Diana Wortham Theatre's 2018/2019 Mainstage Season | Asheville, NC
Come see the best in music, dance and theater at the Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave., in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Tickets for the season go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 23, 2018 at the theater's box office (open until 4 p.m.) and online at dwtheatre.com.
Songs and videos were used with permission from the artists and are as follows:
0) 00:00 - Ana Maghrebi by Avital Meets Avital
1) 00:40 - M. Ravel's Sonatine 3rd Movement and Why Don't You Do Right performed by Mélange
2) 2:21 - White Horses and God of Loss by Darlingside
3) 2:47 - Ranky Tanky by Ranky Tanky
4) 3:48 - Caledonia by Dougie MacLean
5) 4:33 - BLINDSIDE performed by Stéphanie Morin-Robert
6) 5:25 - The New Chinese Acrobats
7) 6:10 - Dorrance Dance
8) 7:19 - Puff the Magic Dragon by Leonard Lipton / Peter Yarrow; The Water is Wide - Scottish folk song
9) 8:21 - The Holly and the Ivy by Al Petteway and Amy White
10) 9:12 - A Simple Space by Gravity & Other Myths
11) 9:53 - Bridge Over Troubled Water performed by Damien Sneed
12) 11:13 - Save This Heart - Molly Tuttle
13) 12:17 - Aquila Theatre
14) 13:05 - Béla Fleck
15) 14:16 - MOMIX: Opus Cactus
16) 15:03 - Eileen Ivers | Universal Roots
17) 15:55 - Happiness by We Banjo 3
18) 16:50 - Imaginations 5.1 by Sébastien Lépine & ESCA Quartet
19) 17:37 - Jen Kober performing at the Burbank Comedy Festival in 2016
20) 19:03 - Piano Battle by Andreas Kern & Paul Cibis
21) 20:06 - Arthur Trace | The Artful Deceiver
22) 21:10 - Linea Recta, Bury Me Standing & Con Brazos Abiertos by Ballet Hispánico
23) 22:14 - Lonely Girl by Avital Meets Avital
24) 23:13 - The Trap by Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
25) 23:50 - Colourful Spots by Nicolai Heidlas from Hooksounds.com
Craig Leon Nommos LIVE Moogfest 2014 Diana Wortham Theatre
Craig Leon Nommos Live at Moogfest 2014 Asheville, North Carolina, US. With Cassell Webb and members of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Diana Wortham Theatre 26 April, 2014.
LUNELL LIVE!! JULY 24,2015 DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE
LUNELL LIVE
ASHEVILLE COMEDY SHOW july 24,2015
Bears at the Western Residence
Governor Bev Perdue had a run in with a bear outside the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville. These security camera videos show many bears lurking outside the residence on that same weekend.
Asheville Ballet - Choreo-Off II - PREVIEW
As the first event in its 50th Season, Asheville Ballet will perform Choreo-Off II September 28-29 at 7:30 PM at Diana Wortham Theatre. The evening will be a potpourri of classical and contemporary premieres by resident choreographers Ann Dunn, Artistic Director, Fleming Lomax, Ballet Mistress, Lyle Laney, Associate Artistic Director, and Lindsey Kelley.
Ann Dunn will present an original piece called Bucky: a four movement ballet based on principles of Buckminster Fuller's work. Fleming Lomax's piece, Juxtaposed, is a juxtaposition of the two major Classical Dance Forms: ballet and modern.
A Tale of 7 Ladies is a new modern dance work, choreographed by Lindsey Kelley. Six female dancers, plus Kelley, share a series of memoirs based on life experiences. Lyle Laney's new work is a romantic tribute to a night on the Mediterranean Riviera. Think moonlight, a balcony, Gene Kelly, and love.
Tickets range from $15-50 and are available at the box office at 828-257-4530.
Thousand Kites in Asheville, NC
The national dialog project on the U.S. criminal justice system is gearing up in Asheville, NC.
When Dr. Scott Walters took his UNC-Asheville Theater of the Oppressed class to visit the Appalachian media arts organization Appalshop, he started a snowball effect. It was there, in the coal-mining town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, he would meet Amelia Kirby and Nick Szuberla, two filmmakers making an exposé (Up the Ridge) about nearby supermax prison Wallens Ridge. A year later he would serendipitously run into Kirby at an AlternateROOTS conference, where the cheerful, brown-haired activist handed him a script, a play that was part of an expansive project she, Szuberla, and a group called Roadside Theater were working on. They called it Thousand Kites, after a prison slang term.
