LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: One to tango
The Arkansas Arts Center will host a special arts program titled “The Arts in Motion: Tango,” an evening of dance for beginners through experts, 7-10:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
You won’t need a partner. Dance lessons begin at 7 p.m. with instruction from local and national tango teachers. Post lesson, guests can practice their new moves and dance the night away. Admission is $10, free for Arkansas Arts Center members. The program will continue on each second Thursday through May. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit the website, arkarts.com.
Bard grant
Arts Midwest, a Minneapolis-based regional arts organization that serves a nine-state region in the Midwest, is giving $25,000 to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre for the Rep’s September production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V.
The grant is one of 42 totaling more than $1 million in 2012-2013 Shakespeare for a New Generation Grants the organization is handing out to nonprofit, professional theater companies in 24 states and the District of Columbia to perform Shakespeare for middle and high school students.
The Rep will use the money to bring in at least 10 schools and possibly more than 1,500 students to student matinee performances of the history play over a three-week run.
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