDRA D. ROBINSON PRINCIPAL
ABOUT DILLARD CENTER FOR THE ARTS Dillard Center for the Arts (DCA) is Broward County Schools’ exclusive high school visual and performing arts magnet program providing training in dance, music, theater, and visual arts. For 38 years, DCA has continued to present world-class theatre, concerts, and visual arts exhibitions at the Broward Center, Dillard Center for the Arts Theater, and throughout Broward County thereby reaching several generations of South Floridians. DCA seeks to offer preparation for higher education and professions in the arts by providing experiences not available at the traditional high school, while creating an environment conducive for artistic growth and development for bright and talented high school students residing in Broward County. DCA is committed to its role as a college preparatory school, making students aware of the variety of opportunities they have for future training at colleges, universities, advanced art institutes, and conservatories. The school recognizes and values student individuality which nurtures, without exception, the values of individual accomplishment and independence. I would like to invite you to become a part of the Dillard Center for the Arts family by becoming a season ticket subscriber. In doing so, you will be treated to world class entertainment by our young artists, as well as being afforded the opportunity to invest in arts education. This allows our students to enjoy a quality artistic and educational experience. DCA is designed to inspire the imagination and prepare our students for educational success and career opportunities at the next level. Our goal is to bring unique artistic experiences to our students, as well as quality artistic programming to our community.
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OUR SEASON THE DCA JAZZ ENSEMBLE W/S P EC I A L G U EST
NAT ADDERLY JR. Dillard Center for the Arts in partnership with Old Dillard Museum will celebrate the birthday of Fort Lauderdale’s greatest band director, the late great saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, at a concert featuring his nephew, Nat Adderley, Jr., a nationally renowned jazz pianist in his own right and the award winning DCA Jazz Ensemble.
Date: September 20 Time: 3:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Adults $20 | Students $10
HIGHLIGHTS FROM RENT A MU S I C A L T R I B UT E In the late 1980s and early 1990s, friends in Manhattan’s East Village struggle to build the lives of their dreams. Pennilessness, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, social tension, and political unrest, among other hardships, challenge the group physically and emotionally. Facing the problems head on, they make personal self-discoveries and find what really matters most in life.
ITS MO RE F U N I N A G R OU P Seeing a performance with a group is not only fun, it is also economical. You just need ten or more people who want to get together for a great deal on shows. Any group can take advantage of our group discounts, including families, social organizations and clubs, corporate outings and more. We offer group discounts of 10% or more for most performances. Minimum orders vary by show. Visit dillardhigh.com/showtime for details.
Date: October 3 Time: 7:30 PM Venue: DCA Black Box Theater Adults $10 | Students $5
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The DCA Masterworks Concert showcases the DCA Chorus and Wind Orchestra featuring John Rutter’s Te Deum, performed with brass ensemble and organ. Don’t miss out on your chance to enjoy this unique musical masterpiece as it comes to life on stage. Date: October 18 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Adults & Students: $5
A P I EC E OF MY H EART This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Vietnam: five nurses and a country western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, during, and after her tour in the war-torn nation and ends as each leaves a personal token at the memorial wall in Washington. Dates: October 28, 29, 31 Time: 7:00 PM | 2:00 PM (Sat) Venue: DCA Black Box Theater Adults $10 | Students $5
Magical 2015 - 2016 Season
HISTORY OF JAZZ Take a musical journey with the nationally acclaimed and renowned Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Ensemble as they journey through the history of Amerca’s music - jazz. Part of the Broward Public Schools SEAS Concert Series. Dates: October 14 Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Broward Center (Amaturo Theater) No Admission
THE WIZ
A beloved Broadway gem, The Wiz infuses L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with a dazzling mix of rock, gospel, and soul music. This timeless tale of Dorothy’s adventures through the Land of Oz is a fun, family-friendly, modern musical. Adapted into a film version featuring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. WINNER of 7 Tony Awards - Including Best Musical! Also WINNER of 5 Drama Desk Awards Including Outstanding Music & Lyrics! Dates: November 12, 13, 14, 15 Time: 7:30 PM, Nov 15 - 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Adults $20 | Students $10
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LITTLE MATCH GIRL
BA L L E T
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It’s winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter to try to stave off the cold a bit, and lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did
Dates: 7:30 PM December 5 4:00 PM December 6 Venue: DCA Theater Adults $10 | Students $5
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her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.
