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Highlights From the <i>Dinner Party</i>

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Exec Producer, Creator, Host of The Celebrity Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano

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If you missed the February 27 Dinner Party, you missed a good one! Second City director and lead guitarist of the Uptown Sound, Billy Bungeroth, talked about creative highs and lows, choreographer and artistic director of Luna Negra, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, talked about dance taking over when words fall short, and JC Brooks talked about love gone wrong! Chef Anthony Martin of Tru showed off his sketches that take him from creative idea to plate, and performance painter Stacy Bowie and violinist Edith Yokely kicked things off.

To watch the highlights of the February 27 Dinner Party, click below. To view a clip of JC and Billy performing, "I Get High," dancers from Luna Negra performing an excerpt from Carmen, Chef Martin creating art with food, and the show in its entirety, click here.

Don't miss out again! Get tix for the March 26 Dinner Party. The line-up is curator of the MCA, Naomi Beckwith, living blues legend, Billy Branch, poet and founder of the poetry slam, Marc Smith, with Chef Matt Troost of Three Aces, performance painter Stacy Bowie, and violinist Edith Yokely returning as our openers! After the filming of the show, the artists stay to chat, cocktail-party style, with everyone in the audience.

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