Mapping Grief: Bruce Wood Dance Premieres New Work by Stephanie Martinez
Despite the ongoing pandemic-related complications, Dallas-based company Bruce Wood Dance has continued to commission and premiere new works over the past months.
Hovering Words: Ignasi Aballí at the Meadows
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.
Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project
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.
Topography: Billy Hassell at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
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).
Against Erasure: Shahzia Sikander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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.
A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th season
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.
In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages
It can be argued that wrestling is a form of theater, with its dramatic storylines, thrilling choreography, and powerful characters.
An all-night vigil, fairytales and a DACAMERA performance: Houston Chamber Choir’s Big Spring Season
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.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s New Vision
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.
Imagining the Invisible: Oscar Muñoz’s retrospective at the Blanton
Curated by Vanessa Davidson, the exhibition will open in February at the Blanton Museum in Austin, following its debut in Phoenix. It is the first U.S. retrospective from Colombian artist Oscan Muñoz (b. 1951).
Powerful and complex: Jill Magid reflects on Labor and Value at The Modern
Works stemming from the massive public artwork, including sculptures and a film, are displayed in the exhibit FOCUS: Jill Magid at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which runs through March 20.
A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage
Flash forward deep into the pandemic and the height of streaming theater while lying on a couch, I thought a lot about live, in-person stage chemistry.