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The African Company Presents Richard III
Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $8-$15
Thrumming with ire, The African Company Presents Richard III encounters African Americans and whites at a crossroads in history. More -
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$36
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin—“early music’s Bang on a Can All Stars” (Los Angeles Times)—elicits the breathtaking transparency and frenetic fluency of the Baroque period. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Cabaret Night with Nathan and Julie Gunn
Thursday, September 2, 2010, at 8:30pm | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
Join opera giant Nathan Gunn in the intimate setting of the Allerton Music Barn when he partners with Julie Gunn, his wife and pianist, as well as University of Illinois jazz faculty members Chip McNeill on saxophone, Larry Gray on bass, and Dana Hall on drums for an evening of music from Gunn’s most recent compact disc, Just before Sunrise. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Evening Serenade
Monday, September 6, 2010, at 8:30pm | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
Despite two centuries of separation, Mozart's "Grand Partita" and Richard Strauss' Symphony for Wind Instruments—the two pieces offered in this final performance of the 2010 series—offer listeners a chance to hear the earlier composer's influence on Strauss' work. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Ian Hobson: Iberia
Sunday, September 5, 2010, at 8:30pm | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
Join us for a tour of Spain when the renowned pianist Ian Hobson will, for the first time, perform Isaac Albéniz's tour de force, Iberia. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday, September 5, 2010, at 10:00am | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
Stefan Milenkovich will be featured on Bach’s Sonata No. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Jon Faddis: Remembrances
Friday, September 3, 2010, at 8:30pm | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
Jazz trumpet virtuoso Jon Faddis, known for his sonorous ballad tone and skill in the high register, will join University of Illinois jazz faculty for an evening of Ellington, Hancock, Coltrane, and Brubeck arrangements by Carlos Franzetti, the 2001 Latin Grammy Award winner for the score of the film The Mambo Kings. More -
Allerton Music Barn Festival 2010: Pacifica Quartet and Friends
Saturday, September 4, 2010, at 8:30pm | Allerton Music Barn, Monticello | $20-$26
In a unique mix of compositional styles, the Allerton Music Barn Festival will present three works spanning the 19th and 21st centuries, including a world-premiere performance of the festival's first commissioned work. More -
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$40
Classical music is not obsolete. This seven-time Grammy nominee, Gramophone Award winner, and youngest curator and performer of the Carnegie Hall Perspectives concerts reasserts this truth every season with concert stops from Japan to the United Kingdom and his amassed recordings at 30 discs and growing. More -
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson
Saturday, October 16, 2010, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $8-$15
In two plays that escape the boundaries of reality, playwright Eugène Ionesco indulges in absurdity. More -
The Baseball Music Project
Friday, November 12, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$35
With the chants of the crowd and the organ’s rally cries, baseball and music have always fit like a ball in a glove. More -
Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, at 7:00pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$25
“Working together for the common good” is not simply the translation of this troupe’s name—it’s a philosophy that links indigenous dance, music, and art in an outpouring of Filipino pride and grace. More -
Biennial Costume and Prop Pre-Sale
Saturday, August 28, 2010, at 9:00am | Tryon Festival Theatre Stage | $3
Bargains abound when it’s time to make room in the Center’s costume and prop vaults. More -
Biennial Costume and Prop Sale
Saturday, August 28, 2010, at 1:00pm | Tryon Festival Theatre Stage | free
Bargains abound when it’s time to make room in the Center’s costume and prop vaults. More -
Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$42
The past, present, and future of the blues collide at the crossroads when living legends, bluesy country rockers, and house party hip-hop masters meet for a celebration of Delta blues icon Robert Johnson’s musical legacy. More -
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Saturday, September 18, 2010, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$35
Performing in Champaign-Urbana for the first time since her shining appearance with Jazz Threads—2003-04’s season-long celebration of this community’s jazz past, present, and future—Dee Dee Bridgewater pays loving tribute to the pioneering jazz stylist and incomparable singer Billie Holiday. More -
La Calisto
Friday, April 29, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $8-$24
Brazen, ornate, sly, trilling, and loaded with panache, La Calisto plays as a nuanced study of desire packaged as a sensuous Baroque romp among the Roman gods. More -
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Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Classics I
Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$31
For its 51st season, this ensemble begins its concerts at Krannert Center with A Thanksgiving Overture by Earl George, Mark Lathan’s Concerto for Trumpet, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. More -
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Classics II
Saturday, January 22, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$31
The orchestra begins the new year with Elgar’s Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. More -
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Classics III
Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$31
