Carolina Performing Arts: Artery, Indy Week

Making Stravinsky human through spoken word and song

Emma D. Miller — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:56:00 -0400

Spring Training

PRC2
Kenan Theatre
Closes April 28

Universes, the Bronx-based performance troupe that fuses spoken word, song, rhythm and theater, epitomizes the concept of arts-as-multidisciplinary. The performers who comprise Universes—all of whom are persons of color—serve as storytellers and poets and music-makers.…

Rites without seasons: Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart's A Rite at Memorial Hall

Byron Woods — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:23:27 -0500

A RITE
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
SITI Company
Memorial Hall, UNC
Closed January 26

Some rites are seasonal. It's a fact those who've spent any part of their lives in close contact with the land know, intimately.…

Narcissus and Terpsichore (partially obscured): Nederlands Dans Theater review

Byron Woods — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:28:49 -0400

Nederlands Dans Theater
Memorial Hall
Through March 30

You can tell Memorial Hall Box Office tries to be forthright about the merchandise it sells.
Across the face of my front row balcony ticket for the performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater, a big black box is printed.…

The dangers of slighting a vivid imagination: Robert Lepage's THE ANDERSEN PROJECT

Byron Woods — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:29:03 -0400

THE ANDERSEN PROJECT
4 stars (out of 5)
Ex Machina
Carolina Performing Arts Series
Memorial Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Through March 18

Never slight a person with a vivid imagination.
Perhaps that’s the largest takeaway from Robert Lepage’s frequently inspired, technically innovative—but still overlong—one-person performance, THE ANDERSEN PROJECT, which closes tonight at UNC Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall.…

Shaolin Riverdance? The amazing Mr. Cherkaoui and Sutra at Carolina Performing Arts

Asimina Chremos — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:10:16 -0500

SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI/ SADLER'S WELLS LONDON: SUTRA
Carolina Performing Arts
@Memorial Hall, UNC Campus
Nov. 10-11

Belgian choreographer-performer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has one of the most graceful, flexible and articulate bodies on the world stage. His aesthetic—at least as expressed in Sutra, an hourlong entertainment created with the support of British dance presenter Sadler’s Wells—doesn’t bother to temper this facility with subtlety or nuance.…

Elizabeth Streb: the Independent interview

Byron Woods — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:00:25 -0500

STREB Extreme Action’s company name is truth in advertising: a group of seven superbly-trained athletes who appear to propel themselves into harm’s way, repeatedly—against walls and floors, off of trampolines and multi-story trapeze-like platforms, into and out of close encounters with a spinning industrial I-beam as it careens across stage, and much, much more. In this week's story on the CHAT Festival at UNC-Chapel Hill, I described their edge-of-your-seat maneuvers, set to a pulsing techno soundtrack and accompanied by live and digitized video, as “a highly caffeinated remix of death-defying circus acts, gymnastics, motion-picture stunt work and modern dance."

I spoke with choreographer, self-styled action architect—and MacArthur Foundation "Genius grant" award winner—Elizabeth Streb by phone on Feb. 6, a snowy afternoon in Philadelphia, between the company’s matinee and evening performances at the Annenberg Center’s Zellerbach Theater.

Carolina Performing Arts presents her company Friday and Saturday night in Memorial Hall.…