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Dance
The Program in Dance offers opportunities to study and perform modern, ballet, jazz, African and dances of the African Diaspora with a dedicated faculty.
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Music
From the Ciompi Quartet to student ensembles and master classes with guest artists, the Duke campus is filled with music.
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Theater
With two major productions and several student-directed productions each year, Theater Studies offers many opportunities for the Duke community to engage in theatrical performance and scholarship.
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Creative Writing
Creative Writing at Duke is guided by the belief that the experience of writing and reading creatively is a gift to a student for life.
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Visual and Media Arts
The visual arts at Duke range across diverse academic disciplines and artistic media, from painting to documentary film.
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Just Dance
For Duke seniors and lifelong dancers Courtney Hunter and Lindsay Kunkle, choreographing performances for the November Dances was a new challenge.
Dumpster Diving the Lower Depths
For nearly a decade, director Jay O’Berski wanted to stage at Duke the Russian play “The Lower Depths” by Maxim Gorky. Written in 1902, the play follows a group of Russian derelicts living in a flophouse as they cope with the bleak reality of their condition. When he got the chance to direct the play this semester, O’Berski decided to set it not in Russia but in Lagos, Nigeria – and to do so with a minimal budget.
Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
Andy Warhol bought a Polaroid Big Shot around 1970.
The gray plastic camera had just one button to push and no settings to adjust except for a ring on the lens for light and dark. The Big Shot, with a focal length fixed at three feet, was ideal for Warhol to use as studies for his famous portraits on canvas.
