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 ...
The Ceramics Academy is a series of four two-hour Saturday afternoon workshops that will offer a much more in-depth experience than anything in DukeCreate's current lineup. The series starts January 25—apply today!
duARTS, Duke's umbrella student arts organization, is taking over Penn Pavilion on Fri, Dec 6, 7–10pm and transforming it into a Winter Wonderland.
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 ...
Pratt's New Building Art Committee is now in a phase of actively seeking to identify and purchase or commission works for the new building. Artists who might be a fit are invited to submit a brief survey by Dec 6, 2019.
Students and alumni reflect on their experiences at the 10th Annual Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network (DEMAN) Weekend on November 1–2, 2019.
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 ...
Meet the students behind the scenes of Duke Arts—from tour guides to social media superstars—and each an important advocate in supporting our work in growing the arts across campus.
Amelia Meath, Molly Erin Sarlé, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig interlace harmonies to produce their enchanting brand of indie folk magic that is both intimate and sprawling. As Mountain Man, the trio’s distinctive ...
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, write duuvisarts@gmail.com for more info and to apply.
Patty Morton, elected to the Duke Board of Trustees in 2015, has become a powerhouse in cultivating the university’s rapidly expanding arts landscape.
Connecting with new people can seem tough—but it doesnʼt have to be! With the tips below from DEMAN 2019 panelist Angela Silak ’09 of Hollywood Resumes, you can make your experiences before, during, and after DEMAN Weekend (Nov. 1–2, 2019) fun, meaningful, and productive.
This position is designed for recent Duke graduates and primarily supports Duke Arts programs including DEMAN.
The inaugural Duke STEAM Forum was designed to give visibility and voice to those who are passionate about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) at Duke.
Learn more about professional opportunities with Duke Dance, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and Duke Performances.
Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and donors who create Duke's inviting and exceptional creative community. Read the report online or download a PDF copy.
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 ...
Meet DukeJournos member and DEMAN Weekend 2019 panelist David A. Graham '09, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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 ...
This traveling photography exhibition is about the storied, charged, and enduring place that we call the South, and is presented by the Power Plant Gallery and Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University, in collaboration with the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State.
DEMAN Weekend Keynote Speaker Robb Chavis, T'98, speaks toward the decisions he made to switch from life as a lawyer to working as a TV writer for the series "black-ish".
Celebrate a decade of DEMAN on November 1st and 2nd! View the schedule of events for DEMAN Weekend 2019 below.
In this interview with Kay Young (B.S.E.'84, M.D.'90), we learn what inspired her to fund grants to support creative projects engaging scientific ideas.
The Communication Specialist for Dance and Theater Studies is responsible for planning and producing a variety of marketing and communications content for two vibrant arts departments located in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
Vonnie Quest is an interdisciplinary documentary artist from Milwaukee, WI, whose work weaves together family history, Afro-surrealism, and speculative fiction. As Vonnie seeks to piece together details of his grandmother’s life while in residence at the Power Plant Gallery, he is also reimaging new memories and alternative futures.
Duke professor and violist Jonathan Bagg specializes in carefully curated experiences of new and exploratory chamber music. Join him and the Ciompi Quartet on July 9 for the premiere of a new multimedia work in Duke Gardens.
"As an actor, a common feeling to have is that there is no "road map" or direct path to achieving your goals...I've learned is to say YES as much as possible." Read more from this interview with actress Dana Berger.
With Giselle, the preeminent classical ballet company returns to the state for the first time in 50 years.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jacob Tobia (T '14) is a writer, producer, and author of the forthcoming memoir, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Read their interview with DukeJournos, the Duke alumni journalist network.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tickets for Mavis Staples at the Carolina Theatre are now on sale. Tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 919-560-3030, and in person at the Carolina Theatre Box Office ...
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 ...
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 ...
In her month-long residency at Duke in the Rubenstein Arts Center, puppeteer Marina Tsaplina created and performed a deeply researched piece of theater exploring human imperfection and the life-denying eugenics impulse.
A fresh-minded PhD in musicology from Duke, Mosley is a bassoonist and pioneer among the new generation of scholars who have made social media an intrinsic part of their academic sphere.
Evan Morgan (T'19) has been awarded the 2019 Louis Sudler Prize, given to an outstanding senior in the creative and performing arts at Duke. Read on to learn more about Evan and his creative process.
A glimpse inside the first year of the American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Studio Company residency at Duke University.
In this interview with Reilly Johnson (Trinity ’19), we learn how this Program II student’s love of costuming and textiles grew into an extensive senior research exhibition in the Ruby.
Meet the undergrad Creative Arts Student Team (CAST) members of Duke Arts! CASTs fulfill a variety of roles, from offering tours of the Ruby to operating Duke Arts social media accounts. Applications for CASTs '19-20 are now open.
Living Invisible is a multimedia project exploring what it is like to live with a chronic—but invisible—illness at Duke. Alexandra Bateman (T' 19) discusses her senior capstone project, which is on view in the Ruby through May 12.
Duke Performances’ Vocal Ensemble Series subscription 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 ...
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’ Vocal Ensemble Series subscription 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 ...
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 ...
Thursday, February 20, 2020: Nelson Freire regrets to have to withdraw from all of his concerts in the United States this spring due to his continuing recovery from a fall ...
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 ...
Duke Performances’ and 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 ...
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’ Piano Recital Series subscription 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 ...
When Pedro Lasch's massive sculptural project for Mexico City's main square hit a dead end, he thought that was the end of the story. Twenty years later, Lasch used the Ruby makerspace to create a smaller architectural model of what he once envisioned for that project. Read on to learn his take on this experience and to hear his thoughts on the arts at Duke.
Hillings reflects on her expansive arts career, from working at the Guggenheim to her new role as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art. She discusses her work as a global arts curator and offers advice to students interested in creative careers.
Florian is the managing director of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
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 ...
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 ...
March 11, 2020: Important Announcement re: Duke Performances presentations through April 20 Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University has temporarily suspended on-campus classes and is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Duke Performances’ Chamber Arts Series subscription 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 ...
Duke Performances’ Chamber Arts Series subscription 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 ...
Part of an outstanding multi-generational musical birthright that includes his father Calvin Jackson and genre-pioneering grandfather R. L. Burnside, Cedric Burnside literally grew up in the blues. Living in his ...
The son of a prominent folklorist, Jake Xerxes Fussell learned the music of his home region firsthand at his father’s side, building up a vast knowledge base about the sounds ...
Drawing on as well as contributing to a rich folk music tradition, Azniv Korkejian brings a diasporic knowingness to the rich and rewarding songs recorded under her Bedouine moniker. Though ...
First cultivating a national profile with 2014’s exemplary Electric Ursa, Joan Shelley continues to lure listeners into her musical world. Imbued with secrets and tells, the Kentucky singer’s songcraft culls ...
Due to the threat of rain, Duke Performances’ presentation of H.C. McEntire at Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 12 has been re-scheduled to Thursday, June 13 at 7 ...
Professor Beverly McIver’s introductory painting class took on a special commission this spring for Durham's Cucciolo restaurant.
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’ 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 ...
March 16, 2020: Important Announcement re: Lila Downs Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University is postponing all events with an expected attendance of more than ...
March 16, 2020: Important Announcement re: Zakir Hussain Dear Friends, Due to precautionary measures related to COVID-19, Duke University is postponing all events with an expected attendance of more than ...
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 ...
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