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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.
A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
It Happened in Texas: Anna Pavlova
For many years now, upon arriving in a new city one of the first things I do is find out not where the best places to eat or visit are, but to research whether Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes or Anna Pavlova’s company performed there.
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.
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.
Texas Studio: Catherine Turocy
Search for information on baroque dance and it won’t be long before you come across the name Catherine Turocy.
Orchestra of New Spain Conquers Another Zarzuela
The Orchestra of New Spain specializes in reviving long-lost music. Founder Grover Wilkins and his ensemble have freed a string of neglected Spanish-baroque works from the prison of the library shelves, and on Feb. 21 and 22, the group will give a belated U.S. premiere to a 300-year-old tale of passion among gods and mortals.
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.
The ACTX Top Ten: November 2019
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in November, 2019.