Onward: HGOco Finds Its Groove with Carleen Graham
Carleen Graham has a big job. One year after taking the helm as director of HGOco, Houston Grand Opera's community collaboration and education arm, Graham has found her groove.
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Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the innovative, quirky or simply new shows to devour like Christmas candy each most-wonderful-time-of-the-year
Celebrating Resilience: Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2017
Houston Cinema Arts Festival, one of the few festivals in the US that focuses on films about the arts, takes over several Museum District venues from Nov. 9-13, with a streamlined program.
History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF
Every year a cluster of dance films make the Houston Cinema Arts Festival line-up, Nov. 9-13. This year they run the gamut, where dance and dancers are the central focus (Rebels on Pointe and No Maps on my Taps/About Tap), to films where dance is used sparingly, in a more poetic realm (Pendular).
Telepathic Improvisation at the CAMH
The animating conceit of Telepathic Improvisation, a film by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and the centerpiece of their first U.S. solo museum exhibition of the same title at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP
Anyone who needs to be forced out of those “comfortable” preconceived notions of identity should see Genevieve Gaignard’s exhibition In Passing at the Houston Center for Photography, on view through Oct. 22.
Moving Forward, Looking Back: David McGee at Texas Gallery and HMAAC
The mucky brown waters had barely begun to recede when artist David McGee’s mother reminded him of the title of his upcoming exhibition at Houston’s Texas Gallery.
Art Scene Stalwarts Among Harvey’s First Responders
“Today, when I came to meet you, was the first day I didn’t have a pistol on me,” Paul Middendorf said recently, as he sat at Black Hole Coffee in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood—his first such outing since Hurricane Harvey brought catastrophic flooding to Southeast Texas.
Van Cliburn Winner Yekwon Sunwoo Returns to Texas
The first time Yekwon Sunwoo vied in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the judges eliminated him after the opening round. Looking back, the South Korea native made no excuses. “I just wasn’t ready,” he recalled.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship
When Houston Ballet takes the stage next fall for the Houston premiere of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, Sept. 22-24 at the Hobby Center, it will surely be new for the audience, yet also be a continuation of a storied relationship between the company and the legendary British choreographer.
New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season
Watching a rehearsal of Mayerling I witnessed a company in motion in more ways than the splendid dancing in the room.
A Heroic Launch: Glass Opens Aperio’s Big Season
Against significant odds--flood damage at the Hobby Center and other Theater District performing arts venues, coupled with the personal losses suffered by many musicians during Hurricane Harvey-- Aperio's season opening concert, an all-Philip Glass affair, took place at Zilkha Hall Saturday night (Sept. 9).