Imagined Worlds

05/11/2016

IW Music Director Nadia Sirota's podcast Meet the Composer just won a Peabody Awards for its "fascinating, intelligent, enlightening podcasts devoted to the work of current classical composers. The show integrates music with thoughtful conversation about it without distracting from either." Congrats!

04/18/2016

Happy Anniversary Imagined Worlds! One year ago we presented this fantastic multimedia, multidisciplinary show to the community that responded with rave reviews and a "Best of Baltimore!" We're still grateful for the opportunity our students had to work with a cadre of innovative young artists at the forefront of their respective fields -- Katherine Helen Fisher, Marcos Balter, Nadia Sirota, and so many others. What a collaboration!

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08/24/2015

BMag's Best of issue is online -- Check out BSA & Imagined Worlds in the Arts section if you didn't see the piece in print -- Best Innovation!

EDITED BY MAX WEISSWritten by Lauren Bell, Jess Mayhugh, Ken Iglehart, Jane Marion, Amy Mulvihill, Gabriella Souza, and Lydia Woolever. With Hilary Geisbert, Lizzy Grap, Baylor Knobloch, and Anna Muckerman. Photography By: David Colwell, Cory Donovan, Mitro Hood, Ryan Lavine, Mike Morgan, Christophe…

07/30/2015

Imagined Worlds was chosen by Baltimore magazine for a 2015 Best of Baltimore! Congrats again to everyone involved with this production. The project was described as . "The students performed with true artistry. It's incredible that they are still teenagers, and their futures are obviously bright." The magazine is available on newsstands now!

05/16/2015

PBS NewsHour airs a story about BSA featuring students, faculty as well as The Codex Project and its Director & Choreographer Kate Fisher and composer Marcos Balter.

At the Baltimore School for the Arts, students are admitted solely on their artistic potential; notable alumni of the pre-professional high school includes Jada Pinkett Smith and designer Christian Siriano. We meet some of the educators and current students who bring passion and dedication to every…

05/14/2015

IW Director & Choreographer Kate Fisher sent a note and photos to Luigi Serafini himself about The Codex Project inspired by his work and here was his response: "oh Kate, Kate! how beautiful!!! you made me very happy! I wish I was there! Ciao!! Luigi" How great is that? Stay tuned for news on the video of the production! (Photo Joe Rubino)

04/21/2015

The Sun's Tim Smith stopped by to see the dress rehearsal of The Codex Project -- "The young dancers carried out both the most kinetic and most unhurried, stylized gestures with considerable technical poise; everyone seemed quite at home in the fanciful world conjured up onstage. The orchestra and chorus sounded quite confident, too, as they faced the many challenges presented by the score. All the while, the projected images revealed not just professional quality, but also abundant cleverness." Read on!

It's not news that the Baltimore School for the Arts is one of the city's prime assets -- the place has been crawling with creativity for years. But there was something a little extra newsworthy about the school's big spring production, "Imagined Worlds."

04/20/2015

While we were enjoying Marcos Balter's music at the premiere of The Codex Project in Baltimore, audiences in Boston were also healring a selection of the same music. In a glowing review, Matthew Guerrieri observes, "The score — threatening warbles, pointed interjections, garrulous virtuosity, fierce silences — exalts music’s open-eared conspiracy: its expressive indecipherability. Out of the crosscurrents of influence and idiom came a reminder that music truly is a universal language, in that nobody knows what it really means." It did mean a great night of music in two cities!

“Arielismo,” it was called: the idea (first expounded, through archetypes from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” in Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó’s 1900 book, “Ariel”) that Latin American culture was the continent’s buoyant, spiritual counterweight to the brutish, utilitarian, Caliban-like United St…

04/19/2015

Where the story begins. The scribe at his desk. Amazing where your imagination can take you! Photo by Joe Rubino. More soon.

04/19/2015

04/18/2015

It's a beautiful day outside today, but rest assured it is also pretty colorful with some funky creatures roaming the at BSA. They're eager to welcome you this afternoon and evening -- See you soon!

04/17/2015

IW Composer Marcos Balter and Music Director Nadia Sirota (a BSA graduate) before the show's premiere.