Celebrating Dikshitar’s 250th Birth Anniversary. Dikshitar is a South Indian Music Composer. Event’s artistic director is Dikshitar scholar Dr. Kanniks Kannikeswaran. Presentations by youth of Houston music and dance schools related to Dikshitar. Screening of an award winning documentary film “Colonial Interlude” – film explores Dikshitar’s life and times in [...]
Continuing its celebration of 30 years of exemplary service to Houston arts, Samskriti presents “The Four Horsemen”, by Jiva Performing Arts dance company. This unique production is an innovative Indian Classical dance production, exploring symbolism from the story of the Apocalypse through Indian classical dance, music and Sanskrit poetry. The [...]
Houston Repertoire Ballet (HRB), Houston’s premier pre-professional ballet company, celebrates its 29th season with Celebration of Dance 2025. Classic story book characters jump from the page onto the stage in Storybook Fantasy, a ballet guaranteed to delight HRB’s youngest audience members. Two new contemporary works will be premiered including, Gray Matter, a [...]
Assemblage is a multidisciplinary, multimedia work featuring chamber and electronic music by Houston composer Chris Becker, choreographed and improvised movement by New York-based director Rachel Cohen, and real-time collage-making using zip-loc bags of curated materials left behind by Cohen’s mother, a quiet artist who passed away in February 2020. Through [...]
Assemblage is a multidisciplinary, multimedia work featuring chamber and electronic music by Houston composer Chris Becker, choreographed and improvised movement by New York-based director Rachel Cohen, and real-time collage-making using zip-loc bags of curated materials left behind by Cohen’s mother, a quiet artist who passed away in February 2020. Through [...]
