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In its fifteenth season performing the holiday classic at Memorial Hall, Carolina Ballet returns with their dazzling production filled with beloved characters, grand magical illusions, and a live symphony orchestra.
With its inspired use of dance, music, text, and visual design, Big Dance Theater returns to Carolina Performing Arts with Antigonick: a “popup play under construction” of renowned poet and classicist Anne Carson’s one-act, radical-feminist, philosophical take on Sophocles’ Antigone. Using Carson’s text, Annie-B Parson braids disparate strands into a multi-dimensional performance featuring the deft... Read More →
“The EVE Project celebrates female power.” –New York Times Martha Graham Dance Company returns to Carolina Performing Arts with stunning new works from The EVE Project, created in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment and featuring the work of women choreographers and composers. Alongside classic repertory highlighting Graham heroines and anti-heroines, The... Read More →
With a history spanning more than six decades, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has changed the landscape of arts in America and beyond. Hewing to Alvin Ailey’s original mission, the company presents important works of the past while continuing to innovate. A valued longtime artistic partner to Carolina Performing Arts, the company has performed on... Read More →
The Bottom Line Burlesque & Comedy Troupe is excited to continue our live-model drawing event series: "An Afternoon of Burlesque Art" in Historic Downtown Hillsborough. Join Troupe members on Saturday, February 15th at Yonder Bar in Historic Hillsborough, for an afternoon of Burlesque-themed art models. Artists provide their own supplies. Yonder Bar is located at... Read More →
In this new series of works, Wan uses objects including wax-coated rusted bells, fake collars, erasers transparent collar supporters, gloves and ceramic spoons to portray women’s voice that have been forced into silence. Throughout history, women’s voices have often been silenced. Yet silence itself can still send a loud and clear message. It is this... Read More →
Dance ‘til the ball drops...and then start again! Join Kidzu Children’s Museum and ring in the New Year with a virtual dance party! We’ll make some glow-in-the-dark instruments and then use them to shake and shimmy into 2021. Music Together director and teacher Erica Berry will get us moving and take us on a trip... Read More →
Friday Evening In Hillsborough (OUTDOORS) Dates: September 24th Last Friday Dancewave part of the Hillsborough Art Walk in Collaboration with Hillsborough Arts Council. Join us for an evening of dancing, drumming, and family fun! Time: 5 – 9 PM 5:00-6:00: Indigenous Plant Education with Vickie Jeffries 6:00-7:00: Live drumming + Bring a Drum 6:00-7:30: Family... Read More →
The North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble Presents ‘STEP IN TIME’ Sat. April 23, 2022, 7:30 PM | Sun. April 24, 2022, 3:00 PM General Admission: $25 Seniors/Students: $20 The Carolina Theatre, Durham NC Tickets available at the box office or online www.carolinatheatre.org CHAPEL HILL, NC | MARCH 25, 2022 Live at the Carolina Theatre for... Read More →
Hillsborough Arts Council’s Handmade Parade! Saturday, April 30, 2022 4 PM in Hillsborough, NC Parade Start: Burwell School Historic Site Parade End: Hillsborough’s River Park This year, the Hillsborough Arts Council is combining efforts between Last Fridays & the Art Walk; the Handmade Market (previously Art in the Heart of Hillsborough); and the Friday, April... Read More →
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