THE C H R I STMAS STORY Dillard Center for the Arts proudly presents the premiere performance of The Christmas Story, the stirring account of Christmas as told by a celebrity narrator, accompanied by the Dillard Center for the Arts Wind Orchestra and Mass Choir. . Listen along while the story of the babe in a manger touches your heart as it has for generations—accompanied by warm and inspiring holiday music.
Dates: December 12 Time: 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM December 13, 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Adults $10 | Students $5
Magical 2015 - 2016 Season
OPEN HOUSE
DCA MAGN ET S HOWCASE
Dillard Center for the Arts presents its annual Visual & Performing Arts Open House. Middle & High School students currently not attending DCA that are passionate about studying the arts are invited and encouraged to attend. The evening will feature showcase performances from our award winning Music, Theatre and Dance Departments. Our Visual Arts
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Department will also have exhibits on display in our very own 2500 sq. ft. Art Gallery. Date: January 21 Time: 6:30 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: Free
Join us for an evening of bold and lively music at the “Festival of Winds 2016”, a musical experience designed to showcase high school concert bands throughout South Florida. The Festival’s non-competitive atmosphere provides a place for growth, as each band will have the opportunity to work with renowned university directors, for an on-stage, clinic following their performance. January 31 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: Free
E E JA Z Z F E ST I VAL Dillard Center for the Arts is proud to host the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival, featuring high school jazz bands from across South Florida. Essentially Ellington co-produces this non-competitive, educationfocused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard. The weekend of activities culminates with a performance featuring the DCA Jazz Ensemble. Dates: February 6 (Festival) & 7 (DCA Jazz Concert) Time: Festival Performance Times: TBA |DCA Jazz Concert 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Festival Adminssion: FREE | Sunday DCA Jazz Concert: Adults $20 | Students $10
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ROM EO & J U LI E T
S H AK E S P E A R E AN T HE AT R E
Teenagers Romeo and Juliet fall for each other despite their warring families in Verona. Their passionate romance leads to tragedy in William Shakespeare’s tale of forbidden love.
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Dates: February 11, 12 Time: 7:30 PM Venue: DCA Black Box Theater Adults $10 | Students $5
F BA JA Z Z F E ST I VAL The Florida Bandmasters Association, in conjunction with the Florida School Music Association, sponsors non-competitive performance opportunities called Music Performance Assessments (MPA). The purpose of the MPA is to provide opportunities for students and directors to perform in an environment which provides critical evaluation of its performance by noted experts in the field of band performance. Dillard Center for the Arts is proud to once again host the Jazz MPA’s for both Middle & High School Jazz Ensembles in Broward County. All FBA events are free and open to the public.
FBA MPA Series
Date: February 18 Time: TBA Venue: DCA Theater
DILLARD Center for the Arts The STARS SHINE BRIGHT at DCA DCA is recognized as one of the nations premier high schools for arts education. Our sprawling Ft. Lauderdale facility features several dance studios, private and group music studios, five instrumental and vocal ensemble rehearsal rooms, a state of the art music production lab/ recording studio, three performance venues, as well as several theater and visual arts classrooms, all housed under one roof. At Dillard Center For The Arts (DCA), the visual and performing arts is our specialty! Our ability to integrate a rigorous academic curriculum with an intense study of arts under the tutelage of a highly qualified staff of music educators and industry professionals is just a few of the reasons why you should consider Broward County’s premiere visual and performing arts magnet.
