SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season
Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.
Houston
‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project
“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.
Shaking Off the Dust: Houston Ballet Plans Their Fall Return
Houston Ballet will return to the Wortham Theater Center this September for their 2021-2022 season.
Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Three: Axiom, Houston Brass Quintet and Texas New Music Ensemble
I caught up with musicians from nine distinctive ensembles in Houston to reflect on the past year and look to the future. In Part Three, I visited with the Axiom Quartet, Houston Brass Quintet and Texas New Music Ensemble.
Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part Two: Loop38, Apollo Chamber Players, Carya String Quartet
In Part Two, I visited with Loop38, Apollo Chamber Players, and Carya String Quartet.
Houston’s Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part One: Monarch Chamber Players, WindSync, and KINETIC
Houston is home to numerous chamber music ensembles that have thrived alongside each other, carving out their own niches with unique visions of how to present music and connect with audiences.
Drawing Parallels with Houston Contemporary Dance Matriarch Marlana Doyle
“I mean, I’m exhausted most of the time,” laughs Marlana Doyle, founder and executive/artistic director of Houston Contemporary Dance Company (HCDC), who is also president and CEO of the Institute of Contemporary Dance (ICD).
Embracing Connection: Diverse Arts Experiences at the Asia Society Texas Center
What does the Asia Society do? That requires a lengthy answer.
Texas Studio-Harrison Guy: Signals for Freedom
Harrison Guy is Houston’s renaissance man, working in many streams of creativity, activism and influence.
Houston Ballet Takes a Trip to Hell to Deliver a ‘COVID Blessing’
On March 10, Houston Ballet will launch the first in a series of short dance films by Artistic Director Stanton Welch.
Responding to the Natural World: Hockney and Van Gogh at the MFAH
Perspective: In art, the term usually means the technique of depicting our three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface.
Forms of Inheritance: Anna Mayer Goes Meta at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Thick black smoke clouds engulf the large canvas mural that dominates the entrance of artist Anna Mayer’s solo exhibition, Forms of Inheritance, on view through May 8 at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC).