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The Met on the Move

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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 [...]
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Marching Orders

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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 [...]
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Experiential Experiments

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Liz Magic Laser and Nora Chipaumire at DiverseWorks Presenting experimental, provocative, performance-driven work is nothing new for DiverseWorks, and this month is no different. On second thought, it’s quite different — at least in terms of what audiences may have [...]
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Don’t It Make Those Brown Trunks Blue?

Devon Britt-Darby·
HAA’s temporary public art project highlights trees’ importance I knew there were trees in the green spaces in the Waugh/Memorial cloverleaf interchange; I just never paid attention to them as I entered and exited. The arrival of The Blue Trees, an ephemeral outdoor installation by Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, has changed [...]
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Broke-ology

Holly Beretto·
Broke-ology is the science of being broke and trying to survive,” says Ennis King to his younger brother Malcolm in Nathan Louis Jackson’s absorbing Broke-ology, on stage at the Ensemble Theatre (through April 14). While that may be Ennis’ self-styled definition of it all, the play [...]
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