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The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre presents an evening of new short plays, pairing three student-written, directed and designed works on the same bill as Youtopia, playwright Chaney Kwak’s parable about the social media age. In Wren Latham’s The Art of Showing Up, a mother and daughter deepen their relationship by encouraging each other’s creative endeavors. In Brianna Baker’s The Secret Life of Microaggressions, three Black friends move beyond aggressions and slights they encounter at a white school. In Amanda Sherrod’s Time – Wedding Edition, a bride and her best friend hash out past challenges. More: $18; Nov. 4–7, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Robinson Hall, 9027 Mary Alexander Road; campusevents.uncc.edu/event/gather
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Chicago-based filmmaker and McColl Center artistin-residence Cherrie Yu teams with Charlotte-based musician Corey Shipp to present a performance/ lecture on postmodern dance and classical music history. Yu’s Studies Series (2017–ongoing) depicts the filmmaker plus collaborator(s) pantomiming a wrestling match or a basketball game, then presents their choreography alongside the original footage. The pair’s presentation on the history of classical music and post-modern dance weaves together their respective interests and memories, and fits personal creations into a historical and archival context. More: Free; Nov. 3, 5 p.m.; Mint Museum Randolph, 2730 Randolph Road; mintmuseum.org
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to legendary Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi by British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien that runs at the Bechtler through February 2022, the museum hosts its new Movement Mornings program in the museum’s lobby. The session explores Afro-Brazilian dance and movement forms, taking inspiration from the esteemed Balé Folclórico company in Bahia and the Araká Performance Collective shown in the film installation. More: Free; Nov. 6, 10 a.m.; Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, 420 South Tryon St.; bechtler.org
influences closer to home like the Latin-American Tropicalia movement of the 1970s. Now with a ninealbum discography, the band intermingles rock, punk and pop with Mexican norteño and ranchera, plus boleros, son jarocho tunes, cumbias and more, filtering it all through an experimental sensibility and restless curiosity. The term “rock en Español” cannot contain the musical multitudes within Café Tacuba. They’re quite simply one of the best bands of all time. More: $47.50; Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; Fillmore, 820 Hamilton St.; fillmorenc.com
AMIGO THE DEVIL, TEJON STREET MOVEMENT MORNINGS CAFÉ TACUBA Morning movement tells your body that it’s time to Formed in a Mexico City suburb in the 1980s, Café CORNER THIEVES, IV & THE STRANGE be awake. Presented as a tie-in with Isaac Julien | Tacuba was influenced by outside forces — the BAND Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, a tribute political punk of The Clash and Violent Femmes, plus
Amigo the Devil is Texas singer-songwriter Danny Kiranos, an artist with a style likened to bluegrass for goth rockers. Spinning dark folklore about serial killers with his debut EP Volume 1, his first full-length album Everything Is Fine found dark humor in songs like “Hungover In Jonestown” and “Cocaine and Abel.”With his latest album Born Against, Kiranos assumes a series of personas from star-crossed romantic to bloodcrazed lunatic. He’s like a blood-spattered Tom Waits. More: $20-$25; Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; Visulite Theatre, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.; visulite.com
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