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Delights & Dances

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Delights & Dances

An all-American, dance-inspired performance for Kinetic's season closer

Kinetic closes its unprecedented season with an all-American, dance-inspired program exploring the importance of dance in our communities, whether it is through religious rituals, a celebration of shared culture and identity, or collective grief and mourning. The role of community has never been more essential in our lives, as we recover from a dark and isolating year of this pandemic.Read more

A3L: Across 3 Languages

TORCH - A3L

TORCH

A3L: Across 3 Languages

Starring hip-hop artist BABA RUEROB

Houston is a melting pot of different cultures, religions and micro communities. When diving deeper into the cultural fabric of the Greater Houston Area, over fifty thousand people speak a language different from English or Spanish (ACS 2014). A3L: Across 3 Languages is a live linguistics mixtape performance of language-based songs (Chinese, Arabic, French) performed by BABA RUEROB. Read more

Faraway, so close

Ishida Dance - Faraway so Close

ISHIDA Dance Company presents an evening of thought-provoking premieres in contemporary dance: new works based on personal poetic narratives that invite existential questions by ISHIDA, a new creation by former Batsheva dancer and USC Professor Bret Easterling, and a work by Australian native Danielle Rowe, former principal with Houston Ballet and Netherlands Dans Theater (NDT) who has created works on San Francisco Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet and NDT dancers.Read more

Philip Glass: Aguas Da Amazonia

Aperio - Aguas da Amazonia

Aperio

Philip Glass: Aguas Da Amazonia

A Free Livestream of Philip Glass' Monumental Work Reimagined for Chamber Orchestra

Inspired by the Amazon River and its tributaries, Philip Glass' Aguas da Amazonia explores a vivid mixture of orchestral and percussive textures in the composer's signature style. Aperio performed the North American premiere of Aguas da Amazonia in 2017 to critical acclaim. Houstonia magazine praised the premiere as "a welcome flood of technical ambition" and Arts+CultureTX lauded Aperio's performance as "ebullient, vibrant...and riveting throughout." Maestro Marlon Chen (Manila Symphony Orchestra, MDR Orchestra Leipzig, Orchestre de Paris) conducts.Read more

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Aperio - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Aperio

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

presented in collaboration with New American Voices

A free livestream performance of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Featuring music by American composer Shawn Crouch and the poetry of Wallace Stevens, this new work explores multiple perspectives on the poet’s blackbird motif through a collection of enigmatic haiku-like poems. The Miami Herald describes Crouch’s music as “staggering… imaginative, powerful, and deeply moving” and Gramophone Magazine praised him as a “gifted young composer.” He is the winner of the 2015 New American Voices Composition Prize which supported the completion of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.Read more

All the Devils Are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos

Photo by Lynn Lane

Open Dance Project & DiverseWorks co-present

All the Devils Are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos

A National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by DiverseWorks (Houston) and Studio5 (Evanston, IL) and NPN

All the Devils Are Here collides Shakespeare’s The Tempest with the true story of an unsolved murder in the Galapagos in 1929. This immersive dance theater performance follows the failed attempts of a nihilist couple, a conservative family, and a baroness and her two gay lovers to escape the world of man on the uninhabited island of Floreana. Their conflicting visions of Paradise, sexual and moral “rightness,” colonial instincts, and social and psychological demons lead to disaster and provide a rich canvas for a poignant examination of basic human rights, social justice, and power structures.Read more

Ponce: Mexican Piano Music

Ponce Project - Ponce Mexican Piano Music

The fourth concert of THE PONCE PROJECT Spring Virtual Season presents a selection of some of the most beautiful piano compositions by Manuel M. Ponce. 

Although better known worldwide as a composer for classical guitar, Ponce's total output for the piano surpasses 200 compositions that include virtually all  forms and genres: Preludes, Fugues, Sonatas, Variations, Etudes, Nocturnes, Intermezzi, Minuets, Dances, Mazurkas, Rhapsodies, Marches, etc.

Mexican-born pianist Oscar Vázquez performs a carefully curated selection of Ponce's compositions that include the famous habanera for the left-hand alone: Malgrè Tout.Read more

Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival 2021

Pilot Dance Project - Group Acorde Lynn Lane

The Pilot Dance Project is proud to announce the launch of its newest initiative, a festival that uplifts and celebrates Latinx choreographers and identity. The 1st Annual Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival format will be completely virtual and produced as an evening-length concert that patrons can stream from their device through the MATCH-Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston website.Read more

Ponce's Cello Sonata

Ponce Project - Ponce Cello Sonata

The third concert of THE PONCE PROJECT Spring Virtual Season presents one of the seminal compositions for the cello and piano repertoire of the twentieth century. The Sonata for violoncello and piano, composed in México City in 1922, was premiered in October of the same year by Ponce himself at the piano along with Oscar Nicastro playing the cello.

Astrid Morales (piano) and Wesley Skinner (cello) deliver a top-notch performance of one of the finest and most demanding sonatas in the repertoire.Read more

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