REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary
Fingers hover over lips and breasts, hair cascades over and around faces, kisses are blown and shared, pleasure is given and received: Ghada Amer’s ceramic sculptures shiver with ecstatic encounter.
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Avant Chamber Ballet’s Musical Season
Avant Chamber Ballet opens its seventh season with an ambitious collaboration with the Verdigris Ensemble for a stunning production of The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang’s haunting choral adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Match Girl.”
Dialogues Between Art and Music/Soundings: New Music at the Nasher
Listen to music in a roomful of visual art, and your eyes and ears may pick up parallels thanks to sheer serendipity.
Tap Dance for the 21st Century: Michelle Dorrance brings artistry, collaboration, and innovation to Texas
Michelle Dorrance’s no-holds-barred approach to tap dancing has endeared her to audiences and presenters throughout her career as a solo artist.
REVIEW: The Nature of Arp at Nasher Sculpture Center
At Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center through Jan. 6, The Nature of Arp considers Jean (Hans) Arp’s diverse production through his processes, linking them to the processes of the natural world.
Under a Sister’s Shadow: Ida O’Keeffe at DMA
Being a sister is complicated.
In 1961, the year Ida O’Keeffe died, her sister wrote, “In some odd way, it is a wasted life.”
That sister, Georgia, would be the one the world remembered.
REVIEW: Margaret Meehan, Hope is the Thing with Feathers and Eric Zimmerman, A Few Things for the World’s End at Conduit Gallery
As you come around the entrance to Margaret Meehan's Conduit Gallery exhibition, Hope is the Thing with Feathers (through Nov. 24), a concrete cast of a tree stump sits facing the pink parachute installation in the center of the room.
Death and Redemptive Love: ‘The Flying Dutchman’ at Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman, beautifully conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and under the direction of chorus master Alexander Rom and stage director Christopher Alden, takes 1930s-era Germany as its visual and conceptual stage.
Join The Chanclas Squad: Dallas Artist Giovanni Valderas Runs For City Council
How much can art do? In a way, this question animates the work of many artists whose work is socially and politically engaged.
Space is the Medium: Runo Lagomarsino at the DMA
Concentrations 61: Entremundos, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art through Feb. 17, 2019, is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States by Swiss and Brazilian-based artist Runo Lagomarsino, although he has shown work throughout the country.
Communication, context, and consent: Why more Texas theaters are hiring intimacy directors
As more instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power are being uncovered, especially in the theatrical community, more companies are realizing they need an important addition to their creative team: an intimacy director.
Double ‘Dutchman’ opens HGO and Dallas Opera Seasons
He’s the ultimate outsider. Cursed by Satan, the protagonist of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman must sail the world’s seas for all eternity.