First Friday Art Tours

First Friday Art Tours, featuring an exploration of 2024 Texas Biennial: The Last Sky and Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions

Date:

Friday, February 7, 2025 | 12:00pm-4pm

Format:

12:00-2pm

First Friday

12:00-12:45

Docent Guided museum tours of Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions

1:00pm, Performance, Tactical Music: An Exploration of Sound Through Movement and Technology, UH School of Theatre & Dance, Dance Program. Organized by Toni Valle (Professor of Practice, School of Theatre & Dance, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston)

1:15pm, Lunch

2:00pm

Closed World Film Series: Exercise of Rebuilding and Recovery

About the Artists:

Toni Leago Valle is trained in contemporary, modern, and aerial dance. Valle is a Professor of Practice at University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College for the Arts, School of Theatre & Dance, where she teaches Grant Writing and Development, Dance Production, Marketing for Entrepreneurs, the GYROTONIC® Method and Aerial Dance. Valle is a Level 1 aerialist teacher for fabric and trapeze and a Certified Level 1 Foundation Trainer in the GYROTONIC® Method. Valle was featured as one of four Texas aerialists in Arts and Culture Texas Magazine, June 2019. Her evening-length concert, POP DEMO, was featured on the cover of OutSmart Magazine (September, 2023). Valle received a B.A. in Dance from University of Houston.

UH Dance Program
Dance at the University of Houston strives to create confidence in the student through both the disciplined practice of dance and the transferable skills of creative interaction with others. The Dance Program at the University of Houston offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, a Bachelor of Arts in Dance, a Dance Minor, and approved curriculum for Teaching Certification in Secondary Education in Dance. Our mission is to assist individuals in defining their own originality through dance, to develop curious minds, and to prepare students with the life skills of critical thinking and inventive problem solving. We are committed to providing a center for dance in metropolitan Houston through workshops, collaboration, performances, and through projects by the Center for Choreography.

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum