Word Up: The Intersection of Text and Image North Carolina Museum of Art Through Jan. 20 Now that social networks mainline information into our consciousness, we have to divide our attention into smaller portions in order to process it all. Information-producers have anticipated this, making easy-to-consume images that carry more of the content than text […]
Chris Vitiello
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Chicago brings the razzle-dazzle, but not the Brinkley
Photo by Jeremy DanielToo bad Christie (above) is sick, but c’mon… Bianca Marroquin is covering for her. CHICAGO3.5 stars (out of five)@Durham Performing Arts CenterThrough Aug. 5 I never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad I missed Christie Brinkley last night. A buzz of disappointment ran through the opening-night crowd for the brash and […]
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ADF dancers perform inside a kinetic installation at the Nasher
The uncertain museum Nasher Museum of Art with American Dance Festival on July 26 Exhibit remains on view through Sept. 30 Light is said to dance across a surface. Through half-open venetian blinds, it plays out in turgid stripes of bright and dark across a hardwood floor. Reflected by choppy water, its glints flit and […]
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Mercurial retrograde? Hurricanes ink Alexander Semin to one-year deal
You often encounter the word “mercurial” in the world of sports. Sports journalists slap the adjective in front of the names of inconsistent players. Mercurial athletes tantalize you with second-to-none play in one moment and devastate you by vanishing into oblivion the next. They’re more than streaky; they’re hair-losingly maddening. And they tend to wear […]
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Kimerly Rorschach, the Nasher’s founding director, moves on this fall
Last spring, as I stood at the back of a small group of people at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I was thinking about the Nasher. While waiting my turn to admire a monumental Mark Bradford work, I wondered: Was it just five years ago that I would pop into Duke University’s comparatively […]
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ADF 2012: Paul Taylor’s flawed program
Photo by Paul B. GoodeBig Bertha PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYAmerican Dance Festival@ DPACThrough July 21 The Paul Taylor Dance Company took the stage at the Durham Performing Arts Center last night for their annual visit to the American Dance Festival, which concludes this evening. The mainstay company brought out a crowd expecting to see virtuosic […]
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ADF 2012: Shen Wei paints himself out of a corner
Photo by Grant Halverson/ American Dance FestivalShen Wei Dance Arts’ “Undivided Divided,” as performed at the North Carolina Museum of Art UNDIVIDED DIVIDEDShen Wei Dance Arts@ North Carolina Museum of ArtThrough July 19 “In the end, you deliver some of your energy to another human being.” —Shen Wei Our eyes met for half a moment. […]
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The Durham History Hub focuses on stories over artifacts
Durham History Hub Open House Friday, July 20, 6–10 p.m. 500 W. Main St. It’s a typical July afternoon in Durham. Cumulus tufts pile up in a corner of the sky, massing into a swollen, graying front. I pull into the parking space closest to the Downtown Loop on West Main Street. I’m a shout […]
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ADF 2012: Vertigo Dance and the clarification of presence
Vertigo Dance Company – Images by Independent WeeklyVERTIGO DANCEAmerican Dance Festival@ DPACJuly 13-14 You can tell it’s an election year because of the dualities in the air. “I’m for doing this, but that guy is for doing that.” It’s obvious why political discourse is so full of these statements of polar opposition. Opposites are simple. […]
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ADF 2012: Ragamala Dance’s intense, hypnotic ritual
Photo courtesy of Ragamala DanceSacred Earth RAGAMALA DANCEAmerican Dance Festival@Reynolds Industries TheaterThrough July 12 I just saw something beautiful, although I had to forget myself to see it. Ragamala Dance, a company of six women under the artistic direction of mother-daughter team Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, opened a three-night run of their evening-length work Sacred […]