Performances
Performances throughout the CHAT festival will feature faculty, staff, students and artists and performers invited from around the nation. Two keynote performances are:
- Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ - In February 2010, UNC Professor Mark Katz is organizing Festival on the Hill, a public event held biennially and sponsored by UNC’s music department. The music department has partnered with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the CHAT festival to put on a two-day event, February 18-19, on The Art and Culture of the DJ. It will consist of performances, scholarly presentations and discussions, and a DJ/VJ Dance Party geared toward students.
Carolina Performing Arts: STREB:Brave Collaborative
Performance - STREB:Brave is a
cross-disciplinary collaboration between New York choreographer
Elizabeth Streb, founder of the innovative STREB Dance
Company; composer David Van Teighem; and the MIT Media
Lab. The performance will allow the collaborators to
investigate physical concepts such as ways to occupy traditionally
unoccupied surfaces—ceilings, walls and trusses; challenge gravity; and
investigate high-speed vertical motion in the face of centrifugal
force. STREB:Brave performers will incorporate experimental
technologies including smart prostheses, a human-sized yo-yo and
personal robots. The performances are scheduled February 19-20,
2010.
