A Season of Firsts: Hans Graf at Texas Music Festival
For nearly three decades, the Emmanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) has courted the best and brightest pre-professional classical musicians from around the country and abroad.
Show Up: Margaret Meehan
Little monsters look at us from ink, mold, paint, and collage. These monsters look familiar. Not just as historical markers to marginalized existences, which they are, but as real, flesh and blood women.
Randy Twaddle at Moody Gallery
Randy Twaddle’s work has long managed to tightrope that yawning maw between conceptually acerbic and commercially viable.
Performania: Festival Fever
I got it bad, festival fever. And I am not alone; Texas is right there with me.
The Troublemakers: A young generation of Dallas theater makers pursue socio-political activism in their work
In Dallas, a generation of young playwrights is beginning to flex dramatic muscle in pursuit of social change, pushing their work past the impulse to create art for art’s sake.
A History in Fragments: Jazz on Film at MFAH
If there is a history of jazz, it’s forever incomplete, like archeologists finding fragments of text buried in the sand.
Waltzing with Ghosts: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Revises Giselle
On a sunny May afternoon, I found myself spellbound, watching Houston Ballet principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh rehearse the very first meeting between Giselle and Albrecht.
A Season Six Celebration: A Visit with Bruce Wood Dance Project’s Kimi Nikaidoh
Bruce Wood Dance Project celebrates its sixth season with the Dallas premiere of Bruce Wood’s Anything Goes, along with world premieres by BWDP répétiteur/rehearsal director Joy Atkins Bollinger and NobleMotion co-artistic director Andy Noble, on June 17-18 at Dallas City Performance Hall.
Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked
This summer, Houston drama-lovers need to brace themselves for bedlam— stark naked bedlam that is, as a local favorite theater brings to town one of Off Broadway’s hottest companies for a new vision of George Bernard Shaw’s classic Saint Joan, June 2-18 at Studio 101 in Spring Street Studios.
Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer
With two room-size installations and a selection of recent sculptures and reliefs, Matthew Ronay’s work ranges across botany and biology, anatomy and bodily systems, performance and sculpture, natural phenomena and psychology.
Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators
In the current round of exhibitions at Project Row Houses (through June 19), there is an uneasy relationship between the visual material and the political work.