DURHAM, NC – “Your attentive participation, through listening with your ears and your heart, will allow you to enjoy fully this exchange of ideas, to sense these various moods, and to reap the full therapeutic rewards that...
Read MoreCARRBORO, NC – Worldbuilding isn’t just an esoteric activity limited to the constructs of virtual reality and speculative fiction; it’s a fundamental part of the theatrical enterprise. If drama at its essence...
Read MoreWINSTON-SALEM, NC – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”) by Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany, 1770-1827) is truly one of the turning points in music history. It is the first “symphony” (meaning...
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The romantic conceit dates back before Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 classic, Smiles of a Summer Night, and well before Shakespeare: when humans have gotten themselves stuck in the worst partnerships possible (or, even worse, in abject celibacy), the magic of a midsummer’s night can sort everything out, bring the right pairs together in spite of themselves and restore harmonic community, dyad by dyad.
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Above: the Khemia Ensemble (photo by Angie Petty) will perform alongside works by Jiwon Ha, as...
Read MoreWINSTON-SALEM, NC – It’s so mundane as to be profoundly comical: an annoying cell phone rings incessantly while you are trying to enjoy your soup, and its owner can’t even be bothered to answer it. That’s...
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RALEIGH, NC – Students skipped and wandered around NC State University, buzzing with...
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CHARLOTTE, NC – The audience at Belk Theater didn’t rise and sing the National Anthem as we...
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (N.C. Black Rep) created the...
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The pursuit of all of these, and the list of commodities and prices voiced afterward, has the dancers literally running in circles by the end. The metaphor could hardly be more pointed; persisting as an artist can be an act of endurance art in itself.
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