Category Archives: 2012 Events in Houston

Et Voila Theatre Faux Depart

  By ioduok • March 17, 2012

Performing Arts in March!

-A comedy by Jean-Marie Chevret and Directed by Hermine Bénard-

Saturday the 17th, Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th,  Friday the 30th, Saturday the 31st
8:00 pm, $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors Talento Bilingue de Houston

333 South Jensen Drive

A new tenant’s arrival turns the Marmion’s life up-side-down. Odile and Jean, in love for 30 years, realize that their dreams have changed. Will their love survive this couples’ life dilemma? Will they accept that their smooth unencumbered road be turned into a chaotic path?

Actors/Actresses Yves Cloots, Laurence Sebeyran, Pascale Lazare and Perrine Legoullon as well as the technical and administrative teams are volunteer members of Et Voila theatre association; an amateur troupe active in Houston for over 12 years and whose goal is to promote French through theatre.

With 20 active members and numerous supporters, Et Voila Theatre celebrates French speaking year round with Tuesday night workshops and 1-2 shows a year.

A part of the French Cultures Festival

Website: http://www.etvoilatheatre.org

Performing Arts in March

  By ioduok • March 9, 2012
Da Cameradb
After Debussy Part II
Tuesday the 13th 7:30 PM

The Menil Collection

 

In 1915, Debussy outlined a plan to compose six sonatas for various   combinations of instruments, but completed only three of the planned   works, all masterpieces. Our Debussy celebration features the sonatas   performed over two programs. Here, we celebrate Debussy’s legacy with   20th century works that followed the French master.  Finnish composer   Kaija Saariaho pays homage to Debussy by composing a work for the   instrumentation outlined in one of his “unfinished”sonatas, Toru   Takemitsu responds to Debussy’s Trio for flute, viola and harp and   French music today is represented by composer Pascal Dusapin.

“Extravagant technique, broad stylistic range and penetrating musicality…”– The New York Times on Claire Chase

The performance:

Debussy Sonate for flute, viola and harp, L. 137 Sonate for cello and piano, L. 135 Kaija Saariaho  Je sens un deuxième coeur (I Feel a Second Heart) for piano,       viola and cello Edgard Varèse Density 21.5 for solo flute Pascal Dusapin Immer for solo cello Toru Takemitsu And then I knew ‘twas wind for flute, viola and harp

Claire Chase, flute; Bridget Kibbey, harp; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola;  Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello; Sarah Rothenberg, piano; Kaija Saariaho,  guest composer

Jewish Community Center Film Festival

  By ioduok • March 9, 2012
Be sure to catch these exciting, French films happening now in the Jewish Community. They are sure to be a memorable evening for all who attend!
Les Hommes Libres:
Tuesday, March 13 at 7:30 pm
An Algerian immigrant is enlisted to spy
on agents of the French resistance during
WWII, but his friendship with a Jewish
freedom fighter causes him to change sides.
Fracture:
Sunday, March 18 at 3 pm
An idealistic Jewish school teacher embarks
on her career at a school with angry students
in a poor, immigrant neighborhood Parisian
suburbs.
$8 ERJCC or MFAH Member, $10 Public, $1 Discount Students & Seniors
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center
5601 South Braeswood Boulevard

Foto Fun Foto Fest

  By ioduok • February 6, 2012

TFAA warmly supported the Foto Fun 2012 Literacy through Photography in-school education program  created by FotoFest International to help students in grades 3-12  strengthen basic learning skills, particularly writing and critical  thinking skills. TFAA helped out in the endeavor by creating fashion pieces with each child and letting their imaginations run free by decorating the items. Featured below are the highlights from the event that capture each special child, their designs and the mood of imagination! Let the dreams begin to come alive!

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre

  By admin • April 12, 2011

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre 

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre Presents: Third Course featuring a piece set to Debussy’s Clair de Lune


May 5, 6 & 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby St., Houston, TX 77002

Walsh says: “After my creation of The Afternoon of a Faun set to Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune, I became more interested in the composer’s other work, notably his Clair de Lune, and I thought it would make for a fascinating subject to interpret.”

Clair de Lune is considered to be the most adventurous movement of Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque for piano—the rest of the suite is clearly in the Baroque style—and even the composer said that he did not like what he composed in the rest of the suite because of its strict adherence to the style. Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune is considered a symphonic poem, a piece of music that evokes the content of some type of literary or visual piece of art. Clair de Lune, taken from a poem by French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, is engaged with a similar dialogue between art and music which Walsh finds compelling. Verlaine’s poem uses abstract imagery to embody the themes of melancholy hidden beneath the flamboyant disguises of bergamasques, or French masqueraders. “I am looking forward to creating movement that reframes this piece of music that we, as a culture, have such a familiar relationship with,” says Walsh. Walsh’s revisualization of this iconic work will be created for DWDT Company Member Domenico Luciano.

Ticket prices range from $25 to $52 however, there is a special $5 discount for TFAA associates.  Visit www.dwdt.org for tickets and enter Promotion CodeTFAA or call 713-315-2525 and mention the TFAA code.  (No minimum number needed.  Offer not valid on VIP Opening Night Package or Casting Couch.)

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