What to see, do and hear: Flamenco, Lucian Books, 7 Stages and more

DANCE

The flamenco community in Atlanta is small but mighty. For this year’s annual festival, A Través, touted as the only such fest in the South, top-notch dancers and musicians from Spain will perform. Expect established artists such as singer-dancer Macarena De Jerez; the fiery young Jose Jiménez, known as “El Bocadillo”; and one of flamenco’s foremost guitarists, José Cortés Panzekito. Tickets are $40, but the evening performance is already sold out.

Saturday only.

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In recent years, Sue Schroeder’s Core Dance has delved deep into creating and commissioning dance films, many of them celebrating nature. A new slate of these videos launches on Sunday with a brief moment of alignment, Schroeder and Christian Mayer’s production based on the April 2023 solar eclipse. See it on the windows of Core Dance’s studios in Decatur, seven nights a week, dusk to midnight. Free.

Through October 12.

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MUSIC

On September 2, multihyphenate Grammy Award-winner Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, will bring his global tour to his hometown — he was born Atlanta-adjacent in Stone Mountain and went to the DeKalb School of the Arts. Guest artist Willow will join him at the State Farm Arena. Childish recently dropped a new version of 3.15.20 under its original title, Atavista, and also released a video of the album’s track “Little Foot Big Foot,” featuring Young Nudy. (Did we tell you he’s also making a film — Bando Storm & the New World?  He wrote the soundtrack, too. Of course. Wow.) Tickets start at $59.

Monday only.

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The tribute band The Australian Pink Floyd is almost as iconic as Pink Floyd itself, the groundbreaking, progressive rock band founded in London in 1965. The Australian Pink Floyd has toured to more than 35 countries and has been joined on stage, on occasion, by members of the real band. They’ll be at Cadence Amphitheatre for one night only. Expect fantastic 3D projections and, we suspect, a pink pig. Tickets start at $35.

Saturday only.

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The Ridibund Chamber Music Society began as a pandemic project for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist Michael Kurth. He gathered together a few professional musicians from his Decatur neighborhood and encouraged them to tear apart music by the likes of Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Satie and splice those sedate melodies with the likes of Nirvana, TLC and the Allman Brothers. Experience the wacky results at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Eddie’s Attic. Tickets start $20.

Tuesday only.

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BOOKS

Photographer Kelli Connell’s ambitious, recent body of work consists of photographs made while retracing the steps of early 20th-century photographer Edward Weston and Weston’s longtime model and companion, writer Charis Wilson. Connell flips notions of muse and artist, as well as the norms of gender relations, developing the project from a queer and feminist perspective. Connell’s photographs have been brought together in a book, Pictures for Charis, which the author will discuss on Sunday, September 8 at Lucian Books and Wine. She will be joined by Greg Harris, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art, where her work will be on display later in September. Tickets: $45.

Sunday, September 8 only.

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THEATER

This weekend, playwright Emily McClain’s The Rock & the Hard Place concludes its world premiere run at 7 Stages Theatre, after winning first place at the 25th Anniversary Essential Theatre Play Festival. ArtsATL theater critic Jeffrey Bruce reviewed the production as “harrowing, nerve-racking and disturbing — everything good drama should be,” and Luke Evans wrote about what else McClain is up to this year for Ones to Watch, part of ArtsATL’s 2024 Fall Arts Preview. Tickets start at $22.

Dates through September 1.

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Playwright Colman Domingo’s close relationship with his late mother, Edith Bowles, comes to life — pun intended — in Wild With Happy, on stage at Horizon Theatre through September 15. ArtsATL theater critic Alexis Hauk reviews the production this week as “professional make-believe worthy of Adelaide herself” and praises Tonia Jackson’s Adelaide as “the kind of character most of us will recognize from our real lives.” Tickets start at $30, with discounts available.

Through September 15.

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FILM+TV

Georgia actors Kyanna Simone, Xavier Mills and Dijon Means appear on-screen in Hulu’s latest original movie, The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. Based on a 2013 best-selling novel of the same name, the coming-of-age flick depicts friends growing up in Indiana and gathering at a special diner — reminiscent of restaurants where the magic happened in nostalgic favorites like Friends and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Ongoing.

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