Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season
It has long been the goal of Texas Performing Arts to help “keep Austin weird” onstage, but the 2023-24 season promises to be especially experimental.
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Seeing Things: Sarah Fisher at landSPACE in Austin
Sarah Fisher walks constantly, and she is always looking.
Informed by Labor: Day Jobs at the Blanton Museum of Art
There is actually no way to know how many artists support themselves solely through their artwork, but most people agree that it’s a fairly low percentage.
Dance of Death: South Africa’s Vuyani Dance Theatre explores grief during three-stop Texas debut
In 1995, South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda wrote a book called Ways of Dying that features a character named Toloki, a professional mourner at township funerals in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium
When I caught up with artist, professor, and 2022 Tito’s Art Prize winner Tammie Rubin, she was deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about to begin her second session at the Penland Artist Residency.
Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part II: Alexa Capareda’s Maria and the Mouse Deer
PART TWO: Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”
Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor
Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.
A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future
In one of the biggest Texas dance stories of the year, ISHIDA Dance Company, a contemporary dance company co-located in Austin and Houston, has just made Dance Magazine’s 2023 “25 to Watch” list, one of the most coveted accolades in the dance industry.
Pulling it All Together: Cutting Edge Music Programming at Texas Performing Arts
As everybody knows, the University of Texas at Austin has transformed its hometown thanks to its role as a hotbed of research. There’s more to that than churning out innovations in computers and technology.
Lone Star Art Stars: The Texas Medal of Arts Return
to celebrate that Texas art pride, every two years the Texas Cultural Trust puts on the ultimate star-gazing party, a.k.a. the Texas Medal of Arts Awards.
The Way of Water: Forklift Danceworks to premiere new production
While there was little rainfall over the summer in central Texas, money flowed from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to 51 national awardees, including Austin’s venerable Forklift Danceworks, in the form of Our Town grants.
Jenelle Esparza Weaves Ancestral History at Women & Their Work
Jenelle Esparza’s weavings reflect her South Texas lineage, but also ask what that history might look like from the perspective of the landscape.