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Arts EclecticCult of Color: Call to ColorBallet Austin's Cult of Color: Call to Color is based on the artwork and mythology of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, but it's really a collaborative effort between three artists: Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills, and composer Graham Reynolds.
Hancock's artwork (which includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, and more) was the starting point of the story. His works tend to incorporate a certain amount of storytelling, and the mythology he's created over the years was the basis for the ballet's storyline. That storyline (which centers around a battle between a black and white world and a world of color) informed Reynold's composition, and both the visual and musical storytelling informed Mills' choreography.
The result is a ballet that Reynolds calls one of his favorite... |
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Part One: Department of Art and Art Hi...
For the past decade or so, the annual art show by UT's Department of Art and Art History included works from the entire faculty, which meant that there wasn't a lot of room for each artist.
Starting this Friday, they're taking a different approach. For the next three years, the department will...
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Nightmare Circus
Halloween night should prove entertainingly creepy at the Vortex this year. The fine (if disturbed) folks at CircX VorteX will present a nightmarish evening of circus-themed delights.
Inspired by the seedy, not-so-safe-feeling side of circus culture, producer Cedar Stevens has put together a night...
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Tiempo Libre with the Austin Symphony ...
This Friday night, the Austin Symphony Orchestra opens its pops concert season with a visit from Miami-based Latin music band Tiempo Libre. The Grammy-nomimated musicians of Tiempo Libre grew up in Cuba, where they...
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Guest Artist
The fine folks of Paradox Players are getting ready to stage their latest production at Howson Hall Theater. This Friday is opening night for Guest Artist, by actor and playwright Jeff Daniels. The three person cast comprises Joe Penrod, Tyler Jones, and Craig Kanne; Karen Jambon directs...
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Ready Player One
Austin-based writer Ernie Cline is best known for his film work (the cult favorite Fanboys is based on his script), but he's now a novelist as well. The idea for Ready Player One, Cline's debut novel, had been rattling around in his head for a past decade or so; he'd work on it here and there...
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Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, now in its tenth year, has grown into a comedic behemoth. Starting Tuesday night and running for seven days, the fest will see hundreds of comedians from across the country (not to mention Amsterdam and Montreal) descending on Austin to perform and celebrate the...
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Dos Pocitos
In the past 11 years, Teato Vivo has staged some 25 productions in Austin. Their latest is a new work by playwright Raul Garza (known for his award-winning debut, Fantasmaville). Dos Pocitos is set a generation in the future, in a fictional town in the land of Texaco, which is the...
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Sarah Silver Hands
Over the years, Chad Salvata has created several well-received contemporary operas for the Vortex. His works tends to involve elements of fantasy, elaborate costuming, and innovative lighting and set design. They also often include adult themes and nudity, however, which makes them inappropriate...
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Girls Rock Austin Fifth Anniversary Ce...
Over the past five years, Girls Rock Austin has put instruments into the hands of five hundred girls, teaching them to play music while empowering them and imparting life lessons. When girls enter Girls Rock Camp, they have one week to form bands, learn to play, write a song and perform in front of...
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Rumors
The folks over at The City Theatre have been doing what they do for several years now, and they're kicking off their sixth season with a new staging of Neil Simon's comedy Rumors. It's an old-school, door-slamming, fast-paced farce in which four couples come together for a party, the...
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10 Minutes Max
Dance Umbrella's 10 Minutes Max is an annual dance showcase with a long history. Started in 1989 as Performance Plus, the show has been a platform for new and veteran dancers and choreographers for more than two decades. The program consists of eight performances by both groups...
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Good Design: Stories from Herman Mille...
Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller has been on display at the Austin Museum of Art for most of the summer, and will run through September 11, so there's still time to catch the exhibition before it moves on. The show focuses on the mid-century design work of the famed furniture...
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The Trash Project
For years, Allison Orr's Forklift Danceworks has created works centered around folks whom one might not typically consider to be dancers. It's the movement and grace of the everyday that gives Orr her inspiration, and that's why she's crafted dances and ballets about (and starring) roller skaters,...
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The Red Shoes
The fine folks of Sky Candy have been teaching trapeze and other circus arts to Austinites for the past year or so. And when they're not teaching class, they spend their time creating original aerial art. That's culminated in The Red Shoes, an original, full-length aerial ballet based on the story...
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