Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
Chautauqua Theater Company Invests In New Play Workshop Development
Olga Sanchez Saltveit to Join as Director of New Work Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the appointment of Olga Sanchez Saltveit as Director of New Work, an inaugural position for the company. Sanchez Saltveit’s hire is the next step in CTC’s initiative to expand New Play Workshop programming and residencies. It also aligns with the overall efforts of Chautauqua Institution to amplify important and diverse American voices...
Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2020 Letter to We See You, White American Theater
...for non-white and Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) to feel welcome in our physical spaces and to participate equitably in our programming. We acknowledge that in many ways our reality does not match our ideal of being a welcoming and accessible community. Simply put, we recognize and are motivated by a central question: “How can we engage in the important conversations of the day, if not everyone is equitably part of the conversation?”...
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Clybourne Park and The Comedy of Errors, The New Play Workshop and The Romeo & Juliet Project
...process. Performances are July 19 – 28. CTC welcomes back Davis McCallum (CTC’s Arcadia) to direct after his recent successes at the helm of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning Water by the Spoonful and Playwrights Horizons’ The Whale. Shakespeare for the Whole Family In The Comedy of Errors, not one, but two sets of identical twins, separated at birth, find themselves in the same city, on the same fast-paced, bewildering day in Shakespeare’s riotous farce of...
From the President
From the President Dear Friends, Welcome to Chautauqua as we celebrate our 150th birthday! This site is designed to introduce you to the remarkable array of experiences and opportunities available on our historic campus in western New York state and to keep you abreast of how the Chautauqua movement is playing out throughout the world. We also hope you’ll visit the online expression of our mission through CHQ Assembly, where we have compiled some of...
Sunday Afternoon Entertainment: Soldiers’ Chorus of The U.S. Army Field Band
Chautauqua opens the 2024 season with The Soldiers’ Chorus of The U.S. Army Field Band! This 29-member chorus travels throughout the nation and abroad, and is a mainstay of PBS’s annual National Memorial Day Concert, inspiring patriotism and garnering a reputation for musical excellence....
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III
...Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times, released in November 2022, has been lauded as a “life-affirming guide to the practical, political, and spiritual challenges of our day.” Utilizing the scholarship of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Howard Thurman, alongside biblical texts, a bevy of religious traditions, Black culture, and his own personal experiences, Dr. Moss offer up a methodology on performing spiritual resistance by uniting two pillars of his ministry: love and justice. A...
Nine Emerging Writers Named Finalists for 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize
...EDT Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor on the grounds of the Institution. Still in its infancy, the Janus Prize’s reach and influence have grown beyond the Institution’s gates as the honored emerging writers make their names in the literary world. Memoirist and 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize winner Joseph Earl Thomas published his debut memoir, Sink, in February 2023 from Grand Central Publishing. His book, an evolution of his Janus Prize-winning piece...
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III
...Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times, released in November 2022, has been lauded as a “life-affirming guide to the practical, political, and spiritual challenges of our day.” Utilizing the scholarship of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Howard Thurman, alongside biblical texts, a bevy of religious traditions, Black culture, and his own personal experiences, Dr. Moss offer up a methodology on performing spiritual resistance by uniting two pillars of his ministry: love and justice. A...