TPA 2023 Program: Vuyani Dance Theatre, Dream House Quartet & Compagnia TPO

Vuyani Dance Theatre

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro

APR 19 | BASS CONCERT HALL

Dream House Quartet

APR 25 | BASS CONCERT HALL

Compagnia TPO Farfalle

APR 29–30 | MCCULLOUGH THEATRE

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Welcome to Texas Performing Arts!

Thank you for joining us! We’re thrilled to welcome you to experience the best in new performance from around the world as part of the Texas Performing Arts 2022–23 Season.

This season, we’ve made a bold return to presenting international artists, with nine countries represented in the season. We are also amplifying our longstanding commitment to large-scale dance works, with visits from four major companies. Alongside these visiting productions, we wanted to showcase artists who call Austin home. Through our artist-in-residence program, you can take a peek behind the curtain of creativity as interdisciplinary artist and creative director Kenyon Adams, playwright Virginia Grise, and choreographer Deborah Hay develop and present their latest projects. New this season, the youngest audiences can experience adventurous art through our new series of creative performance for families.

The 22/23 Texas Performing Arts Season complements our always-popular Broadway in Austin series and our Texas Welcomes lineup of concerts and comedy. Please sign up for our newsletter and see everything we offer at texasperformingarts.org. New shows are added all the time. We hope you can join us for another performance soon!

Bob Bursey Executive & Artistic Director

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Beyond the Performance

At Texas Performing Arts, we make sure engagement with the arts extends beyond the stage — a place where students, faculty, and the Central Texas community can connect, gather, and share ideas. Through workshops, discussions, masterclasses, and more, we strive for everyone to be able to feed their artistic spirit.

Our 22/23 Season kicked off in September with a full lineup of inspiring and adventurous performances, which will continue through April. Here are just few highlights of our campus and community activities from this fall. 1

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Members of Brooklyn’s acclaimed Sandbox Percussion led a masterclass with the Butler School of Music’s Percussion Studio.

Martha Gonzalez, collaborating resident artist with playwright Virginia Grise in Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, guided a songwriting workshop with the Draylen Mason fellows from Austin Soundwaves.

Theatre students from Georgetown’s middle schools got a peek behind the scenes of Texas Performing Arts’ stages.

UT Alum Evita Arce, a company member of SW!NG OUT, taught a Lindy Hop masterclass for dance students in the UT Department of Theatre and Dance.

Mexico’s Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral led a bilingual workshop at the Scottish Rite Theatre, culminating in an improvised rendition of a communal story.

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ALL STUDENT TICKETS

Local New Global Now

Dance Theatre of Harlem

FRI, FEB 10

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster

SAT, FEB 25

FRI, MAR 3

Aizuri Quartet

The Art of Translation SAT, MAR 4

AizuriKids SUN, MAR 5

Vuyani Dance Theatre

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro

APR 19

Dream House Quartet featuring Katia & Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner & David Chalmin

APR 25

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Compagnia TPO

Farfalle

SAT, APR 29 – SUN, APR 30

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Cullberg — Works by Deborah Hay

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Digitization project will make historic Hollywood film backdrops accessible to fans around the world

Texas Performing Arts’ Hollywood Backdrop Collection has garnered international attention in the past few years, as interest has grown in this important art form. Thanks to generous support from donors, the collection will soon be available to view and explore online.

These assets make up the largest and most extensive educational collection of Hollywood motion picture backdrops in the world.

Assistant Professor of Practice Karen Maness and Professor Emeritus Richard Isackes lovingly documented the history of the film backdrops in their award-winning publication, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop (Regan Arts 2016). A cache of 68 historic paintings was generously donated to Texas Performing Arts by J.C. Backings and the Art Directors Guild Archives’ Backdrop Recovery Project.

The collection includes backings from iconic and critically acclaimed films such as National Velvet (1944), The Sound of Music (1965), Ben Hur (1959) and North by Northwest (1958). Following national coverage of the project on CBS’ Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley in February 2020 and two subsequent exhibitions hosted on the stage of Bass Concert Hall the following year, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opened Art of the Hollywood Backdrop in April 2022. The exhibition has attracted international media coverage, from the Wall Street Journal to the Times of London.

With generous support from Susan & Robert Morse, Texas Performing Arts is now digitizing the collection to make it even more widely available. A new website will launch and will serve as both digital archive and interactive teaching tool.

“It’s an exciting next step.” says Texas Performing Arts’ Executive and Artistic Director

Bob Bursey. “Sharing the collection digitally will allow us to celebrate these masters of illusion and perspective while inspiring the next generation of artists with access to material never before available.”

