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Half-price tickets for Feb. 1 at 3 pm, mention HYPA.

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Taking Flight
By Adriana Sevan
January 28 - February 15 at Stages Repertory Theatre
www.stagestheatre.com
Call 713.527.0123 - let them know you are a HYPA member or a friend of HYPA

What happens when you realize you really don’t like your “best friend”? Especially when that friend is recovering from a crippling injury? Just weeks before serving as a bridesmaid in her best friend Rhonda’s wedding, Adriana Sevan instead becomes Rhonda’s bedside companion after Rhonda is horrifically injured on 9/11. For the next year Adriana devotes herself to aiding Rhonda’s painful recovery—and risks losing herself in the process. In this unforgettable one-woman show, Adriana recounts her true-life experience with compelling honesty, earthy humor and vivid theatricality.

Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Performed by Annie Henk (The Cook) 

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We are finally, mostly recovered from a great evening of Fire + Ice at Houston Pavilions last Saturday and thank all of those that braved the cold to join us for a really, really fantastic evening.  I will be posting photos in our gallery and on our Fire + Ice 2009 page throughout the weekend, so please take a peek when you can!

Here are some things going on in Houston that you should look into seeing or checking out:

Ongoing

January 29, 31-February 7: tetris by Toni Leago Valle.  tetris is based on the psychological theory of Voice Dialoguing - the premise that we are not one personality, but many selves, each working separately and together to protect and sustain the individual person.  tetris dives into the recesses of one woman’s mind and the many selves that live there.  Tickets are $15, tonileagovalle.com.

Installation on view Jan. 30- Feb. 21, 2009
Performances: Jan. 30 & 31, Feb. 5 - 7, 2009, 7:30 pm House of Mind. Pat Graney.  Internationally renowned choreographer, Pat Graney, returns to Houston as she takes over DiverseWorks’ entire building with her latest exhibition and performance House of Mind. A journey through her past, her mother’s battles with Alzheimer’s and the quirky imagination that Houstonians saw in The Vivian Girls (2005) and Sleep (1998). A multi-sensory experience that physically manifests aspects her mind, and then experience a choreographed performance, in which each viewer’s experience will be as unique as memory itself. DiverseWorks Main Gallery, Project Space, and Theater  www.diverseworks.org.  Tickets: $15, $10 for DW members, $8 for students. 

Read Houston Chronicle’s Douglas Britt’s take here. 

January 29-March 1, 2009: Paul Villinski: Emergency Response Studio.  Artist Paul Villinski will install his “Emergency Response Studio” on the Brochstein Plaza in front of Rice Gallery; it is the second in an ongoing series of architectural installations. In August 2006, on a visit to post-Katrina New Orleans, Villinski wished he could transport his studio from New York to the Lower Ninth Ward, so he could create work in response to the conditions he found there. Creating Emergency Response Studio was his solution.  To create ERS, Villinski transformed a salvaged FEMA-style trailer into a rolling, off-the-grid live/work space that can house displaced artists, or allow visiting artists to “embed” in post-disaster settings. Free.  Rice Gallery, 6100 Main Street.

Friday, January 30

6 pm - 8 pm: Francesca Fuchs Open Studio.  For one night only painter Francesca Fuchs opens her new studio to the public showing recent large scale works. Fuchs will be present and will talk about her work and methods.  The open studio coincides with the exhibition Morris Chackas: Still Lives 1973-1982, which opens at Optical Project in the same building.  1125 E 11th Street.

Saturday, January 31

9 am - METRO Hosts Workshop to discuss ideas for artwork - The Metropolitan Transit Authority will host two public meetings to discuss ideas for artwork for the University Corridor light-rail stations. A workshop to discuss the Hillcroft Transit Center, Gulfton, Bellaire, Newcastle, Weslayan, Cummins, Edloe, Kirby, Shepherd, Menil, Montrose and Wheeler stations will be held from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 3511 Yoakum Blvd.  The public is encouraged to attend.  For more information, visit http://www.metrosolutions.org/. Free. 

