Kate Weare Company: Marksman ★★★ Wednesday, June 22, 2016Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham Kate Weare’s Marksman, an American Dance Festival commission that premiered at Reynolds Theater last week, is a molded and folded dance. The six dancers act as architects: They build houses, live in them, and vacate. They sculpt their bodies into notches for others […]
Michaela Dwyer
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Dance Review: In Feature Presentation, Anna Barker and Leah Wilks Comedically Remind Us of a Harsh Fact: Art Hurts
real.live.people.durham: Feature Presentation ★★★★ Friday, June 10, 2016 The Trotter Building, Durham A high school teacher of mine had many quotations painted in purplish blue on the cinderblocks outside her classroom, but the one I remember best is by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks: “Art hurts. Art urges voyages—and it is easier to stay at home.” […]
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In a Creative Ecosystem That Can Exhaust Dancers, ADF Artist Vanessa Voskuil Seeks to Empower Instead
FOOTPRINTS/VANESSA VOSKUIL Thursday, July 28–Saturday, July 30, free Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham Over FaceTime from her home in Minneapolis, choreographer Vanessa Voskuil talks in layers and loops about the piece she’s creating for this summer’s American Dance Festival. She moves her phone in a spiraling motion that tracks with her speech, landing on thematic […]
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Anna Barker and Leah Wilks Sift Through the Selves We Show the World in Feature Presentation
REAL.LIVE.PEOPLE.DURHAM: FEATURE PRESENTATION Friday, June 10–Sunday, June 12, $10–$15 The Trotter Building at 410 West Geer Street, Durham www.didaseason.com “Performance” is a tricky word. On one hand, it connotes doingan action, practice, or event. On the other, it measures the fulfillment of that action: How did I do? Did I fail or succeed? What do […]
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Merce Cunningham’s Voice Looms Over Justin Tornow’s New Dance Work—Literally
THE LOWEST FORM OF POETRY UNC’s Kenan Music Building, Chapel Hill Saturday, March 5–Sunday, March 6, 8 p.m., free www.events.unc.edu While rehearsing a solo in The Lowest Form of Poetry recently, Justin Tornow was interrupted: “Get on with it!” It wasn’t one of the dancers in Tornow’s Durham troupe, COMPANY, nor was it one of […]
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Vector’s enigmatic dance-theater work Habitus probes the many guises of violence
VECTOR: HABITUS 8 p.m. March 12–14, $10–$15 Cordoba Center for the Arts 923 Franklin St., Durham 919-321-0007 | www.inthevector.com. Are you an angry person? Are you a violent person? Habitus, the new evening-length work by multimedia dance company Vector, demands you answer those questionsliterally, on your ticket, where you circle “Y” or “N.” The piece’s […]