Torry Bend discusses her role behind the scenes of Duke theater, puppeteering
By Danielle Muoio | January 14, 2014"So it becomes a live music video puppet show concert."
"So it becomes a live music video puppet show concert."
"Every year, it’s very unique in terms of the array of voices we get."
Duke Performances aims for interdisciplinarity and interaction with a wide-ranging lineup of artists, many of whom will collaborate with the students attending their shows.
Duke will cement its status as a university with a uniquely strong emphasis on African dance by hosting the first major conference on African dance in more than 20 years.
If we hope to resuscitate the novel, we must be willing to ask ourselves the difficult, albeit obvious, questions.
Each of the five stories showcases only a handful of works at most; Burden’s pieces are massive enough, or commanding enough, to merit an entire museum floor.
"The showcase shows the potential for dance to reach out in a lot of different ways."
Check your preconceived notions of Chekhov at the Sheafer Theater door.
In the world of underground house balls, extravagance and 'realness' reign supreme.
"Tiksi" shows us a place so radically distant from our everyday without romanticizing it.
“It doesn’t feel like we are breaking any boundaries; it feels boundless.”
Imagine for a moment that you don't yet know Chekhov.
“Bringing him here is one way of humanizing the issues that he reports on."
Collaborators painted a mural on the side of Torero's Mexican Restaurant in downtown Durham.
“The exhibit is definitely a critique of iconography, but it’s not necessarily a ‘let’s throw it all out the window.’"
“His work gives you permission to think about experience anew—to trouble the distinction between the sacred and profane."
“Just hearing that other people can do it is encouraging.”
It’s a unique job at a unique show. I don’t think there’s really anyone else out there who does what I do.
"The first thing to do is to acknowledge that there are many misrepresentations of nature that actually distance us from what our true nature is."
“This space tries to honor artistic life outside of Duke’s campus while engaging with the Durham community.”