UNCSA declares 2022-23 efficiency season

From famend visitor artists to professional-level scholar productions, UNCSA presents
a wealth of low-cost cultural occasions for the Triad and past.

UNCSA declares a wide-ranging 2022-23 efficiency season that features dance, drama, music, opera and movie, created and carried out by proficient
college students and world-class school, distinguished alumni, and celebrated visitor artists.

The brand new season incorporates a star-studded Visitor Artist Collection from the College of Music,
interdisciplinary collaborations throughout the humanities colleges — leveraging the distinctive merging
of 5 arts disciplines on one campus — in addition to collaborations with native cultural
organizations and performing arts teams.

Alongside in-person performances, Stay from Watson Corridor returns with free livestreams
of the brand new Music Visitor Artist Collection, along with different choose school and scholar
music performances. Movie screenings may even be provided on-line for a restricted time.
UNCSA presents a number of free occasions and low-cost common tickets, offering a singular
alternative for space residents and guests to expertise famend skilled artists
alongside professional-caliber scholar work, in The Metropolis of Arts and Innovation.

The 2022-23 season once more presents a various array of creative voices, from conventional
to underrepresented, exposing college students and audiences to a broad spectrum of compelling
works from throughout the cultural panorama.

“Efficiency is on the coronary heart of what we do at UNCSA, and every season appears to prime
the one earlier than,” stated Chancellor Brian Cole. “It’s a testomony to our outstanding deans and school that we’re capable of present
such a wealth of high-quality occasions every year, which mirror the evolving arts and
leisure trade. Our efficiency season gives each essential studying alternatives
for our proficient college students and an exquisite profit for neighborhood members.”

Tickets can be found now at uncsa.edu/performances or by calling the field workplace at 336-721-1945. Tickets to most occasions are $20. Non-UNCSA
scholar tickets are $15 with legitimate ID (UNCSA college students, school and employees obtain complimentary
tickets to most performances). Movie screenings and scholar recitals — amongst different
occasions — are freed from cost. Chosen occasions are priced individually as famous. Patrons
can buy an Arts Card to get easy accessibility to a number of occasions with a reduction over single non-student ticket
costs.

Choose a college to see their season highlights: 

College of Dance

College of Design & Manufacturing

College of Drama

College of Filmmaking

College of Music

College of Music

Visitor Artist Collection

The College of Music will current the Visitor Artist Collection, providing world-class music, as we speak’s outstanding
artists, and genre-bending experiences. The sequence will characteristic famend musicians
performing a variety of repertoire — from the Grammy-nominated Sandbox Percussion
in an audio and video collaboration, to acclaimed soprano Latonia Moore, star of the
opera world’s main levels, to New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony
McGill, with the acclaimed Pacifica Quartet. Star soloists Jennifer Frautschi, Clive
Greensmith, Kim Kashkashian and Peter Wiley will spotlight the return of the Chrysalis
Institute’s Chamber Music Pageant.

Sandbox Percussion
Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Freedman Theatre

Visitor ensemble Sandbox Percussion will carry out “Seven Pillars,” a boldly genre-defying
audio and video collaboration for percussion quartet, by critically acclaimed composer
Andy Akiho. Known as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise” by The New York Occasions,
the recording of the work was nominated for a Grammy Award for greatest classical composition
and greatest chamber music efficiency. “Seven Pillars” consists of seven ensemble actions
and one solo motion for every member of Sandbox, developed by a number of prolonged
residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Akiho and Sandbox expanded the collaborative
circle by commissioning 11 video artists to create unique movies for “Seven Pillars”
— one movie for every motion of the work. These collaborative movies embody the
worlds of dance, animation, experimental narrative movie, time-lapse, and extra. The
instrumentation consists of conventional devices resembling vibraphone, glockenspiel
and marimba, with some discovered percussion feels like glass bottles and steel pipes. 

