Inspired by Amos Tutuola’s 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Tori Iwatani’s influential 1980s video game Pac Man, this fantastically futuristic multimedia romp creates a composite world at the intersection of game culture, folk tales and pop songs.

With a wry, unsettling humor and a low-tech, pop sensibility, the wildly creative New York video/performance artist Shana Moulton’s hilarious multi-part Whispering Pines features her alter ego Cynthia, a confused, hypochondriac agoraphobe prone to colorful hallucinations and absurd fantasies.

French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj has created a wickedly erotic contemporary ballet reinventing the alluring fairy tale of Snow White.

The rapturous European Union Youth Orchestra unites Europe’s most gifted and magnetic young musicians with the world’s most famous conductors and soloists, transcending cultural boundaries in a European ideal of community working together to achieve peace and social understanding. The Orchestra appears here with UNC-Chapel Hill Music Department’s Carolina Choir under Susan Klebanow with members of the voice faculty along with piano faculty member Clara Yang.

A densely atmospheric, image-filled exploration of resurrection, freedom and possession, Gospels of Childhood examines birth, death, pleasure and pain through song, chanting and movement in an inventive, evocative, ritualistic work of theater and music.