Asheville Sister Cities presents three opportunities to learn about the Mesoamerican civilization, including a lecture and dinner catered by Mamacita’s Baja Kitchen on Aug. 23, and the U.S. premiere of “Palenque Rojo,” a dramatic production of dance, ritual and costume, on Sept. 8 and 9. Advance tickets are available.
Dancers and drummers convened at the Acquoni Expo Center last weekend for the 2012 Cherokee Pow Wow. Here’s a look at the celebration:
A May 6 program at Diana Wortham Theatre spotlights talented, high-school-aged pre-professional dancers.
Asheville Music Hall hosts a trance-inducing night of digital wizardry, featuring well-known staples, newly minted side projects and hours of dance-floor fodder.
The L.A.-based acrobatic performance company comes to Diana Wortham Theatre on March 13 and 14.
The Philidelphia-based hip-hop dance troupe performs two Asheville dates on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 23 and 24.
The monthly bass music showcase and party comes to The Orange Peel, with founder Mindelixir headlining.
Lindy Focus — a five-day dance extravaganza that takes place between Christmas and New Year’s — features workshops and nightly entertainment in the Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues and Jazz Dance styles that were so popular in the 1930’s. Here are some highlights from the event, taken by freelance photographer Suzi Camarata.
Grab a team and get ready to dance from noon to midnight to benefit the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
The Lindy Focus is a five-day dance camp for all those who love the Lindy Hop and related jazz-era dances, ending in a dance-crazy New Year’s Eve bash. Here are some early videos from this year’s event.
Getting beyond the sticker shock of $60-80 tickets show tickets, $10 parking and $5 tiny plastic glasses of wine, the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker offered a grand spectacle. The promise of a spellbinding performance attracted a near-full capacity crowd to the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Monday, Dec. 19. Attendees came in classic Asheville mixed […]
It wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. Four companies (three of them local) put on a total of 12 performances of the ballet beginning December 2.
— Photo by Tadd Clarkson
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and Norte Maar, a nonprofit arts organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y., host a night of collaborative performance, poetry, music and dance at the Masonic Temple Saturday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m. The show’s title remains prospective: Untitled (as of yet). They’d better hurry! The event is tonight!
We caught the Zing Kings old-time band, a zydeco dance demonstration, a marimba performance and a couple of tap dancers. Not a dull moment around here!
Photos by Jerry Nelson, JourneyAmerica.org
Shindig on the Green kicked off its 2011 season Saturday night, to a huge crowd at Pack Square Park.
This is dance as poetry and metaphor. Like poetry, it makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
While I applaud artistic directors Susan and Giles Collard for giving the dancers a crack at creating their own choreography, the results prove something we already knew: that a good dancer does not necessarily a choreographer make. Beautiful movement is not enough. What we hope for is movement that expresses something significant, something urgent — something, moreover, that cannot be expressed any other way.
Last time Hunab Kru hosted an event, Dave Chappelle came. Don’t miss this: The BBoy Massacre Southeast Qualifier takes over the Masonic Temple Saturday night. 
Ah, Love … Can anything new be said about it?
Zany, out-of-the-ordinary installation and performance art at last weekend’s Asheville FringeArts Festival.
The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival runs Thursday, Jan. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 23. Dance, music, multi-media, performing arts, installation, theatre, comedy and more.
