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The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston

Nichelle Suzanne·March 10, 2022

“This is our third year trying to do our 25th year,” says Houston’s unofficial dance ambassador Nancy Henderek, whose annual springtime Dance Salad Festival (for reasons you can probably guess) took an unexpected hiatus in 2020 and again in 2021.

Dance Houston Music

Ancient Wisdom: Spirit Lodge at Dallas Museum of Art

Amy Bishop·March 4, 2022

It’s no exaggeration to say that Spirit Lodge: Mississippian Art from Spiro, on view at the DMA March 13-Aug. 7, could be the last time a show of this magnitude comes around, at least in our lifetime.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Tarra Gaines·March 4, 2022

“Sonic partnerships.” If we had to describe the return of Austin’s Fusebox Festival in 2022 after its pandemic interruption, a plethora of sound performances and projects emerging from very unique partnerships leads to such a description.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Mapping Grief: Bruce Wood Dance Premieres New Work by Stephanie Martinez

Lindsay Alissa King·March 4, 2022

Despite the ongoing pandemic-related complications, Dallas-based company Bruce Wood Dance has continued to commission and premiere new works over the past months.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows

casey gregory·March 4, 2022

Palabras Vacias, which means “Empty Words'', is on view at SMU’s Meadows Museum through June 26, a minimal contemporary installation in an institution more often associated with the gilded frame than the white cube.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

Tarra Gaines·March 2, 2022

During an immersive dance production the line between audience and dancer can blur, but in an Annie Arnoult Open Dance Project performance that blurring expands from the space between dancer and audience to the line between theater and dance, history and story, viewing and autonomous experiencing.

Dance Houston Theater

Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Sherry Cheng·March 2, 2022

Egrets and pelicans, bobcat and wild turkey, dolphins and gar, migrating geese and monarch butterflies–creatures great and small from the East Texas and Gulf Coast regions will populate Hassell’s canvases and color lithographs at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont when the museum presents Billy Hassell: Topography (March 26-June 19).

Houston Visual Art

Against Erasure: Shahzia Sikander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy Zastudil·February 16, 2022

Shahzia Sikander recognizes the many forms that the erasure of women can take, whether historically or in contemporary life. And she has focused her art practice on changing that reality.

Houston Visual Art

A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th season

Lindsey Wilson·February 16, 2022

Of all the changes to come out of the pandemic, having an audience be closer to its performers is not one many dance groups anticipated. But Katie Puder, Avant Chamber Ballet’s artistic director, is thrilled with this outcome for her company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages

Lindsey Wilson·February 7, 2022

It can be argued that wrestling is a form of theater, with its dramatic storylines, thrilling choreography, and powerful characters.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

An all-night vigil, fairytales and a DACAMERA performance: Houston Chamber Choir’s Big Spring Season

Steven Brown·January 24, 2022

As he planned out the Houston Chamber Choir’s season, artistic director Robert Simpson figured on two must-haves: a return visit by guest conductor María Guinand, the Venezuelan he calls “a joy generator”; and a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, the soulful a cappella work the choir was rehearsing when the covid-19 shutdown silenced it in March 2020.

Houston Music

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s New Vision

Amy Bishop·January 12, 2022

When the doors of Bass Performance Hall open for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of their 2022-23 season this September, it will also mark the beginning of a new era for the 110-year-old organization.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Visual Art

City in the Sky: Gyula Kosice at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

Music

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Theater

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston

Ancient Wisdom: Spirit Lodge at Dallas Museum of Art

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Mapping Grief: Bruce Wood Dance Premieres New Work by Stephanie Martinez

Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Against Erasure: Shahzia Sikander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th season

In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages

An all-night vigil, fairytales and a DACAMERA performance: Houston Chamber Choir’s Big Spring Season

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s New Vision