Please note that this program has changed since the printed materials were prepared. More -
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Classics IV
Saturday, April 2, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$31
For its final Krannert Center performance of the season, the orchestra presents Honegger’s Pacific 231; Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. More -
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: CUSO Holiday Concert
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$31
Ring in the holidays with this extravaganza of seasonal classics and exciting musical guests. More -
Cherry Jam with Latawce, Polish folkloric music and dance
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at 11:30am | Cherry Alley, outside the Urbana Free Library, Urbana | free
To celebrate the vibrancy of downtown Urbana, the Urbana Business Association, in partnership with the Urbana Free Library, will present weekly lunchtime concerts sponsored by area businesses and festivals. More -
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, October 30, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$52
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra was born when Thomas Edison first displayed his kinetoscope, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky served as guest conductor for the debut of what is now Carnegie Hall, and the first tracks were laid for the Trans-Siberian Railway. More -
Cirque Éloize: ID
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 7:00pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$29
The dancer-athletes of Cirque Éloize mash comic book vividness, science fiction possibility, elastic bodies, and fearless innovation in a super-real vision of an urban world. More -
Dance for Parkinson’s Disease
Friday, August 20, 2010, at 10:00am | Drama Rehearsal Room (Level 2) | free
For the past eight years, the Mark Morris Dance Group has worked with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group to blend music and dance into an empowering movement class for patients with Parkinson’s disease. More -
Death and the Ploughman
Saturday, January 29, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$35
This Drama Desk Award-nominated play is based on a text that was written in 1401 as the Renaissance was just unfolding and that is considered to be one of the first major German prose works. More -
Dessert and Conversation: A Midsummer Night’s Dream—It’s a Bacchanal!
Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
Hear more about the provocative production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—It’s a Bacchanal! at this conversation event one hour before the performance. More -
Dessert and Conversation: February Dance
Friday, February 4, 2011, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
A dialogue before February Dance will let you hear more about this dance concert. More -
Dessert and Conversation: Macbeth
Saturday, October 16, 2010, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
Gain new perspectives on Macbeth and get insight into the choices made for this production during a conversation before the play. More -
Dessert and Conversation: November Dance
Friday, November 5, 2010, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
This pre-performance dialogue lets you peek behind the scenes at November Dance. More -
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Drumline LIVE
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | $10-$25
A bold and brash show-style marching band will high step into the Colwell Playhouse for an evening of funk-infused dances, walloping brass rips, amped-up hip-hop rhythms, and riveting choreography. More -
Ebène Quartet
Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$34
The musicians of the Ebène Quartet—Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure on violin, Mathieu Herzog on viola, and Raphaël Merlin on cello—play with “refinement and poise” and “a rare degree of expressive subtlety, blended sonorities and electrifying joy” (The Times, London). More -
February Dance
Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | $9-$17
Please note that the program has changed since the printed materials were prepared. More -
First Fridays Presented by the Champaign County Black Chamber of Commerce
Friday, August 6, 2010, at 5:00pm | Lobby | free
Friends, colleagues, business owners, and community members gather with members of the Champaign County Black Chamber of Commerce on the first Friday of each month this summer to promote and sustain African-American and other minority-owned enterprises in Champaign County. More -
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, and Charlie Albright, piano
Sunday, March 13, 2011, at 3:00pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$36
In March, we welcome two in an illustrious line of Young Concert Artists International Audition winners—stemming from Pinchas Zukerman, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, and Dawn Upshaw. More -
Marvin Hamlisch: Broadway’s Greatest Moments
Saturday, February 12, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$40
Who better to shuffle us off to Broadway than the creator of A Chorus Line himself? With a Pulitzer Prize, three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, three Golden Globes, and a Tony on his shelf, composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch has made history while he’s made great music. More -
Ben Heppner, tenor
Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$46
Ben Heppner has it all: a “lean, burnished and powerful voice,” “raw emotional fervor,” and “scrupulous” musicianship (The New York Times). More -
Holi: An Indian Festival of Colors
Saturday, February 26, 2011, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $10-$28
When winter is ending, the Hindu festival Holi announces the season of renewal as people light bonfires, playfully throw colorful powders, smear one another with paint, sing, squirt water, dance, flirt, and partake in feasts. More -
How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?
