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 KENNEDY CENTER ARTS CROSS AMERICA by Marcia Minter & Aimée M. Petrin
Dear Friends, Indigo Arts Alliance and Portland Ovations are delighted to share with you Sacred Resonance, a program of new [...]
Program Notes for FLEX AVE. by Aimée M. Petrin
Dear Friends, It’s January 10, 2015 and I’m headed uptown to New York City’s hallowed hall, the Park Avenue Armory. I [...]
What Resonates With You? Program Notes for “Welcome Home by Aimée M. Petrin
Dear Friends, Portland Ovations started the Seeking Resonance series in 2016 as an exploration and celebration of performance inspired by [...]
In Solidarity
Portland Ovations stands in solidarity with Black and brown artists, colleagues, and citizens in our communities and around the world. [...]
Arts Integration at Home – Freeze Dance
Posted Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Our last activity is a way to celebrate the school year that is wrapping up. [...]
Arts Integration at Home – Alphabet Relay
Posted Monday, June 1, 2020 The end of the school year is a time for reflecting. Today’s activity, Alphabet Relay, [...]
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.
2019-2020 Moments to Remember
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