Performing Arts

nora chipaumire: Dambudzo

nora chipaumire: Dambudzo

October 2, 2025 - October 4, 2025

Dambudzo is a live anti-genre work by acclaimed choreographer nora chipaumire, combining sound, painting, sculpture and performance to confront colonial legacies.

Taylor Mac closeup with Holiday lights

Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

December 4, 2025 - December 6, 2025

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)

The Flavour of Butoh

The Flavour of Butoh
Taught by Pik Kei Wong

October 24, 2024

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.

Open Studio with Ayodele Casel and the Company of Rooted

Open Studio with Ayodele Casel and the Company of Rooted

September 24, 2024

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.