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Reliving the Renaissance

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Entire Museum

Dress as a Renaissance character, learn crafts and dances from the period, and party the night away! Tickets are now on sale for the Reliving the Renaissance, a themed-costume adult dance party in conjunction with the Da Vinci—The Genius exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS). All exhibits will be open including Da Vinci—The Genius.

For this special Renaissance evening, the NMMNHS has joined forces with the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Marshall Performing Arts Conservatory, and the Society for Creative Anachronism. Reliving the Renaissance happens Friday, April 20, from 6-11 p.m. at the Museum.

This is a 21+ event featuring a cash bar, early music performance by Música Antigua de Albuquerque, followed by a DJ playing dance tunes. Patrons can participate in a dance lesson from The Marshall Performing Arts Conservatory beginning at 6 p.m. The event officially begins at 6:30 p.m. with music and dance performances until the DJ begins around 8 p.m. Tickets ($27 adults, $22 seniors, $17 students) can be purchased online.

A featured event of Discovering Abundance: NM Phil’s Music & Arts Festival 2018, music will be provided by Música Antigua de Albuquerque. Música Antigua de Albuquerque has been performing medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music since 1978, appearing throughout the state of New Mexico, as well as in Houston and Milwaukee.

Time-travel to visit the Italian Renaissance through the arts and sciences of the era that the Barony of al-Barran (Greater Albuquerque area) will bring to the event. The displays will include period clothing, scribal arts, astronomical instruments, archery, and weapons of the era. The group is a part of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a worldwide educational organization.

Katie Marshall, the artistic director of The Marshall Performing Arts Conservatory (MPAC), along with her partner Joe Nava, a company dancer with Festival Ballet Albuqeurque, will demonstrate and teach dances from the Renaissance period. MPAC teaches Classical Ballet & Point along with Jazz, Tap, Modern, and Contemporary styles of dance. marshallconservatory.com

Sound will be provided by Kirk Brown with Oasis Sound. The musical entertainment transitions about 8 p.m. to DJ, Andres Sedillo. A cash bar will be provided by Left Turn Distilling.

Price: 
$27 for adults, $22 for Seniors, $17 for Students
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