Broadway performers Dean Balkwill (Rent, The Lion King) and Lisa Ferguson Balkwill (Cabaret, the film version of Chicago) will sing and dance their way through "Embraceable You," a tribute to George Gershwin set in post-war Paris, 7 p.m. Tuesday at Arkansas State University-Newport, 7648 Victory Blvd., Newport.
The show is part of the university's 2016-2017 Patron Series. Tickets are $23. Call (870) 512-7850 or visit tickets.asun.edu.
Cirque Saloon
Canadian troupe Cirque Eloize presents Saloon, the story of a piano tuner's adventures in a bar full of gold diggers, rail workers, chorus girls and cowboys told via comedy, acrobatics, spectacle, dance, on-stage musicians and "whiskey fumes," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Tickets are $30-$40, $10 for children and UCA students with ID. Call (501) 450-3265 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
Political analysis
Also at UCA's Reynolds Performance Hall, Marc Lamont Hill, a political contributor to CNN and Fox News and the host of HuffPost Live and BET News, will offer a critical analysis of the current social and political situation, 7:30 p.m. Monday. Tickets are $15.
'Border Cantos'
"Border Cantos: Sight & Sound Explorations From the Mexican-American Border" opens Saturday and will remain on display through April 24 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville.
The exhibit explores issues involving the United States-Mexico border through a collaboration in English and Spanish between American photographer Richard Misrach (large-scale photographs and grids of smaller photos) and Mexican-American sculptor/composer Guillermo Galindo (sound-generating sculptures created from items Misrach collected along the border, including water bottles, Border Patrol "drag tires," spent shotgun shells, ladders and sections of the border wall).
Admission is free. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Saturday-Sunday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Call (479) 418-5700 or visit crystalbridges.org.
Waltz Night
The Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra and Hendrix College Dance Ensemble present the annual Waltz Night benefit for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra's music lesson scholarships, 7:30 p.m. Monday in Hendrix's Trieschmann Gallery, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. The program will include waltzes and dances by Bedrich Smetana, Peter I. Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Georges Bizet, Astor Piazzola and Henry Mancini, with dance demonstrations and instruction so the audience can participate.
The winner of the college's annual Concerto and Aria Competition will be named before the final set. Karen Griebling conducts; Brigitte Rogers directs and choreographs the dancers. Admission is free; an anonymous donor will match voluntary donations to the Youth Orchestra. Call (501) 450-1249 or email griebling@hendrix.edu.
Artists announced
Springdale's Arts Center of the Ozarks has named 22 Northwest Arkansas-area artists and performers for the Artist INC Live 2017 seminar, an eight-week session that begins March 7 at the center, 214 S. Main St., Springdale.
The participants: musicians Lia Uribe and Alvin Lopez; visual artist and performer Dillon Dooms; playwright Rachel Lynett Washington; and visual artists Robert Lemming, Napoleon Dezaldivar, Ryan Tate, Ed Pennebaker, Marsha Lane Foster, Cynthia Post Hunt, Whitney Johnston, Aimee Papazian, Steve Adair, Taylor Hale, David R. Foss, Kellie Rushelle Lehr, Eloa Jane Pereira, Angela Teeter, Jenny Walker, Jeannie Stone, Evan Hallmark and Annushka Erickson. They'll gather one night a week for eight weeks to learn, hone and apply business skills specific to their discipline.
A panel of community arts leaders and artists made the selections through a competitive application process, based on the quality of work, with consideration given for an artist's career goals and overall readiness for the program, according to a news release.
Call (479) 751-5441, email info@acozarks.org or visit acozarks.org or artistinconline.com.
Ballet Visions
Four choreographers will create works for Ballet Arkansas company members at the 2017 Visions Winter Choreographic Competition, 8 p.m. March 3 in the Starr Theater at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $20. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
The choreographers: Michael Fothergill, dancer and choreographer with Birmingham-based Alabama Ballet; Mariana Oliveira, choreographer and artistic director of Union Project Dance Company in Los Angeles; Zalman Raffael, resident choreographer of Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, N.C.; and Manuel Vignoulle, a French choreographer based in New York. More information is available online at balletarkansas.org/visions.
Ballet Arkansas added a Northwest Arkansas Visions competition this year to one it has been holding for two years in Little Rock. The four finalists each have a week to cast, create and rehearse their work. A panel of dance experts, including Devon Carney, artistic director of Kansas City Ballet, with the audience will choose the winner, who will expand the successful work for a subsequent Ballet Arkansas performance.
Writing fellowship
March 30 is the deadline to apply for the Oxford American's Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship, which includes a $10,000 living stipend, housing, an editorial apprenticeship with the magazine and nine months in central Arkansas toward the writing of a debut book of creative nonfiction.
Writers who have not yet published a book of creative nonfiction are eligible. Complete applications are to include blind copies of a 300-500 word book proposal; a 300-500 word statement of interest in magazine editorial work; a creative nonfiction writing sample of no more than 12,000 words excerpted from the proposed project; and a curriculum vitae. Judges are writers and magazine contributors Brian Blanchfield, Bronwen Dickey and Ada Limon. The award recipient will be announced the first week of May.
More information on eligibility, guidelines and frequently asked questions, as well as the submission portal, are available at oxfordamerican.org/fellowship; email info@oxfordamerican.org.
The fellowship, in partnership with the Acansa Arts Festival, is named for Baskin, the executive director of North Little Rock's William F. Laman Library System for 27 years, who died in 2014.
AMP tickets
Tickets -- $41 to $81 plus applicable fees -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert by the Steve Miller Band with Peter Frampton, 7 p.m. July 18 at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Style on 02/12/2017