Latonia Moore
Saturday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

Internationally acclaimed soprano Latonia Moore, not too long ago seen as Billie in “Hearth
Shut Up in My Bones” and as Serena in “Porgy & Bess” on the Metropolitan Opera, will
current a recital that includes the music of Verdi, Rachmaninoff, Katherine Davis, Roger
Quilter and Strauss with faculty-artist Allison Gagnon on the piano. The recital is a part of Moore’s residency with the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute through the 2022-23 season, which additionally consists of private and non-private grasp courses.

Praised as “richly proficient” by The New York Occasions, soprano Latonia Moore has carried out
in opera homes all through the world together with the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera
Covent Backyard, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Colón, English Nationwide Opera, Washington
Nationwide Opera, Dallas Opera, and plenty of extra.

Reynolda Quartet
Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m. – Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)
Sunday, April 2, at 3 p.m. – Reynolda Home and Museum

The Reynolda Quartet returns for 2 live shows through the 2022-23 season. In September,
world-renowned musicians and UNCSA Music faculty-artists Ida Bieler and Janet Orenstein, violins; and Brooks Whitehouse, cello are joined by violist Scott Rawls, professor of viola and chamber music at
the College of North Carolina at Greensboro, and UNCSA bassist Paul Sharpe for a efficiency of Dvořák’s energetic String Quintet No. 2 in G main, in Watson Corridor.
Repertoire for the April program will likely be introduced at a later date. The Reynolda Quartet
was based in 2019 as a partnership between two of Winston-Salem’s premier cultural
organizations, Reynolda Home Museum of American Artwork and UNCSA.

UNCSA Chamber Music Pageant
Tuesday, Oct. 18, and Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 14, and Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

UNCSA presents the return of its Chamber Music Pageant from the graduate Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute of the College of Music, with 4 live shows within the fall and spring. The Chamber Music
Pageant, which launched final season below the creative course of UNCSA school
members Ida Bieler and Dmitri Vorobiev, presents invaluable alternatives for college students to carry out alongside school and famend
artists of as we speak, and an intimate and rewarding expertise for audiences.

The primary fall live performance will characteristic College of Music faculty-artists collaborating
with college students in works by Franck, Bach, Beethoven and extra, whereas the second fall
live performance will characteristic two-time Grammy nominee and Avery Fisher Profession Grant recipient
Jennifer Frautschi, violin, and former member of the Tokyo String Quartet, Clive Greensmith, cello, joined by college students and faculty-artists in works by Mozart, Dvořák and Schumann.
The primary spring live performance will characteristic school and college students performing Mendelssohn
and Dvořák in addition to a piece by Excessive College composition alumnus Tyson Davis, “Abstractions” for woodwind quintet. The second spring live performance will characteristic Grammy
Award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian and cellist Peter Wiley, former member of the Guarneri String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio, in works by Mozart,
Mahler and Brahms.

UNCSA Baroque Ensemble with Sam Nemec
Sunday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

Visitor oboist Sam Nemec of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs alongside school and college students in a night
of beautiful Baroque music, highlighted by Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Additionally
performing are Ida Bieler and Kevin Lawrence, violins; Jaren Atherholt, oboe; Tadeu Coelho, flute; Dmitri Shteinberg, piano; and scholar soloists. Nemec, who joined the Atlanta Symphony as second oboe
in 2012, is a graduate of Juilliard and the Curtis Institute. 

Julian Lage Trio
Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

Julian Lage, one of the crucial proficient guitarists of his technology, performs a mixture of unique
compositions and jazz requirements together with his trio, that includes bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King. He has been described as “one of the crucial achieved and outstanding guitarists
in trendy jazz and improvised music,” in addition to a “full virtuoso who performs, composes,
and improvises with unfailing style.”

Pacifica Quartet with Anthony McGill
Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet is joined by New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill in a program of music by Brahms and Prokofiev, plus new music. Identified for its virtuosity,
exuberant efficiency type, and sometimes daring repertory decisions, the Pacifica Quartet
has gained chamber music’s prime competitions, together with the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music
Award, and has been honored with Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and
the celebrated Avery Fisher Profession Grant. The Pacifica obtained its second Grammy
Award for greatest chamber music efficiency for “Modern Voices” in 2020. 

Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and wealthy character” (New York
Occasions), clarinetist Anthony McGill enjoys a dynamic worldwide solo and chamber music profession and is principal clarinet
of the New York Philharmonic — the primary African-American principal participant within the
group’s historical past. He’s the recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, considered one of
classical music’s most vital awards. McGill seems as a soloist with prime orchestras,
together with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and the Baltimore, Boston,
Chicago, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. He carried out alongside Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo
Ma, and Gabriela Montero on the inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering
a chunk by John Williams. In 2020, McGill’s #TakeTwoKnees marketing campaign protesting the demise of George Floyd and historic racial injustice went
viral.

Warp Trio
Saturday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Watson Corridor (additionally livestreamed)

The electrifying Warp Trio performs unique compositions in a cross-genre chamber
music expertise. That includes UNCSA alumnus and North Carolina native Mikael Darmanie and a mix of Juilliard-trained members juxtaposed with others steeped in rock
and jazz types, the one-of-a-kind Warp Trio performs in live performance halls and rock venues
world wide. Warp Trio includes Josh Henderson (violin/viola), Ju-Younger Lee
(cello), Rick Martinez (percussion) and Darmanie (piano/keyboard).

Scholar and College Highlights

The 2022-23 season within the College of Music additionally options a number of live shows with the
UNCSA Symphony Orchestra led by distinguished visitor conductors, together with UNCSA alumnus and resident visitor
conductor Robert Franz main a spread of works from Florence Worth to Beethoven; a efficiency of Handel’s oratorio “Jephtha” in collaboration with the Cantata Singers and soloists from the A.J. Fletcher Opera
Institute, carried out by James Allbritten; and Guillermo Figueroa conducting and performing Ernesto Cordero’s Violin Concerto and Berlioz’s “Symphonie
Fantastique.” The season additionally incorporates a particular visitor look by former Principal
Trumpet of the New York Philharmonic Phillip Smith performing with the college ensemble Watson Brass; a celebration of longtime director
of the UNCSA jazz program, Ronald Rudkin, who retires on the finish of this educational yr, with a number of live shows by the Jazz
Ensemble in addition to live performance during which he performs Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet; performances by proficient faculty-artists together with ensembles such because the Black Mountain Trio and a particular vacation live performance from Low & Decrease; a partnership with the Hispanic League for a free live performance led by alumnus Felipe Tristán (P.A.C. Music ’10) in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month; a collaboration with the
Piedmont Wind Symphony celebrating the work of Omar Thomas; and a particular Valentine’s Day live performance. Repertoire to be carried out will embrace a spread of composers all through
historical past and dealing as we speak, together with Black, Latinx and ladies composers, lots of whom
have been traditionally underrepresented in classical music.

“We’re thrilled to current an thrilling lineup of as we speak’s main  artists as half
of our Visitor Artist Collection, in addition to a broad vary of repertoire throughout all of our
school and scholar performances,” stated Dean Saxton Rose of the College of Music. “Audiences have a lot to select from, with totally staged operas,
symphony orchestra live shows, a chamber music pageant, jazz, and a lot extra.”

A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute

The A.J Fletcher Opera Institute — UNCSA’s graduate and post-graduate opera coaching
program — presents two totally staged operas within the 2022-23 season, offering unparalleled
efficiency alternatives for proficient Fellows in this system and providing audiences
entry to the opera stars of tomorrow. The productions are designed and constructed by college students
within the College of Design & Manufacturing, with full orchestral accompaniment by college students
within the College of Music.  

“Orlando Paladino” by Joseph Haydn
Opens Friday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m.
Stevens Heart

An opera in three acts, “Orlando Paladino” (1782) was Joseph Haydn’s most profitable
work within the style. A heroic comedy primarily based on Ariosto’s epic poem, “Orlando Furioso,”
“Orlando Paladino” sees Angelica, queen of Cathay, and her lover, Medoro, flee to
a distant fortress to get away from Orlando, paladin of France, who’s head over heels in love
with Angelica. “Orlando Paladino” is the uncommon opera during which the mad, lovelorn lead
is a male — and hilarity ensues. James Allbritten, musical director of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, conducts, and creative director
Steven LaCosse will direct. Performances are Friday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m.;
and Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m.

