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The 2025-26 season features global and local artists across visual art, comedy, classical and contemporary music, and more.
Fall highlights include Atsuko Okatsuka, Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce, and more!
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This site-specific installation by Colombian artist and engineer Miler Lagos is made of cardboard boxes collected on Duke’s campus, stacked and carved to resemble the base of a Ceiba tree.
After months of wearing a GPT device, Meshi has made herself into a hybrid AI-human entity. When speaking as the GPT version of herself, Meshi voices conversational responses generated into her ear in real time.
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka brings her sharp, offbeat humor to Durham. Known for her HBO special “The Intruder,” viral stand-up clips, and of course – her trademark bowl cut.
All Brahms Program: Sonata #1, G Major, Op. 78; Sonata #5, E-flat Major, Op. 120, #2; and Sonata #3, D minor, Op. 108
Described as “the violin’s domme” by The New Yorker, Sudan doesn’t just play the violin—she commands it, looping riffs into whole orchestras, flipping classical training into raw, radiant funk.
Groundbreaking multidisciplinary artists Wen Hui and Eiko Otake weave a complex and deeply personal tapestry, inviting the audience to consider war as a history, an inheritance, and a present-day reality.
Program includes Schubert’s “Quartetsatz;” Mozart’s Viola Quintet, C Major, K. 515; and Dvorak’s String Quartet, G Major, Op. 106
Dambudzo is a live anti-genre work by acclaimed choreographer nora chipaumire, combining sound, painting, sculpture and performance to confront colonial legacies.
Honor the dead with a Day of the Dead altar piece, at Duke Chapel that pays homage to the rich cultural heritage and sacred traditions of Día de los Muertos. This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.
Choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu leads audiences through a sensorial, contemplative journey into the body as a tapestry of memories and then a site of liberation.
Performing their program “The Passenger” with Louise Alenius’s Piano Trio (2025); Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Trio, OP. 24; Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio #2, E-flat Major, Op. 100
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Presenting “Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On,” The King’s Singers bring the Romantic era to life with exquisite vocal works exploring love, nature, mystery, and the human spirit.
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao has been dubbed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine.
Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman fuses the raw, aching power of authentic Delta Blues with the expansive sound of a chamber orchestra.
The artists originally scheduled on this date are no longer be able to appear on next season’s Chamber Arts Series. We are actively securing a replacement ensemble of comparable stature and will share updates as soon as we are able.
Featuring Duke’s own Ciompi Quartet with special guests, Cultural Crossroads: Dvořák in America explores the Black and Indigenous influences on Dvořák during his time in America.
A stunning tapestry of dance, live music, and home video footage that invites audiences into Jenn Freeman’s life following her Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis at age 33.
Percussion innovators Tyshawn Sorey and Sandbox Percussion celebrate the centenary of legendary drummer, composer, and innovator Max Roach with original arrangements and compositions inspired by Roach’s revolutionary ensemble, M’Boom.
Taylor Mac takes on the holidays to celebrate the season in all its dysfunction. “For all those who find caroling, eggnog and enforced family visits destabilizing” (Los Angeles Times)
Led by Troy Anthony, “The Revival: It Is Our Duty” blends gospel, ritual, and joy—inviting all into a healing celebration of liberation, identity, and transformation.
Performing their program “Masterworks” featuring Maurice Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin” arr. Raaf Hekkema; Omar Thomas’s “Moods and Attitudes;” Derrick Skye’s “A Soulful Nexus;” George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” arr. Raaf Hekkema
Time/life/beauty by Michael Sakamoto and DJ Spooky blends hip-hop, new music, dance, and media visuals, honoring Ryuichi Sakamoto’s legacy through interdisciplinary performance.
An ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians led by vocalist Julia Keefe, celebrating the genre’s deep Indigenous roots with standards and contemporary songs.
Program includes Arriaga’s Quartet #3, E-flat Major; Shostakovich’s Quartet #3, F Major, Op. 73; Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the “Grosse Fugue”
The National Dance Theatre Company is the beating heart of Jamaica’s cultural legacy, enchanting audiences worldwide with its spellbinding performances and innovative choreography.
Duke’s resident Ciompi Quartet revisits Memoirs, a 2003 composition by the late Paul Schoenfield. Works by Bach and Shubert round out the program.
Theatre of Music has joined forces with composer Steven Bryant to create an immersive, multi-disciplinary work inspired by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
Kayfabe is a puppet wrestling entertainment spectacular written, directed and designed by Josh Rice.
Program includes works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Giocomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Fauré, Mendelssohn, and Ernest Chausson
Marc Ribot performs re-interpretations and re-framings of Bob Dylan’s mid 1960s-era visionary poetry, the poetic environment from which Dylan’s work emerged.
Ephrat Asherie collaborates with Grammy award-winning pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill on the company’s newest creation, Shadow Cities, a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between.
In TESTO by Wet Mess, Wet Messifies the messiness of life with teeth and one chin hair; exploring transitions, testosterone, and the edges of drag.
Program includes Bach’s “Four fugues” from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Haydn’s Quartet, F minor, Op. 20 #5; Beethoven’s Quartet, C Major, Op. 59 #3
John Scofield’s Trio blends original jazz, standards, and surprising covers in an energetic, intuitive live format.
Bear Grease is an unapologetically Indigenous musical—a loving clap back to the classic hit musical and film Grease.
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