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Lone Star Performance Explosion
Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012
Thursday, March 8, 7 – 11pm DiverseWorks
Friday, March 9, 7-11PM AvantGarden
Saturday, March 10 – Notsuoh, 7-11PM
for more information: 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 Diverse Works, Avant Garden and notsuoH the festival will feature international artists Myk Henry from Ireland, Elena Nestorova from Finland, Gim Gwang Cheol from South Korea, Orion …
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Stephan Koplowitz
NATURAL ACTS/ARTIFICIAL WATER
May 19-20, 2012
Site and times to be confirmed
Internationally acclaimed choreographer/media artist Stephan Koplowitz returns to Houston after his 2000 site specific work that opened Rice University’s Humanities Building. DiverseWorks presents Koplowitz’s newest work that enlists an entirely Houston-based cast of dancers to explore the relation of public space, the body and water.
Anthony Barilla & the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Apocalypse Town
Thursday – Saturday, March 22-24, 2012
7:30 PM
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 Duboise.
DiverseWorks presents the world premiere of Anthony Barilla’s Apocalypse Town, a musicological memoir of a northern Kosovo, its music and Barilla’s experiences living there. The work is part monologue, part travelogue, and part concert. The performance features adaptations of Kosovo songs ranging in style from epic folk to hip hop to punk. At the …
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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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Ayman Harper with Matmos
(theLID
Friday & Saturday, January 13 & 14, 2012, 7:30pm
(Please note the Friday & Saturday night performance are SOLD OUT! However, we will have a waiting list at the door and will release tickets for late reservations and no shows)
* Please arrive at DiverseWorks no later than 7:15pm. Tickets will be released at 7:30pm
Post-performance Reception: Friday, January 13
Part-time Houston-based choreographer and former Forsythe Company member Ayman Harper comes to DiverseWorks with the U.S. premiere of (theLID, a conceptualized dance event. Collaborating with renowned sound artists Matmos, …
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Thursday-Saturday, November 17-19, 2011
8pm
Choreographer, Becky Valls and her sister / sculptor, Babette Beaullieu team up with film maker Deborah Schildt to bring you the third chapter in their memoirs series. Chapter Three: Ave Maria is about “remembering mama” in the context of a large Catholic family in Louisiana. The performance fuses the sisters’ individual art work with childhood ‘sense memories’, a cast of dancers, a singer, film, and an art installation.
For more information, click HERE.
To purchase tickets, click HERE.
Sponsored by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
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Slinging Ink Online:December 6, 2011 7:30 Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008I was looking for a job, and then I found a job, and Heaven knows I’m miserable now. December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar,
1005 West 19th St., 77008 Slinging Ink Online:
VOTE NOW! December 6, 2011
7:30
Big Star Bar, 1005 West 19th St., Houston, TX, 77008
DiverseWorks gathered at Big Star Bar for the first night of a new series called Slinging Ink. Four readers were selected to read their own short-form writing on a single theme:
I was …
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The Gutter and the Stars Tour
Friday, November 4, 2011
8pm
Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater
Co-presented by Society for the Performing Arts
You saw them when SPA presented by their opera Shockheaded Peter, as well as when they performed with contemporary dance company The Holy Body Tattoo with music that is a startling mixture of opera, gypsy song and Left Bank Paris. Now London’s post-punk pioneers The Tiger Lillies return with a new show unveiling a whole host of future classics alongside some of their earliest material. Martyn Jacques, the lead singer and founder of The …
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2 Opportunities to Audition: October 25, 4-7pm & October 26, 6-9pm
Princess Grace Award Winning choreographer Zoe Scofield and multi-media visual artist Juniper Shuey will be creating an immersive installation at DiverseWorks in January that will be the setting for an innovative dance/performance piece. For the run of the exhibit, we need experienced dancers/performers to work with Zoe and perform at DiverseWorks. A short excerpt is found here: http://youtu.be/RTu1frulywQ, and more info can be found at their website: http://web.me.com/zoeandjuniper/www.zoeandjuniper.com/company.html
DETAILS:
zoe | juniper request experienced, professional dancers and movement artists of all ages, genders and technique styles for participation …
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