Whether you’re new to a practice of quietude or a long-time practitioner, this workshop will allow us to access simple, effective techniques that expose the truth of our experiences. Here we will sit and chat and practice the ancient ways of settling our minds in their natural state of gentle, peaceful luminosity.

Heel Workshop is an open-level, choreography-based dance class. Heels are optional.

In this opening public event of the 2024-25 Keohane Professorship, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Ashon Crawley will present on the relation of dirt and soil to the making of Black life, and how degrading the earth is part of the attempt to unmake Black possibility.

Delve into the diverse and varying traditions of Día de los Muertos with this panel conversation in which campus and community members explore their own memories and holiday traditions.

Join Gowri Savoor for a magical lantern festival, celebrating seeds and light. Participants can bring lanterns and join the parade. Hot apple cider will be served around a bonfire afterwards.

Join visual teaching artist, Gowri Savoor, for a fun and unique workshop to learn how to make a magical star-shaped lantern using bamboo, paper, and LED lights.

We will introduce Butoh materials and use these as the basis to fully develop our imagination. In the imaginative session, we use the body as a vessel to communicate and transmit information, allowing for autonomy and improvisation in each exercise.

This class introduces the traditions of Dia de Muertos. We will construct an ofrenda and learn how to produce paper cempaxochitl (marigolds) and papel picado (cut paper).

Calling all dancers of all forms, musicians, spoken word poets, vocalists to bring a short piece of original composition to share with artist Ayodele Casel as she builds Duke-specific elements of her piece Rooted to be performed in the von der heyden theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center, September 27 and 28.

Doris Duke Artist Ayodele Casel will present her interactive performance Rooted at Duke Arts on September 27 & 28, and will discuss the Triangle’s dance scene with Andrea Woods Valdes, Lormarev Jones, and Nicole Oxendine.

In this beginner-level, absolutely for everyone class, we'll learn to breathe with awareness, feel the body's glorious response to the breath, and move through a variety of shapes to explore interesting sensation and the malleability of our boundaries.

A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to screen print a unique, 2-color, voting advocacy poster from start-to-finish.

Modern fusion for beg/intermediate movers - modern with africanist elements intertwined: polyrhythm, polycentrism, and overall african/jazz influence.

Prepare to be swept away on a poetic journey like no other as ‘The Griot Poetry Slam’ unfolds at the Rubenstein Arts Center. Join Griot & Grey Owl on November ...

2:30–3:30 PM Friday at the Ruby continues with poet Terrance Hayes as he reads selections of recent work. Hayes will be joined by Mahogany L. Brown for a Q&A and book signing ...

1:30–2:30 PM Begin Friday at the Ruby with poet Mahogany L. Browne as she reads selections from her latest works. Brown will join Terrance Hayes for a Q&A and book signing from 3:30-5:00 ...

featuring Adia Victoria, Rissi Palmer, Shana Tucker, Shirlette Ammons and Tift Merritt The Rosetta Circle is a new project that builds on the work of pioneering feminist jazz historian Rosetta ...

Since its founding in 2005, intrepid NY-based piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire has forged a singular path in the contemporary classical music world. Its endlessly inventive collaborations, commissions, and performances ...

“Wednesdays @ The Center” MIPSTERZ has focused its recent efforts around Muslim Futurism-a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and Palestinian liberationism-imagining a broader Muslim future ...

In partnership with MIPSTERZ, Duke Arts is proud to present a joint screening of three films exploring futures near and far: “Building Bridges: Muslims in America”  “ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM,” ...

In partnership with the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke Arts, MIPSTERZ is proud to present a panel discussion exploring Muslim Futurism and the academic and creative disciplines that support the dreaming of alternate futures. ...

Created by MIPSTERZ in collaboration with Duke Performances and Duke Arts, this free community event at NorthStar Church of the Arts explores the myriad futures being created in Muslim and ...

Acclaimed choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland joins Duke Professor Jasmine Cobb (Department of African and African American Studies) for a free public conversation ahead of the world premiere of Company SBB’s ...