“The Rivals” by Kirke Mechem,
Opens Wednesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Agnes de Mille Theatre

“In spirit, ‘The Rivals’ harks to Rossini and Donizetti; in sound, it weds Puccini’s
beneficiant lyricism to the dancing meters of Bernstein’s ‘Candide,’” wrote The New York
Occasions of this opera, praising it for its “buoyant melodies, supple harmonies and perky
rhythms.” Kirke Mechem’s “The Rivals” is a vibrant and witty comedy full of affection, mistaken
identities, duels, and misunderstandings within the family of Mrs. Malaprop. In Mechem’s
libretto, primarily based on an 18th-century comedy by Sheridan, the motion strikes from the English
city of Bathtub to Newport, Rhode Island, at the start of the twentieth century. James Allbritten conducts; a visitor director will likely be introduced at a later date. Performances are Wednesday,
April 19, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 23, at 2
p.m.

College of Dance

Fall Dance
Opens Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Agnes de Mille Theatre

A showcase for up to date dance, Fall Dance will characteristic the premieres of all-new
choreographic works for college students within the up to date program within the College of Dance at UNCSA, created by a faculty-artist and two visitor artists, together with an alumnus.
“The Bloom of Youth” (working title) by Affiliate Dean Brenda Daniels will have fun the sweetness, freshness and vivacity of youth. Set to W.A. Mozart’s
Piano Sonata in F main, Ok. 280, the three-part musical construction will delineate the
sections of the dance: “Hothouse,” “Buds,” and “In Full Flower.” A scholar from the
College of Music will carry out the sonata reside onstage. Award-winning, Chicago-based
choreographer Mariana Oliveira will deliver her distinctive voice to set “Dreamland,” a comedy-drama influenced by
the surrealism motion that portrays the journey of a personality blooming and discovering
the sweetness and the adversities of life. The work is ready to songs from the Nineteen Thirties and
’40s by Xavier Cugat, Rudy Vallée, Charlie Chaplin and Tommy Dorsey. Alumnus Anthony Lee Bryant (H.S. Dance ’03), a solid member of the nationwide tour of “Depraved,” will return to
set a brand new piece on college students influenced by the idea of entropy: the degradation
of matter and power within the universe. Performances are Thursday, Sept. 27-Saturday,
Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 1 at 2 p.m.

“The Nutcracker” – TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Opens Friday, Dec. 9
Stevens Heart

UNCSA’s beloved annual presentation of “The Nutcracker” returns to the Stevens Heart
this December. This yr’s manufacturing will welcome again the favourite comedic character
Mom Ginger in addition to the boisterous opening celebration scene, and can characteristic extra
dancers than ever earlier than, offering a possibility for each ballet monitor dancer in
the College of Dance to look within the manufacturing. “The Nutcracker” will characteristic College
of Dance school member Ilya Kozadayev’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s timeless rating, carried out by the UNCSA Symphony
Orchestra led by acclaimed visitor conductor Jiannan Cheng. Performances are Dec. 9, 14-16 at 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 10 and 17 at midday and 5 p.m.;
and Dec. 11 and 18 at 2 p.m.

