45 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
(04/11/02 4:00am)
Art exhibits are typically housed in galleries with white-washed walls and empty rooms to prevent the surroundings from overwhelming the art. And, keeping with convention, an exhibit entitled "Portraits and Landscapes" would likely include human portraits and earthly lanscapes. But artists Jonathan Blackwell and Lauren Rosenthal threw all the rules out the window for their exhibit, which will be shown in the Durham Co-op (1101 W. Chapel Hill St.) --a place nothing like a sterile gallery. As for the portraits and landscapes, the portraits feature trees and the landscapes depict the human form. These two have flipped everything on its head.
(04/04/02 5:00am)
Do you know what connection Mike Myers has with Joan Rivers? If you're thinking Mr. Myers must have worn a tasteless tux while waltzing down the red carpet, and good ol' Joan called him out on it, you're wrong. No, Joan was not always the fashion maven she is today--these two are both alumni of Second City Improv, along with other comic geniuses like John Belushi, Martin Short, Dan Akroyd and Gilda Radner, among many other notables.
(03/21/02 5:00am)
or a theater company, Actors From the London Stage seems like a name to hide behind. An obvious conclusion would be that this stage is not a reputable one or else it would be named. Fortunately for the ticket buying public, this is not the case.
(02/28/02 5:00am)
ary Adkins speaks with an air of confidence and voices her opinion in a way that makes people want to listen--and take action. From her first letters to the editor to her column in The Chronicle this fall, Adkins has commanded an attentive audience.
(02/21/02 9:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Americans just don't know how to do New Year's right. One night of boundless revelry followed by an afternoon of football just doesn't compare to a 15-day celebration featuring music, dance and theater. That's how the Chinese do it, and last Sunday the celebrations began in Page Auditorium.
Duke's Chinese Student and Scholars Association, along with similar groups from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and the Research Triangle Park organized the event, entitled "The Spring Festival Show." The four organizations brought together people of Chinese descent from across the Triangle for a night of extraordinary displays of artistic talent.
North Carolina Representative David Price kicked off the show with a brief speech wishing festival goers good health and cheer in the New Year. Next, a spokesperson for the Chinese ambassador to the United States spoke to the crowd in Chinese, eliciting a roar from the auditorium.
The MCs of the evening spoke in Chinese throughout, only translating the title of the sequential acts, so the entire event was a true tribute to Chinese culture. The first set of performers--the North Carolina Chinese Art Ensemble (NCCAE) and the Sunny Dance Club--collaborated with a traditional Chinese song and dance number. The costumes for this piece were striking--the female dancers wore red and held turquoise blue fans creating a picturesque display.
But the standout event of the evening had to be the children's dances. The first routine featured little girls, who could not have been older than five, wearing tiny tutus and ballet slippers. The audience was bowled over when one little dancer took it upon herself to tell the others where to stand. The older girls' dances were all a bit more refined than the first and their brilliant costumes lit up the auditorium.
A "Fashion Model Show" was the most offbeat event of the evening. With En Vogue's "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" playing in the background, 12 Chinese bombshells strutted their stuff in some cool clothes, bringing a little of Milan to Durham.
With a music change to a Chinese song, the saucy catwalkers donned traditional Chinese dresses and walked with a little less sass. Then, Willie Nelson's "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" began playing and out came the girls in their sexy evening wear--very beauty-pagent-esque.
Choral groups were also a favorite on the stage Sunday night. Groups sang many songs in Chinese and moved the audience throughout the evening. Soloists also performed both in song and on the piano. The violin and piano duo played a remarkable piece entitled, "Fishers Singing Home Delightfully" which jumped back and forth between the two and kept the audience enthralled with their mastery of the instruments.
Theater was also a part of the evening as actors performed two short plays. The audience was in stitches after "Number 21," a play about a woman with a flat tire and her very pregnant friend. Comic relief was quite welcome between the dances and the rather serious choral numbers.
The Spring Festival Show celebrated the beginning of the Year of the Horse with performances in all areas of the arts, from song and dance to theater and fashion. The festival marked just one of the many days of celebration for this Chinese New Year period, and the party is just getting started.
(02/14/02 5:00am)
esse Eustice was away at college in Philadelphia and returned home to find her father had been diagnosed with a dementia resembling Alzheimer's. For her father, Tommy Thompson, this disease changed more than just his mental health. His entire career was spent traveling as a member of The Red Clay Ramblers and his heyday had come to an end. In the 1970s the locally-based band soared to both national and international fame with their unique genre of music. The "old time string band" performed on Broadway in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, on NPR's Prairie Home Companion and all across the United States and Europe before Thompson retired in 1994 due to his illness.
(02/07/02 5:00am)
As the mid-semester drone sets in and midterms rapidly approach, like the weather everything seems monotonous and dull. Fortunately, there is an out-of-the-ordinary weekend activity that does not involve Ninth Street or a dorm room. The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra is playing Saturday night in Page Auditorium with pianist Yundi Li, winner of the 2000 Chopin Competition. This is not just another musical performance with just another pianist, both are quite extraordinary.
(02/07/02 5:00am)
he quintissential New Orleans jazz band--The Dirty Dozen Brass Band--performs in Page Auditorium Sunday for one night of red hot rhythm and blues just in time for Fat Tuesday. This dirty dozen (actually an octuplet) has been making noise for almost 25 years with no end in sight.
(01/31/02 5:00am)
Durham is no longer the tobacco town it used to be. In need of a renaissance, the city is struggling to find some sort of new identity, which the municipal government cannot provide. But three ambitious artists have started a monthly arts cabaret and band showcase called CafZ Dada. The "DADA" acronym stands for the Durham Association for Downtown Arts--and it's changing the face of tobacco town.
(01/24/02 5:00am)
or those who are partial to New York theater, the theater in this area is typically unbearable. Let's face it: If it weren't, Ninth Street would be named Broadway and great theater types would roam from Main Street to Hillsborough Road--but they don't. However, until Feb. 10 they will roam Franklin Street.
(01/18/02 5:00am)
ommunity, humanity and love are three ideologies that have permeated the lives of Americans post 9-11 in a way not seen since the days of the flower child. Tonight, Hoof n' Horn's production of Godspell opens and tackles each of these themes.
(11/30/01 5:00am)
Last night, seven actors performed eight plays in Shaefer Theater. Some might assume the show must have lasted into the wee hours of the morning, but these plays are all quite short, the longest being no more than 15 minutes. All are part of a compilation called Pieces of Eight.
(11/30/01 5:00am)
Finding a gift for an artistically-minded friend, lover or family member could be difficult in Durham. Luckily, the Museum of Modern Art has an online store. For great gifts that say class but are still under $100, the MoMA is the place to find shop.
(11/16/01 5:00am)
Before it's time to head home for turkey and cranberry sauce, the Department of Music will present a performance of the Djembe Ensemble--Duke's West African drumming group--with special guests including an Afro-Cuban drumming ensemble. The djembe class for beginning djembe students will also perform as a prelude. The show is in the Nelson Music Room in East Duke at 8pm Tuesday and will feature both students and professionals.
(11/16/01 5:00am)
Sick and tired of the same old Duke scene? Feel like if you've been to one campus art event you've been to them all? Then think about getting off campus for a taste of CafZ DADA.
(11/09/01 5:00am)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec might be best known as the miniature man played by John Leguizamo in this summer's Moulin Rouge. But all the Moulin Rouge posters that popped up when the movie opened were copies of Toulouse-Lautrec's original drawings. He was famous for his work and famous because he made mass advertisement a fine art.
(11/02/01 5:00am)
n 1998, a male college student was savagely beaten to death by two men.
(11/02/01 5:00am)
f crossing the line from music to film is supposed to be the high point in a career, then N'Sync's Lance Bass and Joey "Fat One" Fatone don't have far to fall. The two boys' new movie, On the Line, is not only an embarrassment to the film industry but also the music industry.
(10/26/01 4:00am)
Tonight, the two-week run of Our Country's Good begins. Earlier this week, Recess arts editor Cary Hughes had the opportunity to chat with the play's director, Jeff West, to find out, among other things, what to expect from this production. West is a part-time acting instructor at Duke who has directed three previous plays in Reynolds Theater and is also a freelance actor, director and producer.
(10/19/01 4:00am)
Ever wonder how that floating phallus got in your fruit punch? Tammy/Tommy Felbaum might be able to explain.
