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Barnstorm Dance Fest 2024

Dance Source Houston

Barnstorm Dance Fest 2024

Showcasing the breadth, depth and diversity of dance in Greater Houston and beyond

Join Dance Source Houston for Barnstorm Dance Fest 2024, happening May 28 - June 1 at Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston! Barnstorm showcases the vibrancy of dance in Greater Houston and provides audiences with an exciting sampling of dance genres. The festival includes three unique programs, including 19 live performance works and 5 dance films by dancemakers from our city, region, and across the country. Highlighting the emerging and established dancemakers working in a wide range of styles and featuring festival newcomers and audience favorites, each program will be presented twice during the festival. Don't miss this #HOUdance favorite!Read more

Gypsy

Operativo

Gypsy

A Musical Fable. Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Suggested by the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

Operativo Houston tackles this historical work for the first time! After performing Ruthless the previous summer, we thought it to be appropriate to perform the work that inspired it! Come see loving stage Mama Rose navigate raising children, trying to give them the dream she never received. Everything's comin' up Rose(s) in this touching Broadway classic! Don't miss it! 

Original production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward. Entire production originally directed and coreographed by Jerome Robbins. Gypsy is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.comRead more

The Sweet Boutique

Sugar and Spice and everything nice, that's what our dancers are made of. The young students of River Oaks Dance make their stage debut in The Sweet Boutique. How will you decide which dessert to choose when they are all delicious? Come pick your favorite in this sugar sweet mini show!

River Oaks Dance allows children and their families to experience the magic and joy of dance from a young age in this short and sweet first stage performance.Read more

Cuánto vale una heladera/Mesa de Saldos/Verona

Gente de Teatro

Cuánto vale una heladera/Mesa de Saldos/Verona

three short plays by well-known Argentine playwrights Claudia Piñeiro & Claudio Regis

An evening of three short plays by well-know Argentine playwrights Claudia Piñeiro & Claudio Regis!

Cuánto vale una heladera (How much is a refrigerator worth) by Claudia Piñeiro, one of the most widely read authors in Argentina and worldwide.
The work subtly addresses, through humor, the theme of reclaiming identity in a modern, globalized, and bureaucratic world.

Mesa de Saldos (Sale Table) by Claudio Regis.
A man searches for books written and dedicated by hand by his deceased grandfather, whom he deeply admires. Claudio Regis easily captures our interest in participating in an intriguing everyday scene.

Verona by Claudia Piñeiro
A warm and amusing work about the complexity of love and sisterhood.Read more

Diverse Discourse Lecture: Alex Klein

Join DiverseWorks at MATCH in Matchbox 1 on March 20 at 6:30 p.m. for the Spring 2024 Diverse Discourse Lecture with Alex Klein, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin. Admission is free.

Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with Houston-area artists, performers, and writers.Read more

Encores

International Voices Houston

Encores

25th Anniversary Season

Missed the concert? Purchase the Video-on-Demand access!

Houston’s premiere multicultural choir presents an engaging program celebrating 25 seasons of powerful vocal music. Reflecting on its legacy of performing songs from a broad spectrum of cultures and languages, International Voices Houston brings back several memorable favorites from over the years, while also looking forward with some exciting new compositions. This choral program features music in several languages, including: English, Korean, Spanish, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Arabic, Swahili, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Akan, and Maori. International Voices Houston also welcomes several guest musicians to the stage, including Ingrid Gerling, Jeff Gleason, Julian Hernandez, Jesús Pacheco, Daniel Saenz, Loyce Washington, and more.Read more

Avalon International Competition for Composers

Foundation for Modern Music

Avalon International Competition for Composers

Presentation of premieres of international winners by top-tier Houston chamber musicians.

The annual Avalon International Competition for Composers celebrates new, exciting, and highly original contemporary music rooted in the classical tradition by both young and more established composers.

The competition concert showcases the stellar quality of Houston performing artists and ensembles who relish the challenge of learning and presenting works of great difficulty.

Through the competition, the Foundation for Modern Music honors its late artistic director, Robert Avalon (1955 - 2004), who helped develop and initiate several important new projects for the foundation - including this competition for composers.Read more

Benefit Concert for Canadian, TX Wildfire Relief

The Citadelle Art Foundation

Benefit Concert for Canadian, TX Wildfire Relief

Featuring the music of emerging composer Alex Moreno, native of Canadian, TX

Wildfires have burned well more than 1,000,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle this Spring. At one point, the Smokehouse Creek Fire was burning at the rate of 150 football fields a minute. It devastated the small town of Canadian, Texas. People there lost their homes, businesses, ranches, livestock, pets, cars, and livelihoods. The composer, Alex Moreno, is a native of Canadian, Texas. He is a graduating senior at the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Alex organized this concert to raise money for the community that has given so much to him. The concert will feature some of Alex‘s original compositions and will include performances by Shepherd School musicians.Read more

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