In partnership with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and KADIST Date: Friday, January 17, 2024 | 2pm-3pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: 2:00 pm, First Performance  2:30 pm, Second Performance 2:50pm, Artist Q&A and Talkback with Tony Valle (Professor of Practice, Dance, School of Theatre & Dance) This new site-specific work by Indira Allegra (b. 1980, Detroit, …
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 5pm-6pm Location: Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Format: Join us for October’s two-part Convergence Research with Billion Tekleab, James Pickens, Will Jones, Kolbye Sangi, and Jasmine Farris. November’s Convergence Research will feature compositions by Moores School of Music students Luke Brinkley, Jordan Ellisor, Eric Estrada, Jackson Okland, Thane Wimberly, performed by AURA Contemporary …
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: Join us for October’s two-part Convergence Research with Billion Tekleab, James Pickens, Will Jones, Kolbye Sangi, and Jasmine Farris. In These Precedented Times featuring Billion Tekleab and James Pickens In These Precedented Times considers Black futurity and Afro-pessimism, from a womanist perspective, and the polarity of our states …
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard at the University of Houston (enter through Blaffer Art Museum) Format: Testimony: Seen and Heard, is a multidisciplinary collaboration between School of Theatre & Dance Professor Toni Valle, composer and alumnus of the Moores School of Music George Heathco and current BFA Sculpture student and visual artist Shelby Craze. In …
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 | (5:30-6:30pm, Q&A to follow) Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: We are proud to invite you to join us for an incredible performance surrounded by the UH School of Art Student Exhibition. Works to be performed: Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for Two Violins in E Minor Op. 3 No. 5 (12 mins); Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for …
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: Don’t miss the last Convergence Research of the semester, a collaborative music and dance performance choreographed by School of Theatre & Dance Associate Professor and Dance Program Director, Teresa Chapman and featuring music composed by Mitchell Center Scholar in Residence Sam Wu. Members of the AURA Contemporary Music …
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum cafe Format: Multidisciplinary artist Daniel E. Zamora combines storytelling, sound engineering, projection art and music in Luca of the Dream, for this month’s Convergence Research. Reality blends with the mystical, as Luca, a fox from a spirit realm, weaves tales inspired by love, addiction, time, and joy. Through captivating …
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum cafe Format: Hub New Music is in residence at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. For this month’s Convergence Research, Hub members Meg Rohrer, Michael Avitabile, Jesse Christenson and Gleb Kanasevich will perform works by University of Houston student composers inspired by the current Blaffer Art Museum …
