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Carolina Performing Arts and UNC-Chapel Hill will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with a major international project in the 2012-13 Season.
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - National Theatre of Scotland
Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 2:00 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 7:00 PM
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 7:00 PM
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 7:00 PM
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Elsewhere, a CelloOpera with Maya Beiser, cello
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 7:30 PM
News Briefs
President Obama Nominates Carolina Performing Arts Executive Director Emil J. Kang to the National Council on the Arts.
Updated: May. 9, 2012
On May 3, come look inside the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company collaboration
Updated: May. 3, 2012
The National Endowment of the Arts interviews Executive Director Emil Kang about Rite 100
Updated: Apr. 25, 2012
'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' to be taped at UNC's Memorial Hall with guests President Obama and Dave Matthews
Updated: Apr. 20, 2012
Parking Map for Downtown Chapel Hill
Updated: Mar. 22, 2012
Program Notes LIVE: Great Minds discussion series
Updated: Mar. 19, 2012
Program Notes LIVE: "Jazz Essentials: Breaking It Down"
Updated: Jan. 27, 2012
Process Series Schedule from Jan. to May 2012
Updated: Dec. 21, 2011
Read the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Tour Blog
Updated: Nov. 14, 2011
Bill T. Jones on "A Good Man" (PBS American Masters)
Updated: Nov. 11, 2011
Conversation with the Man Who Invented Funk: Pee Wee Ellis
Updated: Nov. 11, 2011
Shiva Ganga pre-performance demonstration and lecture
Updated: Nov. 3, 2011
Editor of Samuel Beckett's Letters at Pre-Performance Lecture, Nov. 2
Updated: Oct. 31, 2011
Carolina Performing Arts Welcomes Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Updated: Oct. 18, 2011
Memorial Hall Box Office Hours During Fall Break & Homecoming
Updated: Oct. 13, 2011
UNC's arts director set his own path (The Chapel Hill News)
Updated: Oct. 16, 2011
Angelique Kidjo on North Carolina Public Radio
Updated: Oct. 16, 2011
Angelique Kidjo in the Durham Herald-Sun
Updated: Oct. 16, 2011
Masterclass with Eastman Dance Company
Updated: Oct. 6, 2011
Engagement Opportunities for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Updated: Sep. 27, 2011
Three-day symposium explores legacy of African-American choreographers
Updated: Sep. 15, 2011
Download our first program book of the 11/12 season
Updated: Sep. 2, 2011
Carolina Performing Arts awarded $750K Mellon Foundation Grant
Updated: Jul. 22, 2011
View a seating map of Memorial Hall
Updated: Jul. 13, 2011
The Encore Series: Emil Kang (The Daily Tar Heel)
Updated: Jul. 5, 2011
Stay connected with the arts!
Updated: Apr. 27, 2011
Jennifer Koh discusses her "Bach and Beyond Project."
Updated: Apr. 14, 2011
Carolina Performing Arts announces 2011-2012 season
Updated: Apr. 8, 2011
Beijing dance company reflects changes in China (Ottawa Citizen)
Updated: Apr. 9, 2011
Bill T. Jones joins forces with Anne Bogart at UNC (The Herald-Sun)
Updated: Apr. 7, 2011
St. Petersburg Philharmonic begins U.S. tour with Alisa Weilerstein (Los Angeles Times)
Updated: Mar. 25, 2011
Handspring Puppet Company founders Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler talk puppets at TED
Updated: Apr. 1, 2011
Nederlands Dans Theater arrives in Chapel Hill (Independent Weekly)
Updated: Mar. 28, 2011
Nederlands Dans Theater in the News and Observer
Updated: Mar. 27, 2011
"The Andersen Project" a vivid, captivating multimedia marvel (The Daily Tar Heel)
Updated: Mar. 18, 2011
Box Office Reduced Spring Break Hours
Updated: Mar. 2, 2011
UPDATE: Changes made to Leon Fleisher recital program
Updated: Feb. 25, 2011
Eddie Palmieri preview in this week's Indy!
Updated: Feb. 17, 2011
To pass up "Black Watch"... is to deprive yourself of the theater's most ingenious portrait to date of the war in Iraq and of modern warfare in general.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2011
"A Big Head Todd Tribute to Robert Johnson," in the San Francisco Chronicle
Updated: Jan. 27, 2011
Box Office Holiday Hours
Updated: Dec. 8, 2010
Leon Fleisher, "Music's Obi-Wan Kenobi," featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2010
Carolina Performing Arts welcomes six new members to our National Advisory Board!
Updated: Nov. 23, 2010
Carrie Rodriguez featured in the News and Observer
Updated: Nov. 15, 2010
Read review of "Sutra" in The Huffington Post.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2010
Please Note: Special Start Times for the Mariinsky Orchestra this week.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2010
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet to premiere two new works in Chapel Hill
Updated: Oct. 7, 2010
See video excerpts of "Dynamic Korea: Dance and Song"
Updated: Sep. 26, 2010
Check out this video clip of the Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade Trio
Updated: Sep. 15, 2010
"Sutra" previewed in the Sydney Morning Herald (Shaolin warrior monks take a leap of faith)
Updated: Sep. 14, 2010
Brooklyn Rider to open Music on the Hill series in Chapel Hill on Friday, September 10
Updated: Sep. 9, 2010
Carolina Performing Arts announces iPlay: Earl Scruggs!
