The Journal of Art and Reviews (JAR) is a blog which features creative content by young people participating in ArtsConnection Teen Programs. With content for teens by teens, we hope to create an online space that inspires, empowers, and enlightens youth by sharing information, highlighting artists, and creating an online community in the realm of arts and culture.

Paul Taylor Dance Company

I was very excited to see Paul Taylor Dance Company perform again. Last year’s program featuring the brilliant yet…

Douglas Dunn & Dancers

The Ailey Citigroup Theater was the place to be on Thursday, February 26, 2009. A Harkness Dance Festival performance…

The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, headed by the charismatically delicious Arturo O’Farrill, definitely deserve their recent Grammy win, as…

Illyria

Illyria, a new musical by the Prospect Theater Company, was saddled with understudies in three central roles at the…

Excellence in Education

Excellence in Education, presented in the Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, was arranged in order of least “educated”…

Excellence in Education

On Sunday, February 15th, an eclectic compilation of ensembles performed at Carnegie Hall in a program entitled Excellence in…

Illyria

Illyria, a musical rendition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, was musically very modernized, with songs that would be appropriate in…

Jazz Battles

Despite the wintry chill of the first day of December, one could hardly feel anything but the intense heat…