Winter Dance
Opens Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Stevens Heart

Winter Dance options an array of works of vastly totally different types, by Claudia Schreier,
Darrell Grand Moultrie, Shen Wei and George Balanchine. This system consists of “First
Impulse” by Claudia Schreier, Atlanta Ballet’s resident choreographer and a number of award-winner, a dynamic and
rhythmic neoclassical work set to the music of Eino Tamberg. Of its premiere, Pointe
journal wrote, “Schreier’s motion seems like structure in movement, making all
sorts of steps, even bourrées, appear wondrous and new… the way forward for ballet is nicely
and alive.” Additionally on this system is Chinese language American choreographer and director Shen Wei’s “Re-Triptych,” a meditation on his journey in three elements, with “Re-III” drawing
upon pictures of rural communities alongside the Silk Highway and his “impressions of a radically
remodeled Beijing” that he encountered whereas choreographing the opening ceremonies
of the 2008 Summer season Olympics. Kate Jewett (B.F.A. Dance ’05), a member of Shen Wei Dance Arts since 2005, the place she is rehearsal
director and director of schooling and outreach, will stage the work. This system
additionally features a work by Darrell Grand Moultrie, whose work is wealthy with hybrid up to date, secular and classical modalities, and
Balanchine’s seminal “Serenade.” Performances are Feb. 23-25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday,
Feb. 26, at 2 p.m.

Spring Dance
Opens Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Stevens Heart

Spring Dance will spotlight the strengths of each ballet and up to date college students
with works that discover various ends of the respective disciplines. This system is
highlighted by the primary staging of iconic trendy choreographer Merce Cunningham’s “Travelogue” for the reason that work’s premiere in 1977 by the Merce Cunningham Dance Firm.
Modern college students will carry out the work, which is ready to avant-garde composer
John Cage’s “Telephones and Birds,” that includes recordings of phone bulletins
and chook songs. This system additionally consists of “Shostakovich Suite,” choreographed in 2013
for the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s skilled coaching program by Endalyn T. Outlaw (née Taylor), dean of Dance, and set to Dimitri Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite. Dean Outlaw
will restage the work for the dance college students; tutus will likely be designed and created by
Jenna Anderson (B.F.A. Design & Manufacturing ’22), who was not too long ago featured in Pointe
journal for her customized tutu for The Royal Ballet principal dancer, Yasmine Naghdi.
Spring Dance may even embrace the richly nuanced work of Helen Simoneau, a UNCSA alumna and creative director of Helen Simoneau Danse. A Guggenheim Fellow,
Simoneau was named “a choreographer-on-the-rise” with a method that’s each “athletic
and clean” by Dance Journal. Her new piece will discover her curiosity in energy dynamics
and comfortable energy — the introvert’s energy — alongside her signature large-scale virtuosic
and bodily motion vocabulary. Performances are April 20-22 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday,
April 23 at 2 p.m.

“The College of Dance as soon as once more brings as we speak’s most proficient choreographers to work
with our unbelievable college students, providing audiences a variety of experiences,” stated
Dean Outlaw. “Our season is wealthy with each up to date works in addition to classical
ballet, and all the things in between. And our beloved “Nutcracker,” choreographed by
school member Ilya Kozadayev, will return with all the bells and whistles our
audiences love!”

College of Drama

“Roe” by Lisa Loomer
Opens Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m.
Patrons Theater

The UNCSA College of Drama joins theater firms across the nation in staging Lisa Loomer’s 2016 play “Roe,”
which has grow to be notably related following the current Supreme Court docket reversal
of Roe v. Wade. The play follows the intimate particulars of the lives of lawyer Sarah
Weddington and plaintiff Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, within the years main as much as
and following the landmark Supreme Court docket choice legalizing abortion in 1973. But,
“‘Roe’ just isn’t a screed for or towards abortion,” writes the Mail Tribune of Oregon.
“Fairly, Loomer’s major theme is the method by which on a regular basis folks get swept up
within the huge currents of historical past… .” “Roe” displays the polarization that is still in
America whereas illuminating the eagerness either side has for its trigger, turning from surprising
to humorous to poignant. “This play is meant to permit folks to take a seat within the grey
areas of life,” stated visitor artist and director Acadia Barrengos (B.F.A. Drama ’22). Performances are Sept. 29 & 30 and Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.; and Oct.
2 at 2 p.m.

