Review: Jane Alexander at CAMH

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Jane Alexander’s motley cast of characters alternately attracts and repels. Her figurative sculptures of near life-size human-animal hybrids are simultaneously grotesque and sympathetic, quietly aggressive and compellingly beautiful. They are also altogether human in their interactions. Throughout the main gallery of the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
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Review: Madame Butterfly

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Amy Fote commands the stage as Cio-Cio San in Houston Ballet’s season opener, Madame Butterfly. With Fote’s imminent retirement later this fall, the radiant principal is cherishing every last arabesque, as demonstrated in her masterful performance. There is a completeness present, as if each corner of the choreography has been [...]
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Video on Demand

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This year marks the silver anniversary of the Dallas VideoFest which now touts itself as the oldest and largest video festival in the United States. Since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen [...]
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A Woman of Substance

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Echo Theatre showcases a season of works highlighting prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, Aphra Behn. She may be the opposite of a one-hit wonder – she was someone whose career outshone any one particular work. [...]
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The Laugh’s On Them

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Improvisational comedy, the funny folks on TV with the super-quick quips doing games that evoke Charades and 20 Questions. Right? Few realize those games are gussied up versions of acting exercises, much less suspect them tied to something as grand as the impulse of life itself [...]
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Moving Beyond Politics

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Israeli film captures the sweetness of young romance despite political obstacles The 16th Annual Jewish Film Festival of Dallas opens September 6 with a slate of ten films, but one title specifically may be the talk of the community. Enriched with fully-developed characters and simple [...]
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Heart and Soul

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“THE STATE OF THE ART: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS IN TEXAS” Authored by June Mattingly, 2012 Well-respected Texas contemporary art collector, advisor, educator, and gallerist June Mattingly has recently self-published an e-book, The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, highlighting the work of almost 90 of the state’s most [...]
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