The script for Thousand Kites was partly based on the rants, prayers, shout-outs, complaints, poems, and monologues Szuberla and Kirby received, when, inspired by the stories they were unearthing for Up the Ridge--the two began a prisoner radio show. The broadcast reached both Wallens Ridge and another area supermax, Red Onion. Letters from inmates began pouring in, and Roadside Theater's Donna Porterfield eventually synthesized this material (along with some stories recounted by both prisoner family members, and correctional officers) into a protean stage drama, one that could be performed by active communities as well as intrigued universities, conservative churches as well as radical theater groups.
These performances, beyond merely provoking that cathartic experience Aristotle mulls over in The Poetics, would be a jumping off point for explicit conversations about the American justice system.
Walters wouldn't be able to resist:...even though I was scheduled to do a different production in November, I immediately decided that the opportunity to participate in this project was too good to pass up, he scribes.
Now, according to his blog, the 49-year-old author, teacher and actor, has a song stuck in his head. One of the play's narrative devices, Heard Somebody Call My Name with its bluegrass feel and gospel intonations, written and composed by traditional musician Ron Short--follows him around with its haunting declarations: I keep having this dream, And I awake with a shout. I get to the gate and I can't get out.
Lipping the song's lyrics as he organizes a cast and crew of about 40, Walters finds himself pressed for the hours, days, weeks, it takes to deliver a good play. As with any production orchestrated in a school setting, time is short, participants busy.
Thousand Kites dramatizes a polemic the Wisconsin born theater professor feels very passionate about. So passionate that he's spent time teaching drama at Foothills State Prison and Western Youth Prison, so passionate he asked UNCA students not just to put on Thousand Kites, but to delve into the various ideas its themes uncover. They have researched the issues, lauds Walters in a recent email, and can speak very articulately about them.
The issues are many. The play's two main characters, an archetypal guard and prisoner respectively, bring up not only the human rights violations and exploitation so many of us associate with the modern prison industrial complex, but the economic and cultural ironies these institutions inspire as more and more urban, ethnic minorities are warehoused in rural prisons (financially eviscerated Appalachian towns make good targets for profiteers).
November 17th, at the Diana Wortham Theatre, Walters and his cast will attempt to bring this dynamic to the forefront of their audience's minds. My hope is that people will become aware and concerned about the effects of our prison system on everyone who is touched by it Walter's says, and that they will be motivated to express that concern through individual or group action. As opening night approaches, a few organizations have already called him up, wanting to know more about the play. Walters' hopes just may materialize.
Matt White Asheville Comedy Festival 2017
Performing for a sold out crowd at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville NC. Such a fun, dope experience.
Point Lookout Trail, Near Asheville NC
takes you on a bicycle ride on the Point Lookout Trail, a greenway near Old Fort and Asheville, North Carolina, in the Pisgah National Forest. See more in the Point Lookout Trail Guide at
HereIIHere Imagine Black Mountain, NC July 19, 2009
HereIIHere Rocks the House with IMAGINE! Coming Soon! Watch for BettysAsheville.com: all the Funk that Keeps Asheville Weird. Contact Betty@BettysAsheville.com for FREE videography!
WNC (Western North Carolina) NATURE CENTER - ASHEVILLE
WNC (Western North Carolina) NATURE CENTER - ASHEVILLE
#WNCNatureCenter #Asheville #NorthCarolina
City Nature by Free Planet Radio at the 2015 Asheville Percussion Festival
Performed at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville, NC, on June 20, 2015 by Free Planet Radio, the Opal String Quartet, and the faculty of the Asheville Percussion Festival. Join us for the 2016 Asheville Percussion Festival June 13-19, 2016. AshevilleRhythm.org
Asheville Vaudeville October 2010 Part 4
Asheville loves the Vaudeville shows! Here are some clips from the Halloween weekend show at the Asheville Community Theater.
Asheville Art Museum gets 50 year Lease
Asheville City Council has unanimously approved new lease agreements for the Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville Art Museum, and Colburn Earth Science Museum all housed in Pack Place. Vice-Mayor Marc Hunt led the effort to get control over lease management of the facility from the Pack Place Board amid allegations the Board wasn't doing a good job managing or maintaining the property. Hunt serves on the City Council as well as being a member sitting on the Pack Place Board.