“Amadeus” by Peter Shaffer
Opens Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Catawba Theatre

The faculties of Drama, Design & Manufacturing, and Music collaborate to deliver the fictional rivalry between composers Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri to life. The music will likely be carried out reside by an
ensemble of roughly 20 College of Music college students, directed by music school member
Mark Norman. Salieri is enraptured by Mozart’s music and abilities however can’t imagine that such
presents reside in a vulgar younger man. The poisoning energy of rumor and gossip permits
Salieri to destroy Mozart’s profession slowly. First carried out in 1979, the play gained a
Tony Award for greatest play in 1981. A 1984 movie adaptation gained greatest image and starred
UNCSA alumnus Tom Hulce as Amadeus. The musical play will likely be directed by Drama school
member Quin Gordon. Performances are Oct. 27-29 at 7:30 p.m.; and Oct. 30 at 2 p.m.

“Sweeney Todd,” music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, guide by Hugh Wheeler
Opens Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Freedman Theatre

UNCSA College of Drama presents its annual musical with the fan favourite, Stephen Sondheim’s
“Sweeney Todd,” directed by alum Lo Feliciani Ojeda (B.F.A. Drama ’20). With music and lyrics by Sondheim and guide by Hugh Wheeler, “Sweeney
Todd” opened on Broadway in 1979, successful the Tony Award for greatest musical, and has
since had quite a few revivals, in addition to a 2007 film adaptation by Tim Burton. With
its macabre, darkish humor, “Sweeney Todd” is usually thought-about Sondheim’s masterpiece.
A melodic and theatrically daring work, this iteration of “Sweeney Todd” will use a
combination of Nineteenth-century and up to date settings, drawing inspiration from the play’s
British origins however embracing its id as a “musical thriller.” “It is a play
about obsession, and the lengths we take to get what we wish. Everybody will get their
revenge, a way or one other, on this play,” stated Ojeda. “It additionally demonstrates how
techniques of sophistication and oppression can and do have harmful results on up to date
society if they don’t seem to be addressed. Additionally it is a bloody good thriller!” Performances
are Nov. 10-12 & 17-19 at 7:30 p.m.; and Nov. 13 at 2 p.m.

“If Fairly Hurts Ugly Should Be A Muhfucka” by Tori Sampson
Opens Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Patrons Theatre

4 17-year-old ladies grapple with societal definitions of magnificence for the Black feminine
physique in Tori Sampson’s skilled playwriting debut from 2019, which mixes West
African folklore with up to date American tradition. Kaya, Massassi, Adama and Akim
reside within the fictional village of Affreakah-Amirrorkah, the place they jockey for rank
primarily based on magnificence requirements designed to defeat them. This hybrid comedy, musical and
fantasy, brimming with music and dance, will characteristic a reside band on stage, a refrain
that strikes in regards to the theater, and mimes wearing purple and gold robes. “Magnificence,
like race or gender, is a societal assemble. There are actual and harmful penalties
for younger ladies and particularly for younger ladies of shade who internalize a price system
that locations magnificence as the best type of human price,” stated new Drama school member
Claire Fort, who will direct. Performances are Feb. 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; and Feb. 19 at 2 p.m.

“Harmful Nook” by J.B. Priestley,
Opens Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Catawba Theatre

“Harmful Nook” is likely one of the three “time performs” by British writer, dramatist and
broadcaster J.B. Priestly. In every of them, a special idea of time is explored,
and the impact of that idea on the characters’ lives performs a essential consider
the story. Set in a small village exterior of London in 1932, “Harmful Nook” takes
us to the nation retreat of Robert and Freda Caplan, who’re entertaining friends
at a cocktail party for executives of a trans-Atlantic publishing firm. An opportunity
comment by one of many friends ignites a sequence of devastating revelations, revealing
a tangle of clandestine relationships and darkish secrets and techniques. The work is scholar Caroline Cearley’s fourth-year directing thesis. Performances are March 23-25 & 30-31 and April 1
at 7:30 p.m., and March 26 at 2 p.m.

“Mom Braveness and Her Kids” by Bertolt Brecht
Opens Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m.
Freedman Theatre

Thought-about by many to be one of many best performs of the twentieth century, “Mom Braveness
and Her Kids” is a boisterous comedy stuffed with unique songs set towards the
backdrop of the Thirty Years Warfare. The motion follows the destiny of the indomitable Mom
Braveness as she follows one luckless military after one other throughout a war-torn world in
her canteen wagon. Written in a bit over a month in response to the invasion of
Poland by the German armies of Adolf Hitler in 1939, “Mom Braveness” is considered one of 9
performs Brecht wrote in resistance to the rise of Fascism and Nazism. “Mom Braveness
and Her Kids” nonetheless resonates as we speak because the world continues to grapple with these
forces and the ethical implications of warfare. Drama school member Carl Forsman directs. Performances are March 30 & 31, April 1 & 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.; and April 2
at 2 p.m.

“The 2022-23 season for Drama spans the panorama of contemporary theater, together with essential
work that displays our fractured world and significant points going through it as we speak,” stated
Dean Scott Zigler of the College of Drama. “It’s our job to provide our college students work
that not solely builds their repertory, but additionally challenges them to make a distinction
in society. Along with using our gifted school and scholar administrators, this
yr we’re happy to welcome two current alumni to direct: Lo Ojeda and Acadia Barrengos.
We’re additionally enlarging our collaborative scope from the College of Design & Manufacturing
to the College of Music, permitting us to current such works as “Amadeus.”

College of Filmmaking

Panorama
Friday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.
Gold Theatre

The College of Filmmaking at UNCSA presents its newest works in a group of brief movies made by scholar
filmmakers that illustrate the range and depth of their skills.

Episodic Collection
Thursday, Could 4, at 7 p.m.
Foremost Theatre (additionally livestreamed for a restricted time) 

The College of Filmmaking delves into the world of episodic manufacturing with its new
Anthology Manufacturing Lab, mirroring trade developments which have seen an explosion of
serial content material on streamers like Netflix, Amazon and extra. Get a peek on the newly
created work with the debut screening of an all-new episodic sequence created by third-year
scholar filmmakers.

Graduate and Senior movies
Friday, Could 5, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Foremost Theatre (additionally livestreamed for a restricted time)

The College of Filmmaking presents its first-ever screening of movies created by college students
of its graduate packages within the 2022-23 faculty yr, adopted by its annual screening
of undergraduate thesis movies created by scholar crews who observe trade requirements
to create a professional-level movie manufacturing. These movies are the fruits of
the scholars’ 4 years of examine and the official begin of their skilled careers.
UNCSA funds all thesis movies, offering tools and a money price range for every challenge,
and plenty of are shot on location all through Winston-Salem.

“It’s our job to organize college students not just for the trade of as we speak, however for the
future,” stated Dean Deborah LaVine of the College of Filmmaking. “Our new Anthology Manufacturing Lab will likely be a complement
to our longtime concentrate on narrative characteristic filmmaking – and a deal with for our audiences
of cinephiles!”

College of Design & Manufacturing

twentieth Annual Photona
Friday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Freedman Theatre (additionally livestreamed) 

Along with offering all the design, technical and manufacturing assist for performances
and productions in Dance, Drama, Filmmaking and the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute,
the College of Design and Manufacturing (D&P) additionally presents its twentieth annual “Photona,” the wildly fashionable themed multimedia present of lighting, projection and sound displayed
with state-of-the-art tools on mortgage from the main lighting firms within the
trade. Viewers members interact with this mesmerizing present by Q&A periods
with every scholar designer. On the night time’s finish, the viewers votes for its favourite
present.

“Every year I’m in awe of the quantity of creativity, exhausting work and dedication from
our scholar designers and technicians that goes into mounting the whole UNCSA efficiency
season,” stated D&P Dean Michael J. Kelley. “To have the ability to produce totally staged operas, performs, musicals and extra — all earlier than
you graduate — is the sort of hands-on expertise that helps our college students obtain
a 98% placement fee within the trade upon commencement. I do know our audiences are persistently
amazed by the manufacturing high quality all through the season.”

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