Education
Live Performances at Symphony Space
Bring your students on a field trip to our beautiful theater to see a live performance of the music, dance, and storytelling of cultures from around the world!
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Education
Bring your students on a field trip to our beautiful theater to see a live performance of the music, dance, and storytelling of cultures from around the world!
Students experience the magic of live performance in a theater when they come to Symphony Space for a captivating experience of professional artists performing the music, dance, and storytelling of Native America, Africa, Latin America, or Asia. Performances are highly interactive and provide opportunities for selected students to join performers onstage!
Live Performances at Symphony Space are held on the days listed below from 11am to 12:15pm. The performances are approximately 60 minutes long, and can be attended in-person.
Resource Guides are provided to all participating teachers to prepare your students for the performance. These guides include performance descriptions, as well as suggested activities to engage with before and after the performance. Each activity has a link to a Google Slide presentation that teachers can use to facilitate the activities in English and Spanish.
Symphony Space is a contracted DOE vendor.
Enroll to attend a 2026-2027 Live Performance at Symphony Space HERE.
We look forward to welcoming you and your students to our beautiful theater to experience the music, dance, and storytelling of cultures from around the world! For more information about bringing Global Arts to your school community, visit Global Arts and contact us.
Grounded in Indigenous and African influences, this performance introduces students to the rich diversity of Latin American art and culture, from Mexican Folklorico to Afro-Brazilian Samba and more! This is a bilingual performance, presented in English and Spanish.
Dressed in their traditional regalia, Iroquois, Plains, and Mayan artists share their stories, music, and dances in a morning highlighting the oneness of humanity and nature, and the foundations of the Native American worldview.
Featuring stories, dances, and music from West and Central African countries and regions such as Nigeria, Guinea, and Republic of Congo, this performance explores ways that diverse African arts have been preserved and transformed in Africa and around the world.
With performances rarely seen on the same stage, this show celebrates artistic heritage across Asia, from the Chinese Ribbon Dance to Japanese festival music and more! This is a multilingual performance, presented in English, Spanish, and a little Mandarin!