Author: Y Kendall

From the Nashville Film Festival

A Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt

A Man Called Hurt: The Life and Music of Mississippi John Hurt begins as a comfortably muted scene in an old-time country home in Avalon, Mississippi. “Frankie” is playing onRead More

My Soul Looks Back: Nashville’s Gospel Honors

  They took us to CHURCH! Well, you might ask, wasn’t the event in a church? Downtown Presbyterian Church, to be specific? Yes, but if you’re not familiar with theRead More

Come to the Cabaret at Studio Tenn

This is Studio Tenn’s first year in their new digs, the Turner Theater. Though a bit difficult to find within the maze of parking spaces, shops, and eateries, it wasRead More

The Nashville Ballet Tells Its Tale with Five Short Stories

It was exciting, no thrilling, to watch the story of the Nashville Ballet unfold before our very eyes. The narrative vigor, imagination, and artistry in Five Short Stories boldly declaredRead More

Alvin Ailey: A Thriving Legacy of Excellence

  When Alvin Ailey premiered Revelations in 1960, he was not quite 30 years old and his dance company had only been performing for two years. Ailey, son of aRead More

Total Art at the Nashville Ballet: Vasterling, Prokofiev, and more

Paul Vasterling’s Romeo and Juliet is definitely a tour de force. As he reveals in the pre-performance video, his intent was to create balance between narrative and dance, between movementRead More

Frist Art Museum in collaboration with Nashville Opera

When Marian Sang

It wasn’t clear what to expect. A collaboration between an art museum and an opera company was unusual enough to pique curiosity in lovers of both arts. So, on aRead More

Michelle Eistrup’s Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun at Fisk

Prior to the sunset premiere of Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun, Fisk University Galleries (Jameel Sheats, curator) hosted a panel and reception indoors on the John Hope and AureliaRead More

Thoughts of a Colored Man: Town and Gown Triumph

The first morality play in Western culture was written in 12th-century Germany by a woman for women. Of its many characters, only one, the devil, was male. The most recentRead More

OZ Arts presents

TRIBE – Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon

Darkened space, a throbbing mass of blue glimmering lights upstage center. Gradually, one by one, dancers emerge from a primordial ooze as if crawling into a new reality or allowingRead More