Texas Performing Arts

February 28, 2010/ Contribution by J Elissa Marshall Yesterday was quite a grand day because we got to run the whole piece onstage with costumes! I have been attending fittings for my costume for weeks now and am in love with it, but I was so delighted to see everyone’s costumes together. The costumes put [...]

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February 26, 2010/ Contribution by Lisa Kobdish This is my first blog, though the Colombians joined us here in Austin on Monday night. The reason I have not been blogging is because I have been sick with bronchitis for the last three days. I have missed a lot of class this week and keeping to [...]

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Students are blogging about their experiences at Texas Performing Arts shows. This is a blog by Lexi O’Reilly, a Freshman Theater and Dance Major at the University of Texas and a Hook’em Arts member. Hi everyone! My name is Lexi O’Reilly and I want to tell you about the AMAAAAAAZING dance group from New Zealand, [...]

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Hook ‘em Arts, the UT student organization that creates awareness and increases student engagement with Texas Performing Arts, had a table at Jester Center to promote Black Grace, Student tickets, and Texas Performing Arts shows in general. We had a lifesize cutout of one of the dancers from Black Grace “posing” and students passing by had the [...]

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A Youth Performance proves to be more than a concert… for more than just the kids.

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In December, a group of Texas Performing Arts’ most devoted friends joined forces and offered a $25,000 challenge grant to inspire other donors to make year-end contributions. Texas Performing Arts’ patrons and donors stepped up in a big way and matched the challenge grant with an additional $29,000, $4,000 more than we projected,  making our [...]

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Every month we interview one of our student employees in an effort to show our appreciation for their contribution to Texas Performing Arts, and to demonstrate how crucial their work, time, and dedication are to the successful functioning of our organization. Allison Ebling is a 3rd year Theatre & Dance and History major, and it [...]

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010/ Contribution by J Elissa Marshall Today was a day of showing The Rope: Tres Momentos to several people. At rehearsal during the day we were visited by several people from Georgetown hoping to see what we were working on. Then later in the evening we did a run of the entire [...]

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On Sunday, February 21, 2010, the audio and stage crews moved our center clusters (L-Acoustics Kudo & Kiva arrays) out of the way, so Phantom could begin their pre-load-in steel modifications in Bass Concert Hall.  The Audio crew consisted of Kenny Kuykendall (pictured), Brian McCrory, Nate Stillwell and myself.  Travis Perrin formulated the master plan [...]

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February 23, 2010/Contribution by J Elissa Marshall The El Colegio dancers along with Álvaro arrived yesterday evening. I was scheduled to have rehearsal with Andrea onstage yesterday evening so I, along with a few other dancers, was unable to meet them at the airport. Instead we met them for dinner downtown a little later. Walking [...]

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