An American in Paris

Even if you think you've watched this musical to death during home viewings, you have never really seen this most tragic of all the director's tragic musicals if you haven't viewed it on a big screen with its shimmering color photography.

"...Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant and Nina Foch. The Austin Film Society's current series is devoted to films whose..."

July 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Qmmunity: Queer Moves, Queer Grooves

Erica Nix is making a movie – and she wants y'all to dance in it

"...Don your freak-flag-flyin', most fabulous workout gear, y'all. Austin's queer fitness fanatic Erica Nix is in the midst..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...just once but four times. And right here in Austin...."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Surviving COVID-19: Ray Benson Lives to Tell

Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor

"...rarified arena of bands lasting a half century uninterrupted, Austin’s Western swing legends planned a year-long celebration. Then COVID-19..."

July 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"...Mahone and Ghislaine Jean moved from Providence, R.I., to Austin and began hitting music at house parties and community..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Qmmunity

Austin's 10 queerest highlights of 2018

"...can be counted among the highlights. Take, for example, Austin's queer-focused medical care, which went next-level this year. Or..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

Out of Time: Austin's queer transmedia fest returns for year four

"...on interactive installations including the kickoff event dubbed Queer Slowdance by Montreal artist Sherwin Tjia. This living, breathing art..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

Austin’s 10 most defining headlines of 2017: the good, the weird, and the unexpected

"...find more about where to ring in 2018 at austinchronicle.com/newyears! Silver Linings of 2017..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Jennifer Sherburn's 11:11

This project of 11 different dance programs in 11 months goes through one stage after another

"...several different venues – rather unusual venues – throughout Austin for their adventurous 11:11 project...."

May 5, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Belle & Sebastian Hikes Energy Rates

Time to dance with the Scottish posh pops – Friday at the Moody

"...sextet put out an album far better suited to dance clubs. Founding keyboardist Chris Geddes rang up ahead of..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Music Post by Abby Johnston

'Om Shanti – Once Upon a Time in Bollywood'

The cinematic musicals of India dance their way onto the stage in Austin

"...Indian live performance in Austin has, up to now, come largely from the classical..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Family Style: Kathy Murray's Blues

From the dance floor to the stage

"...In the mid Seventies, about the time Austin’s blues scene began to whip up, I hit the..."

Dec. 3, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Arts Awards

A fall harvest of theatre, dance, and architecture prizes

"...in naming it the best building completed in the Austin area in the past year was "the complexity of..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Howdy, Pardner!

In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'

"...Who made the big stories of 2010 in Austin's creative scene? Each of the individual artistic disciplines can..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'I Witness'

Via dance, Tutto Theatre explores how witnessing can lead to awakening

"...opening Friday, Aug. 20, at the Blue Theatre, uses dance, music, spoken word, and the audience's own lovely presence..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Art for Days

Can you handle two weeks' worth of the East Austin Studio Tour?

"...To wrangle this year's East Austin Studio Tour, you're gonna need Noah's frickin' ark...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...of art – keeping the visual arts apart from dance and classical music apart from theatre and everyone apart..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

The Blanton tweaks its schedule, Conspirare's fave composer takes the prize, and Hot September Flurries in June?

"...Remember Hot September Flurries, that annual celebration of contemporary dance at the Blue Theater the past few autumns? Well,..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Spanking the Figurative

A new Austin gallery captures dancers with paint

"...eat, sitting on the low black couch in the Austin Figurative Gallery, his glorified hole-in-the-wall in the Super!Alright!-anchored complex..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Gyre': A swirling vortex of plastic ... and creativity

Ariel Dance Theatre revisits Gyre, its investigation of things we don't want to look at, and pulls into its spinning mass bunches of new artistic collaborators

"...One of the wonderful things about the Austin arts community is that, in so many instances, it..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Showcase Showdown

The Austin Museum of Digital Art's programming challenges our notions of creativity

"...The occasion was the Austin Museum of Digital Art's latest bimonthly Digital Showcase, the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

I'd Like to Thank ...

The 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 5, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding..."

June 9, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

BA2BA

Ballet Austin to Big Apple

"...last several seasons have seen Stephen Mills and Ballet Austin really getting around: performances at the Kennedy Center in..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spells-bound

Seattle's 33 Fainting Spells, which enchanted local audiences with the dance drama The Uninvited in 1997, makes its long-awaited return to Austin.

"...was so singular a work -- suggesting how modern dance might look had Alfred Hitchcock and Buster Keaton been..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Working Girls

What do the eight films in the Austin Film Society's latest free series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s" have in common? They are all works by inherently feminist filmmakers, and the chronological order of the series tracks the growth of American feminist thought during these two decades.

"...The new series programmed by the Austin Film Society offers eight films to provoke inquiry and..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Residential Address: Rent Party’s Hot Jazz Makes Peace With the Swing Era

Sextet merges decades on the dance floor, Fridays at Long Play East

"...on East Cesar Chavez, nestled in between the thunderous dance music pumping out of the Granny's Tacos truck and..."

April 14, 2023 Music Feature by Gary Lindsey

Faster Than Sound: Peacemakers Cap a Decade at Evangeline Cafe

Evangeline Cafe keeps rolling out South Austin roots, the Coconut Club brings dance and DJs Downtown, and the newly improved Austin Music Poll drops

"...in 2009 to fill weekly Wednesdays at the South Austin Cajun eatery. Their final midweek rendezvous on Dec. 18..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Thunder Road

SXSW award winner is a captivating study of a mess of a man

"...comical, anguished stream of consciousness which concludes with his dance performance of “Thunder Road,” delivered sans music because the..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gay Place

One year later, Queer Dance Party Freakout returns to remove Sen. Cruz from office

"...that I walked up to the Governor's Mansion and danced my face off in the name of queer rights,..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Critics Speak … and Speak … and Speak

Clybourne Park, Manchurian Candidate big winners

"...The Austin Critics Table marked its 25th year of recognizing outstanding..."

June 6, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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