Bright lights who've performed at Northrop over the years

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Rudolf Nureyev

Maria Tallchief

Margot Fonteyn

Suzanne Farrell

Peter Martins

Martine van Hamel

Kevin McKenzie

Gelsey Kirkland

Merce Cunningham

Agnes de Mille

Paul Taylor Dance Co.

New York City Ballet

American Ballet Theatre

Joffrey Ballet

Bolshoi Ballet

San Francisco Ballet

Alvin Ailey

Pilobolus

Les Ballets Trockadero

Twyla Tharp

Martha Graham

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Peking Opera

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Igor Stravinsky

Ignacy Paderewski

Arthur Rubinstein

Vladimir Horowitz

Isaac Stern

Van Cliburn

Rudolph Serkin

Yehudi Menuhin

Beverly Sills

Luciano Pavarotti

Leontyne Price

Placido Domingo

Marilyn Horne

Marian Anderson

Paul Robeson

Jascha Heifetz

Kronos Quartet

Bob Marley

Aretha Franklin

Neil Young

Elton John

Paul Simon

Bruce Springsteen

Prince

Pete Seeger

Talking Heads

Sting

John Denver

Peter, Paul and Mary

Joan Baez

Carole King

Joni Mitchell

Gladys Knight

Tina Turner

Bob Dylan

Dolly Parton

Bette Midler

Bonnie Raitt

Steely Dan

Van Morrison

Norah Jones

James Taylor

Luther Vandross

Brian Wilson

Carlos Santana

Smashing Pumpkins

Sheryl Crow

Mary J. Blige

Ani DiFranco

John Mellencamp

Counting Crows

Indigo Girls

k.d. lang

Lyle Lovett

Melissa Etheridge

Rosanne Cash

Jackson Browne

10,000 Maniacs

Gordon Lightfoot

The Carpenters

Judy Collins

Hall & Oates

Johnny Mathis

Elvis Costello

Harry Belafonte

Dionne Warwick

Julie Andrews

Robert Goulet

Teddy Pendergrass

Paul Anka

Trisha Yearwood

Dwight Yoakam

Louis Armstrong

Marcel Marceau

Ella Fitzgerald

Sade

B-52s

Robert Frost

Margaret Mead

W.H. Auden

Garrison Keillor

Bill Cosby

Danny Kaye

Jack Benny

Robin Williams

Steve Martin

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Dalai Lama

Jimmy Carter

Barry Goldwater

Henry Kissinger

Ralph Nader