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Direct Path to Detour

DiverseWorks - Takahiro Yamamoto

DiverseWorks

Direct Path to Detour

a work-in-progress showing by Takahiro Yamamoto

This February, DiverseWorks will welcome Portland, Oregon-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto and his collaborator sidony o’neal. While in residence, they will present a work-in-progress showing of Direct Path to Detour, a new collaborative dance performance. The final iteration of this new work, co-commissioned by PICA, DiverseWorks, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, and the National Performance Network, will be presented in Houston in October 2017, following its world premiere in Portland this May.

In today's culturally diverse, globalized society, one is inevitably exposed to multiple aesthetics, ethics, and ideologies. Through this project and from his perspective as a queer, Japanese immigrant, Yamamoto investigates the physical and emotional effects that result when multiple sets of cultural values and expectations crash, negotiate, reconcile and/or float around each other in contemporary society.Read more

The Miraculous: Houston

CounterCurrent 17 - The Miraculous in Houston

CounterCurrent Festival

The Miraculous: Houston

Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause

Feats of endurance, acts of absurdist wit, public actions confronting political repression, celebrations of the natural world, accidental moments of revelation. Short stories—from one sentence to several paragraphs—recount acts from the past fifty years of contemporary art at site-specific installations throughout the University of Houston.Read more

Snow White

CounterCurrent 17 - Snow White

CounterCurrent Festival

Snow White

The Catastrophic Theatre, Written by Donald Barthelme, Directed by Greg Dean

This Snow White whiles away her days reading Mao Tse-tung, drinking vodka with orange juice, and impatiently waiting for the prince promised to her by history. This world premiere production of Snow White is a theatrical adaptation of the groundbreaking, experimental novel by the postmodern novelist and poet Donald Barthelme.Read more

Movement V: Ballroom

CounterCurrent 17 - Movement V - Photo Credit Leah Maghanoy

Visual artist Kevin Beasley creates a site-specific sculptural and sound installation at the iconic Eldorado Ballroom, which served the Third Ward with a who’s who of the great blues and jazz players from the 1940s through the 1970s. Beasley explores cultural, personal, and historical contexts—and related materials—in assembling his art.Read more

Illusions of Urbanscape

CounterCurrent 17 - Illusions of Urbanscape

In this new lecture, Gamboa looks at myth in contemporary society with images and videos of his work. For more than forty years, his artistic lens has responded to the Los Angeles “urbanscape” with its subtle layering of codes, rules, and visual markers that contribute to making a sophisticated living space for millions of people.Read more

Ghana ThinkTank

CounterCurrent 17 - GhanaThinkTank - Photo Credit dabfoto creative

In 2016, Ghana ThinkTank asked What’s your Houston diversity problem? Houstonians had a lot to say—much of it related to cultural and ethnic identity. Now, international think tanks in India, Iran, Indonesia, Morocco, Gaza, Serbia, and Germany are concocting solutions to Houston’s problems. During CounterCurrent17, come see how these think tanks are solving the issues of the “first world.”Read more

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