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April 26 & 27, 8 pm
Presented at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex
2201 Preston, Houston, TX 77003
TICKETS: $15 / $8 DW Members/Students/Seniors
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60 minutes / no intermission
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
7:30 pm: Pre-show discussion with Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant, The Menil Collection
9 pm: Post-show discussion with Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili, moderated by artist Regina Agu
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
7:30 pm: Pre-show discussion with Amy Powell, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow, Blaffer Art Museum
Okwui Okpokwasili and Nora Chipaumire perform “Miriam”
Photo by Antoine Tempe
Written and choreographed by …
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Tony Feher, “Untitled,” 2011 (detail) Photography by G.R. Christmas, courtesy The Pace Gallery
January 19 - March 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 7 – 9 pm
an interactive, peformative installation combining art, music, dance and language
Performances: Wednesday evenings (7pm) and Saturday afternoons (2 pm) through March 16
Tony Feher is known for creating strikingly beautiful sculptures out of seemingly mundane objects. For this experiment, DiverseWorks invited the artist to consider how his sculptural work might inform, relate to, or translate into live performance – a discipline largely unexplored by Feher to date. Encompassing the main gallery …
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Elia Arce: “First Woman on the Moon” photo credit: Martin Cox
Conceived, designed, written, directed, and performed by Elia Arce
Technical Director: Jose María Francos
November 30 & December 1, 7:30 pm: PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Presented by DiverseWorks at FRENETIC THEATER, 5102 Navigation Blvd, Houston
Originally commissioned by Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), First Woman on the Moon is historically important as one of the earliest performance pieces to give a different voice to the Latino identity movement, focusing more on issues of class and spirituality rather than race and ethnicity. In First Woman, Arce leads the audience through a series of …
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This is the city we make together by performing it. Who are you in it? Who represents you?
Co-Presented by DiverseWorks and the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
November 1 – 3, 2012, FREE
City Council Meeting will be presented in three very different locations over three evenings the first weekend in November. Post-show discussions will follow each performance. Admission is free.
City Council Meeting is a participatory theater event about empathy, democracy and power. Combining transcripts from government meetings in several cities, as well as original writing and a surprise ending, City …
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October 10 – 13, 2012
7:30 pm (doors open at 7 pm)
DiverseWorks Theatre
Tickets: $15 general admission / $10 DiverseWorks Members, Students, Seniors
Wednesday, October 10 – Pay What You Want!
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Written and directed by artist Keren Cytter, Show Real Drama is based on the lives of two of her actors who find themselves unemployed after graduating from the University of Acting in Salzburg. After countless failed attempts to get hired, they decide to write and direct scenes for their own showreels. Show Real Drama comes to DiverseWorks following …
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Lone Star Performance Explosion
Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012
Thursday, March 8, 7 – 11pm DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Friday, March 9, 7-11PM AvantGarden
Saturday, March 10 – Notsuoh, 7-11PM
for more information and tickets: http://lonestarexplosion.org/
Houston’s cultural art scene is set to EXPLODE. For four days and three nights performance artists from around the world will be in our city for the First International Performance Art Biennale 2012.
Hosted at DiverseWorks, Avant Garden and notsuoH the festival will feature international artists Myk Henry from Ireland, Elena Nestorova from Finland, Gim Gwang Cheol from South …
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photo: Lynn Lane Photography
Stephan Koplowitz: Task Force
Natural Acts in Artificial Water May 19-20, 2012
2pm and 4pm
Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park
parking is free at Williams Tower Visitors Parking sponsored by: Choreographed by international award-winning artist Stephan Koplowitz, this water themed site-specific work is a collaboration with 16 local professional dancers, Houston composer Aaron Hermes and Space City Gamelan. The resulting 45 minute promenade performance event physically and visually animates the entire park and its unique fountain. This new work is a continuation of Koplowitz’s national initiative, TaskForce, which began in Los …
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Anthony Barilla & the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Apocalypse Town
Wednesday – Sunday, March 21-25, 2012
Wednesday, March 21 – Pre-performance cocktail reception. 7pm
Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24, 8pm
Sunday, March 25, 6pm
(Purchase Tickets here. Tickets are available – if you have problems with the Ticket Purchasing software, please call: 713.223.8346 and someone will take care of your ticket order.) Sat performances $10; Sunday – Pay What You Can)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission are Chris Bakos, Wayne Barnhill, Kevin Blessington, Jeff Miller, Cathy Power and Kirk Suddreath, with a special guest appearance by John …
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Audition: Wed, Jan. 25, 6-10 pmBarnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston St., Houston TX 77003Performances: May 19 & 20 Rehearsal residencies: Thu-Mon, March 8-12 and Sat – Fri, May 12-18 Performers selected to participate will be compensated.
Stephan Koplowitz returns to Houston after the grand site-specific dance that opened Rice University’s Humanities building in 2000. He will be working with DiverseWorks to create a site specific work in May of 2012.
Audition: Wed, Jan. 25, 6-10 pm Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston St., Houston TX 77003 Performances: May 19 & 20
Rehearsal residencies: Thu-Mon, March 8-12 and Sat …
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zoe | juniper
A Crack in Everything
January 19-February 25, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6-9pm
zoe | juniper performances: Thursday-Saturday, January 19-21, 7:30pm
Local performances featuring Kristen Frankiewicz, Catalina Molinari, Kara Newton, Tina Shariffskul, and Kelly Todd are on Saturday, January 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25 at 1pm.
zoe | juniper (Princess Grace Awardee Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey) will create an immersive environment of video, dance, photography, and installation that extends and expands upon their touring dance work A Crack in Everything (ACIE). Scofield and Shuey use the Greek tragedy The …
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