The Pilot Dance Project presents an all-new festival dedicated to celebrating the voices of Houston's LGBTQIA+ performing artists: Queer Fringe Houston! The festival opens Friday, June 24 at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center (MATCH) will the acclaimed documentary Friday I'm in Love, filmmaker Marcus Pontello's heartfelt ode to Numbers Nightclub!Read more
The Pilot Dance Project presents an all-new festival dedicated to celebrating the voices of Houston's LGBTQIA+ performing artists: Queer Fringe Houston! Originally set to premiere in June 2020, Queer Fringe Houston comes to the MATCH in its inaugural year featuring a screening of Marcus Pontello's Friday I'm in Love, as well as new works by jhon r. stronks, Corian Ellisor (Atlanta, GA), Jadd Tank, Urethra Burns, and Guanders the Drag Queen.
Queer Fringe Houston is made possible by funding from Bunnies on the Bayou and a Mid-America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations Grant.Read more
They once ran naked across golf courses, ate plates of greasy fried chicken, and survived whispered sorority scandals. Twenty years later, while organizing the first LGBTQ prom for the local high school, these non-traditional women are spun to the brink when their successful sorority sister returns to town determined to romance the woman she has loved all of her life.Read more
Andean-Indian…Melodies of Folklore from South America and India. A unique fusion of authentic folk music from both continents.
Andean-Indian will feature renowned Artists from South America - Victor Murillo from Equador, Louis Quintano from Venezuela, Edwardo Cassipia from Bolivia, AND from India - Pt. Indrajit Bannerjee and Gourisankar Karmakar.Read more
Houston’s artist-led, artist-curated Kinetic Ensemble opens its 2022-2023 season with three unique perspectives on our natural world by three exciting, emerging composers. Patrick Harlin’s The Wilderness Anthology combines Kinetic’s live performance with pre-recorded audio soundscapes, captured in parts of the Amazon Rainforest and in the Book Cliffs region of the United States. This piece focuses our attention both on the relationship between wilderness and music, and on the impacts of human disruption on our world’s ecosystems. Nicky Sohn’s What Happens When Pipes Burst? recalls the big Winter Freeze of 2021 and its impact on the lives and communities of those in Houston. And Paul Novak’s a string quartet is like a flock of birds, first performed virtually by Kinetic during 2020, will finally receive its first premiere live performance this evening. This season opener will be a fully immersive sound experience; a musical meditation on our natural world, which ever surrounds and inspires us.Read more
Houston’s artist-led, artist-curated Kinetic Ensemble celebrates women artists and women’s stories in Her Story, featuring a new concerto for solo violin, chamber orchestra, and three dancers. This multidisciplinary project is spearheaded by a team of three female artists: composer Nicky Sohn, Kinetic violinist Mary Grace Johnson as featured soloist, and choreographer Kayla Collymore. Her Story is inspired by clients of the Women’s Home Houston, a rehabilitation and support center for women overcoming addiction; each movement of this new work focuses on a different individual from the Center and her story, as a way to give voice to these women, and to raise awareness for the important work of the Women’s Home.Read more
Houston’s artist-led, artist-curated Kinetic Ensemble closes its 8th concert season with a deeply expressive program exploring themes of love, fear, and vulnerability through music for song and strings. At the centerpiece is the world premiere of “Behind the Sanctuary Walls” by award-winning composer Theo Chandler, written for soprano, double bass, and string orchestra. Featuring dynamic British-Canadian soprano Alexandra Smither, and Cleveland Orchestra bassist Charles Paul, “Behind the Sanctuary Walls” takes us through the enthralling, intertwining nature of intimacy and distance, connection and separation, capturing the extremes of human experience across five movements.
Complementing this premiere is Tchaikovsky’s celebrated “Serenade for Strings,” a work that epitomizes the outward, heartrending expressivity of nineteenth-century romanticism, along with a selection of newly adapted songs by Clara Schumann, arranged for string orchestra by Kinetic violinist Giancarlo Latta. This concert is generously sponsored by and dedicated to our dear friend, John Epstein.Read more
"Take Five" is a concert to present the beauty, richness and complexity of Venezuelan music.Read more
When 12-year-old Edith makes an unfortunate spur-of-the-moment decision with her air rifle, she, her older brother Kenny, and his boyfriend Benji find themselves suddenly at odds with the adult world around them. A. Rey Pamatmat’s achingly beautiful play explores first love, the pangs of youth, and the universal search to find your family of choice. This production, directed by Trin Viêt Hô`, is the latest from Thunderclap Productions' award-winning John Steven Kellett Memorial Series.Read more
For the very first time in Houston! FOLK DANCES OF RAJASTHAN, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of India's Independence - brought to you by Samskriti, with support from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Govt. of India, and the Consulate of India in Houston.
Rajasthan, one of India's most historic States, with its magnificent palaces and forts, also has a rich cultural heritage with diverse folk dances that require both talent and skill. Anita Pradhan's dynamic group of dancers have been selected by the Government of India as its cultural ambassadors, to showcase Rajasthan's most celebrated folk dances. Dazzling costumes, unusual props, complex moves, presented to lively traditional folk songs with their own distinct instruments, and all of these indigenous to the region - this is what the audience will see, hear, and enjoy. This is a performance which transcends geographical and language barriers, and the sheer variety and beauty of the dances is bound to keep the viewers mesmerized. This is a FREE event, and open to all dance enthusiasts.
This program is made possible by grants from the BIPOC Arts Network, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Read more
