Performances
Pop-Up Performance: The Nutcracker in New Orleans
Enjoy a special preview of everyone's favorite holiday classic with a New Orleans twist. In this special pop-up performance at NOMA, students from New Orleans School of Ballet will perform...
Pedro Segundo in the Great Hall
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAIn conjunction with the closing of Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, Pedro Segundo presents a solo percussion performance in NOMA’s Great Hall. A musical composition by Segundo is featured in DeDeaux’s work Where’s Mary, and this special event is inspired by that score and the exhibition’s themes of beginnings and ends.
Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LACreative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a new musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite <em.The Planets.
Virtual Premiere: Rearranging the Planets
Creative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a new musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite The Planets.
RISE for Mother Earth
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAMélange Dance Company’s RISE for Mother Earth takes audiences on a surreal journey through the wonders of the sea—a boundless body that inextricably connect us all—as her currents regulate our global climate and her floor holds our planet’s record of change. In this original, contemporary dance production, narrative vignettes uplift the voices of those on the frontlines of climate crisis, urging us to connect in our shared humanity and shared fate.
The NOLA Project’s Treasure Island
The classic pirate adventure tale comes to life in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture in an all-new production by the NOLA Project.
Oud Concerto for New Orleans
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsJoin us in NOMA's Lapis Center for the Arts for a special presentation of Oud Concerto for New Orleans. Originally commissioned by the Marigny Opera House in 2021, Oud Concerto for New Orleans is composed by Mahmoud Chouki and arranged by Hannah Yim.
Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LACreative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite <em.The Planets.
Hispanic Heritage Celebration with Ecos Latinos
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsIn partnership with Ecos Latinos, NOMA hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration featuring a night of music in the Lapis Center for the Arts. Performers include violinist Ángel Ríos, Bodoma Garifuna drummers and dancers, Patrice Fisher and Arpa, Mariachi Jalisco, and Mexico Y Sus Raíces dance group.
The Seagull; or, How to Eat It
The classic Chekhov plays gets a modern, local update in this adaptation by the NOLA Project in NOMA's Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Concert by Majid Bekkas
A master of Gnawa music in Morocco, Majid Bekkas has performed worldwide with different jazz fusion bands and played with Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and Joachim Kuhn, among many other musicians.
Performance and Record Release: People Museum
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LANew Orleans–based pop art band People Museum present a special one-night-only performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois.