Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Borders, Ritual and Awesomeness: Five Days of Fusebox

Tarra Gaines·March 19, 2017

Fusebox, Austin’s contemporary, cross-disciplinary visual and performing arts festival, and all round benevolent force in the struggle to keep Austin weird, consolidated its offerings in 2016, going from a 10 or 12 day schedule to a five-day festival lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Site-Specific Sightings: Laura Gutierrez at the Rec Room & Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre at Rice’s Skyspace

Nancy Wozny·March 13, 2017

I'm fond of saying that there isn't a space that can't be improved by the presence of a dancer, or two, or in some cases, an entire dance company.

Dance Houston

Coming Home to Texas and Sometimes Leaving Again

Nancy Wozny·February 27, 2017

When a writer pitched a story about an actor leaving Texas I immediately said, “No thanks, I need to focus on those staying.” Although, now I can't help wondering what would have been in that exit interview.

Coming Home Dance Editor's Picks Performania

Open Space: Dance at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts

Nancy Wozny·February 8, 2017

“We are putting in a dance floor,” Alison Weaver told me during a hard hat tour of the Moody Center for the Arts, which opens this month on the campus of Rice University.

Dance Editor's Picks Houston

Substance & Spunk: Women Triumph in Life and Love in Stanton Welch’s Cinderella

Nancy Wozny·February 2, 2017

Stanton Welch prefers strong heroines. So it's no wonder that his Cinderella knows her own mind. Houston Ballet fans will find that out for themselves when the company performs Welch's beloved story ballet Cinderella, March 2-12, 2017.

Dance Houston

DSH’s Mind the Gap Mines the Personal and the Political

Nancy Wozny·February 2, 2017

When I saw that Dance Source Houston cooked up a follow-up project for their AIR residency artists I had to go, mostly because it's just such a smart move.

Dance Houston

Doing Well By Doing Good: Dallas Black Dance Theatre at 40

Manuel Mendoza·January 31, 2017

Forty years in the business – that fact has quietly crept up on Dallas Black Dance Theatre founder Ann Williams. “You don’t see what you’ve accomplished because every day you’re trying to make it happen,” says Williams, who has spent half of her life making it happen at the longest-running dance company in North Texas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Fresh Start: Austin Welcomes Trey McIntyre

Nancy Wozny·January 27, 2017

The word is out: renowned American choreographer Trey McIntyre calls Texas his home once again. McIntyre cut his teeth as a dancer and a choreographer at Houston Ballet.

Austin Dance

Motion Redux: Tad Beck at FotoFest’s International Discoveries VI

Nancy Wozny·January 27, 2017

When Vinod Hopson of FotoFest suggested that I check out the work of Tad Beck, I figured dance was involved. And indeed, Beck's work with renowned downtown dancemakers is compelling on several levels, from the detailed process to the end image, which involves re-photography and some actual dancing.

Dance Visual Art

Paul Taylor Company Connections at SMU and Eisemann Center

Manuel Mendoza·January 20, 2017

When they were students at Southern Methodist University in the 1990s, Michael Trusnovec and Annmaria Mazzini would hole up in the basement of the library obsessively watching videotapes of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Eclectic and Equal: W-I-P offers San Antonio movement artists critical feedback

Claire Christine Spera·January 17, 2017

Frustrated by the awkward process of giving and receiving critical artistic feedback, dance/theater legend and MacArthur Fellow Liz Lerman developed her own system in the early 1990s, her Critical Response Process — an approach based on the principle that the best possible outcome from a response session is for the maker to want to get back to work.

Dance San Antonio

Honoring Texas Artists: The Texas Medal of Arts Awards come to Austin

Claire Christine Spera·January 11, 2017

You may be hard-pressed to explain what ZZ Top, Eva Longoria, Willie Nelson and Walter Cronkite have in common, but for the Texas Cultural Trust, the answer is simple: Texas.

Culture Dance Visual Art

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

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

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres

Dance

Borders, Ritual and Awesomeness: Five Days of Fusebox

Site-Specific Sightings: Laura Gutierrez at the Rec Room & Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre at Rice’s Skyspace

Coming Home to Texas and Sometimes Leaving Again

Open Space: Dance at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts

Substance & Spunk: Women Triumph in Life and Love in Stanton Welch’s Cinderella

DSH’s Mind the Gap Mines the Personal and the Political

Doing Well By Doing Good: Dallas Black Dance Theatre at 40

Fresh Start: Austin Welcomes Trey McIntyre

Motion Redux: Tad Beck at FotoFest’s International Discoveries VI

Paul Taylor Company Connections at SMU and Eisemann Center

Eclectic and Equal: W-I-P offers San Antonio movement artists critical feedback

Honoring Texas Artists: The Texas Medal of Arts Awards come to Austin