a2tango
Ann Arbor Area

Ann Arbor's Argentine Tango studio. Our teachers, djs, and organizers are among the most experienced in North America and are dedicated to promoting the social art of tango throughout our community and beyond. For more information, email us and/or subscribe to the a2tango mailing list (available on a2tango.com). We hope to see you on the dance floor!

AMPlifying the Arts
Ypsilanti Area

AMP’s mission as a student organization is to connect EMU student artists with audiences, venues, and opportunities, and empower them to take their creative practices and move them into potential careers.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor Area

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is an exhilarating celebration of performing arts, outdoor entertainment, and community spirit. Each year, this three-and-a-half-week cultural and social event offers dozens of performances, activities, screenings, and more, with eclectic music, dance, comedy, film, visual arts, and family fun.

Art Meets Business
Ann Arbor Area

Art Meets Business is designed to help creative people in and around Ann Arbor master marketing, customer relations, pricing, negotiating, the use of technology, and other skills critical to their success. The program is open to writers, musicians, artists, dancers, actors, arts instructors, photographers, and other creative entrepreneurs who are self-employed or own businesses. AMB members have access to individual coaching, monthly networking meetings, business skills training workshops, and other resources.

The Arts Alliance-Community Outreach
Dexter Area

How did my event or share ad get here? We found the info posted publicly elsewhere, or it was sent to us. We want our calendar to give as complete a picture as possible of arts goings-on in and around Washtenaw Co. You can post on a3arts.org. So please log in or register at a3arts.org. Need help with posting? Contact john@a3arts.org

Arts in Motion Dance and Music Studio
Ann Arbor Area

At Arts in Motion we provide high quality dance and music instruction to students of all ages with an emphasis on self-expression, musicality, creativity, and artistic integrity.

dedicated to make a change, L3C
Ypsilanti Area

Dedicated to Make a Change, L3C - which is an all inclusive youth organization.  The mission is to encourage youth to examine and to learn about issues of justice, diversity and social responsibility through action.  We provide a learning environment for youth while cultivating partnerships with the community. 

Gifts of Art, U-M Health System
Ann Arbor Area

Gifts of Art brings the world of music and art to the University of Michigan Health System’s patients, visitors, staff and community. We offer a number of different programs, including nine changing exhibit galleries, weekly performances, an artist in residence program that brings art making activities to the bedsides of patients, Bedside Music, and a symphony orchestra for members of the U-M life sciences community (Life Sciences Orchestra), which performs two free concerts a year at Hill Auditorium. We also have the Friends Meditation Garden and an Art Cart, which brings colorful framed prints to patients at their bedsides so they can choose art for their rooms. All exhibits and performances are free and open to the public. For more info, please visit: http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/ or call 734-936-ARTS (2787).

Great Lakes Contemporary Ballet Company
Ann Arbor Area

Great Lakes Academy of Dance, Professional Ballet Company

Intrinsic Multimedia and Entertainment Group
Ypsilanti Area

Audition for Talent Search and Artist Showcase= All Talent, All Ages

Jackson School of the Arts
Outside Washtenaw County

Year round programs and classes in Art, Dance and Theater for children and adults.

People Dancing
Ann Arbor Area

People Dancing is a consortium of modern dance artists with a style that is fresh and eclectic. Performances include new and repertory dance works which portray inventive choreography. These works are performed with a "satisfying physicality" and unique, quirky theatricality. The company’s artists have been lauded in the press as presenting a “dazzling display of the human form and the joy of motion ” in their dancing, and as possessing an “ethereal beauty” (2005). The whole company performs “tight and captivating” productions and often include new video, costumes, original music.

Prison Creative Arts Linkage Project
Ann Arbor Area

The Linkage Project affirms the creativity of adults and youth returning from incarceration.

Pure Existence Dance Company
Dexter Area

A non-profit contemporary dance company with rehearsal space in Dexter. We perform in the southeast Michigan area and are committed to excellence in dance training and performance.

Swing City Dance Studio
Ann Arbor Area

Swing CIty Dance Studio offers quality dance instruction for children, teens & adults. Susan Filipiak, Director

the greenroom
Ann Arbor Area

the greenroom is an unconventional, creative God-centered movement designed at bringing together all forms of artists for the purpose of experiencing God in new and creative ways, and actively living out the radical love of Jesus in the world. The greenroom will officially launch on September 27th 2010 in Downtown A2. Get ready!

UM Gamelan
Ann Arbor Area

University Musical Society (UMS)
Ann Arbor Area

One of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, UMS is committed to connecting audiences with artists from around the world in uncommon and engaging experiences. With a program steeped in music, dance, and theater, UMS contributes to a vibrant cultural community by presenting approximately 60-75 performances and over 100 free educational activities each season (Sept. - April). UMS also commissions new work, sponsors artist residencies, and organizes collaborative projects with local, national, and international partners. While proudly affiliated with the University of Michigan and housed on the U-M campus, UMS is a separate not-for-profit organization that supports itself from ticket sales, grants, contributions, and endowment income.

Village of Dexter Arts, Culture & Heritage Committee
Dexter Area

YDT - Youth Dance Theatre of Michigan
Chelsea Area

Youth Dance Theatre provides professional-caliber dance training to students ages 9 - 18. Under the guidance of artistic director, Wendi DuBois, company members produce two full-length ballets each season, as well as participate in cameo performances and demonstrations throughout Southeastern Michigan. Company auditions are held each August. YDT also offers a three week Summer Dance Intensive.