Cucalorus Stage
Cucalorus Stage showcases outlandish, alternative, heartwarming, and original new performers. Festival favorites like Dance-a-lorus, Bus to Lumberton, and Visual/Sound/Walls explore the boundaries between music, theatre, dance, comedy, performance, installation, and film. Cucalorus brings together all kinds of performances including storytelling, music, cabaret, theatre, comedy, installations, and live art – with a show for everyone.
2019 Stage Performances
Animal Law w/ Mime Explains String Theory!
Julia Gladstone, Sheila Kerrigan
Animal Law is concerned with elucidating the subtle dynamics of child’s play as an allegory for the larger political strokes at hand in modern life. The condition of a jungle...
Bus to Lumberton
Jen West
Round and round they go, if they live, nobody knows. A whirlwind Blue Velvet-inspired experience starring Kristin Slaysman and Karl Jacob, with special guests Virginia Newcomb and Eldon the Bus....
Dance-a-lorus
Various
Pushing boundaries by showcasing artists working at the intersections of film and dance. Film and choreography come together in an experimental evening of movement. Crook Alyona Amata, Emily Bannerman Round...
Don’t Let Me Fall Too Far
Rozalind MacPhail
Don't Let Me Fall Too Far tells a timeless story of self-discovery experienced by a young woman navigating her way through a vulnerable period in her life. She’s haunted by...
IT IS TIME
Tom Whiteside
A multiscreen program of clips and short films that manipulate, flex, or upend time. With a rich film selection more than 100 years old by pioneers Louis Lumière, Alice Guy,...
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Thomas F. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE
In this unique performance, SLIPPAGE explores the provocation of Kara Walker’s “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War” series with shadowplay, dance, and image subtraction technology. Wondering at the place...
Shirley Gnome: Victory Lap
Shirley Gnome
A comedy cabaret one-woman extravaganza, featuring the world class vocals and catchy melodies of award-winning, chart topping Canadian Shirley Gnome. Delight in a blend of biting satirical country/pop originals and...
Split Bill: LiZez LIVE! A Play, Act V and Color Wheel
Liz Clayton Scofield, Rae Red
LiZez LIVE! A Play, Act V is a loosely improvised performance and lifestream video making experiment in which I play with myself. with: Color Wheel is a live color experience...
Stand Up at Dead Crow: Ben Gleib w/ Ken Garr
Ben Gleib, Ken Garr
Esquire said he “could be comedy’s next big thing” but now with his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, he could be America’s next president! Come see his standup tour now,...
The Filmmakers Party featuring Billy Heathen with The Frondeurs and Emily Burdette
Various
Billy Heathen Surf Punk, Art Rock. Less a band, more an identity crisis. High energy story-driven rock from Wilmington NC. It’s loud. Sometimes it’s not as loud but then it...
Visual/Sound/Walls featuring G Yamazawa with Shirlette Ammons and Kid Ethnic
G Yamazawa, Shirlette Ammons, Kid Ethnic
An interactive music video concert featuring G Yamazawa, Shirlette Ammons and the visual stylings of Kid Ethnic. An interactive evening of live performers with a selection of NC's best music...
What The River Knows: From Screenplay to Silver Screen
Alicia Inshiradu
A very special journey from Screenplay to Silver Screen. An original story inspired by the 1898 massacre in Wilmington, NC, funded in part by the Filmed in NC Grant. On...
Wilmington Symphony Orchestra presents: Latin Soul
Austin Piazzolla Quintet
This concert will feature El Amor Brujo by De Falla with its familiar “Ritual Fire Dance.” This is an Official Cucalorus Film Festival Stage Event. The Austin Piazzolla Quintet specializes...
