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achived URL: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millen...

event website URL: http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millen...

start date and time: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM

end date and time: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM

categories:   music   dance

event description:

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The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. presents Moroccan song and dance group Bnet Houariyat. This five women group from Marrakech performs song and dance that reflect Islamic and female traditions, in a hauntingly beautiful way. This performance is part of the Kennedy Center's Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World series.

The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center offers free daily performances. The program includes a range of art forms, with performing artists and groups from all 50 states as well as an Artist-in-Residence program with artists performing several evenings in a month.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. opened in 1971. The center makes every effort to fulfill President Kennedy's vision to producing and presenting a wide array of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, and folk music, and multi-media performances.

sponsor's website: http://www.kennedy-center.org/