In partnership with NorthStar Church of the Arts, Duke Performances is pleased to present a community celebration of the life and work of pioneering pianist/composer Mary Lou Williams on Saturday, ...

Join us in celebrating Persian new year, also known as Nowruz, presented by The Persian Art Center in Carolina. We will have several local artists playing traditional Persian music as ...

French string quartet Quatuor Danel will hold a master class with Duke student musicians. This class is open to the public. Sun, Apr 3, 2022 10:30 AM – 12 PM ...

GRAMMY Award-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds will hold a winds and brass chamber master class with Duke student musicians. This class is open to the public. Mon, Mar 28, 2022 ...

Violinist Jennifer Frautschi joins clarinetist Jon Manasse for a Chamber music master class with Duke student musicians ahead of their performance that evening as the Frautschi / Manasse / Nakamatsu ...

As part of Hope Boykin‘s collaboration with ABT Studio Company during their weeklong residency at Duke, the choreographer will lead a free public movement class for dancers at all levels ...

Bijayini Satpathy, formerly of Southern India’s fabled Nrityagram Dance Ensemble — and one of the world’s leading dancers — joins Purnima Shah (Duke Dance Program) for a free public conversation ...

Bijayini Satpathy, formerly of Southern India’s fabled Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and one of the world’s leading dancers, offers a workshop on the fundamentals of Odissi dance technique and movements from her new ...

RSVP for this free event HERE. What is an instrumental ensemble to do when there isn’t enough repertoire to play? Commission more, of course! This is the strategy of the ...

In February 2018, Duke Performances unveiled an audacious three-year collaboration with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the world’s leading classical ballet companies. Through its expansive programming, international engagements, and ...

Founded by Lisa Kaplan and Matthew Duvall in 1996, the four-time GRAMMY Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird has been hailed as “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on ...

In 2020, Duke Performances presented the Urban Bush Women’s (UBW) groundbreaking virtual Artist Journal — an experimental Zoom-based performance combining dance party, conversation, and audience participation. Celebrating its thirty-seventh active ...

Always working to explode the boundaries of dance theater and installation, Jerome Robbins Award-winning choreographer/director Stefanie Batten Bland stages cross-disciplinary movement works sensitive to shifting environments. This spring, Batten Bland, ...

For more than two decades, New York City-based and GRAMMY Award-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds has brought diversity, virtuosity, and vision to classical music. Founded by flutist Valerie Coleman in ...

Join Duke Performances and Duke Islamic Studies Center for a poetry reading by Tariq Touré. Tariq Touré’s poetry and prose has been featured in award-winning publications such as Muslim Matters, ...

GRAMMY-nominated pianist Chris Pattishall joins Duke Music professor Anthony M. Kelley for conversation about Pattishall’s decades-long exploration of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite — a work that Patishall, along with ...

Join Duke Performances, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Center for Muslim Life for a conversation between musician, actor and performer Dua Saleh, Treniyyah Anderson ‘20, and the Center for ...

Minneapolis-based vocalist, spoken-word poet, and actor Dua Saleh began recording music only two years ago, garnering immediate acclaim with the release of 2019’s Nūr — meaning “the light” in Arabic. ...

Chamber music master class with Duke student musicians featuring Jeffrey Myers (violin), Ryan Meehan (violin), and Jeremy Berry (viola) of Calidore String Quartet. Open to the public (limited, socially distanced ...

After a yearlong postponement, the barrier-breaking, repertoire-expanding wind ensemble Imani Winds will return to Durham. This fall’s offering, Revolutionary aka The Civil Rights Project, thematically organizes several commissions from the ...

“For four decades,” Odissi dance master Bijayini Satpathy writes, “the Odissi I have known and owned has been someone else’s song, someone else’s making, someone else’s idea, someone else’s feelings ...

Self-taught pianist by three, professional musician by fifteen, teacher to Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis soon thereafter, and later Duke’s first Artist in Residence and Director of the Duke Jazz ...

