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August 31 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 7pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: Character:Drive is a concert bringing together artists from all around Texas. L. Brooke Schlecte’s Out On a Limb Dance Company has invited Christie Nelson-Sala’s Grid Dance Theater to put together an explosion of movement, ideas, personalities, and conversations about what dance and dance making means. The collection of works includes solos, duets and a quintet.
L. Brooke Schlecte is the founder and artistic director of Out On a Limb Dance Company since 2003, she holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, where she received the “Excellence in Choreography Award” in 2007, as well as honors in her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin. Her company has performed extensively around Texas and Oklahoma most notably at American College Dance Festival’s Gala, in Fort Worth, TX, Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, TX, EXCHANGE Dance Festival Gala, Tulsa, OK, and MAMandSCHLECTE, Dallas, TX. www.outonalimbdance.org/
August 30 at 10pm, August 31 at 11:30pm and September 1 at 10pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Join Houston's premiere vaudeville and burlesque troupe, Dem Damn Dames, as they take you back to a time of glitz, glamour, and refinement. Be dazzled by classic routines filled with fans, flappers, feathers, and of course, tassels. You can enjoy boutique cocktails fitting for your sassy soul as you indulge in an extraordinary night out with these sexy ladies while they put their modern touch on classic burlesque.
Dem Damn Dames’ unique mixture of classic and neo burlesque acts, sexy singers, hypnotizing belly dancers, naughty comedy, and oh-so-much more is guaranteed to please and always looking for an excuse to shake their tail feathers. www.damndames.com/
August 31 at 7pm, September 1 at 8:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Spoken word
Length: 45 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Converse is selected performance poetry work from Outspoken Bean. Also, it is a conversation with audience about the development of Bean's poems that gives life to the play and leaves you with full understanding how a poet gets comes up with what to write and perform.
Performance poet Outspoken Bean now calls Houston, TX home, where most stages in this city he has performed on. The Prairie View A&M, theatre graduate has been hailed as "phenomenal" by Ewan McGregor and his work sought after by world renowned theatre producer/director, Robert Wilson. www.outspokenbean.com/
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 10pm and September 1 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 15 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: It is through both the imagination of Alexandra’s dream, the nostalgia of Edith Piaf’s music, and the choreographic creativity of Jessica Capistran and Alexandra DiNunzio that Le Canard Imaginaire was born; It is the idea of something that seems and feels so real to you, yet it is nothing but imagination.
Jessica Capistran is a native Houstonian and a graduate from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She holds a BA in Dance from the University of Houston and is currently dancing with Karen Stokes Dance Company. Alexandra DiNunzio has studied dance for over 10 years, dancing with the Houston Metropolitan, graduating from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and dancing at the University of Houston. She is currently a senior at UH and will be graduating May 2013 with majors in Dance and Spanish.
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 10pm and September 1 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: In Liberators, a filmmaker helps HIS grandfather, a holocaust survivor, deal with the ghosts of HIS past and as a result, unites three families.
Eric Jones is a lyricist, actor, musician and librettist and the chief creative officer of Morningstar Theatrical Productions. This is Mr. Jones & Mr. Winkler's first musical theater collaboration to be produced at the Houston Fringe Festival. Alex Winkler is a songwriter, musician and singer and the composer of Liberators: A New Musical. He is currently a composition student at U of H's Moores School of Music.
August 31 at 7pm, September 1 at 8:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 15 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Nick is in the hot seat in Salon, a short, partly improvised play exploring all we’re really asking for—and stand to lose— when we request just a trim.
Curtis D’Costa is entering his third year of teaching English at Lone Star College and HCC. He is pleased to be working with The Joanna Gallery, whose openings/hootenannies he has reveled in since their doors opened in 2006.
