The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

This review is based off of an experience that I had when I went to a play (Big Fish) at NOCCA. My little cousin was in the play so I was excited to go and see what he and his classmates have been working on all semester. I should mention that I am a theater geek myself and looooove going to see plays. Naturally, knowing that these kids are in high school and not professionals I lowered my expectations just a tad. Well, they blew my expectations out the water. These kids took this play seriously and it showed. They all had such great stage presence I forgot I was watching a bunch of teenagers. Everything from their professionalism to the stage sets/​prop, to the costumes, everything was top notch. For a small ticket price you get a great show, it definitely cures my theater itch between Broadway for America tours.

These kids can play
Music so fantastically
And the school is beautiful
With great security
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Train tracks all around
Sax and trumpet fit like gloves
And the kids won’t get you down

In my visits here, I am in awe of the range of creativity that is held in this school. There are so many beautiful works of art on the walls, floors, ceilings and anywhere else they can mount something. Their facility is nestled in the heart of New Orleans near the French Quarter. Check them out sometime!

I went here for the Alwin Nikolais Centennial show. The show itself was pretty awesome, there were lights, weird sounds, and some kind of dancing. The venue itself was much smaller and more intimate than I expected. It was also much more casual and laid back. A lot of these types of places are all posh and fancy and whatnot, with their cocktail dresses and monocles and suspended pants. There wasn’t any pretention here, just some folks who wanted to join together to sit in a dark room and watch people writhe around on stage while bathed in multi-​chromatic light arrays and industrially produced sound bytes.