Painting With the Body
SPA Brings Shen Wei Dance Arts to Houston Shen Wei may be best known for orchestrating the Opening...
Houston
The Queen of Conflation
Marcelyn McNeil Blends the Rules in Lemonworld The seductive, curious paintings of Houston-based artist Marcelyn McNeil leave no room to doubt her commitment to a studio-based practice. Just ask painter Howard Sherman, a friend who often swaps studio visits with [...]
Review: Quiver
Dance and film are joined by movement as camera and body come together. Frame Dance Productions’ newest offering, Quiver, makes the most of that fact. Frame Dance artistic director Lydia Hance navigates a dual career track, exploring both film and live performance, and the [...]
Pipe Dreams
Cameron Carpenter on the future of the Organ Virtuoso composer-performer Cameron Carpenter, one of the most accomplished organists...
Girls Talk Girls
The Mystery of the Lena Dunham Hoopla Revealed or Not It’s public knowledge that I’m a pop culture...
Editor’s Remarks: April 2013
It’s April. Cue the band. No, really. I’m talking about the UH Marching Band, Spirit of Houston, in...
artiFACTS: April 2013
Dance Source Houston has assumed management of the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex. Formerly managed by Suchu Inc, Barnevelder provides space for rehearsals and dance classes for dance companies [...]
Orchestrating Change
Catching up with Mercury’s Antoine Plante It’s been almost a year since we sat down with Mercury’s artistic...
The Met on the Move
Imagine a room full of dancers twisting, spinning and hurling themselves through the air with complete conviction. Place choreographer Peter Chu in a studio with The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, add a tremendous amount of dedication and skill, and you are bound to have [...]
Marching Orders
UH Mitchell Center Commissions Experimental Music Houston, get ready: A student marching band turned experimental musical cadre is poised to create free-form, funky, soulful, danceable rhythms at downtown’s Discovery Green later this month. This parade-gone-wild is the creation of world-renowned musician and composer Daniel [...]