After a year of virtual offerings, Duke’s resident Ciompi Quartet returns in person this November with an evening program featuring compositions created during the time of war. For the final ...

Join Black Muslim Talkspace as they host a poetry reading and Q&A by Sadiyah Bashir. Black Muslim Talk Space is an intimate reflection space for those at the intersections of ...

Acclaimed poet Sadiyah Bashir, in residence this spring as part of Duke Performances’ ongoing Building Bridges: Muslims in America series, sits down with Rashida James-Saadiya (Sapelo Square) for a virtual ...

Acclaimed poet, activist, recording artist, and filmmaker Amir Sulaiman will join Youssef Carter (UNC Religious Studies) for a screening of his new short film Laying Flowers Setting Fires. Sulaiman will ...

On the heels of Saint Cloud, one of 2020’s most critically acclaimed albums, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield sits down virtually with Kym Register, Loamlands leader and proprietor of cherished Durham venue ...

Hungry River is a performance collaboration between Tift Merritt, Allison Russell (Our Native Daughters, Birds of Chicago) that explores the emotional history of formerly segregated mental asylums in North Carolina and the ...

Singer-songwriter Natu Camara — known affectionately as the Tina Turner of Guinea — joins ethnomusicologist Deonte Harris (Duke International Comparative Studies) for a free public Vimeo discussion covering Camara’s work, career, ...

As part of Urban Bush Women‘s Fall 2020 virtual residency with Duke Performances, local dancers and movement artists, choreographers, community workers, and educators are invited to join Urban Bush Women’s ...

GRAMMY-nominated pianist, jazz wunderkind, and Durham native Chris Pattishall joins Duke professor Anthony Kelley for a wide-ranging virtual discussion touching upon his local roots, influences, and new multimedia project that ...

Members of acclaimed Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women sit down with Andrea Woods-Valdes (Chair of the Duke Dance Program) for a free public Zoom discussion focused on Artist Journal, ...

Members of GRAMMY-winning, Charleston-based quintet Ranky Tanky join Duke professor Laurent Dubois for a live Zoom conversation, exploring the ways in which their music and performance draw on the living ...

As part of their two-week February 2020 residency at Duke, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company will open a series of repertory rehearsals for public observers. These rehearsals are a chance to see ...

Sean Stewart, artistic coordinator and rehearsal director of the American Ballet Theatre Apprentice Program, will offer a master class in intermediate/advanced ballet technique. Triangle community and Duke dancers ages 16 and up ...

Join Gnawa LanGus, fronted by GRAMMY-nominated musician Samir LanGus, for a free community workshop on the indigenous music and dance traditions of Morocco and North Africa. For all levels of ...

Radio Haïti-Inter: Three Decades of Resistance, both an exhibit and immersive audio experience, coincides with the Duke Performances premiere of Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever and the twentieth anniversary of ...

Christine Cox, co-founder and Artistic Director of Philadelphia-based contemporary ballet company BalletX, will lead a free public master class and workshop for community dancers ages 18 and up. This class ...

As part of her three-year Duke-based collaboration with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Studio Company, choreographic artist Stefanie Batten Bland is working within a creative initiative centered around artistic process and ...

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, hailed by The Philadelphia Inquirer as “one of the great American pianists of her generation,” leads a piano master class with Duke student musicians onstage at Baldwin ...

Thursday and Friday, January 30-31 Rubenstein Arts Center, Rm. 102 Free and open to the public A two-day symposium co-sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, African and African American ...

GRAMMY-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds, renowned for its virtuosity and commissioning of bold new works by composers of color, sits down with Duke professor Tsitsi Jaji to discuss the ensemble’s ...

Members of the acclaimed indie-folk trio Mountain Man (Amelia Meath, Molly Sarle, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig) sit down with music journalist Grayson Haver Currin for a conversation about their decade-long collaboration, ...

