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Shakespeare En Pointe

Nancy Wozny·
In celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, Houston Ballet has anchored their new season with three ballets based on Shakespeare's timeless tales, including the company premiere of John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stanton Welch's world premiere of Romeo and Juliet and John Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew.
DanceHouston

Picturing Change

Nancy Zastudil·
Houston’s origins as an international photography mecca date back to the early 1980s, when Frederick Baldwin, Wendy Watriss, and Petra Benteler founded FotoFest, an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization.
HoustonVisual Art

Bold Steps

Nancy Wozny·
On Houston dance stages, this season has been a virtual feast of American dance thanks to Society for the Performing Arts’ focus on great American Dance Companies.
DanceHouston

Amazing Journeys

Nancy Wozny·
The Annual Houston Jewish Film Festival, March 8-23, celebrates its 10th anniversary with 28 of the best Jewish or Israeli films from around the world.
FilmHouston

Outside the Lines

Devon Britt-Darby·
Last fall, ARTNews reported that renowned conceptual artist Adrian Piper had asked New York University’s Grey Art Gallery to remove her video from the traveling exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.
HoustonVisual Art