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“The creator in me is my inner child.” – choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is prolific. At age 50, the contemporary ballet choreographer has created 77 works for dance companies around the world. Among them are conceptual pieces…
Read MoreYou must believe in enchantment if you’ve ever experienced a spellbinding performance at the ballet, where grace, intensity and music merge. The glorious fluidity and explosive energy of the dancer seem to come from nowhere — to just be. But that assum…
Read MoreEver wondered what lawyers do for fun? Since 1989, dozens of local legal practitioners have been pooling their musical and artistic talents for Night Court, Houston’s all-lawyer theater company and public charity. The name alone tells you this group’s …
Read More“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou It can be daunting to write about so towering a cultural icon as Dr. Maya Angelou. For more than four decades, she has …
Read MoreWhen Keith Glover’s Thunder Knocking on the Door opened in 1996 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, before going to Yale Repertory Theater the following year, a Variety reviewer noted its descriptive subtitle: “A Bluesical Tale of Rhythm and the Blues…
Read More“Poetry begins as a diary without a lock, one you want people to read.” — Billy Collins Kinetic Ensemble, Houston’s 16-member string orchestra, closed out its season with the startlingly beautiful world premiere of Theo Chandler’s Beyond the Sanctuary …
Read MoreHouston Ballet opened its first of eight performances of Swan Lake (which runs through this Sunday, June 18th) to a full house. The curtain came down to thunderous applause from an audience on its feet in appreciation. Truly, one stands in awe at the p…
Read MoreHouston Ballet’s “Divergence” — with performances through this Sunday, June 4th — is a magnificent, electrifying and glamorous show throughout. The three pieces are presented in chronological order, opening with two from the Ballet’s repertory an…
Read MoreIn ROE, a play by Lisa Loomer running at Houston’s Stages Theater through this Sunday, March 5, a writer feels she almost needs a trigger warning to use so volatile a word. Roe has become shorthand for perhaps the most politically and emotionally…
Read MoreAll of us who love classical music know the practically dizzying possibilities of live performance here in Houston. From the great symphony orchestra to smaller ensembles playing compositions from medieval to contemporary. Sparkling among these smaller…
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