This weekend, 130 dancers, musicians and artists from UNC School of the Arts will travel with their directors to Chapel Hill to present their interpretation of works surrounding “The Rite of Spring.”
Three student musicians will perform today as soloists accompanied by the UNC Symphony Orchestra in the William S. Newman Scholarship Series concert.
On Friday, Memorial Hall was filled with singing, dancing, spoken word and even a sex-themed fashion show — all in the name of raising AIDS awareness.
Of all the noises in nature, the sound of ice melting is not the first that comes to mind. “Cryoacoustic Orb” at the Ackland Art Museum explored that sound in ways that commented artistically on environmental issues.
When it designed a year of performance around Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” Carolina Performing Arts knew it wanted to include the work’s modern torchbearers. The genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider fit the bill.
More than two years in the works, Carolina Performing Arts’ centennial celebration of Igor Stravinsky’s famed ballet “The Rite of Spring” is now in full swing.
“Ladies and gentlemen, do the good people of Chapel Hill have room in their hearts for the five-string banjo?”
Michael Stewart Allen, a 1995 UNC alumnus, is a cast member of the Broadway hit and Tony Award-winning play “War Horse,” which opened at Durham Performing Arts Center Tuesday.
The National Theatre of Scotland, which performed two years ago in Memorial Hall, is returning to UNC to open Carolina Performing Arts’ new season.