Christine Cox is Artistic Director & co-founder of Philadelphia-based contemporary ballet company BalletX, whose charge is to innovate, experiment with, and reformulate classical ballet for the 21st century. At Duke, ...

Saxophonist Joshua Redman — composer, bandleader, and one of jazz’s leading lights for well over two decades — reflects on his career, creative process, and current project, Still Dreaming, which ...

Singer-songwriter Natu Camara, who has been heralded as the “Tina Turner of Guinea,” kicks off Duke Performances’ 2020 Black Atlantic festival with a special lunchtime conversation and demonstration at NorthStar ...

March 16, 2020: Important Announcement: Remainder of Duke Performances spring season cancelled Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University has temporarily suspended on-campus classes and is ...

Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla, director Kiyoko McCrae, and Radio Haiti archivist Laura Wagner join Duke professor Laurent Dubois for a wide-ranging discussion of their new multidisciplinary project, Breaking the Thermometer ...

Cheryl Yeager, instructor with American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, will offer a master class in intermediate/advanced ballet technique. All community dancers ages 16 and up who train at an advanced/pre-professional ...

Meredith Webster, Ballet Master for Alonzo King LINES Ballet, will offer a combined ballet class and movement workshop featuring LINES Ballet repertory. All community dancers ages 16 and up with a strong grounding ...

In the past 37 years, Alonzo King LINES Ballet has been a force in ballet’s transformation. Dr. Jill Nunes Jensen, a contemporary ballet scholar who has chronicled the company for years, will explore how King ...

Join us for an opening reception celebrating ‘Selections from Timothy Duffy’s Blue Muse’, an installation featuring the tintype photography of folklorist, musician, and Music Maker Relief Foundation co-founder Timothy Duffy. As ...

Johanna Butow, instructor with American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, will offer a master class in intermediate/advanced ballet technique. All community dancers ages 16 and up who train at an advanced/pre-professional ...

Film screening with Atlanta-based visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley featuring The Man is the Music, directed by Maris Curran, and I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, directed by Lonnie ...

Members of the esteemed Harlem Quartet lead a chamber music master class, coaching Duke student ensembles in repertoire for string quartet. Friday, November 15, 5 PM Nelson Music Room, Duke ...

GRAMMY-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds, the ensemble-in-residence at Duke through 2020/2021, join the Duke Wind Symphony as part of a free public concert celebrating the wind repertoire of the past ...

Acclaimed classical pianist and Durham native Andrew Tyson leads a piano master class in Baldwin Auditorium with Duke student musicians. Saturday, October 12, 12 PM Baldwin Auditorium, Duke East Campus ...

Hisham Aidi (Columbia University), acclaimed author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture, gives a lecture on “Race, Music, and the Global Andalus.” A Senior Lecturer ...

Imani Winds, the GRAMMY-nominated, NY-based wind quintet renowned for its virtuosity and record of commissioning bold new works by composers of color, leads a “Sunday Service” at NorthStar Church of ...

In this free lunchtime talk at The Pinhook in downtown Durham, GRAMMY-nominated vocalist and emcee Maimouna Youssef (aka Mumu Fresh) sits down with Crystal Taylor (Beats n Bars) to discuss ...

A member of heralded experimental pop trio Son Lux, Rafiq Bhatia — a Raleigh native and the son of Muslim immigrant parents — joins Duke Music professor Anthony Kelley at ...

Torry Bend, award-winning puppet artist and chair of Theater Studies at Duke, is joined by collaborator Howard L. Craft, Durham-based poet, playwright, and arts educator, for an in-depth discussion of ...

Born in Georgia to Civil Rights activists, choreographer Alonzo King planted his pathbreaking ballet company, LINES, in San Francisco in the early 1980s. At Duke, he joins professor Thomas F. ...

Coinciding with Duke Performances’ Music Maker 25 festival, renowned folklorist, author, and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities William R. Ferris moderates a special roundtable discussion at ...

