Portland Ovations is your Maine nonprofit home for the performing arts.
We use dance, music, and theater to share stories, conversations, and experiences from around the world.
We also create opportunities to share powerful arts experiences through Ovations Offstage (O2),
which offers performing arts education for all ages, including School-Time Performances, Masterclasses,
and free Pre-Performance Lectures, panels, and community events.
And now, we invite you to join these conversations through “Our Stories:”
blogs, videos, and podcasts to connect us all more deeply to Ovations’ artists, their stories, and the magic between us.
BLOG: O2, The Air We Breathe
brings you original context for our artists and performances. Whether pre-performance preparatory notes, post-performance after glow’s making connections to broader issues, or arts integrated learning activities for home schooling, we’ve got all this and more right here.
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Program Notes for ‘Seeking Resonance: Toward Being Future Beings’ by Marcia Minter & Aimée M. Petrin
Dear Friends, The collaborative series Seeking Resonance is at the heart of Indigo Arts Alliance and Portland Ovations’ programming this [...]
Program Notes for Step Afrika! by Sarah Coleman
Dear Friends, The first time I saw Step Afrika! I could not stay in my seat. The energy, the rhythm, [...]
Program Notes for Paige and Friends! by Sarah Coleman
Dear Friends, Paige Hernandez returns to Portland Ovations! It just looks a lot different than 2012 when she performed her [...]
PODCASTS: POV
NEW! Portland Ovations’ launched its POV Podcast Series in late 2019. Tune in to hear directly from artists, audiences, community members, and other commentators in episodes that take their cue from one of Ovations’ unique performance experiences.
Subscribe today to not miss an episode!
General podcast support thanks in part to a generous major project grant from the Maine Humanities Council.
Specific support for Toto podcast from Coffee by Design and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
VIDEOS
Portland Ovations IS performing arts: we’ve got the best videos!
Whether you’re curious to watch previews of upcoming artists or look back’s to events in which you participated or ones you may have missed,
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Ovations is Everywhere.
2020-2021 Moments to Remember
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