An eight-piece New Orleans brass ensemble called The Soul Rebels performed with special guest Big Freedia at Memorial Hall last Friday night to open up the Fall 2022 Carolina Performing Arts season.
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Three UNC alumni as well as a group of undergraduate students will participate in the second annual Compose Carolina series in July. The theme of the series is “In The Now,” which the composers are encouraged to interpret freely.
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“2021 has without a doubt been an extraordinarily challenging year for our community and for artists across the board,” Chris Pendergrass said. “The season finale is significant for us in that it gives us a way to reconnect around arts experiences and artists that have had a significant local impact in Chapel Hill in a time when that has been, in many ways, not possible.”
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While in-person theater performances have been on hold due to COVID-19, arts groups across campus have figured out how to manage a largely virtual performing arts landscape.
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“The fact that you can’t see the person on the other side of the line means that they come to life even more, because you get to create an image of them. It’s like theater of the mind,” Silverstone said.
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“I think one of the best things we can do as performers is to perform the music by these composers,” Pratt said.
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Carless wrote the scores for comedic films, starring masters of the medium like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
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“What can a performing arts organization do if we can’t be on the stage and we can’t invite people to gather and serve communion over art and artists?” Amy Russell, CPA’s director of programming, said. “The obvious answer for us was to go back to those really fruitful and really close relationships, because you can be vulnerable with those people.”
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“All the art that we make is very personal to us,” Pinnamaraju said. “They describe our inner lives, things we notice about the world, whether they're funny or very personal (or) vulnerable and sad.”
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Although performing arts is especially reliant on community spaces, students remain optimistic despite a remote start to the spring semester.
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“The subject matter that they're dealing with at this time, and for all four of these artists to be young Black artists and to be given a platform for them to speak to the kinds of things they're speaking to, I think is a really powerful thing,” Christopher Massenburg, CPA's program director, said.
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Carolina Performing Arts is offering a new online program called "Feedback" that explores concepts of arts that are shifting in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Carolina Performing Arts' upcoming virtual series, “The Spark,” is being hosted by Grammy-nominated musician and UNC alum Tift Merritt.
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Like many other areas of the UNC and Chapel Hill communities, Carolina Performing Arts is "looking forward" with an ongoing virtual concert series.
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Carolina Performing Arts has canceled all remaining performances and public events to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, according to an email sent Thursday.
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