The Theatre and Art Museum now have 30-year leases with two 10-year successive renewal options, amounting to 50-year leases, respectively. The Colburn Museum received a one-year lease amidst a decision to relocate from downtown.
We are sad to be leaving downtown Asheville, said Colburn. But we feel this is the best move for us and for our continued service to our community.
The city is the ultimate steward of Pack Place, said Vice Mayor Marc Hunt. It is clearly city owned real estate.
Starting July 1, 2015 the Asheville Art Museum will pay $21,000 a year, $25,200 in 2016, and $29,400 in 2017.
The Diana Wortham Theatre will pay $15,000 in 2015, $18,000 in rent in 2016, and $21,000 in 2017. The money will go towards maintenance of the Pack Place facilities. The Museum has been trying to raise millions in a capital campaign for years.
Louis Bissette, a former Asheville Mayor and attorney representing the Art Museum said the Museum Board has raised $15 million and an audit to verify the money has been raised is being done. The Art Museum will expand its square footage in Pack Place.
The Diana Wortham Theatre will expand it's theatre into where the Colburn currently resides. If the Art Museum begins renovations, according to the new lease agreement, the Museum won't have to pay rent for three years, as renovations and improvements are being done. But the Museum will only have that clause kick in, if and when renovations begin.
by Kimberly King
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Asheville,Nc KJG ENT. Presents Comedian LUENELL
Comedian LUENELL will be performing LIVE!! JULY 24,2015
Diana Wortham Theatre
2 S.Pack Square
Asheville, NC. SHOWTIME 9pm
Sutton, Holt & Coleman
A deep river of traditional music runs through North Carolina. Grammy Award winners Bryan Sutton, David Holt, and T. Michael Coleman masterfully plumb the depths of that rich musical culture using a variety of traditional instruments, three part harmonies, and a mixture of traditional and newly written songs. Saturday, February 8, 2014 at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. dwtheatre.com
Person of the Week: John Cram
The highest civilian honor the state of North Carolina can bestow is called the North Carolina Award.Our Person of the Week received the honor just yesterday from the governor, and he joins an elite group of people over the years, including Billy Graham, James Taylor, David Brinkley and Maya Angelou.John Cram got the honor for enriching lives in North Carolina with fine arts and public service. But for all he's received, he keeps finding ways to give back.In the New Morning Gallery, and like others owned by John Cram, you'll find works of art from just about every state in the country. The colorful, the creative, and of course the kooky images. He doesn't do much art work himself any more because when he moved to Asheville 42 years ago he got into the business of fine arts.John Cram, Person of the Week, I think Eleanor Roosevelt who said, the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. And I kept have these dreams.With $500 he opened new morning gallery in Biltmore Village. That was followed by Blue Spiral one on Biltmore Avenue in the 90's, they've not been easy. Bellagio was next, in the same building as new morning. Then John Cram took an old porno theater on Biltmore Avenue and turned it into a fine arts film venue.It was scarey at times but you had to be braveAnd finally, Bellagio Everyday. Five businesses dedicated to fine arts in a community of artists.Sarah Marshall, business associate, he's a mentor to so many artists in the community. People come to him for advice.Liz Huesemann, friend, he gives artists a place for their creations and he values them.And like a work of art that's transformed from a vision of what it can be, john cram has transformed old buildings into places to be preserved.Things started deteriorating after I moved here. They knocked down several old theaters downtown on Patton Avenue and I was just crushed, that they would turn these things into parking lots.He's also turned his good fortune to the benefit of others, helping museums and a number of causes.He gives toys every Christmas to the children at Irene Wortham With the proceeds from art work sold at Blue Spiral One, he's raised $350,000 dollars to conserve land.He's an artists who has enriched the lives of a community that has served as the canvass of his greatest work. Now he joins a list of other North Carolina Award winners that include Billy Graham, James Taylor, David Brinkley and Maya Angelou.When you go to Europe and hear a performance. The performers turn around and applaud the audience. Asheville is the audience for the performance I've laid out. It's a symbiotic relationship. Both of us need each other.
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Running Wild ~ Russ Wilson And His Concert Orchestra
Since Russ has been called
THE PAUL WHITEMAN OF THE 21st CENTURY
it's only fitting that he play Whiteman's music.
Russ has been a record collector for over 30 years and an avid fan of The King Of Jazz and his music.