August 30 at 8:30pm,September 1 at 11:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 1 hour
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: “slangin’ and singin’ in this house of black gods and purple jesus” is a collective body of organic dance movements inspired by reflection of personal, spiritual, and physical experiences. “black gods” is a living journey montage exploring, confronting and reconciling privilege, gender, sexuality and race.
jhon r. stronks combines the fundamental elements of choreography, dance technique, and authentic movement in an effort to create dances that speak truthfully and promote honest conversation. www.thereinthesunlight.com
August 30 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 10pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Rogue will be performing a Speed Harold, an updated version to the traditional long form improv Harold. We will create and completely explore an entire universe before our audience's eyes.
Rogue Improv has been a staple of Houston improv comedy for years and in June of 2011 joined up with The New Movement. Rogue has most recently been seen in Moontower Comedy Festival and just got invited back to Out Of Bounds for 2012. rogueimprov.com/
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 8:30pm and September 1 at 7pm Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 40 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: In The Galileo Prize, a scientist speaks at his daughter’s college commencement, preaching against foreign entanglements. He is approached later by two “agents” who menace him, and advise him that this is not the right time to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In a tacit submission, he agrees, in order to protect his daughter. In Best Served Cold, three male Army clerks whose job is to keep track of detainees, discuss the rules and procedures for questioning them, and the “loopholes” in those rules, as they brief a new and 4th addition to the ”team”.
Jim Tommaney reviews the smaller theaters for The Houston Press, and is Artistic Director of Edge Theatre, which has produced over 150 plays since opening in 1995, most of them in South Florida. Jim has written eleven full-length plays, and eight one-acts, most of them produced. His play Breakthrough won an Audience Favorite Award in Houston Fringe '11. He is delighted that he moved to Houston from Miami two years ago. www.edgetheatrehouston.com/
August 30 at 10pm, August 31 at 11:30pm and September 1 at 10pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Under the Flannel Sheets is a new twist for the ladies of shimmies and rhinestones who have been seen around Houston performing their version of burlesque; mixing signature cabaret with classical dance, as they present a tribute to the 90s grunge era in an exploration of their darker, alternative and even juvenile sides that feature topics such as love, vanity, pain and human nature showing the burlesque community that these ladies have a lot more to offer than just high kicks with a smile.
Houston Burlesque Revue is a tasteful blend of entertainment, humor, glamour and technical dance with a twist of traditional burlesque. Bursting on the burlesque scene with an "Audience Favorite" award at the 4th annual Houston Fringe Festival in 2011, the beautiful ladies have been giving Houston a burlesque fever with their high kicking legs, drop dead looks and confident ability to tease! The Houston Burlesque Revue has had the opportunity to dance at the 4th Annual Dallas Burlesque Festival, Kiki's Sordid Sideshow, private events for Bombay Sapphire & Salon Matos, The Moonlight Show at Prohibition and can currently be seen at the Bayou Music Center in their live music shows with the Bayou City Outlaw Band. www.houstonburlesquerevue.com/
August 31 at 8:30pm and September 1 at 10pm Venue: Super Happy Fun Land
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Alex and Corian know there are certainties, that as beings, we exist within; we're born, we live, we die. As we mature, we discover that life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
Alex Abarca and Corian Ellisor are both from the Houston area and are currently dancers with CORE Performance Company in Atlanta, GA and Houston.
August 30 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 10pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Music
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Witness an Empire's Decay is a music and video project commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots.
Ken Jones is a poet and songwriter who lived through and participated in the 1992 rebellion. He wrote the majority of Witness an Empire's Decay prior to the event while living in Los Angeles. www.poetken.com/
Week One
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WEEKEND 1 August 30-September 2, 2012
Purchase your 5 show, 10 show and all-program passes now! Purchase individual tickets for Weekend 1 performances here.
Character: Drive by Out On A Limb Dance Company (Waco, TX)
August 31 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 7pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: Character:Drive is a concert bringing together artists from all around Texas. L. Brooke Schlecte’s Out On a Limb Dance Company has invited Christie Nelson-Sala’s Grid Dance Theater to put together an explosion of movement, ideas, personalities, and conversations about what dance and dance making means. The collection of works includes solos, duets and a quintet.
