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In Anchorage, the Alaska State Council on the Arts unveiled the 11 new pieces recently added to the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank at a reception on Aug. 7. The works by Alaskans join more than 700 other paintings, photos, sculptures and mixed-media items that are placed in public offices around the state.
The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to test the new acoustic shell in the Atwood Concert Hall this week and the Anchorage Youth Symphony will test the old shell, now being relocated to the Discovery Theatre, which is in fact the space for which it was designed. The public will get its first chance to hear the difference at the ASO season opener with pianist Olga Kern on Sept. 27.
Alaska Dance Theatre has announced that Barry Kerollis will be the company's new artistic director. Kerollis' resume includes teaching and choreography, but he'll be best known to Anchorage audiences as a dancer. In the past two years he was featured in ADT productions of new work, including Amy Seiwert's "Monuments" and "Othello" (in the role of Cassio) and "Cash & Cline," both by Gillmer Duran, the company's former artistic director.