Department of Art & Design
DCA Art Gallery Located in the DCA Theater 2501 NW 11th St. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Opening Reception 4:00 PM - December 10 4:00 PM - January 20 Meet the DCA Senior Art Majors during an opening reception beginning at 4 p.m., with the exhibits open until 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, please call 754-322-0838 or visit dillardhigh.com/showtime. Dates: December 10 & January 20 Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Venue: Dillard Center for the Arts Gallery Admission: Free
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S HADE S OF B LU E
G OS P EL N IGHT CELEBRATION
The 4th Annual “Shades of Blue” Gospel Concert, featuring the Dillard High School Choir is held in honor of the late Rhoda Glasco Snead Collins. Mrs. Collins faithfully served as choral director at Dillard High for 22 years throughout the 50’s and 60’s. Donations given at the concert contribute directly to the Rhoda Glasco Snead Collins scholarship fund for Dillard High School students entering college with an interest in music. Date: February 28 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: $10 Adults | $5 Students
F BA H S CON C E RT BAN D F E ST I VAL The Florida Bandmasters Association, in conjunction with the Florida School Music Association, sponsors non-competitive performance opportunities called Music Performance Assessments (MPA). Dillard Center for the Arts is proud to once again host the Concert Band MPA’s for both Middle & High School bands in Broward County. All FBA events are free and open to the public. High School MPA Dates: March 8 & 9 Middle School MPA Dates: March 15 & 16 Performance Times TBA at dillardhigh.com/showtime Venue: DCA Theater
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Magical 2015 - 2016 Season
SWEET DILLARD JAZZ Enjoy the music of the award winning, nationally renowned DCA Jazz Ensemble as they swing to the Big Band music and treat yourself to a sweet dessert buffet during intermission. Sweet Dillard Jazz is the ensemble’s annual fundraising concert designed to offset student travel expenses for the Essentially Ellington Competition. The Dillard Jazz Ensemble earned First Place at Essentially Ellington in 2011 and 2012 and has placed in the top four bands in each of its six appearances. Date: March 13 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: $20 Adults | $10 Students
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SE N IO R C H OR EOG R A PHY & DA N C E S H OWC ASE The inspiring “Dance Forever” Spring Dance Concert features works by our outstanding students as well as choreography from our senior dance majors. Works range from jazz, modern, tap, and musical theatre dances to experimental combinations of words and movement. The showcase, which serves as the senior capstones for DCA Dance seniors features original choreographed pieces. This is an excellent opportunity to see tomorrow's professional choreographers today. Dates: May 21, 22 Time: 8:00 PM/4:00 PM (Sun) Venue: DCA Theater Admission: $10 Adults | $5 Students
ASK YOUR MAMA
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite. Ask Your Mama is Hughes’s homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin “cha cha” and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming -- a creative masterwork left unperformed at his death.
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Originally, Langston Hughes created Ask Your Mama in the
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designed to serve not as mere background for the words but to
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forge a conversation and a commentary with the music. Though
Date: April 10 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: $20 Adults | $10 Students
aftermath of his participation as an official for the five-day Newport Jazz Festival of July 1960. The musical scoring of the poem was
Hughes originally intended to collaborate with Charles Mingus, and then Randy Weston, on the full performance of his masterwork, it remained only in the planning stages when Langston Hughes died in 1967. Its recovery now in word, music, and image provides a galvanizing experience for audiences everywhere.
Memphis
AP RIL 21, 22, 23 - 7:3 0 PM AP RIL 24 - 4: 00 PM M AT I N EE DILLARD CEN TER FOR THE ARTS TH EAT ER ADMISSION : $20 ADULTS | $10 S TUD EN T S
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was
Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey’s
born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations
close-minded mama and Felicia’s cautious brother, a
and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee
club owner), they embark on a dangerous affair. As their
city. With an original score, it tells the fictional story of
careers rise, the relationship is challenged by personal
DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole’ local boy with a passion for
ambition and the pressures of an outside world unable
R&B music and Felicia Farrell, an up-and-coming black
to accept their love.
singer that he meets one fateful night on Beale Street.
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DCA UNPLUGGED The Unplugged Commercial Music showcase features select DCA vocalist, backed by a 12 piece student house band performing hits made popular by artist such as Beyonce’, Bob Marley, Frankie Beverly, and many many more, LIVE, in the intimate setting of the DCA Black Box Theater. From Old School to New School, Unplugged is guaranteed to have you up dancing and singing all night! Dates: May 24, 25, 26 Time: 7:30 PM Venue: DCA Black Box Theater Admission: $10 Adults | $5 Students
U N CON QU E R E D “Unconquered” is The Dillard Marching Panthers end of the year musical spectacular. This show with its blazing horns, dazzling drumline, flawless flagline and gorgeous dancers and majorettes is one you don’t want to miss. Date: June 1 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: DCA Theater Admission: $5
BOX OFFICE Box Office & Patron Services Information: The DCA Box Office is located at the east entrance to Building #2, which is directly accross from the Dillard High Administration Building. Hours of operation: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm. Contact the Box Office by phone at 754.322.0838, or email at trabien.polk@browardschools.com. Note: Please do not submit ticket orders by email.