L. Brooke Schlecte is the founder and artistic director of Out On a Limb Dance Company since 2003, she holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, where she received the “Excellence in Choreography Award” in 2007, as well as honors in her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin. Her company has performed extensively around Texas and Oklahoma most notably at American College Dance Festival’s Gala, in Fort Worth, TX, Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, TX, EXCHANGE Dance Festival Gala, Tulsa, OK, and MAMandSCHLECTE, Dallas, TX. www.outonalimbdance.org/
Class and Cocktails by Dem Damn Dames (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 10pm, August 31 at 11:30pm and September 1 at 10pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Join Houston's premiere vaudeville and burlesque troupe, Dem Damn Dames, as they take you back to a time of glitz, glamour, and refinement. Be dazzled by classic routines filled with fans, flappers, feathers, and of course, tassels. You can enjoy boutique cocktails fitting for your sassy soul as you indulge in an extraordinary night out with these sexy ladies while they put their modern touch on classic burlesque.
Dem Damn Dames’ unique mixture of classic and neo burlesque acts, sexy singers, hypnotizing belly dancers, naughty comedy, and oh-so-much more is guaranteed to please and always looking for an excuse to shake their tail feathers. www.damndames.com/
Converse: Introspects, Live, Word by Outspoken Bean (Houston, TX)
August 31 at 7pm, September 1 at 8:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Spoken word
Length: 45 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Converse is selected performance poetry work from Outspoken Bean. Also, it is a conversation with audience about the development of Bean's poems that gives life to the play and leaves you with full understanding how a poet gets comes up with what to write and perform.
Performance poet Outspoken Bean now calls Houston, TX home, where most stages in this city he has performed on. The Prairie View A&M, theatre graduate has been hailed as "phenomenal" by Ewan McGregor and his work sought after by world renowned theatre producer/director, Robert Wilson. www.outspokenbean.com/
Le Canard Imaginaire by Jessica Capistran and Alexandra Di Nunzio (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 10pm and September 1 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 15 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: It is through both the imagination of Alexandra’s dream, the nostalgia of Edith Piaf’s music, and the choreographic creativity of Jessica Capistran and Alexandra DiNunzio that Le Canard Imaginaire was born; It is the idea of something that seems and feels so real to you, yet it is nothing but imagination.
Jessica Capistran is a native Houstonian and a graduate from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She holds a BA in Dance from the University of Houston and is currently dancing with Karen Stokes Dance Company. Alexandra DiNunzio has studied dance for over 10 years, dancing with the Houston Metropolitan, graduating from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and dancing at the University of Houston. She is currently a senior at UH and will be graduating May 2013 with majors in Dance and Spanish.
Liberators: A New Musical Revue by Morningstar Theatrical Productions (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 10pm and September 1 at 8:30pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: In Liberators, a filmmaker helps HIS grandfather, a holocaust survivor, deal with the ghosts of HIS past and as a result, unites three families.
Eric Jones is a lyricist, actor, musician and librettist and the chief creative officer of Morningstar Theatrical Productions. This is Mr. Jones & Mr. Winkler's first musical theater collaboration to be produced at the Houston Fringe Festival. Alex Winkler is a songwriter, musician and singer and the composer of Liberators: A New Musical. He is currently a composition student at U of H's Moores School of Music.
Salon by The Joanna Gallery (Houston, TX)
August 31 at 7pm, September 1 at 8:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 15 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Nick is in the hot seat in Salon, a short, partly improvised play exploring all we’re really asking for—and stand to lose— when we request just a trim.
Curtis D’Costa is entering his third year of teaching English at Lone Star College and HCC. He is pleased to be working with The Joanna Gallery, whose openings/hootenannies he has reveled in since their doors opened in 2006.
slangin' and singin' in this house of black gods and purple jesus by there in the sunlight (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 8:30pm,September 1 at 11:30pm and September 2 at 7pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 1 hour
Recommended for: Ages 13 and up
Show Description: “slangin’ and singin’ in this house of black gods and purple jesus” is a collective body of organic dance movements inspired by reflection of personal, spiritual, and physical experiences. “black gods” is a living journey montage exploring, confronting and reconciling privilege, gender, sexuality and race.
jhon r. stronks combines the fundamental elements of choreography, dance technique, and authentic movement in an effort to create dances that speak truthfully and promote honest conversation. www.thereinthesunlight.com
Speed Harold by Rogue Improv (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 10pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Rogue will be performing a Speed Harold, an updated version to the traditional long form improv Harold. We will create and completely explore an entire universe before our audience's eyes.
