Results tagged “danceumbrella”

We’re not exactly inundated with new shows opening this weekend, but there’s a couple of notable events to keep the proverbial party hoppin’ and your metaphorical booty shakin’. Shakin’ modern dance style, that is. Werd. Big ups to our Austinist Pick of the Week, Calyx Dance Co’s Danscopia. These kids are fresh meat in Austin’s growing modern dance scene, but the initial buzz is good. Our girlfriend caught the second half of the company’s...

What a possible travesty! Might the Texas Commission on the Arts -- provider of grants, information, and technical assistance to artists and arts organizations in visual arts, theatre, dance, music, media and literature -- be destroyed? The organization, which has been the primary source of governmental funding of the arts in Texas for over forty years, was under the Sunset review this year, a process all state agencies undergo every 12 years to determine whether they should continue to exist or not.