COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. $19–$49 UNC’s Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill 919-843-3333 For all of art’s supposed real-world impactits carriage of cultural lineage and its educational valuesometimes I think it exists simply to furnish my mind. And like any furniture, only a few pieces stick around through the […]
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Dance review: What Doesn’t Work sets an allegory of striving and failure on the brute fact of the body
What Doesn’t Work★★★★ The Carrack Modern Art, Dec. 19, 2015 Often I go to see dance to lose myself in a beautiful or terrifying (ideally, both) fantasy world where sets, costumes and music are at least as prominent as movement. The dancers can shrink to mere moving parts in an intricate mechanism. But I was […]
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Broadway smash The Book of Mormon brings its queasy belly laughs back to Durham
THE BOOK OF MORMON Durham Performing Arts Center 123 Vivian St., Durham 919-680-2787 www.dpacnc.com Through Jan. 10 If you take away one thing from The Book of Mormon, the Broadway smash now running at DPAC, it probably won’t be a new perspective on life, an insight into yourself or a sense of awe about the […]
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After sparking an experimental film scene, Durham microcinema Unexposed goes big
UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA GRAND OPENING Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m., $5 Unexposed Microcinema 105 Hood St., Suite 5, Durham www.unexposedmicrocinema.com If you were looking for a sustained experimental film scene in the Triangle just a couple of years ago, you were out of luck. Basically, your options were Tom Whiteside’s Durham Cinematheque, which focuses on archival […]
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Year in Review: Notable North Carolina literary fiction and nonfiction
What does it even mean to read local? That was the question I confronted while thinking about how to cover the year in books from North Carolina. It’s easy to answer in areas like visual art, theater and dance: The artists live here, put up work here and share creative and social networks. But the […]
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Comic book writer Daniel Way brings GeekCraft Expo to Durham—and just about everywhere else
GeekCraft Expo RDU The Durham Armory Sunday, April 17, 2016 There’s so much more to the culture of fandom than the movies, TV shows and books that provide the source material. Diehards also have to have the coolest, most original toys, accessories, decorations and tchotchkes based on their favorite properties, be they Doctor Who or […]
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Live: You Us We All drenches Memorial Hall in color and excess
You Us We All UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 The program for Shara Worden and Andrew Ondrejcak’s pop-culture chamber opera proclaims it to be “a rite for Humankind personated as a masque at court/ given by the Right Honourable Carolina Performing Arts/ at the Memorial Hall of Chapel Hill North Carolina,” […]
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Seeing Escher at NCMA over the holidays? Don’t skip small shows featuring photos of kids and Robin Rhode videos
ROBIN RHODE Through Jan. 31 THE ENERGY OF YOUTH Through April 3 North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh 919-839-6262 www.ncartmuseum.org You might remember the South African artist Robin Rhode from his entries in Nasher Museum of Art exhibits The Record and Street Level. His static works in those shows come to […]
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Indies Arts Awards: Carolina Performing Arts’ Emil Kang brings the global avant-garde to Chapel Hill through personal determination
2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners Leaving Carolina Performing Arts‘ October presentation of Antigonethe critically divisive new production from avant-garde director Ivo van Hove, starring Juliette BinocheI heard people complaining that the lights were too bright, the music too screechy. I heard them debating the efficacy of various contemporized […]
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The INDY Audiobooks Poll: Triangle fiction writers talk reading technology
For an essay on audiobooks this week, the INDY sent a questionnaire to authors around the Triangle. We were delighted by the variety and volume of their responses, which are reproduced in full here. CHARLIE LOVETT:1. Have you ever made an audiobook? If so, what was the experience and the result like? If not, would […]
