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Rhinos at the U-M Cube
We’ve been seeing a stampede of rhinos in Ann Arbor. See Théâtre de la Ville perform Ionesco’s Rhinocéros in Ann Arbor, October 11-13 at the Power Center.
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Presenting: UMS Tweet Seats Pilot Project
This season, UMS is launching a new pilot project: an experiment at the cross-section of live performing arts and technology commonly known as “tweet seats.”
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Family Performance
Bring the little ones to this weekend’s all-ages Aspen Santa Fe Ballet family performance.
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Celebrating Hill Auditorium’s 100th Birthday!
UMS is celebrating Hill Auditorium’s 100th birthday this season! Last week, we kicked off our season in Hill Auditorium with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which also opened Hill on May 14, 1913….
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Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco, a man among his ex-peers
Sometimes, absurdity makes much sense. Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros was written in France during World War II, when the majority of French accepted collaboration with Nazi Germany. But, even today, the rhinos depicted by Ionesco are not an endangered species, and Ionesco’s fable about the tensions between resistance and conformity continues to speak to a large audience worldwide.
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History of Kunqu
Suzhou Kun Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province perform a collection of scenes from Kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China, in Ann Arbor on September 27-28, 2012. In 2001, UNESCO declared kunqu,…