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Pilobolus at An Appalachian Summer and American Dance Festival.
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Published: July 5, 2009
Updated: 07/04/2009 08:15 pm
Through July 25
Tamara Natalie Madden feels a strong connection to every-day folk and sees in them such nobility of spirit that she transforms them into kings and queens in her paintings.
The results, titled "Majestic Women: Paintings by Tamara Natalie Madden," will be on view through July 25 at Delta Arts Center. Her struggle with kidney disease is also reflected in her work.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. For more information, call 722-2625. ("Majestic Women" is previewed on Page E-3.)
Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday
Pilobolus is noted for its "imaginative and athletic exploration of creative collaboration." The famed dance group will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Farthing Auditorium at Appalachian State University, as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone. Tickets are $25, with discounts for students and kids; call 800-841 ARTS.
Pilobolus will also perform Thursday-Saturday at the Durham Performing Arts Center as part of the American Dance Festival in Durham; call 919-680-2787.
Saturday, next Sunday
Make way for some marvelous Mendelssohn. Sarah Chang will perform that composer's Violin Concerto Saturday and next Sunday with the Eastern Festival Orchestra of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro. Gerard Schwarz will conduct, with Mahler's Symphony No. 7 rounding out the program.
The Saturday performance will be at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium at Guilford College in Greensboro.
Tickets are $55 for reserved seating and $45 for general admission; call Triad Stage at 272-0160.
Next Sunday's performance will be at 8 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium at Appalachian State University, as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone. Tickets are $25; call 800-841-ARTS.
Friday, Saturday
Leander Sales' film The Life I Meant to Live tells the story of a mother, Narvis (Jeryl Prescott Sales), who is terminally ill with sickle cell anemia.
There will be two screenings of Life. The first will be at 6 p.m. Friday in Dillard Auditorium at Winston-Salem State University, the second at 6 p.m. Saturday in Shiloh Baptist Church, 916 E. 12th St. (Life is previewed on E-2)
July 17, 18
The Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance will soon have a second home -- in Winston-Salem.
The company, which is based in Asheville and led by Heather Maloy, will perform at 8 p.m. July 17 and 18 in DeMille Theatre at UNC School of the Arts, Maloy's alma mater.
A grant from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County helped make Terpsicorps' appearance in Winston-Salem a reality.
Works will include Maloy's Couch Potatoes and her Le Suil Go..., as well as Salvatore Aiello's Satto.
Tickets are $17, $15 for students and seniors; call 721-1945.
July 17-19, 22-26
Paper Lantern Theatre Company, a new theater composed of professional actors in Winston-Salem, is committed to "creation, collaboration and risk." It will present Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, a comedy described as "patently bizarre and bizarrely moving," beginning July 17 at Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance, 1047 Northwest Blvd.
Evening shows will be at 8 p.m. July 17, 18, 22, 23 and 24, with 2 p.m. matinees July 19 and 26.
The suggested admission for each show is $15, with discounts for students and for seniors 63 and older; visit www.paperlanterntheatre.com or call 721-1310.
July 18
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts' Community Day will be 1-4 p.m. July 18 at the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, 606 and 608 S. Elm St., Greensboro.
Lee Walton will head up a full day of interactive art making as part of SECCA's "Inside Out: Artists in the Community II Small Plots" series.
Admission is free; call 397-2107.
Aug. 3-8
The next National Black Theatre Festival will invite patrons to "travel back to the 1800s, chart hostile frontiers, and feel the healing powers of song."
Numerous "marvtastic" performances will be presented, including those with such celebrities as Ella Joyce in A Rose Among Thorns; Kim Brockington in Zora; John Amos in Halley's Comet; and Kim Wayans in A Handsome Woman Retreats. Maya Angelou will speak at the International Colloquium, which will explore a theme called "The Voice of Women in Black Theatre."
Other productions will include Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (N.C. Black Repertory Company, which produces the festival); The Heiress (New African Grove Theatre at California State University); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn.); and Nappy Journeys (Hurrey-Up State & Filmworks, Pensacola, Fla.).
Also scheduled are Before the People Came (Amun RA Theatre, Nashville, Tenn.); The Return (Artscape, Cape Town, South Africa); and Black Angels Over Tuskegee (The Black Gents of Hollywood).
The festival will feature workshops, films and folk stories told by "enchanting sages." And it will introduce and further develop plays-in-progress during Readers' Theatre sessions.
Tickets are $7-$42. Seating is open. Visit www.nbtf.org or call 723-7907.
Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4
Sing along this summer during "Cinema Under the Stars" at Reynolda House.
The series, co-sponsored by UNC School of the Arts, will feature The Wizard of Oz (Aug. 7); A Hard Day's Night, followed by Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Aug. 14); The Sound of Music (Aug. 21); Moulin Rouge (Aug. 28) and Grease (Sept. 4).
Each film screening will begin at 9 p.m., with gates opening at 8 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for members and students. Visit www.reynoldahouse.org or call 758-5150.
In case of rain, screenings will be moved to the auditorium of the Babcock Wing of Reynolda House.
Aug. 19-29
The eclectic Carolina Summer Music Festival, presented by Old Salem Museum & Gardens and the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players of Winston-Salem, will return with two performances of "My Funny Valentine," a jazz program, on Aug. 22, "American Landscapes" (Aug. 23), "Summer Music" (Aug. 27) and "Tango" (Aug. 29).
Tickets -- except for a "Carolina Scrapbook" program for families (Aug. 29) and a "Festival Preview" with dinner at Zevely House (Aug. 19) -- are $15, $12 for seniors and $5 for students.
Concerts will be at Gray Auditorium in Old Salem and other venues. Visit www.carolinasummermusicfestival.org or call 721-7350.
■ Ken Keuffel can be reached at 727-7337 or at kkeuffel@wsjournal.com.
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