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Events in January, 2023

January 2023

stirs up still things

photos by Amitava Sarkar

stirs up still things includes world premieres by ISHIDA based on original poetic narratives and works by emerging and renown international choreographers. "Among dim shapes” by ISHIDA follows an intimate relationship and the ghosts they carry triggered by archetypal patterns. The program also includes a new creation by Swedish dancer, film director, and choreographer John Wannehag formerly with Tanzmainz, and a new work by award-winning British Finnish choreographer Kristian Lever. Lever returns to Houston having been featured at Dance Salad in 2019 and with the US premiere “An Intimate Distance” – an athletic men’s duet presented by ISHIDA in March 2022, originally created on Hamburg Ballet.

Broadway World said ISHIDA’s program in August was “an amazing showcase of modern contemporary dance” and “an incredible boon to the Houston art scene."Read more

Fade to Black Reading Series 2023

Shabach Enterprise's Fade To Black Reading Series returns for its sixth year. A Sunday matinee has been added.

Fade To Black is Houston's first and only short play festival to showcase the new works of Black playwrights. Each year, as we bring more programs to life, the Fade To Black movement grows! We have already produced the plays of over 250 amazing playwrights and utilized the talents of our culturally diverse theatre community of local actors and directors.Read more

They Do Not Move

Did you miss the live show? Watch the Video-On-Demand from the comfort of your own home!

Using found text, music, stylized physicality, and an abundance of pop culture references They Do Not Move winds its way through an imagined American future in which democracy has been defeated and a disorganized band of vagrants, waifs, and strays are hunted by monarchist forces. Their only defense? An expressionist cavalcade of song and dance. There will be a beauty pageant. There will be a sitcom. There will be conversion therapy. Horror movies, cancel culture, and Texas law feature prominently in this oddly moving, frenetically funny love letter to our city, a devised dance-theatre piece that could only come from the mind of Brian Jucha. Like each of his works, They Do Not Move is sublimely derivative and apropos of everything. Read more

All of the Above

All of the Above is a new evening-length dance work presented by Mezclada Dance Company this coming January 12th & 13th at the MATCH Houston. All of the Above not only represents the diversity of Houston arts audiences but celebrates unison within diversity by fusing an untraditional combination of dance styles, cultures, and music including breakdancing, modern, Latin jazz, salsa, and hip hop.Read more

Glow Up Yoga

The T.R.U.T.H. Project presents

Glow Up Yoga

Focusing on Queer folx of color and allies, prepare to GLOW UP as we breathe, stretch, and elevate the spirit! 1st Saturday of the month 10:00 AM, please arrive by 9:45 AM.

MATCH
3400 Main Houston, TX 77002

Free to the public with registration, donations accepted.

For beginners or advanced, this experience is for you!Read more

New Year, New Music, New Movement

Musiqa & Houston Ballet II

New Year, New Music, New Movement

A night of premieres from Houston choreographers and composers

Musiqa presents a collaboration with Houston Ballet II, premiering new choreography and a selection of music ranging from intimate solo piano preludes to a ten-piece ensemble performing a show-stopping new dectet. Together this program represents all the things that make Musiqa tick: cross-disciplinary collaborations with other artists, modern music by composers we love, and the introduction of new works to Houston audiences. Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream

In one of the most famous of literary love quadrangles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the tale of Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena; four misguided lovers whose journey into the woods lands them in even more trouble, as members of the fairy kingdom decide to use them as veritable pawns in their own love games. Against the backdrop of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and the fiery battle of wills between the Fairy King and Queen, Oberon and Titania, the four lovers are challenged by magic and trickery to finally work out what love is all about.Read more

Coin Toss

NobleMotion Dance’s pre-professional company returns to the MATCH in Coin Toss, January 22nd at 7:00 PM. The evening includes original works by Lenorris Arnold, Reagan Crandall, Jaiquan Laurencin, and NobleMotion Dance’s Artistic Directors' Andy Noble and Dionne Noble. Additionally, this concert will feature original choreography by NMD2 company members and a special guest performance by Sam Houston State University. Athletic, generous, fun and communal – Coin Toss highlights the talents of 13 up-and-coming dance artists.Read more