2:30 pm - Alley Theatre - Eurydice - $21 Cheap Thrills tickets available for the 2:30 pm performance.  Author of the Alley’s outstanding success The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl creates a tale based on the Greek myth of Orpheus that is “exhilarating” as “we enter a surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream” (The New Yorker ). On the day Eurydice is to marry her true love Orpheus, a misstep sends her to the surreal depths of the Underworld, where she has a surprising reunion and ultimately must decide whether to follow Orpheus back to the land of the living. The New York Times described Eurydice as “a magical play with gripping emotional potency…a love letter to the world…”  Purchase tickets here.

7:30 pm - Russian Cultural Center presents The Last Kiss, a documentary about a love relationship between two cultural icons: Vladimir Vysotsky - arguably, the most famous and beloved Russian bard, and Marina Vladi - a famous French actress. Their decade was the 1970’s, their love story breathtakingly romantic and filled with obstacles. The film explores the lesser known aspects of this relationship, and includes rare documentary footage of Vysotsky, an interview with Marina Vladi, as well as excerpts from a play about Vysotksy, recently staged by Vladi in Paris. Shown in Russian with English subtitles. Enjoy performances of Vysotsky’s songs following the screening.  Also being shown on Friday, January 29. Tickets: $8. RCC, 2337 Bissonnet, ourtx.org.

8 pm - HYPA + NiteSPA Rock with the Trocks.  Join us for an evening with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.  Formed in 1974 by ballet enthuisasts, the Trocks present a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti.  This company of professional male dancers performs a full range of ballet and modern dance repertoire, including classical and original works in faithful renditions of the manners and conceits of those dance styles. Comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts - heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, angst-ridden Victorian ladies - enhances, rather than mocks the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing the most knowledgeable, as well as novice audience members  After party with the Trocks follows at Meteor.

Special thanks to: Meteor and Charles Armstrong Investments and Angelo’s. 

To purchase tickets to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo please call Lee Strickland at 713.632.8114 or visit ww.spahouston.org/grouplounge with the password hypavip.  $60 includes a ticket in Orchestra level and invitation to post-performance event at Meteor.

8 pm - Aurora Picture Show: Sound Forms, $6, members and students w/ valid ID admitted free - The next generation of Texas video artists brings us a cacophony of sound, performance and playful experimentation with video. This fourty-five minute program showcases engaging and expressive works by University of Houston School of Art students who demonstrate innovative approaches to technology and the genre of video art.  Curated by Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hilllerbrand, a husband/wife collaborative team working with video and installation. For more info http://www.maryandstephan.com/.  http://www.aurorapictureshow.org/

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Saturday, January 24, 2009, 8 pm to 12 midnight
Houston Pavilions, 3rd Level, 1201 Fannin

Valet parking included with pre-purchased tickets.  Valet on Fannin & Dallas or San Jacinto & Dallas 

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HDA/EL/HYPA members:  $50
Non-members: $75
HYPA membership + gala ticket:  $100 ($140 value)
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Exhibitions Closing Soon:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - The Design Council 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, closes 1/4/2009.

This exhibition celebrates the contributions that the Design Council has made to the museum’s collection over the past 10 years.  Works by architects and designers including Edgar Brandt, Cesare Casati, Donald Deskey, Hella Jongerius, Ingeborg Lundin, Verner Panton, Gilbert Rhode, Hiroshi Suzuki and Ettore Sottsass are featured.  www.mfah.org.  Don’t Miss: Target Free First Sundays this Sunday, January 4, and gain free admission.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, closes 1/4/2009.

The first exhibtion to examine the critical contributions of black women film and video artists to the field of contemporary art.  Featuring projections, installations, interactive CD-ROM projects, experimental film and video work.  The exhibition spans across generations and geographic boundaries to present work by more than 40 artists.  www.camh.org.  Admission is always free.

The Menil Collection - Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, closes 1/4/2009

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the exhibition features art from four different African Cultures:  the Chokwe, the Luluwa, the Songye and the Luba.  In all four cultures, social, political and economic changes during the nineteenth century brought about stylistic changes in power figures.  Admission is free.  www.menil.org.

Heritage Society - What’s Cookin? Two Centuries of American Foodways, closes 1/4/2009

The English writer Samuel Johnson described man as a “Cooking Animal.  For most of us food is more than fuel for our bodies.  What we choose to eat depends upon our family traditions, ethnic heritage and regional customs.   Whom we choose to eat with defines our circle of family and friends.  www.heritagesociety.org.

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