ONLINE SALES
Tickets can be purchased online by visiting www.dillardhigh.com/showtime.
GROUP SALES
• 10 to 24 people receive a 10% discount off regular ticket price. • 25 to 49 people receive a 15% discount off regular ticket price. • 50 and more people receive a 20% discount off regular ticket price. Please visit our website at dillardhigh.com/showtime or contact the Box Office for additional information.
GIVING
Our productions are possible because of generous gifts from our friends. If you would like to learn more about how you can make a positive impact in the lives of students such as those featured in this brochure, please contact Israel Charles, Artistic Director, Dillard Center for the Arts. 754.322.0838 israel.charles@browardschools.com
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The Venue Dillard Center for the Arts features instructional, community, and professional entertainment and informational programs designed specifically for arts education and community engagement.
Dillard Center for the Arts boasts a
orchestra suites, a piano laboratory,
designed specifically for arts education
spectacular proscenium theater with
two acting studios, a music theater
in Broward.
a state-of-the-art sound system and
laboratory, a green room, scene
655 seats, as well as a 4000 square
shop, costume and property storage,
foot Black Box theater and a 250
orchestra pit, make-up/dressing
seat Recital Hall, a 2,500 square
room areas, lockers, showers, ticket
foot art gallery. Designed with
booth and snack bar, the Performing
three dance studios, five visual arts
Arts Center is a one-of-a-kind
studios, two vocal studios, band and
multi-purpose performance center
DCA BLACK BOX THEATER The Black Box Theater, is a unique “flexible seating� venue featuring new and experimental productions. Due to the nature of the venue, the exact number of seats available
for performances may vary.
Access to the Black Box Theater
Therefore, a limited number
is through the Recital Hall Foyer
of seats will be placed on sale
entrance on the south side of
DCA has been constructed to
at the beginning of the season
Building 2.
accommodate attendance for people with
ACCESSABILITY
until the exact seating count has
accessibility requirements. Accessible
been confirmed by the technical
seating is available on the main floor in the
staff. All seating in the Black Box
Orchestra seating section of Rows N or P
Theater is General Admission –
Please contact the Box Office for additional
on a first-come first-served basis.
information.
Advertise with DCA Our Audience Dillard Center for the Arts will attract an estimated 10,000 ticketed guest this season. Our audience features adult professionals including parents, students, education professionals and arts patrons from all areas of Broward County. Corporate/Business and community support is invaluable to our program, as it provides the future artist of tomorrow the opportunity to gain the types of extra ordinary experiences that students with a deep passion for studying at a Visual & Performing Arts Magnet school should receive. Cash and in-kind support from sponsors helps to bridge the gap between what the public school system can provide and the actual resources our students need to be prepared for success either in college or in the professional world.
For more information regarding advertising in our season brochure, playbills, or programs contact Israel Charles at israel.charles@browardschools.com or visit our website at dillardhigh.com/sponsorship.
Thank You Cox Media Miami For your support of Dillard Center for the Arts and our community!
DCA FACULTY Principal Mrs. Casandra D. Robinson
Assistant Principal to the Visual & Performing Arts William A. Barrow
Artistic Director Israel Charles
Dance Faculty Alina Guerrero Pena Enjoli Paul
Music Faculty Sophia Beharrie - Director of Vocal Studies Christopher Dorsey - Director of Jazz Studies Kenneth Howard - Vocal Music & Piano Phillip M. Jones II - Commercial Music Studies Sheldon McLean - Director of Wind Bands
Theatre Faculty Bruce F. Brown Angela Thomas
Technical Director Paul Thomas
Visual Art Faculty Stacey Jenkins Celestin Joseph Barbara Mazur Office Management/Box Office Trabien Polk
2501 NW 11th St. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 For More Information 754.322.0838
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