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The 2024-25 season is in full swing! Upcoming highlights include thought-provoking dance-theater with Yaa Samar!, Bill’s 44th, a puppet show for grownups, and 32 Sounds, an immersive documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Green.
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A Maritime Haunting is an immersive sound installation that explores loss from Mediterranean border policies through vocal elements and sea sounds. Performers act as a Greek chorus, creating a collective elegy for lives lost during migration. Free and open to the public; no reservations required.
A Duke Health exclusive 60-minute matinee performance of Last Ward that intertwines an abbreviated presentation with a conversation about the artists’ creative process and the role of the arts in healthcare. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Last Ward is a work of dance theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room.
A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Last Ward is a work of dance theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room. This highly visual evening length performance is performed in Arabic with English supertitles.
The cello-piano duo of David Finckel and Wu Han return to Duke Arts with a journey through the great chamber works of Beethoven.
Performer-composers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane’s new work, “Hexagons,” inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “The Library of Babel.”
New show added! Singer-songwriter and lead vocalist and guitarist of indie rock band Big Thief performs an afternoon set at 3:00pm in Page Auditorium.
Singer-songwriter and lead vocalist and guitarist of indie rock band Big Thief is known for her raw intimacy and captivating storytelling. Described as “breathtaking” by NPR Music.
2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is acclaimed globally for their complex and wide-ranging a cappella concerts. Performing holiday music spanning centuries.
Tonality is an award-winning chamber chorus with a mission to deliver authentic stories through voice and body to incite change, understanding and dialogue.
32 Sounds is an immersive documentary and profound sensory experience from Oscar-nominated documentarian Sam Green.
Durham-native and former Alvin Ailey dancer Hope Boykin brings “States of Hope,” a powerful and honest work of dance-theater that narrates her own journey as a dancer.
See the play that shaped a theatre landscape in this rare revival. When it opened in 2005, Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree changed the rules of the game: bringing in an actor who has neither seen nor read the play.
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In 2023, Vice Provost for the Arts John V. Brown announced the rebranding of Duke Performances to Duke Arts Presents. Learn more about the history and transformation of this storied presenting organization.
