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Free thinking at UNC this week
I’ve been blabbing a lot in various places about Carolina Performing Arts’ crazy big season focusing on Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which is coming up on its 100th birthday. The academic...
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Mariinsky in Chapel Hill, part 2
Two evenings with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Orchestra left me punchy drunk on music. It’s easy to forget, when one lives mainly on small group and solo performances, how exhilarating the ride can be...
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A RITE Has Its World Premiere at Carolina Performing Arts
My review of the world premiere of the Carolina Performing Arts-commisioned A Rite, by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the SITI Company, was published 1/28/13 in CVNC.org. A Rite, at its...
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Bringing it back: Nijinsky’s RITE tonight
A Joffrey Ballet dancer in Vaslav Nijinsky’s THE RITE OF SPRING, as reconstructed by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. Photo courtesy CPA. Tonight and tomorrow the fabulous Joffrey Ballet will...
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Finally, the Original RITE (sort of): The Joffrey Ballet performs two intense...
The Small Maidens in Red from The Joffrey Ballet’s The Rite of Spring. Photo: Herbert Migdoll. Chicago’s sleek company, The Joffrey Ballet, made a two-night appearance in Chapel Hill March 23 and 24,...
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The Rightest RITE: Nederlands Dans Theater’s CHAMBER, and more, at CPA
Nederlands Dans Theater 1 is one of the most thrilling and powerful dance-theater companies anywhere, and this week they are performing in Chapel Hill, as part of Carolina Performing Arts‘ The Rite of...
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Basil Twist’s Enchanted Air Ballet Premieres at CPA, program repeats 4/13
The end of Twist’s CPA-commissioned THE RITE OF SPRING, in development at the Basil Twist Residency, March 2013; Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC. KPO Photo. “This is the program I’ve been most nervous...
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SPRING TRAINING through April 28, and no, it is not baseball
PlayMakers Repertory Company is wrapping up an intense year with a fascinating PRC2 presentation by the theatrical troupe Universes, in the Kenan Theatre. April 24 saw the world premiere of Spring...
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Martha Graham Company closes super-season at Carolina Performing Arts
PeiJu Chien-Pott and Abdiel Jacobsen in Martha Graham’s Errand into the Maze. Photo: Terry-Lin. PeiJu Chien-Pott and Ben Schultz in Errand, in Chapel Hill. KPO Photo. Martha Graham herself was my...
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Rite, It is still Spring: NC Symphony’s Impressive Program
The NC Symphony will perform a lovely program including Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring tonight and Saturday night in Raleigh. I heard it last night in UNC’s Memorial Hall, where I’ve heard MANY...
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