2007-2008 Performing Arts

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Coming in 2008!

Aviv Quartet
Wednesday, March 26
8 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$50 Patron, concert & reception in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, with special guest Ambassador Reda Mansour, Israeli Consul General
$18 general public, $10 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/NCCCR/WCU/alumni,
$6 UNC Asheville and all area students

The award-winning Aviv String Quartet performs annually as the resident quartet at the Upper Galilee Chamber Music Festival at Kfar Blum and all major venues throughout Israel. Aviv participated in the Amadeus Quartet summer course at the Royal Academy of Music in London and represented Israel at the 1998 Encounters chamber music course in Jerusalem under the direction of Isaac Stern and with members of the Emerson and Juilliard Quartets.

Proceeds from this concert benefit the UNC Asheville Center for Jewish Studies to commemorate its 25th anniversary.

Eiko & Koma
Saturday, April 12
8 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$20 general public, $10 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/NCCCR/WCU/alumni,
$6 UNC Asheville and all area students

Japanese-American avant-garde modern dancers Eiko & Koma perform "Mourning", their original choreography accompanied by pianist Margaret Leng Tan, a devotee of John Cage. Their performance of "Mourning", presented in 2004 at the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas, is a metaphorical exploration of loss as a singular experience in each human life.

     "Delicious Movement" Workshop with Eiko & Koma!
     Open to the Public
     Click here for more information

Past Events

Step Afrika!
Friday, September 7
7:30 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$15 general public, $10 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/alumni/NCCCR/WCU, free to UNC Asheville students
General public tickets go on sale August 27
Group tickets available, call 828.251.6674

Step Afrika! brings one of the most exciting dance forms of the 21st century to Asheville for a high-energy brand of precision stepping with African and American roots. The repertoire of this enormously powerful dance ensemble ranges from stepping and tap to African dances, including Zulu and gumboot, while also incorporating clogging, hip-hop, house, and freestyle dancing in their performances. The Washington-based company conducts step residencies and clinics for the Kennedy Center, in schools, and for community-based organizations across the United States. Step Afrika! recently opened at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Filmmaker John Waters
Wednesday, September 19
8pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$30 general public, $20 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/alumni/NCCCR/WCU, $10 area students (purchase in person with school ID), $6 UNC Asheville students
All ticket purchases limited to 2 per ID
Campus tickets go on sale August 27
General public tickets go on sale September 10

Plan for a truly unforgettable evening with the incomparable legend, film director, and writer John Waters as he reveals the delightfully wicked genius behind such camp classics as Hairspray, Serial Mom, and Pink Flamingos. Waters discusses his work and his wild approach to creativity, delving into the inspirations underlying his extraordinary career as a filmmaker, director, actor, and author. Drawing from "This Filthy World," a lecture he presents at colleges, museums, film festivals, and comedy clubs across the United States, this cult celebrity lives up to one of his favorite sayings, "strive for art in reverse."

Michael Singer
Wednesday, October 24
8 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$20 general public, $10 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/NCCCR/WCU/alumni, free to UNC Asheville and all area students

World-renowned "green" planner and artist Michael Singer transforms public art, architecture, landscape, and planning projects into successful models for urban and ecological renewal. This multimedia talk, "Designs for a Sustainable Future," explains his philosophy for large-scale infrastructure projects, affordable housing, urban parks, and schools. The New York Times chose Singer's design of a massive waste recycling and transfer station in Phoenix as one of the top eight design events of 1993. His other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and his works are in public collections worldwide, including the Australian National Gallery, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. As the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Arts at Florida Atlantic University, Singer has completed a number of projects on college campuses that find creative solutions to infrastructure demands while promoting renewal.

The Regina Carter Quintet
Sunday, November 4
8 pm, Lipinsky Auditorium
$28 general public, $18 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/NCCCR/WCU/alumni, $6 UNC Asheville and all area students

Jazz violinist supreme, Regina Carter, brings a six-piece ensemble to our stage for a performance of I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey, her intimate, authentic, acoustic arrangements of songs spanning the 20s to the 40s. With a repertoire ranging from R&B to East Indian and classical, Regina Carter brings audiences to their feet after exhilarating performances worldwide but she keeps returning to one of her true loves: music of the swing era. Just as prolific as Carter's on-stage accomplishments are her recordings with Patti Labelle and Aretha Franklin, vocalist Cassandra Wilson, trombonist Steve Turre, pianists Kenny Barron and Danilo Perez, guitarist Rodney Jones and others. Classically trained at the New England Conservatory and Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she earned a bachelor of arts in performance, Carter exhibits a distinctly diverse musical personality and enjoys a career that's a veritable crescendo of success.

Regina Carter was presented in part with gracious support from Deal Motors Cars Inc.

Aquila Theatre Company
Friday, February 8: Julius Caesar
Saturday, February 9: Catch 22
8 pm, Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place
$32 general public, $30 Seniors, $10 Children
(Available only at Diana Wortham Theatre 828.257.4530)
$18 UNC Asheville faculty/staff/alumni/NCCCR/WCU,
$6 UNC Asheville and all area students
(Available only at UNC Asheville Highsmith box Office 828.232.5000)

Aquila Theatre Company presents two masterworks of the theater - Catch 22 based on the 1961 American classic of satirical, historical fiction by Joseph Heller, and Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy, Julius Caesar, demonstrating Aquila's trademarks of tightly knit, excellent ensemble acting, crystalline verse-speaking, original music, and innovative conceptualization and design.

Presented in association with Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place.

This extraordinary original production showcases one of poet/playwright/essayist Langston Hughes’ masterworks: an 800-line, 12-part poetic suite written in 1961 that creates his vision of the global struggle for artistic and social freedom in the 60s. The poems are read aloud to the accompaniment of live jazz featuring The Ron McCurdy Trio (with music cues as suggested by the poet) and video images of the Harlem Renaissance by African-American artists and photographers, including Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks and Romare Bearden.

**Click here for Schedule of Hughes Project Residency Activities**