Open Air Performance in Texas
As a pandemic spring spun into summer, it seemed all the performing arts world became a virtual stage and all the men and women remote players.
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How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies
Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.
From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure
The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.
The ACTX Top Ten: March 2020
Our top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in March 2020.
Houston Symphony’s New Season Highlights Women Violinists, Beethoven and a partnership with Perlman
The Houston Symphony will be one of many orchestras that mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. But how many groups will also spend part of next season celebrating women who play the violin?
Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance
If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.
The ACTX Top Ten: February 2020
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in February 2020.
Starting from Scratch: Jennifer Mabus builds a Dance BFA at the University of St. Thomas
2019 was a year of firsts for the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston and its Dance Program Chair Jennifer Mabus as the school’s inaugural cohort of dance majors stepped into the studio for the fall semester.
Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun
Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing.
The ACTX Top Ten: January 2020
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in January 2020.
Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert
The Dallas-based artist Alicia Eggert, along with collaborator James Akers, recently opened a captivating new work at Houston’s Color Factory, a pop-up space that focuses on “instagrammable,” site-specific installations.
The ACTX Top Ten: November 2019
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in November, 2019.