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As One, a Chamber Opera

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

There is Hannah before, and there is Hannah after. In As One, two voices share the part of a sole transgender protagonist, tracing Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years. CPA’s staging of this powerful chamber opera will include locally based advisors and cast members, including Marc Callahan from... Read More →

$27

Johnny Gandelsman, violin

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Grammy-winning violinist, member of Brooklyn Rider and Silkroad Ensemble, and longtime friend to Carolina Performing Arts Johnny Gandelsman returns for his fifteenth performance at CPA, with a solo program that highlights his singular talent for reinventing music of the classical canon—this time, performing Bach’s Cello Suites on his violin.

$27
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Edna Lewis

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The impact of the late Southern chef Edna Lewis on American cuisine—and generations of people—cannot be overstated. Inspired by Hilton Als’ childhood recollections of admiring Lewis from afar during her years in New York City, Edna Lewis is a meditative love letter to her by a celebrated writer. Featuring the sensational Helga Davis (CPA artist-in-residence,... Read More →

$27

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Antigonick: Big Dance Theater

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 →

$27

The Future is Female: Sarah Cahill, piano

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

“A sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde.” —New York Times Featuring dozens of compositions by women around the globe—including Chen Yi, Meredith Monk, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Clara Schumann—pianist Sarah Cahill’s The Future is Female is both a ritual installation and communal feminist immersive listening experience. A “marathon” performance meant to... Read More →

$27

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CURRENT Takeover, Martha Graham Dance Company

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In 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

The Commons Festival Weekend

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Commons is a new initiative devoted to supporting performance artists and fostering local creative community and discourse in and around the Triangle, in partnership with UNC Summer Arts, UNC Department of Communication, and INDY WEEK. Three performing artists/artist groups were selected for proposals that particularly challenged performance conventions, invited audience co-creation, took artistic risks,... Read More →

$5

The Alchemy of Change: A Parable Becoming, the Convening

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely for a community song circle, featuring the many people with whom Toshi Reagon has collaborated in her time as a Carolina Performing Arts Mellon Foundation DisTIL fellow. This convening will feature music based on Act 1 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Of The Sower, as well as new original songs inspired by... Read More →

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Tiny Luxuries created by Heather Tatreau

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Tiny Luxuries is an experimental dance-theater piece created for The Process Series by Heather Tatreau with support from the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, Carolina Performing Arts, and a grant from The Orange County Arts Commission. This original production is based upon Clarice Lispector’s 1977 novella, The Hour of the Star. Through the rich... Read More →

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Hilton Als: Lives of the Performers

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and theater critic for The New Yorker Hilton Als comes to Carolina Performing Arts to stage the work-in-progress of his debut play, Lives of the Performers —a provocative work that explores race, the self (and those forces that threaten to destroy it), and sisterhood. Directed by Peter Born and starring Helga Davis... Read More →