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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Arts Integration at Home – Cross the Room If
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Today’s activity, Cross the Room If... is a tried and true warm-up game typically used [...]
Arts Integration at Home – This Setting Needs
Posted Monday, May 18, 2020 Today’s arts integration activity, This Setting Needs..., combines imagination, observation, and detail-oriented thinking to challenge [...]
Arts Integration at Home – Object Metaphor
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Today’s activity, Object Metaphor, invites students to make comparisons between a random object and another [...]
Arts Integration at Home – When I Say One
Posted Monday, May 11, 2020 “When I Say One” asks you to get up, move, and be in the moment. [...]
Arts Integration at Home – Recipe for Me Part 2
Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2020 It’s time to turn those Recipes for Me into a performance! The second part of [...]
On Change through New and Collective Music Making
By Maya French, Palaver Strings I am among many newcomers who have chosen Portland as a home, for reasons like: [...]
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.
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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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2020-2021 Moments to Remember
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