Updated: Jul. 28, 2010
Tickets to all performances on sale now!
Updated: Jun. 30, 2010
Support student access to the arts!
Updated: May. 18, 2010
Mahler Gets Sanitized Celebration, Erasing Nazi Cruelty (Bloomberg)
Updated: Jun. 16, 2010
New subscriptions on sale June 7
Updated: Apr. 13, 2010
Nigerian Afrobeat Legend Tony Allen featured on NPR Weekend Edition
Updated: May. 17, 2010
Line Up to be Next NYC Subway Idol (Wall Street Journal)
Updated: May. 12, 2010
Groundbreaking set for Stanford University's state-of-the-art concert hall (San Jose Mercury News)
Updated: May. 12, 2010
Series subscription renewals now available!
Updated: Apr. 7, 2010
Preview article on Compania Nacional de Danza (News and Observer)
Updated: Apr. 11, 2010
Carolina Performing Arts announces 2010/11 season!
Updated: Apr. 7, 2010
"Uncle Vanya" reviewed in The Detroit News
Updated: Mar. 29, 2010
"Uncle Vanya" reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
Updated: Mar. 29, 2010
"Uncle Vanya" reviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times
Updated: Mar. 29, 2010
Bringing Art Back to PBS (Wall Street Journal)
Updated: Mar. 23, 2010
Lang Lang and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra reviewed in The New York Times
Updated: Mar. 23, 2010
Article on upcoming performance by Brooklyn Rider/2 Foot Yard (News and Observer)
Updated: Mar. 21, 2010
Gilberto Gil reviewed in The New York Times
Updated: Mar. 15, 2010
Box office closed during Spring Break
Updated: Mar. 5, 2010
London Philharmonic reviewed in The New York Times
Updated: Mar. 23, 2010
Why we must fund the arts (The Guardian, UK)
Updated: Mar. 1, 2010
Alvin Ailey's legacy has been kept, and expanded (Los Angeles Times)
Updated: Mar. 1, 2010
Attend "A Conversation with Terence Blanchard" free and open to the public
Updated: Feb. 23, 2010
Ailey II residency to involve school pupils, dancers
Updated: Jan. 21, 2010
Read today's preview article on the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (News and Observer)
Updated: Jan. 10, 2010
Box office open in limited hours Jan. 4-8
Updated: Jan. 4, 2010
National Endowment for the Arts releases results of national survey on public arts participation
Updated: Dec. 10, 2009
Box office closing for the holidays
Updated: Dec. 7, 2009
N&O covers Steel Hammer and Pictures Reframed.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009
Review of Leif Ove Andsnes and "Pictures Reframed" (The New York Times)
Updated: Nov. 16, 2009
Tinariwen wins Uncut best album of the year
Updated: Nov. 10, 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode on "Pictures Reframed" (Playbill.com)
Updated: Nov. 5, 2009
Interview with Tinariwen (National Geographic)
Updated: Nov. 3, 2009
Tinariwen only non-US group shortlisted for UK music award.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2009
Carolina Performing Arts mourns the passing of arts advocate Maxine Swalin (NC Symphony)
Updated: Oct. 9, 2009
Campus Arts Weekend available for Carolina parents!
Updated: Oct. 6, 2009
Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer on NPR
Updated: Oct. 5, 2009
Hear Brooklyn Rider on American Public Media's Performance Today
Updated: Sep. 23, 2009
See Baaba Maal on CNN
Updated: Sep. 23, 2009
September 2009 newsletter: The world is just around the corner!
Updated: Sep. 17, 2009
Read The New York Times article on Bill T. Jones' upcoming new work
Updated: Sep. 8, 2009
NPR story on pianist Leif Ove Andsnes' project, "Pictures Reframed" that will be presented in Chapel Hill on 11/18
Updated: Aug. 26, 2009
Hear NPR story on Terence Blanchard
Updated: Aug. 26, 2009
Emil Kang profiled in Southern lifestyle magazine
Updated: Aug. 27, 2009
Single tickets on sale now!
Updated: Jul. 13, 2009
Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser and Emil Kang to co-teach freshman seminar
Updated: Aug. 9, 2009
Pick 6 packages on sale now!
Updated: Jun. 16, 2009
Check out the website for "Pictures Reframed" featuring Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode
Updated: Jul. 30, 2009
Merce Cunningham dies (The New York Times)
Updated: Jul. 30, 2009
Pina Bausch, German choreographer and dancer, dies at 68 (Guardian, UK)
Updated: Jun. 30, 2009
Bolshoi Ballet brings leap of prestige to Chapel Hill (News and Observer)
Updated: Jun. 15, 2009
Swan Lake: An evening of grandeur with the Bolshoi Ballet (Daily Tar Heel)
Updated: Jun. 15, 2009
Attend a free lecture by Anna Kisselgoff on the Bolshoi Ballet on Friday June 12!
Updated: Jun. 3, 2009
New subscriptions on sale now!
Updated: May. 4, 2009
Call or email the box office now to order single tickets.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2009