American Dance Festival Presents 2024 Season
Durham, NC — The American Dance Festival (ADF) is thrilled to announce its 2024 season with a full...
Read Moreby Andrea Luke | Jun 3, 2024 | Dance, Festival, Perfomance Art, Previews | 0
Durham, NC — The American Dance Festival (ADF) is thrilled to announce its 2024 season with a full...
Read Moreby Byron Woods | Apr 1, 2024 | Dance, Reviews | 0
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.
Read Moreby H.H. Miller | Feb 10, 2024 | Articles, Big Band, Choral Music, Gospel, Jazz, Music, Music Review, Reviews | 0
Before attending this concert, I had never been to Duke University Chapel. I had heard of its splendor, of the peace found within its walls, and of the reverence that its architectural design inspires. As I entered on Thursday...
Read Moreby Darrell Stover | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles, Feature, Jazz, Music, Music Review, Reviews | 0
A jazz smorgasbord double concert tribute to Brother Yusuf Salim as called by many, a man who through his sheer humanity and mastery of music, impacted and empowered communities and individuals.
Read Moreby Byron Woods | Dec 31, 2023 | Articles, Dance, Dance Theatre, Feature, Musical Theatre, News, Theatre | 0
Since end-of-year wrap-ups inevitably use a lot of figures, let’s start with the most improbable one of all: 338, for the number of theater and dance productions staged in North Carolina’s Triangle region during 2023. For those counting, it was an all-time high in terms of yearly output for the area, a remarkable comeback for the two art forms that had been most threatened during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No, we couldn’t see them all. The curated lists here of superlatives come from the one-hundred shows we did view from the region’s major companies and selected up-and-comers through the year.
The only way a region produces 338 different shows is with a large pool of artists and an even more extensive community of support. Those whose job it is to fret over even good news wondered at year’s-end how sustainable such a level of output could be. We’ll get an answer to that question in the coming year.
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