5 events found.
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No events scheduled for Monday, April 8, 2019.
CounterCurrent19: Jennif(f)er Tamayo: LA QUEERADORA
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston
Free
CounterCurrent19 – Ellen Fullman: The Watch, Reprise, 2016
Atrium, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design Entrance 18 off Elgin St., Houston
CounterCurrent19 – Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: Sitting on a Man’s Head
Project Row Houses 2521 Holman Street, Houston
CounterCurrent19 – Awilda Rodríguez Lora: SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston
CounterCurrent19 – Stacy Garrop: How Does a Composer Compose?
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston
CounterCurrent19 – MF Problem, Autumn Knight & Robert Pruitt
Emancipation Park 3018 Emancipation Avenue, Houston
Week of Events
Monday, April 8, 2019
No events on this day.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
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April 9, 2019CounterCurrent19
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April 9, 2019 -Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife, curated by Max Fields
CounterCurrent19
CounterCurrent is a free festival of performance, installation, and ideas presented by the University of Houston and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. CounterCurrent includes audio and visual installations, live performances, talks, and participatory events from all around the world. Expand your horizons with this one. https://www.facebook.com/events/1869049803222546/
Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife, curated by Max Fields
Ten Tiny Dances®: Nightlife brings together artists, dancers, and club scene icons from Houston and beyond for a night of performances that reflect on the ways in which the cultural knowledge unique to individual club cultures is transmitted and archived through dance, gesture, fashion, and music. Ranging from Texas-style vogue and drag to New Orleans …
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
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April 10, 2019 - RecurringCounterCurrent19: Jennif(f)er Tamayo: LA QUEERADORA
CounterCurrent19: Jennif(f)er Tamayo: LA QUEERADORA
Jennif(f)er Tamayo’s LA QUEERADORA installation sits at the intersection of digital cultural production and embodied cultural performance. It asks: How do material bodies, whose lives hold an archive of cultural knowledge and experience, compete with a manufactured and digitally porous production of identity? In Tamayo’s work, the racial project of U.S. Latinidad, as an often …
Free
Thursday, April 11, 2019
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April 11, 2019 - RecurringCounterCurrent19 – Ellen Fullman: The Watch, Reprise, 2016
CounterCurrent19 – Ellen Fullman: The Watch, Reprise, 2016
Long String Instrument composer and performer, Ellen Fullman, explores the acoustics of large resonant spaces with her compositions and collaborative improvisations. Fullman will literally “play” the iconic atrium of the Philip Johnson-designed Hines College of Architecture and Design building at the University of Houston, an action first performed in 1994. The title, The Watch, references …
Friday, April 12, 2019
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April 12, 2019 - RecurringCounterCurrent19 – Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: Sitting on a Man’s Head
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April 12, 2019 -Ballet Orchestra
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April 12, 2019 RecurringToast
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April 12, 2019 -CounterCurrent19 – Awilda Rodríguez Lora: SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla
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April 12, 2019 - Recurring“Better Together” with METdance
CounterCurrent19 – Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: Sitting on a Man’s Head
The practice of “sitting on a man” was one of the many disruptive durational protest practices used by women in Southeastern Nigeria, it was a traditional exercise of their collective power and it became a vital tool throughout the period of British colonial rule. In Sitting on a Man’s Head, the space of restoration and …
Ballet Orchestra
Stanton Welch, artistic director Claudio Munoz, ballet master Franz Anton Krager, conductor In conjunction with the Houston Ballet II and Houston Ballet Academy, the Moores School of Music presents a “Fridays at Moores” performance by the Ballet Orchestra. $15 adult/$12 alumni, senior, staff/$10 student
Toast
TOAST takes audiences on a raucous and mind-bending journey through Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell! This original, collectively-realized work brings together eight members of Catastrophic’s acting company with groundbreaking director Brian Jucha, a key collaborator of Catastrophic’s predecessor company, Infernal Bridegroom Productions. TOAST completes a trilogy that started with 1997’s LAST RITES and 2002’s WE …
Pay-What-You-Can
CounterCurrent19 – Awilda Rodríguez Lora: SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla
SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla is a lecture-performance by the transdisciplinary artist, Awilda Rodríguez Lora also known as La Performera. Stories, movements, and songs are strategies used by La Performera to invite the audience to reflect on the concept of sustento (sustenance) as a complex and vital idea for survival in creative …
“Better Together” with METdance
Japanese poet Ryunosuke Satoro once wrote about the importance of unity, “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” This inspirational quote became the basis for “Better Together” – an upcoming performance by METdance that focuses on the unity and energy of dance. The event is slated for 8 p.m. on Friday, April …