http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-236-1-visions.html "It's always a different quality of dancer from year to year. The choreography is always the same. How you get students to that performance level changes from year to year," he said. After the sixth run through of the transition sequence, Mantegna huddled in the center of the scene shop with cast and crew to assess their comfort level. ]]> Bing Putney plays "Crumpet," a struggling actor who takes on the role of a Macy's department store elf with extraordinary zeal in Triad Stage's adaptation of David Sedaris' humorous holiday essay, The Santaland Diaries. The production runs from Nov. 20-Dec. ]]> The Triad Pride Men's Chorus, will present two holiday concerts Dec. 6th and 13th. The Dec. 6 concert will be at 8pm at the Greensboro Day School, 5401 Lawndale Drive. The Dec. 13 concert starts at 8pm and will take place at NC School of the Arts, Watson Chamber Music Hall, 1533 South Main Street. ]]> Like an alchemist, Blake finds the perfect proportions of art forms to the macabre story of Sarah Winchester, widow of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, and the house she constructed over the course of 38 years. ]]> Julia Seton, played by Isabelle Gardo, sets the wheels in motion after she meets Johnny Case during a ski vacation at Lake Placid. Gardo puts her whole heart into her portrayal of Julia. Despite Julia%uFFFDs character being written as a bit twodimensional, Gardo manages a well-rounded performance. ]]> Klan killing Party, Greensboro%uFFFDs is Long before dance soloist Chang Yong Sung was hoisted in the air by his fellow dancers during the climactic act of %uFFFDThe External Knot%uFFFD %uFFFD one of three ballets performed by Ailey II, the training company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater %uFFFD the audience was already showering him with applause. ]]> Marilyn Ingram came rushing through the door of Atelier Studios completely out of breath just minutes after the Art to Wear Fashion Show kicked off on North Trade Street in Winston-Salem on Oct. 26. ]]> Kambale Musavuli%uFFFDs cell phone serves as a constant reminder of the current strife in his home country. ]]> Two years ago, Amy Garland was searching for office space for her public relations and marketing firm in downtown Winston-Salem before stumbling upon the arts district near Sixth and Trade streets. Garland said she felt uneasy putting out a shingle promoting her PR firm on a street filled with art galleries. ]]> On the 10 th day of the 10 th month, 10 times four people gathered at Krankies Werehouse in downtown Winston-Salem for the annual celebration of %uFFFDThe Powers of 10. ]]> The fellow wearing the accordion is tapping his watch. Time is of the essence, apparently; the okra smugglers need to pick up the pace. ]]> When it really hit home to me that we were going this year to Burning Man, the mac-daddy of all festivals, my excitement was certainly tempered by all I had ever heard about the experience. ]]> “Didn’t we have real iguanas in Dallas?” “Yes!” says Preston Lane. “And they were nightmares. They hissed, they bit, they pooed. The actor who had to bring them on stage, his arms were covered in scratches, but the minute they got under the stage lights, they thought it was the sun and they completely stopped moving. ]]> When Ricky Needham works, he works silently, except for the occasional breath sucked noisily through his teeth. He bends over a drafting table on a recent weekday morning putting the final touches on “Kings Flying Over the Holy City,” a fanciful depiction of two crowned figures flying a magic motorcycle over a dome-capped skyline. ]]> The Open Space Café Theatre doesn’t have a fancy arts district address. You won’t find it among the high-end boutiques, white-tie restaurants and parking valets that have taken to revitalized downtown Greensboro like termites to deadwood.]]> Shalini Chatterjee spent the summer of 1989 hand painting animation cells at New York University. Nineteen summers later the former film student cradles an oversized videocassette inside her West End office and muses on the march of moviemaking technology. ]]> “We considered work that shares some of the same metaphysical associations as the garden,” she says. “The idea was to bring together a group of artists who are working with the themes of growth and decay.” Carpenter organized the show like a garden, dividing the gallery into plots that each artist could cultivate as they pleased. ]]>