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Mono Feo Emerges as a Boundary Pusher in Charlotte’s Art Scene
I arrived at Mono Feo’s 7 Eyes exhibit at Flux Galleries in desperate need of a toilet. The mild mannered … um … let’s call them a milk-police clown working the door (who was, in fact, Mono Feo) said they might be able to help me, so I followed them…
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The Crucifixion of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ on Tour
What is exciting and shocking about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar is that it is, a few Brechtian flourishes aside, quite clearly set in 1st-century Palestine. Rock music emerging from the mouths of late antiquity. That is cool. That is shocking. That shows us something new about…
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Motive Forces Mixes Contemporary Dance with Technology at Camp North End
In the 17th century, French engineer, inventor and landscape designer Salomon de Caus published a work on automata entitled The relations of motive forces with various machines as useful as they are pleasing. At the time, automata — early versions of what we’d call robots today — were all the…
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Two Local Dancers Unveil New Performance Venue on Central Avenue
In a city like Charlotte, it’s entirely possible that even the most actively engaged performing arts audiences don’t realize that they are in the midst of a life and death battle. “What could possibly be wrong,” they may wonder. “I see so much theatre and dance! I saw something at…
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Queen City New Play Initiative Launches Local Festival
Stacey Rose is the artistic director of Queen City New Play Initiative, and if I had my way she’d be the artistic director of all of Charlotte’s stages. Rose has strong roots in Charlotte’s theatre community, along with professional contacts all over the country. Her authorial voice is a strong…
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