Arts Eclectic

Texas Burlesque Festival 2013

April 8, 2013 12:52 pm by: Mike Lee

Since 2007, the Texas Burlesque Festival has been bringing together dancers and performers from Texas, the U.S., and abroad to celebrate and perform the art of the tease. The three day event will feature many of the best performers of the current neo-burlesque scene as well some of the legends of classic burlesque. There are three nights of performances along with workshops and a performers' brunch, all designed to honor what producer Lynn Raridon refers to as an "underdog of the arts." Find more details at the TXBF website (but be aware the site, as well as the festival itself, is an adults-only sort of thing)....
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Time

This weekend, Tapestry Dance Company will premiere their new work Time: A Journey Toward Present Grace. It's a collaborative effort; all six of the dancers in the show came up with their own ideas of what time means to them, and the show took shape around those themes. Under the leadership of Tapestry artistic director Acia Gray, the dancers worked together to create a show that mixes comedic and dramatic elements to explore various facets of the conecept of time. Lead dancer Matt Shields came by KUT's studio 1A to do a little tap dancing and talk about the show....
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Around Town: Devotion

Blue Lapis Light has made its name by creating site-specific aerial dance works. Over the years, they've performed on and around the old Intel building, the Long Center, and the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, just to name a few. Their latest aerial work is Devotion, which will be performed on the...
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Walking the Block

Photographer Jo Ann Santangelo's series Walking the Block documents the close-knit LGBT community in one block of New York's West Village. After finding herself walking past a bar called Chi Chiz one night, Santangelo discovered a world she didn't know still existed, even in New York. For...
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False Matters

Improvising in the style of particular genre or author has become a popular trend in Austin's improv community (look for our feature on the Hideout's improv Batman show soon). Usually, these shows are a labor of love, and False Matters is no exception. Creator/actor/director Shannon McCormick is a...
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The Hey Lollies

Children's entertainers The Hey Lollies stay pretty busy, often getting up earlier than most other Austin musicians to go and perform at local schools. But if f you're an adult and still interested in taking in one of the Lollies' music and puppet shows, you're in luck. They've got several...
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Fusebox Festival

The interdisciplinary arts festival returns for a seventh year. When Ron Berry created the Fusebox Festival several years ago, he didn’t know it would still be going strong in 2011 -- he just wanted to get artists together to create and talk about their work. Now, bigger than ever, the...
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Tomas Q. Morin: “Laika”

Texas poet Tomas Q. Morin talks about and reads from his poem "Laika."...
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Haiti between Destruction and Hope

Documentary photographer and UT graduate Maggie Steber's photos taken after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti are now on display at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies....
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Lear

Last year, after working with actresses Andrea Smith and Jennifer Coy, writer and director Rudy Ramirez decided to capitalize on their physical resemblance and cast them as sisters. That decision led him to Shakespeare's King Lear, which left him with the task of finding an Austin actor to...
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Holy 1960′s Batman, Batman!

Improvised theater is nothing new to Austin, and themed improv shows have been popular here for quite a while -- we've seen improvised Star Trek, improvised David Mamet, even improvised Philip K.Dick. All that makes it...
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A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard's play A Lie of the Mind returns to Austin this week for the first time since the late '80s. The darkly comic family drama features an all-star cast of Austin actors, including Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Joey Hood, Karen Jambon, Mark Pickell (who also directs), Rebecca Robinson,...
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Art of the Pot

Just in time for Mother's Day, Austin-area potters artists are joining together with some of the hottest ceramic artists from around the country for the eighth annual Art of the Pot studio tour. At five different studios around town, you can see artists at work and sample their wares. One of the ...
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Paradise Key

Paradise Key, a new play from writer Dean Poyner, recently had its Southwest premier at Hyde Park Theater. That staging, from A Chick and a Dude Productions, runs through the end of this week. It's the sort of "two guys in a room" play that director Melissa Livingston (the chick of A Chick and a...
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The Elementals: Air

The Vortex presents Air, the first of a series of five plays which will each focus on a different element....
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Dissimilar Illusions

Photographers Matthew Fuller and Faustinus Deraet are good friends who approach their art in very different ways. Matthew creates carefully-crafted works in his home st…...
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