Situated in the 1930s through original music, costume, lighting, and immersive set design, Open Dance Project's Bonnie & Clyde presents a look inward at the emotional journey of two young criminals from Texas in the midst of the Great Depression. Through compelling choreography and historical details from the duo’s journals, poetry, and letters, the couple’s sensationalized drama is peeled back to reveal the human experience of love, desperation, and violence.Read more

Musiqa and Kinetic Ensemble partner to present the world premiere of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand’s The Strangers’ Case. The GRAMMY® award-winning, Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman joins the ensemble for this song cycle for tenor and string orchestra that gathers poems and other turn-of-the-century accounts by immigrants to the United States and, in so doing, reminds us of our shared history, fraught as it is with contradiction, filled with both selfless generosity and selfish indifference.Read more

Join us for the Choreographer's Concert, featuring new works by student performers and members of City Ballet of Houston.Read more

Haunting and poetic, Giselle tells the story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a prince, and the heartbreak and despair that follow. With a moving score by Adolphe Adam and staging by Michael Banigan, Giselle offers both the promise of young love and the tragedy of it slipping away, in one evening of stunning classical dance.Read more

Weaving Worlds is a unique multidisciplinary collaborative performance bringing together storytelling, music and dance to weave in a tapestry of emotions through stories of resilience and courage. In this innovative and emotional performance, celebrated Houston authors Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (author of Independence) and Saborna Roychowdhury (author of Everything Here Belongs To You), harpist Hope Cowan, Indian Classical vocalist Mahalakshmi Krishnan, and Indian Classical dancer Sandhya Raghuraman come together to create a spell-binding experience that draws the audience into a dramatic world full of historical and cultural stories, celebrating the resilience and strength of women. 

The performance will be followed by an interactive Q&A session with the authors and artists, giving the audience a chance to fully engage with the themes explored and share their own experiences.Read more