Thursday, September 16, 2010, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | See Meditation (an installation) in the Studio Theatre | $10-$33
Defined by Ralph Lemon as a “speculative fiction epic,” How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? crafts a vision of tomorrow through investigations of loss, transcendence, and human partnerships. More -
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Thursday, September 23, 2010, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$40
With nuance and vigor, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago banks the fires of modern dance through its spacious approach toward distinctive choreographers, perspectives, and collaborations. More -
Iphigenia and Other Daughters
Thursday, November 4, 2010, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $8-$15
What ever happened to the women left behind, to those who waited like Penelope for the men to return from the Trojan War? Ellen McLaughlin peeks at these invisible players in a history determined by others. More -
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$48
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra “crackles and chatters” with electricity on bebop and soul, Dixieland and Latin, and jazz that’s cool and smoking (The New York Times). More -
Kashu-juku Noh Theater
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$28
In the 600-year-old storytelling tradition of Noh theatre, masked actors in sumptuous costumes use exquisite simplicity to convey the essence of humanity. More -
Kindur: The Adventurous Journey of Two Icelandic Sheep
Saturday, April 30, 2011, at 11:00am | Colwell Playhouse | $10-$25
A pioneer in interactive theatre spaces and the creator of Farfalle (Butterflies), which transported Krannert Center audiences into an enchanting garden, Compagnia TPO crafts “paintings in movement”—immersive atmospheres for performers and audiences that are brought to life when walls and floors are touched and respond with music, colors, sounds, or images. More -
Krannert Center Debut Artist
Sunday, April 17, 2011, at 3:00pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$36
What is a sweet ending for the Sunday Salon Series is an auspicious beginning for a young artist. More -
Krannert Uncorked
Thursday, August 26, 2010, at 5:00pm | Lobby | free
Unfettered. Unhurried. Uncomplicated. Uncorked. Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, linger for the music, and try a new wine. More -
Krannert Uncorked with Barrington Coleman, solo jazz piano
Thursday, August 12, 2010, at 5:00pm | Lobby | free
Local favorite Barrington Coleman flashes on jazzy licks and intricate harmonies as he showcases his talents on piano. More -
Krannert Uncorked with Maria & Co., world music quartet
Thursday, August 5, 2010, at 5:00pm | Lobby | free
Maria & Co. will entrance you with sounds gathered from across the planet, and Sun Singer Wine & Spirits will enchant you with summery beverages. More -
Krannert Uncorked with Michael Kammin, solo guitar
Thursday, August 19, 2010, at 5:00pm | Lobby | free
Roots music, jazz, world music, and rock have influenced the song writing and finger-picking of Michael Kammin. More -
Libretto: La Calisto
Saturday, April 30, 2011, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
Hear more about La Calisto at a pre-performance conversation held one hour before the show. More -
Libretto: Man of La Mancha
Saturday, February 26, 2011, at 6:30pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
For background information and the cultural context of Man of La Mancha, head to a pre-performance conversation. More -
Libretto: Rigoletto
Sunday, November 14, 2010, at 2:00pm | Krannert Room | $6.50
Learn more about Rigoletto through a pre-performance conversation. More -
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Man of La Mancha
Sunday, February 27, 2011, at 3:00pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $8-$24
From his dungeon, the novelist Miguel de Cervantes faces a mock trial by the murderers and thieves also awaiting judgment from the Spanish Inquisition. More -
Mark Morris Dance Group
Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$38
With intelligence and audacity, Mark Morris has made dances that are “uproariously funny” (San Francisco Chronicle) or “sensuously attractive” (The New York Times) and always “astonishingly honest” (The New York Times). More -
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—It’s a Bacchanal!
Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | $8-$15
Bacchanal: A riotous or drunken festivity. Synonyms: misbehavior, disobedience, indiscretion, contravention. More -
Misalliance
Friday, April 8, 2011, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $8-$15
Bored Hypatia Tarleton desperately craves “to be an active verb,” although her father snorts that she actually just “wants adventures to drop out of the sky. More -
Night Music: John the Revelator
Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 9:00pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $5-$35
A Mass for the 21st century, Phil Kline’s John the Revelator pulses with mystery and the warmth of salvation as it blends traditional hymns and contemporary compositions with the evocative qualities of Gregorian chant, while words from David Shapiro, Samuel Beckett, and the Old Testament weave through texts from the Latin Mass. More -
November Dance
Saturday, November 6, 2010, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | $9-$17
Please note that the program has changed since the printed materials were prepared. More -
The Nutcracker
Saturday, December 4, 2010, at 2:00pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $15-$34
You can almost smell the nutmeg, cinnamon, and hot chocolate when Deana Doty’s fresh choreography, Tchaikovsky’s ambrosial music, the sweeping sounds of Sinfonia da Camera led by Ian Hobson, and good-enough-to-eat stage settings from Andy Warfel are whipped together into a delectable confection. More -
Opening Night Party 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010, at 7:00pm | Lobby | $5
Last year you immersed yourself in exhilarating ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival. More -
Opole Philharmonic of Poland
Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$48
In the aftermath of six brutal years of sabotage, bombings, disease, hunger, and labor camps, the Opole Philharmonic of Poland was founded. More -
OUTSIDE at the Research Park: Occidental Brothers Dance Band International with Samba Mapangala
Friday, August 13, 2010, at 7:30pm | UI Research Park (1816 South Oak Street, Champaign) | free
Chicago’s Occidental Brothers Dance Band International weaves high-energy soukous, Ghanaian Highlife, and African jazz and has captured the admiration of audiences at the Ottawa Blues Festival, Lincoln Center, the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. More -
Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Part 1
Thursday, October 21, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$34
Taut, brutally ironic, austere, humorously biting, turbulent, searing. More -
Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Part 2
Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $12-$20
This event was originally scheduled to occur on November 18. More -
Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Part 3
Thursday, January 27, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $12-$20
Taut, brutally ironic, austere, humorously biting, turbulent, searing. More -
Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Part 4
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $12-$20
Taut, brutally ironic, austere, humorously biting, turbulent, searing. More -
Parker Quartet
Sunday, January 30, 2011, at 3:00pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$36
As January ends, the powerhouse Parker Quartet fills the Great Hall with “silver-toned elegance” (Washington Post). More -
Itzhak Perlman, violin, and Rohan De Silva, piano
Sunday, October 3, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$48
Itzhak Perlman holds many trademarks: “the opulent sound, the silken tone, the supple bow arm, the effortless technique” (The New York Times). More -
Pygmalion Music Festival: Roky Erickson with Okkervil River; Opening Act: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$23
Harnessing the vigor of Champaign-Urbana’s music scene with the abundant riches of groups on tour, the Pygmalion Music Festival has been showcasing indie rock since 2005. More -
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Russian National Ballet Theatre
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, at 7:00pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$39
With a lightning bolt’s urgency, love crashes into Verona, where the impulsive Romeo and the impetuous Juliet are helpless to prevent its damage. More -
The Seasons Project
Thursday, October 14, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$38
In the Italy of 1723, Antonio Vivaldi created a sublime musical portrayal of the seasons around him, and his sound-painting in The Four Seasons still intrigues nearly 300 years later. More -
Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$38
Banned from the United States since 1933, the Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba landed in New York in 2009 with the succulent sound of a contemporary Cuban band and the savory wisdom of a decades-long tradition. More -
Sinfonia da Camera: Brief Encounters
Saturday, September 18, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $7-$34
Pianist and conductor Ian Hobson is recognized internationally for his masterly performances of the Romantic repertoire, his deft and idiomatic readings of piano music, and his assured conducting from both the piano and the podium. More -
Sinfonia da Camera: Croatia to the Canary Isles
Saturday, February 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $7-$34
Featuring the colorful and rhythmic use of the strings and percussion from lyric to dynamic, Sinfonia performs works celebrated and new. More -
Sinfonia da Camera: Extraordinary Voices
Friday, November 5, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $7-$34
“In Schuman’s pieces you have the feeling that only an American could have written them. More -
Sinfonia da Camera: Nature’s Majesty
Saturday, March 12, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $7-$34
Sinfonia extols the beauty and majesty of the natural world around us with familiar works used in numerous films, suggesting tumbling brooks and violent thunderstorms, sunrise and bird calls, woodland walks and canyon hikes. More -
Sinfonia da Camera: Rush Hour—Play It Again!
Thursday, April 7, 2011, at 5:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | free-$10
Sinfonia da Camera’s 27th season concludes with a special rush hour concert paying tribute to music that evokes enduring images from our past. More -
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St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$50
Larger-than-life conductors like Richard Strauss, incandescent soloists like Sergei Prokofiev, and resoundingly vigorous composers like Gustav Mahler—the St. More -
Studiodance I
Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 7:00pm | Studio Theatre | $7-$14
Emerging choreographic artists and Master of Fine Arts candidates Hallie Aldrich, Nicholas Duran, Sarah Haas, and Joseph Hutto present their work in this self-produced concert. More -
Studiodance II
Thursday, April 21, 2011, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $7-$14
Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II when Dance at Illinois students present their dance-making investigations curated by a panel of faculty and students. More -
Sunday Afternoon Songbook
Sunday, August 1, 2010, at 2:00pm | Stage 5 | free
Presented in collaboration with Dan Perrino, this edition of the Sunday Afternoon Songbook features the beguiling vocal stylings of Darden Purcell and the celebrated jazz chops of pianist Don Heitler. More -
Tango Buenos Aires: Fire and Passion of Tango
Thursday, February 10, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$32
Without combustive passion and the fiery heat of seduction, there can be no tango. More -
A Time to Speak
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7:30pm | Studio Theatre | $10-$25
Helen Lewis’ life as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer is lacerated when the Nazis annex Czechoslovakia and Jews are no longer allowed to frequent public places, must carry identification at all times, and eventually are forced to sew yellow stars on their clothes. More -
TPO Virtual Playground
Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 6:00pm | Colwell Playhouse | Free, tickets required
Navigate mystical Iceland in a demonstration and exploration of TPO’s motion-activated setting for Kindur: The Adventurous Journey of Two Icelandic Sheep. More -
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 7:30pm | Colwell Playhouse | $10-$36
Ever a maverick, Trisha Brown has never harbored assumptions about movement, space, or sound. More -
Chucho Valdés with The Afro-Cuban Messengers
Saturday, October 9, 2010, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$38
A giant of jazz piano returns to the United States after a seven-year absence with his “thunderous dexterity” on the rapid-fire rhythms and African-infused melodies he pioneered in Cuba (All about Jazz). More -
Suzanne Vega
Friday, April 1, 2011, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre | $10-$45
Suzanne Vega’s disarmingly powerful singing has been everywhere: The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, The Truth about Cats and Dogs, Second Life, Dead Man Walking, and Lilith Fair. More