March 16, 2020: Important Announcement: Remainder of Duke Performances spring season cancelled Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University has temporarily suspended on-campus classes and is ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

The ‘Music Maker 25’ package — which provides access to all seven ‘Music Maker 25’ shows at The Fruit — and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ package — which provides access to all five ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco, including performances by Natu Camara, David Virelles, Cha Wa, Etienne Charles, and Cimarrón — and ...

March 11, 2020: Important Notice Regarding American Ballet Theatre Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University is postponing all events with an expected attendance of more ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Duke Performances subscriptions and single tickets, including $10 Duke student tickets, are now on sale. Subscriptions and single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at ...

Julie Bravata, instructor with American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, will offer a master class in intermediate/advanced ballet technique. All community dancers ages 16 and up who train at an advanced/pre-professional ...

Join legendary Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali for a demonstration and conversation about the traditions that have shaped her hypnotic, contemporary brand of Moorish music. Seymali’s songs, pairing modern rhythms ...

Join Durham-based Brazilian artist Caique Vidal for a joyful demonstration and conversation about his signature fusion of Latin, funk, reggae, and Afro-Brazilian sounds. Free coffee and churros provided for all attendees! ...

Duke Theater Studies chair and puppet artist Torry Bend sits down with members of Manual Cinema, the Emmy-winning shadow puppetry collective in residence at Duke Performances;  Donovan Zimmerman (Co-founder and ...

Camille A. Brown — choreographer and founder of the Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company Camille A. Brown & Dancers, known for inventive multidisciplinary dance works exploring race, culture, and identity — ...

Sascha Radetsky, Artistic Director for American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, will offer a master class in advanced ballet technique. Triangle community and Duke dancers ages 16 and up who train at an ...

As part of their two-week January 2019 residency at Duke, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company will open a series of repertory rehearsals for public observers. These rehearsals are a chance to see ...

In this special Friday-afternoon conversation at Duke’s Rubenstein Arts Center, award-winning choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland and American Ballet Theatre Studio Company Artistic Director Sascha Radetsky will discuss their professional trajectories, ...

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Camille A. Brown joins Nicole Oxendine (Empower Dance Studio) for a conversation on dance, community development, and Brown’s exploration of African-American identity through movement. Thursday, February ...

Tony Award-winning playwright and singer Stew sits down with Talya Klein (Duke Theater Studies) for a lunchtime conversation spanning his career, influences, and current project, ‘Notes of a Native Song’ ...

In this free lunchtime talk at The Pinhook in downtown Durham, trailblazing pianist, composer, bandleader, and 2010 MacArthur fellow Jason Moran sits down with Durham-based spoken word artist Dasan Ahanu ...

Brooklyn-based rock band Habibi has made a name for itself through an infectious juxtaposition of surf pop and riff-heavy punk. In this free lunchtime conversation at The Pinhook in downtown ...

South African classical guitarist Derek Gripper — known for transcribing the intricate works of Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté for six-string guitar — kicks off Duke Performances’ second annual Black ...

Iconic Muslim-American hip-hop artist Brother Ali sits down with Joseph Winters (Duke Divinity School) for a free public conversation touching on Brother Ali’s music, career, and activism in post-9/11 America. ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

Company members from Camille A. Brown & Dancers — the Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company known for inventive multidisciplinary dance works exploring race, culture, and identity — will offer a beginning-level ...

Company members from Camille A. Brown & Dancers — the Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company known for inventive multidisciplinary dance works exploring race, culture, and identity — will offer an advanced ...

Juel D. Lane, company dancer with Camille A. Brown & Dancers — the Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company known for inventive multidisciplinary dance works exploring race, culture, and identity — will ...

Camille A. Brown & Dancers company members will offer a free and open-to-the-public social dance workshop intended for self-identifying girls and women. Black Girl Spectrum is a Camille A. Brown & Dancers ...

Camille A. Brown & Dancers company members Maleek Washington, Timothy Edwards, and Juel D. Lane will offer a free and open-to-the-public social dance workshop intended for self-identifying boys and men. ...