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Events in February, 2023

February 2023

Peter & Wendy

VIDEO-ON-DEMAND AVAILABLE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE!

If you missed the live performance you can still see the show! The Video-On-Demand of this performance is avaialble to purchase now!  View will be available starting February 14 at noon through February 26 at midnight.

Open Dance Project’s Peter & Wendy takes a fresh look at this children’s favorite through the company’s signature athleticism, daring physicality, and theatrical whimsy. Featuring the music of Two Star Symphony and paying tribute to J.M. Barrie’s beloved story, performances on aerial silks and trapeze by Peter and Tink provide a magical approach to the story. A multigenerational cast of dancers and aerialists, featuring the ODP professional company and ODP2 (pre-professional dancers ages 14-18), sets the ingenuity and imagination of children at the heart of this performance for family audiences. 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

Piano Quintets of Franck and Beach

Musica Tra Amici

Piano Quintets of Franck and Beach

featuring Evelyn Chen, piano, Eric Halen and Tong Yan, violins, James Dunham, viola, Brinton Averil Smith, cello

The Video-on-Demand of this performance is avaialble for purchase and will be available for viewing starting Tuesday, February 7 and through Sunday, February 19 at midnight.

This program featured the beautiful and rarely heard piano quintet of Amy Beach, a pioneering American female romantic composer of the early 20th century. Largely ignored due to the sexism of her day, Beach's works, and particularly this piano quintet, are now being recognized as some of the most beautiful and original American works ever composed. A conversation about Beach's life and career will accompany the performance, followed by a performance Cesar Franck's passionately romantic piano quintet. 

PROGRAM

Amy Beach, Piano Quintet, Op. 67

Cesar Franck, Piano Quintet in F minor

ARTISTS

Evelyn Chen, piano, Eric Halen and Tong Yan, violins, James Dunham, viola, Brinton Averil Smith, cello Read more

Almost, Maine

On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal and the hearts are mended--almost--in this delightful midwinter night's dream.

This fully-staged play, starring some of Houston's best known and loved actors, arrives just in time to warm your heart for Valentine's Day!Read more

Eddie Goes to Poetry City

“You’re a mirror, Eddie.”

Eddie dreams of escape—from the office where he suffers at the hands of his co-workers, from a doctor whose treatments seem far worse than any possible disease, perhaps from even the play itself! He dreams of escaping to Poetry City, a place he imagines to be Paradise. When he arrives, however, he finds that Poetry City “melts language,” and totally disrupts the normal laws of cause-and-effect. Entirely disoriented, Eddie attempts to navigate this new and bewildering reality, and slowly comes to consider that his confusion, struggles, and failures may comprise a sort of poetry in themselves and may provide access to Paradise after all. Not in Poetry City, but right here and now, hidden in between moments, but accessible to those who know where to look.

Foreman’s plays, particularly under the direction of Catastrophic core artist Greg Dean, are imagination machines. They provoke laughter or even tears from places so deep within, you didn’t know they were there. They poke and yank at the nerves and thrust you, id-first, into waking dreams. When you wander back into the world, you’ll find yourself awake in ways you hadn’t realized possible and you might find yourself in a new world, one vibrating with new possibilities.Read more

Tim Hagans Quartet

Waiting Moon Records/Tim Hagans Jazz

Tim Hagans Quartet

Premiere of GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter & composer Tim Hagans' new band featuring guitarist Rez Abbassi

Tim Hagans, heralded as one of the most influential voices in modern jazz, has formed a new quartet to bring forth his wildly creative music. The band features Hagans on trumpet with guitarist Rez Abbasi, bassist Thomas Helton and drummer Sam Knight.Read more

ROCO Unchambered: Thomas Hultén

ROCO Principal Trombonist Thomas Hultén leads his first Unchambered concert on February 24! This eclectic program will highlight the wonders of the brass family, in chamber works featuring the trombone. From classical to jazz, there’ll be something the whole family can enjoy – including an interactive Q&A with Thomas! This performance will also be livestreamed free on ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live.

ARTISTS
Thomas Hultén, trombone
Ali Jackson, tuba
Sarah Spencer, pianoRead more

Synapse the Play

You are cordially invited to an immersive sensorial reading of a new work by local Houston area Actor/Playwright Shanae'a Moore. Synapse the Play is a celebration of all things neurodivergent, and follows the journey of Lyra as she discovers that she has more power than she ever imagined possible. Can Lyra adjust to the new powers and save her newfound friends/family before it is too late? Read more

UH Goes to the MATCH 2023

University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance

UH Goes to the MATCH 2023

talent of today and the visionaries of the future

UH Goes to the MATCH is a culmination of premiere works by new choreographers from the UH Dance Program. Aspiring artists master performance, technique, and creative process, resulting in a technical and artistic production in a professional environment. UH Goes to the MATCH presents the talent of today and the visionaries of the future.Read more