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Danielle Talks Dance (and Art) at the DMA

You’ve read her writing about dance on the Art&Seek blog (most recently here and here). And now you can hear her talk about her passion in the flesh. Danielle Georgiou will lead a gallery walk on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Dallas Museum of Art titled “Discovering the Other Through Movement and the Visual Arts.”

Picasso’s ‘The Guitarist’ Comes To Life at the Dallas Museum of Art

Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s The Guitarist, Elledanceworks Co-Director Michele Hanlon’s The Guitarist/Outside-In depicts the journey of an eccentric individual attempting to find her way in the world, and control the chair that she is attached to.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet Gave out Treats over the Weekend

Trick or treat? On Friday night at the Winspear Opera House, Complexions Contemporary Ballet gave us nothing but treats as the company kicked off TITAS’ annual dance series with a program filled with love, sweat and tears.

The Monday Roundup II: The Sequel!

TOP OF THE LINE OR END OF THE LINE? NYTimes architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff writes that Dallas’ Arts District may mark a new beginning around these parts but it’s actually the last such major downtown renovation project currently in the American pipeline. (Well, there’s Miami’s, but Ouroussoff counts that one as “finished” because the money’s [...]

45,000 Thank You Notes

Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art, offering lectures, tours and program planning. She is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Dallas Public Art Committee.
The crowd of 45,000 who came to Spotlight Sunday in the Arts District should be  home now writing thank you notes to the donors who [...]

Dallas Performing Arts District: The Fans

Officials are now estimating that some 45,000 people flocked into the streets of downtown for the splendid Peforming Arts District’s open house on Sunday.
The lines to get into all the gorgeous new buildings remained about 5-6 people deep and going on 200+ long throughout the entire day. Therefore we opted to spend most of our [...]

North Texas Artists To Flashmob for Health Care

Do you have health insurance? Do you want it?
Many folks in our creative community-  actors to gallery owners, fashion designers, authors, filmmakers, painters – are uninsured or underinsured .  But now a group is calling for artists to stand together to change that.   Of course, they’re doing it in a fun and funky way, [...]

The Big Broadway Winspear Gala

So Saturday night, the AT&T PAC threw its cumulative wingding-gala, the final fundraising frolic before Sunday’s open house, when the whole Arts District welcomed the two freshman facilities by getting all free and easy with a day’s worth of open-admission museums and concerts. Think of it as kind of a cultural Rush Week.
So anyway, Saturday [...]

Friday Morning Roundup

PAC It Up: What happened yesterday at the Performing Arts Center? Well, it was media day at both buildings and opening night at the Winspear. Which means link-o-rama today. There’s Jerome’s report on starchitects Joshua Prince-Ramus (most steely-eyed), Norman Foster (most dapper, in purple and green), Spencer de Gray (most congenial) and Rem Koolhaas (most [...]

Parsons Dance Rocks Out at TITAS Season Opener

Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective.
David Parsons and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC) have embarked upon [...]

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