He has a number of the old Whiteman 78's in his collection including the 1924 recording of Rhapsody In Blue.
His musical library also contains many of Whiteman's orchestrations.
The Whiteman Orchestra included in it's ranks such notables as Bix Beiderbeck, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Red Nichols, Frankie Trumbauer, Al Gallodoro and Jack & Charlie Teagarden.
In early 2013, Russ set about calling together some the best musicians including David Jellema (cornet soloist) and Josh Duffee (drummer) in North Carolina give a concert of POP'S music.
On August 3, 2013 Russ and his Concert Orchestra presented RHAPSODY ~ THE MUSIC OF PAUL WHITEMAN
to a sellout crowd at Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, NC
The actual instrumentation of the orchestra is
4 Trumpets, 4 Trombones, 6 Saxophones, 6 Violins, Tuba,
2 String Bass, Banjo, Guitar, Piano & Drums.
Gary Numan Reveals Why He Moved to America
Gary Numan spent an hour on stage in a conversation with Electronic Musician's Geary Yelton as part of Mountain Oasis, the October 2013 electronic music festival in Asheville, North Carolina. During this segment, Gary shares humorous stories about leaving England and moving to California, the difference between English and American attitudes, and why he prefers insincere pleasantness to sincere misery.
George Dawes Green - Unchained interview
The Masterful Raconteurs from The Moth set out on a gypsy-style adventure spreading cheer and goodwill to small independent bookstores everywhere. This is a collection of interviews done on 9-16-2012 at Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC. The Event was hosted by and in support of Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe more info about them can be found at
Interview's Enchanted by
Mara McLaughlin-Taylor
Camera and Technical Guru:
Dallas Taylor
NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE ' FREE THE ANGELS '/ 2001/ www.MapVIO.com
NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE ' FREE THE ANGELS '/ 2001/
The Joyce Theatre
Artistic Director: Nicholas Leichter
Choreography by: Nicholas Leichter
Music Composed by: Stevie Wonder
Starring:
Lauren Basco, Clare Byrne, Wendell Cooper, Daniel Clifon,
Nicholas Leichter, Aaron Draper, Jaren Kaplan, , Amy Larimer,
Holly Handman-Lopez, Dawn Robinson, Will Rawls
NICHOLAS LEICHTER (Choreographer/Artistic Director) has taught throughout the United States and at festivals in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Eastern and Western Europe, and he has been on faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, (Tisch Dance and Experimental Theater Wing), Bates Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival in Durham, New York, Russia, Korea, and Shanghai. Leichter has created over 25 works for his own company, including Carmina Burana and Rite of Spring commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Sweetwash with Eisa Davis for The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College, and the trilogy of Killa, A Space Funk Invasion and the nationally acclaimed The Whiz in collaboration with Monstah Black. Recent commissions include The Barnard Project, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of The Arts, je danse donc je suis in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and The Chicago Dancing Festival. Leichter has been artist-in-residence and guest artist at many institutions including CSU Summer Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Hollins University, George Washington University, University of Houston, Muhlenberg College, and Idaho State University. Leichter received the 2006 Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award from Wesleyan University. He has received 2 Choreographer Fellowships from NYFA, (2002, 2008) and the first National Performance Network/Network of Cultural Centers of Color Artist-of-Color Residency Award at Sacramento State, (2008). He received the 2009 Copperfoot Award for Choreography from Wayne State University. Leichter is the 2012 Young Arts Mentor in Choreography, a 2013 Young Arts Master Teacher and a '12/13 Artist in Residence at Pentacle.
Founded in 1996, New York City based Nicholas Leichter Dance has performed in over 50 cities in 17 states and 12 countries at venues including The Joyce Theater; the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; The John C. Wright Theater at CSU Fresno; The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College, FL; The Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA; Modlin Center for the Performing Arts at University of Richmond; Central Park Summerstage; The Dorothy H. Baker Theater at Muhlenberg College, PA; Reynolds Industries Theater at Duke University; Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC; Bates Dance Festival; The Broadway Center in Tacoma, WA; the Fabuleus International Theater Festival in Leuven, Belgium; Kaohsiung Jazz Dance Congress in Taiwan; Freedance in Ukraine; Time to Dance in Riga, Latvia; Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal, and Dialogue de Corps Festival at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the invitation of the United States Department of State. In recognition of his unique approach to contemporary dance, Leichter has received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, New York State Council on the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) through the National Dance Project (NDP) with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts