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Dance of Death: South Africa’s Vuyani Dance Theatre explores grief during three-stop Texas debut

Lindsey Wilson·February 3, 2023

In 1995, South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda wrote a book called Ways of Dying that features a character named Toloki, a professional mourner at township funerals in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston

Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium

casey gregory·February 3, 2023

When I caught up with artist, professor, and 2022 Tito’s Art Prize winner Tammie Rubin, she was deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about to begin her second session at the Penland Artist Residency.

Austin Show Up Visual Art

Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part II: Alexa Capareda’s Maria and the Mouse Deer

Sherry Cheng·February 2, 2023

PART TWO: Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”

Austin Dance

Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part I: Nao Kusuzaki’s Genji at Asia Society Texas Center in partnership with Houston Ballet

Sherry Cheng·February 2, 2023

Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”

Dance Houston

Wonders of the Wetlands: University of Texas at El Paso Project Unleashes the Creativity of Students and Residents

Steven Brown·February 2, 2023

The park in El Paso covers 372 acres running right up to the Rio Grande, and it gives many visitors a big surprise.

Dance El Paso

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Tarra Gaines·February 2, 2023

Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Tarra Gaines·February 1, 2023

A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.

Dance Theater

A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks

Lindsey Wilson·February 1, 2023

“Stepping into this exhibition truly feels like you’re embarking on a journey through time,” says Dr. Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art’s interim chief curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon senior curator of European Art.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Lindsey Wilson·February 1, 2023

Today, a bronze cast of The Freedman can be found at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·January 10, 2023

In summer 2022, a little-musical-that-could defied the odds in Dallas. Produced as an independent entity, Cabaret at Arts Mission Oak Cliff had no established theater company backing it, no built-in subscriber base, and no big names attached.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future

Sherry Cheng·December 19, 2022

In one of the biggest Texas dance stories of the year, ISHIDA Dance Company, a contemporary dance company co-located in Austin and Houston, has just made Dance Magazine’s 2023 “25 to Watch” list, one of the most coveted accolades in the dance industry.

Austin Dance Houston

Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center

Sherry Cheng·December 17, 2022

Twenty years after his passing, the extraordinary twentieth-century polymath and pioneering modernist Lain Singh Bangdel is finally getting some much-deserved recognition in the United States.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Music

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Fresh Notes: Grassroots Opera Companies Take Off in Houston

Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission

Theater

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dance of Death: South Africa’s Vuyani Dance Theatre explores grief during three-stop Texas debut

Show Up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium

Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part II: Alexa Capareda’s Maria and the Mouse Deer

Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part I: Nao Kusuzaki’s Genji at Asia Society Texas Center in partnership with Houston Ballet

Wonders of the Wetlands: University of Texas at El Paso Project Unleashes the Creativity of Students and Residents

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks

Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future

Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center