Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Texas Lens: Ann S. Graham on Arts Advocacy

Steven Brown·August 4, 2023

Hot-button issues may have dominated the headlines out of Austin, but the Texas Legislature this past spring made a quiet move that some of us will appreciate: It expanded the Texas State Artists Award program, which includes the poet laureate and such, to include a slot for a classical musician.

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Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio

Amber Ortega·March 10, 2022

Damaris Ferrer describes a bridge as a portal and any path or structure that serves as a connector. The Crossings is her global project which uses a massive, red fabric with eight elastic waistbands for eight movers as a catalyst.

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Texas Lens: 10 Years of Flamencura in Austin

Claire Christine Spera·January 17, 2020

I sat down with Director Olivia Chacón to discuss Austin’s burgeoning flamenco scene, the growth of the studio and the company’s next theatrical production.

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Texas Lens: The Most Important Work We Do—Scenes from I Am My Future

Sherry Cheng·July 29, 2019

Sometimes the most meaningful musical experience transpires in the most unexpected place.

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Texas Lens: Us and Us

Troy Scheid·June 13, 2019

“What would you do,” the performer asks, turning to the audience, “if you were in our shoes?”

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Texas Lens: Watching Dallas Dance

Manuel Mendoza·May 15, 2019

I became an accidental dance critic in Dallas a decade ago, just in time.

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Texas Lens: American Made, American Maker

Jennifer Ling Datchuk·April 15, 2019

Both of my grandmothers were factory workers. Paw Paw, my Chinese grandmother, watched her family oppose the Communist party in China and lose everything. They left mainland China for British-controlled Hong Kong before arriving to the United States as refugees.

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Texas Lens: Finding My Voice

Agostina Migoni·February 7, 2019

My name is Agostina Migoni and I am an opera singer. My grandfather, who lived with us during my childhood, was also an opera singer and my first music teacher, so I feel that my career path was determined pretty early on.

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Texas Lens: Ian Casady’s 20 years at Houston Ballet

Nancy Wozny·November 14, 2018

Houston Ballet Principal Ian Casady will be honored for his twenty spectacular years with the company during the Margaret Alkek Williams Jubilee of Dance on Nov. 30 at the Wortham Center.

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