“Why are you waiting for the world to validate you?”
After nearly two years since the last in-person mainstage production, Hoof ‘n’ Horn returned to performing in front of a live-audience with one of the most beloved cult classics for this time of year: The Rocky Horror Show.
One of the things that I –and anyone else whose major is not particularly artsy or creative– may push to the backburner is the Arts, Literature, and Performance (ALP) Area of Knowledge. So here I am on behalf of Recess, the Arts and Culture section of The Chronicle, to share my totally unbiased opinion of the coolest ALP courses offered this spring, most of which are already in my shopping cart.
As you search through Buzzfeed listicles and Target racks, consider: why not dress up with a little Duke spirit this year? And no, I’m not talking “sexy Blue Devil.”
The director of DukeCreate credits the wheel throwing program's popularity to it being an "opportunity to come and do something completely different from school work and forget about the rest of the world for a while."
Looking at the Wellness Center’s Moments of Mindfulness calendar, I’ll admit I was skeptical.
The “Fantasma” reading was a unique opportunity to be physically in a space with artists and to be invited into their mental space, as well.
Before stepping into the Duke’s beloved Nasher Museum of Art, the top of the door displays an array of graphics and words welcoming visitors back along with new COVID-19 protocols. To the side of these directions, the graphic reads, “Art is waiting for you! We’re so glad you’re here.”
For students hoping to put the untapped potential of their creative projects into motion, StudioDuke can be the catalyst for new levels of artistry and imagination.
“There is something captivating about her story, and so I hope that ‘Medea’ reminds us all that we aren’t alone in feeling these things.”
However, on April 10 and 11, the Duke Coffeehouse is presenting its annual Brickside Music Festival in collaboration with fellow DUU committee WXDU Durham.
Maybe in twenty years, we’ll all reunite in front of the Duke Chapel for a spontaneous surge of machine-generated marriages.
Solutions may involve medications, but they may also require movement. They may require opening up your mind. They may need dreaming.
Although the Rubenstein Arts Center’s film theater is quiet this semester, Screen/Society is finding ways to keep bringing the cinematic arts to Duke and Durham.
Americans constantly face inequality and opportunity loss, corollaries of living in a society buried in debt — so why haven't policymakers done better at protecting our finances?
Where “White Noise” gestured toward this deeper problem, the panel members provided interpretive clarity.
The project, described as an “ongoing essay about the presence and function of Blackness in society,” originally began in 2004 and will add 22 new pieces this spring for an on-campus installation in early April.
Through short stories, essays, poetry, photography, visual and digital art, students on and beyond Duke’s campus have found creative outlets to express their thoughts and emotions.
Documentaries tell stories, and as consumers of media, we learn from those stories. And sometimes, those stories are dangerously problematic.
It has been almost a year since an in-person performance has been staged before an audience at Duke, but that hasn’t stopped student theater organization Hoof ‘n’ Horn from going forward with their spring musical.
