Chautauqua Theater Company today unveils program plans for the 2021 season, including three mainstage productions at the open-air Performance Pavilion on Pratt Avenue, a modified version of the renowned New Play Workshops. The mainstage performances showcase CTC’s versatility and commitment to elevating BIPOC voices, through presentations of Dominique Morrisseau’s Blood at the Root and George Stevens Jr.’s Thurgood, alongside original productions of the centuries-old Commedia dell’arte form. The 2021 repertoire responds to the issues of the day and the challenges of performing live in what everyone hopes will be the final months of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve approached our evolving planning this season with the...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced a new partnership with Academic Travel Abroad, Inc. (ATA) that will take the Chautauqua experience “on the road” to introduce, extend and supplement the Institution’s iconic Summer Assembly thematic-based programs. This represents the Institution’s second partnership with ATA, a Washington, D.C.-based international travel organization that first collaborated with Chautauqua in the 1980s for the historic Chautauqua Conferences on U.S.-Soviet Relations. Named Chautauqua Travels, this one-of-a-kind group travel program will curate unmatched experiences in the U.S. and abroad, leveraging Chautauqua’s distinctive mix of interdisciplinary and intergenerational explorations of the best in human values and the...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Opera Company today unveils program plans for the 2021 season, including two mainstage productions at the open-air Performance Pavilion on Pratt Avenue, and an enhanced commitment to new works through the celebrated Composer-in-Residence program and a new Composer Fellows program. The mainstage performances highlight the versatility of Chautauqua Opera Company through new productions of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg and (Working Title): A Company Developed Piece. The 2021 repertoire responds to the issues of the day and the challenges of performing live in what everyone hopes will be the final months of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Planning for the 2021 season has...
Chautauqua Institution today announced a multi-week residency with Dance Theatre of Harlem ballet company that will take place on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution during the month of April and culminate with public events at the Athenaeum Hotel’s Heirloom Restaurant May 1–2. During the residency, the company will take part in Chautauqua Arts Education programs online with Chautauqua County schools, as well as online conversations on CHQ Assembly featuring artistic director Virginia Johnson and renowned choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Rea-Fisher’s focus in the residency is a commission in tribute to legendary jazz and classical pianist and singer Hazel Scott, in the year that would...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the unification of its resident Chautauqua Opera Company, led by General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood, and Voice Program, led by Chair Marlena Malas. The newly combined program, under the auspices of Chautauqua Performing and Visual Arts, will be known as the Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory as the Institution moves into the 2022 season. The opera company’s existing Young Artist Program and the Voice Program, which serve young artists of different levels of training, will maintain their current leadership, faculty and staff, and their distinct and highly regarded training models. “This move...
The Chautauqua Golf Club today announced that the Chautauqua Hotel Company has taken over responsibility for the Clubhouse restaurant, the Double Eagle Patio on the Green. The club also announced an anticipated April 15 opening date for the 2021 golf season, weather permitting. Featuring both indoor and covered outdoor seating with sweeping views of manicured fairways and the hills surrounding Chautauqua Lake, the Double Eagle Patio on the Green will be open to the public and to golfers seven days a week once golf operations begin. New this season is an enhanced menu with new and creative food offerings created...
Dear Chautauquans, The message we posted yesterday regarding the 2021 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra season has sparked great enthusiasm for the forthcoming summer as well as a desire to know more. We join our entire community of communities in feeling increasingly hopeful about our prospects for a wonderful summer at Chautauqua. I write today to provide a more comprehensive update on the state of planning in view of continuing requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to give you a sense of our thinking at this time: What we know; what we do not know; and when we expect to know...
Chautauqua Institution today announced a new agreement with the musicians of the resident Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. The agreement extends the current Collective Bargaining Agreement through September 2021, but makes some important adjustments that provide for flexibility and creativity in planning the ensemble’s 2021 season. “I am pleased and grateful we have been able to reach an agreement that will serve both our patrons and CSO musicians during the 2021 season as we all look forward to an enriching and soul-nourishing 2021 Summer Assembly,” said Michael E. Hill, president of Chautauqua Institution. “This hope-filled news allows us to immediately work together...
Following a national search, Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill today announced the appointment of Amit Taneja as Chautauqua’s first-ever Senior Vice President and Chief Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Officer. In this role, Taneja will oversee the development of organization and community programs, services, operations, trainings, procedures and policies to ensure that inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility are integral to all that is Chautauqua Institution. As Chief IDEA Officer, he will also collaborate with staff, patrons and other community stakeholders across Chautauqua to infuse IDEA principles throughout the Institution and into the planning and development of all its...
Chautauqua Institution’s Arts Education School Residencies program is the recipient of a three-year grant award totaling $45,000 from The Children’s Guild Foundation, located in Buffalo, New York. This support is to help sustain the current program and develop professional development opportunities for area teachers in arts integration teaching strategies to serve students with disabilities across Chautauqua County. The Children’s Guild Foundation financially supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations across Western New York, with a focus on education and serving students with disabilities among their top priorities. The Institution’s School Residencies program has served students with arts integration-based lessons and residencies for...