Rogue Improv has been a staple of Houston improv comedy for years and in June of 2011 joined up with The New Movement. Rogue has most recently been seen in Moontower Comedy Festival and just got invited back to Out Of Bounds for 2012. rogueimprov.com/
The Galileo Prize and Best Served Cold by Edge Theatre (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 7pm, August 31 at 8:30pm and September 1 at 7pm Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Theatre
Length: 40 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: In The Galileo Prize, a scientist speaks at his daughter’s college commencement, preaching against foreign entanglements. He is approached later by two “agents” who menace him, and advise him that this is not the right time to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In a tacit submission, he agrees, in order to protect his daughter. In Best Served Cold, three male Army clerks whose job is to keep track of detainees, discuss the rules and procedures for questioning them, and the “loopholes” in those rules, as they brief a new and 4th addition to the ”team”.
Jim Tommaney reviews the smaller theaters for The Houston Press, and is Artistic Director of Edge Theatre, which has produced over 150 plays since opening in 1995, most of them in South Florida. Jim has written eleven full-length plays, and eight one-acts, most of them produced. His play Breakthrough won an Audience Favorite Award in Houston Fringe '11. He is delighted that he moved to Houston from Miami two years ago. www.edgetheatrehouston.com/
Under the Flannel Sheets by Houston Burlesque Revue (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 10pm, August 31 at 11:30pm and September 1 at 10pm
Venue: Frenetic Theater
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: Ages 16 and up
Show Description: Under the Flannel Sheets is a new twist for the ladies of shimmies and rhinestones who have been seen around Houston performing their version of burlesque; mixing signature cabaret with classical dance, as they present a tribute to the 90s grunge era in an exploration of their darker, alternative and even juvenile sides that feature topics such as love, vanity, pain and human nature showing the burlesque community that these ladies have a lot more to offer than just high kicks with a smile.
Houston Burlesque Revue is a tasteful blend of entertainment, humor, glamour and technical dance with a twist of traditional burlesque. Bursting on the burlesque scene with an "Audience Favorite" award at the 4th annual Houston Fringe Festival in 2011, the beautiful ladies have been giving Houston a burlesque fever with their high kicking legs, drop dead looks and confident ability to tease! The Houston Burlesque Revue has had the opportunity to dance at the 4th Annual Dallas Burlesque Festival, Kiki's Sordid Sideshow, private events for Bombay Sapphire & Salon Matos, The Moonlight Show at Prohibition and can currently be seen at the Bayou Music Center in their live music shows with the Bayou City Outlaw Band. www.houstonburlesquerevue.com/
Well Ripened by Corian Ellisor and Alex Abarca (Atlanta, GA)
August 31 at 8:30pm and September 1 at 10pm Venue: Super Happy Fun Land
Discipline: Dance
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Alex and Corian know there are certainties, that as beings, we exist within; we're born, we live, we die. As we mature, we discover that life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
Alex Abarca and Corian Ellisor are both from the Houston area and are currently dancers with CORE Performance Company in Atlanta, GA and Houston.
Witness an Empire's Decay by Ken Jones (Houston, TX)
August 30 at 8:30pm, September 1 at 10pm and September 2 at 8:30pm
Venue: Bohemeo’s
Discipline: Music
Length: 30 minutes
Recommended for: All ages
Show Description: Witness an Empire's Decay is a music and video project commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots.
Ken Jones is a poet and songwriter who lived through and participated in the 1992 rebellion. He wrote the majority of Witness an Empire's Decay prior to the event while living in Los Angeles. www.poetken.com/