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ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences

Lindsay Alissa King·July 2, 2021

Brett Ishida, a California transplant to Austin, is bringing her new Austin-based contemporary dance company ISHIDA to the stage for the company’s first evening-length production since the pandemic began.

Austin Dance Houston

Back to the Earth: A climate-focused new season at ROCO

Steven Brown·June 11, 2021

A historic ice storm. The four seasons. Industrial sites colliding with the natural world. A farmer’s life and its links to the land. A glacier that melted away.

Houston Music

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

Tarra Gaines·June 11, 2021

Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.

Dance Houston Music Theater

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Lindsey Wilson·June 11, 2021

Leos Ensemble Theatre decided to change that. The Dallas-based company, which was founded in 2019 by dancer and performer Nick Leos, is becoming the first theater group in the U.S. (and perhaps even the world) to create a piece expressly for TikTok.

Dallas/Ft Worth Film Theater

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Sherry Cheng·June 4, 2021

On view at San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from June 11-Sept. 5, the expansive exhibition America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution, co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, and SAMA, brings together 62 works from a wide range of public and private collections.

San Antonio Visual Art

Art and Alchemy: Sedrick Huckaby at the Blanton

casey gregory·May 28, 2021

“Every person is like a novel. We all have a story.” Sedrick Huckaby says. “I’ve never met a boring person.”

Austin Visual Art

ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum

James Russell·May 26, 2021

ZimSculpt, the exhibition of modern sculptures from the African nation, runs through Aug. 8 as part of the center’s annual Summer of Sculpture event.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project

Tarra Gaines·May 26, 2021

“These pitiful souls being tossed to and fro in the waves among you, their stories are mine as well,” decrees the magician Prospera in the Open Dance Project’s All the Devils are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos.

Dance Houston

TX Lens: Ron Berry on his pandemic year and the Fusebox Future

Tarra Gaines·May 22, 2021

The pandemic may have forced the cancellation of this year’s Fusebox Festival, one of the nation’s largest annual interdisciplinary performing arts festivals, but the Austin organization continues to present and nurture artists.

Austin Dance Theater

Shaking Off the Dust: Houston Ballet Plans Their Fall Return

Nichelle Suzanne·May 21, 2021

Houston Ballet will return to the Wortham Theater Center this September for their 2021-2022 season.

Dance Houston

Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance

Lindsey Wilson·May 18, 2021

The dance company Pilobolus has many missions: to tell stories with the human form, to test the limits of human physicality, to explore the beauty and power of connected bodies.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: 21 Years and Counting

Neil Ellis Orts·May 12, 2021

I’ve been watching the Austin-based Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company almost as long as it has existed.

Austin Dance

Visual Art

Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows

TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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

Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas

‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston

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

Music

Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences

Back to the Earth: A climate-focused new season at ROCO

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Traversing Geographies: Rethinking the Story of American Impressionism at San Antonio Museum of Art

Art and Alchemy: Sedrick Huckaby at the Blanton

ZimSculpt returns to the Dallas Arboretum

‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project

TX Lens: Ron Berry on his pandemic year and the Fusebox Future

Shaking Off the Dust: Houston Ballet Plans Their Fall Return

Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: 21 Years and Counting