Festival of Arts and Ideas
Coordinates: 41°18′28″N 72°55′35″W / 41.3077°N 72.9264°W
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a 15-day festival of performing arts, lectures, and conversations that celebrates the greatest artists and thinkers from around the world. Each June, the Festival takes over the theatres, open spaces, and courtyards of New Haven, Connecticut. The Festival's free headliner concerts on the New Haven Green attract thousands of spectators and past performers include Aaron Neville, Yo-Yo Ma, Red Barrett, Rosanne Cash, Calexico and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
The Festival presents theater, dance, and music offerings from around the world, including important local, national, and international premieres. The festival's theatre and dance offerings have recently included the American premiere of David Greig's play The Events, from Actors Touring Company London; Mark Morris Dance Group; Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Contemporary Legend Theatre (Taiwan); Dianne Reeves; along with modern circus artists such as Circa (Australia) and Les 7 doigts de la main (Montreal). Early in its history, the Festival presented the Royal Shakespeare Company from the United Kingdom, concert productions from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, and a pre-Broadway presentation of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen. In 2013, the Festival continued its tradition of presenting important including the US premiere of a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a collaboration between Bristol Old Vic (England) in association with Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa), directed by Tom Morris. This is the team behind the Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End smash, War Horse. That same season, the festival also launched the 40th Anniversary Tour of the celebrated Kronos Quartet.
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