Performances
The NOLA Project Summer Reads: Treasure Island
In anticipation of future performances, the NOLA Project presents a series of readings in NOMA's brand-new Lapis Center for the Arts. All three readings are free with museum admission. Each event gives a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the NOLA Project's upcoming performance seasons.
The NOLA Project Summer Reads: Tell It to Me Sweet
In anticipation of future performances, the NOLA Project presents a series of readings in NOMA's brand-new Lapis Center for the Arts. All three readings are free with museum admission. Each event gives a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the NOLA Project's upcoming performance seasons.
The NOLA Project Summer Reads: The Seagull, or How to Eat It
In anticipation of future performances, the NOLA Project presents a series of readings in NOMA's brand-new Lapis Center for the Arts. All three readings are free with museum admission. Each event gives a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the NOLA Project's upcoming performance seasons.
POSTPONED — TRUST by Kelly Love Jones
The New Orleans Museum of Art in collaboration with PowerHouse Productions is excited to present TRUST, a concept and performance by singer/songwriter Kelly Love Jones. Join us in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden amphitheater for an evening of music, visual art, dance, and theater. Jones brings to the stage a star-studded cast: Lakeba Angelle, Tiffany Morris, Jamal Baptiste, Xavier Molina, and Cameron Watson.
The NOLA Project presents Tell It to Me Sweet
Wander through tales from spooky to strange in this brand-new look at some very old fables written by NOLA Project ensemble member Brittany N. Williams. Meet magical aunties, too-clever wolves, wicked stepmothers, foolish devils, and determined ghosts on a winding tour of five stories pulled from European and African American fairy tales and folklore.
TRUST by Kelly Love Jones
The New Orleans Museum of Art in collaboration with PowerHouse Productions is excited to present TRUST, a concept and performance by singer/songwriter Kelly Love Jones. Join us in the Lapis Center for the Arts for an evening of music, visual art, dance, and theater. Jones brings to the stage a star-studded cast: Lakeba Angelle, Tiffany Morris, Jamal Batiste, and Drew Mosby.
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 excerpts of the original production The Nutcracker in New Orleans. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic score, the localized production includes a Flight of the Pelicans, a...
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.