Dancing at Dusk at Driade
Caffe Driade 1215-A E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, Chapel HillCome join us in the beauty that is Caffe Driade. 6 amazing movers, 7 intriguing prompts, 1 beautiful sunset.
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CURRENT Takeover, Martha Graham Dance Company
CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn our first-ever artist “takeover” dancers from Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) host lively immersive experiences featuring Graham’s pioneering choreography alongside emerging technologies in the setting of CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio. Stop by the CURRENT ArtSpace, where you can watch in awe as a Graham dancer performs the iconic work Lamentations alongside cutting-edge projection created... Read More →
$14
Rosas danst Rosas by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas
Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel HillIn this riveting performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, repetition plays the lead role. A seminal postmodern work, Rosas danst Rosas is unequivocally feminine—four women dancers engage in a dialogue of fierce movements that are countered by small everyday gestures. The exhaustion and perseverance that come with it create an emotional tension that contrasts sharply... Read More →
$27
The Day: Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs, and David Lang
Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel HillTHE DAY is a new music/dance work by cellist Maya Beiser, dancer Wendy Whelan, choreographer Lucinda Childs, with music by David Lang. A collaboration among legends, THE DAY is an evening-long sensory exploration of two journeys—life and the eternal, post-mortal voyage of the soul. This bold, highly collaborative work explores universal themes through the shared... Read More →
$27
The Nutcracker, Carolina Ballet
Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel HillIn 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.
Antigonick: Big Dance Theater
CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWith 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 →
$27
The Eve Project: Martha Graham Dance Company
Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill“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 →
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel HillWith 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 →
An Afternoon of Burlesque Art: Live Model Drawing Event
Yonder Bar 114 W. King Street, HillsboroughThe 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 →
$10
The Silent Force
ArtsCenter Carrboro 300-G East Main Street, CarrboroIn 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 →
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