Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.
When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.
The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.
Frank—who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 1990s—will return to Houston for the world premiere of Frida’s Dreams, a multimedia spinoff of El último sueño.
It should surprise no one that in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, the art of opera is thriving on the Wortham Theater Center stage downtown as well as in urban breweries and suburban performing arts spaces.
The sign outside the Northwest Houston church where the Monarch Chamber Players opened their sixth season read, “We bring the concert hall to your neighborhood.”
Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.
Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
