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Silambam Houston - The YUVA Festival

Silambam Houston

The YUVA Festival

Sadir: A Solo Journey - Bharatanatyam by Sudharma Vaithiyanathan, with a curtain raiser performance by Tejaswini Mohankumar

An evening of Bharatanatyam by two gifted young Indian classical dancers. The feature performance, 'Sadir: A Solo Journey', is a solo work by child prodigy and rising star Sudharma Vaithiyanathan, from India, on tour in the US this fall. Houston’s own talented Tejaswini Mohankumar performs in a short solo curtain raiser performance preceding the feature presentation.Read more

The Sky Was Wild With Sunshine

Pilot Dance Project - Sunshine 1

The Pilot Dance Project presents an all-new evening-length work by Houston choreography and designer Ashley Horn. The Sky Was Wild with Sunshine scans the current horizon of diminishing compassion and humanity, explores what we want the world to be, and looks toward the divergent futures of whether we will or won’t stop the current cycle of gray-skied ambivalence. The inhabitants of Horn’s latest creation look upward and beyond their immediate reality to fervently plant and nurture seeds of kindness, love, and joy.Read more

Folk Rock

Apollo Chamber Players - 2017-2018

Apollo Chamber Players

Folk Rock

WORLD PREMIERE commission by Pamela Z

Over the past decade, audiences have shared with us their ideas of what constitutes folk music. Composer-performer Pamela Z offers her take on folk music, with a new commission inspired by American 1960’s/70’s folk rock. Steven Snowden’s ‘Appalachian Polaroids’ provides a juxtaposed look at the DNA of American and Appalachian roots music, a work inspired by photographs of remote Appalachian mountain communities. And Snowden's 'Take This Hammer' finds its origins on a bluesy prison work song that later inspired the music of British folk-rocker Sandy Denny.Read more

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