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A Culture Collective: Art Outside the Therapy Hour

Dr. Rachel Tova Winer·October 12, 2016

In the months following our two comedy improvisation classes with Beta Theater last year, our teacher, actor Jerry Emeka remarked candidly, “I could not for the life of me figure out what your collective ‘deal’ was.”

Dance Features Theater Visual Art

Identity and Mortality with ARCOS Dance

ERIN FULTON·October 12, 2016

ARCOS Dance is known as an experimental platform for dance technology – a merging together of bodies in space and digital creation. It’s like a modern brand of philosophy, an embodiment of human history alongside a projection of its uncertain future.

Austin Dance

Ann Flashes Back to Another Feisty Politician

SCOT C. HART·October 12, 2016

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards’ had a personality about the size of the state she governed.

Theater

A New Focus: Objectives at Artpace

Dan Goddard·October 11, 2016

Ryder Richards, Maya and Stack, Courtesy Artpace For the first time, Artpace has asked the guest curator for...

San Antonio Visual Art

San Antonio Symphony Shines in a “Real” Hall at The Tobin Center

Steven Brown·October 11, 2016

Carmina Burana always packs a wallop. This time, Carl Orff’s paean to frolic and fate delivered a double whammy: Not only did the San Antonio Symphony and Chorus lay into Orff’s lusty themes and booming sonorities with gusto, but the live-wire acoustics in the orchestra's home turned all that into a visceral experience.

Scene Change: A Former Theater Artist Explores Houston’s Reinvigorated Theaters

Zachary Doss·October 10, 2016

Theater is a close-knit community, but such a collaborative art form demands presence, and it’s easy to disappear—all you have to do is not show up.

Features Houston Theater

Big Things in Small Films: The Rush Process at Aurora

Joseph Wozny·October 10, 2016

On Saturday Aug 27, walking out of the second night of Rush Process, a film festival highlighting handcrafted animation, my friend said, “it was v inspo,” which in millennial poetics, means “very inspiring.”

Film