Participating in Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s 48 Hour Dance Project — a marathon of dance rehearsals leading up to a public performance at the BeBe Theatre — was an amazingly challenging, inspiring and terrifying experience. Terrifying? Really? Yes! Though I’ve been a dancer all my life, I had no experience with partner dancing (except for […]
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the last day of the global peace initiative called “Winter Feast for the Soul,” the community is invited to a celebratory closing event and poetry reading.
From a near-missed border crossing in Turkey, to a cycling trip across America and a spring break flash-people-when-driving-on-the-Parkway venture gone wrong, Synergy Story Slam offers live, often hilarious, stories by anyone brave enough take the stage.
S/He Loves Me, S/He Loves Me Not, a modern-dance-meets-musical showcase, explores the giddy, passionate, turbulent and tumultuous — along with the sweet and triumphant — emotions inspired by love. Members of Moving Women, Asheville’s female-fronted performance ensemble and a project of Arts2People, partnered with area musicians and visual artists to present a funny, contemplative and […]
The second annual live and silent auction for OpenDoors, a not-for-profit dedicated to helping at-risk youth, promises to be a celebratory occasion featuring original art, food, wine, beer and “explosive hot jazz” performed by the Firecracker Jazz Band. Get your tickets by Monday, Feb. 7.
Zany, out-of-the-ordinary installation and performance art at last weekend’s Asheville FringeArts Festival.
The arts advocacy workshop will be held at N.C. Stage, in downtown Asheville, on Monday, Jan. 24, from noon to 1 p.m. Why should you go?
It’s fitting that Pilobolus Dance Theatre — an acclaimed contemporary dance company that takes its name from a fungus — draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring both biological themes and the physics of the human from. At times it is absolutely awe inspiring to watch the company in motion: Dancers fold themselves over and […]
Before writing this story, I spent an afternoon working at the Pisgah View Community Peace Garden combing through rows of garlic and tugging at strongly rooted invaders with caretaker Robert White and a small group of volunteers. I was touched by the scene: Children played games in the grass by the shed; a little girl […]
Singer/songwriter Ben Wakeman performs at Club Pulp on Wednesday, Dec. 29, with Asheville’s own Broken Lilacs and The Clouds of Greer.
Local churches, spiritual centers and music venues invite the public to warm up and share the joy of the season this Christmas Eve.
The WNC Jewish Federation presents two fundraising events this weekend: A discussion with author Scott Bernard titled “Jews, Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll,” on Saturday, and a concert at the Orange Peel featuring rock musician Peter Himmelman and Asheville’s own Skinny Legs And All on Sunday. Check out an Xpress interview with Himmelman, who talks about his creative process, the challenges and inspiration of keeping the traditions of his faith and his “I’m just going to wing it” performance style.
Magic and theatricality are key words of inspiration for the dancers involved in Asheville Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker. “The story is really important to us because it’s aimed at young people and families,” says Ann Dunn, the director of the dance company, now in its 51st performance season. The curtain rises on a […]
Pizza, brew and a chance to win a pair of tickets to the 2010 Warren Haynes Christmas Jam at Craggie Brewing Co.’s upcoming benefit for MANNA, held on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 5 p.m.
A Nia jam and craft fair benefiting Women At Risk will be held this Sunday, Dec. 5, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m at the Odyssey Community School.
Sugar plum fairies are ousted. In their place? Giant cats, a sausage-worshipping King, a princess with a shriveled face and a Mouse King with a thirst for vengeance. That’s all in Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s upcoming performance, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. This season, Susan and Giles Collard, artistic director and co-director of the […]
Fill your weekend with conscious parties, barbecues for a cause, beers for pups and much more! For a complete list of area benefits, check out mountainx.com/events.
Breakdancers of all ages tore it up at the Southeast B-boy Championships, held on Saturday, Nov. 6 at the YMI Culture Center in downtown Asheville. See videos and photos of the competition here!
A fundraiser for a “bright little girl with Cerebral Palsy” will be held on Saturday, Nov. 6, at Enka High School.
The fest kicks off on Thursday, Nov. 4, with film screenings at venues in Asheville, Black Mountain and Transylvania County. The two-week extravaganza continues through Sunday, Nov. 14.
Breakdancer Michael “Frantic” Pelletier of Columbia, S.C., and Joseph Adams, of Asheville’s own Hunab Kru (a b-boy/b-girl collective), have a vision to establish a high-energy, all-inclusive break-dancing scene in Asheville. That vision takes flight at the upcoming Southeast B-Boy Championships, slated for Saturday, Nov. 6 at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville. Pelletier, who […]
