Our Own Nina Simone’s Only Major Celebration in Raleigh this Season
The Nina Simone weekend series, “Home Made Me” kicked off last night at the North Carolina Museum of Art. As the room buzzed with excitement and guests found their seats, Simone’s version of “Here Comes...
Read MoreAt the ADF: Footprints Celebrates the Past while Charting Paths to the Future
The atmosphere of Page Auditorium last night was different than my prior performances during this year’s American Dance Festival season. The air was electric. The ADF students mixed with millennials, mixed with grey-haired...
Read MoreMalpaso Steps Into The Spirit of the ADF
With great risk comes great reward, and the American Dance Festival crowd at Duke’s Page Auditorium was the blessed beneficiary of the “malpaso” (Spanish for “misstep”) that the Cuban Malpaso Dance...
Read MoreADF Presents Rennie Harris, who Brings the Funk to Carolina Theatre
Meanwhile, at the ADF…, Funkedified by Lorenzo (Rennie) Harris does not disappoint. Instead, it elevates. The multimedia work featuring highlights of locking, popping, waving, voguing, breaking and various 1970s social...
Read MoreAs the Reynolds Industries Theatre filled for this year’s ADF Faculty Concert, the support and love from student to teacher and student to student was palpable and contagious with boisterous anticipation. While I felt very...
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