The website will showcase the backdrops in high-resolution detail, amplifying and preserving the techniques of backdrop painting and restoration pioneered by Hollywood’s uncredited lead scenic artists. Texas Performing Arts has captured direct instruction from Hollywood’s top motion picture scenic artists Michael Denering, Joe Francuz, and Donald MacDonald for the website.

While student training in these lost techniques continues in Texas Performing Arts’ Fabrication Studios, the digital archive will share detailed instruction for future caretakers how to preserve, stabilize and restore these works as the project continues to expand. The digitization of the collection will also help contextualize the work by connecting the backdrops to the iconic films in which they were featured, reaching audiences around the world.

Apr 19, 2023

Vuyani Dance Theatre

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro

CREATIVE TEAM

Conceiver, Choreographer: Gregory Maqoma

Musical Director and Composer: Nhlanhla Mahlangu

Musical Assistants: Xolisile Bongwana and Sbusiso Shozi

Costumes: Black Coffee

Set Design: Oliver Hauser

Technical Director: Barry Strydom

Original Lighting Design: Mannie Manim

Sound Designer: Ntuthuko Mbuyazi

Bass Concert Hall

Campus and community engagement events with Vuyani Dance Theatre are generously provided by the Texas Global Internationalization Event Fund. Generous support for student tickets and community engagement is provided by the Applied Materials Foundation.

VUYANI DANCE THEATRE

Chief Executive Officer: Lindiwe Letwaba

Executive Creative Director: Gregory Maqoma

Production and Marketing Manager: Siyandiswa Dokoda

DANCERS

Otto Andile Nhlapo

Roseline Wilkens

Katleho Lekhula

Itumeleng Tsoeu

Nathan Botha

Noko Moeketsi

Tshepo Molusi

Monicca Magoro

Simphiwe Nkosi

Thabang Mdlalose

MUSICIANS

Simphiwe Bonongo (Beatboxer)

Xolisile Bongwana

Sbusiso Shozi

Thabang Mkhwanazi

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Presented in association with Austin Opera as part of Opera ATX. Media Sponsor: Austin PBS

CION: REQUIEM OF RAVEL’S BOLÉRO

In this piece the message of death and its dire consequences are infused through a lament to be able to confront a universe in which the age-old tropes of greed, power and religion have given rise to loss of life not as a natural phenomenon. Toloki, the professional mourner weaves through this virtual landscape of dissolution giving rise to a catharsis of universal grief that will conquer the sadness, the hard reality continuing to permeate the living confronted by death that is not their own, often so unexpected, brutal and merciless. Cion as in Zion, the African church is set in a graveyard, a church where the body is religion and the voices are personal. Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro, draws inspiration from creations by two artists: the character Toloki in South African author Zakes Mda’s novels Cion and Ways of Dying and music from French composer Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. It’s a universal story encompassing the past and the present that champions our ability to band together to share the burden of grief. Set in a graveyard with the persistent cries of people in mourning and the acappella music of Isicathamiya in our languages sang by a quartet to the creative arrangement and composition by Nhlanhla Mahlangu that vividly elicits emotions associated with the loss of life performed by nine dancers who are themselves possessed by the spirit and being one with the departed souls and finally lying them to

rest for peace and humanity to prevail. Maqoma’s message through this work is that we need to pause for a moment and urgently think about the pain inflicted on others by the actions of others.

ABOUT GREGORY MAQOMA

Gregory Vuyani Maqoma became interested in dance in the late 1980s as a means to escape the growing political tensions growing in Soweto, South Africa, where he was born. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving into Dance, where he, later, became the Associate Artistic Director in 2002. He founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1999 while undertaking a scholarship at the Performing Arts Research and Training School (PARTS) in Belgium, under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Maqoma has established himself as an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director.

In 2002, Maqoma received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for dance and was a finalist in the Daimler Chrysler Choreography Award. He was a finalist in the Rolex Mentorship Programme in 2003. Several works in his repertoire have won him accolades and international acclaim, including the Tunkie Award for Leadership in Dance (2012), and a “Bessie”, New York City’s premier dance award for Exit/Exist for original music composition (2014). He served as a nominator in the 2016-2017 Rolex Arts Initiative as well as curating

the 2017 Main Dance Programme for the National Arts Festival.

The French government honoured Maqoma with the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts & Literature) Award in 2017. The following year, 2018, Maqoma collaborated with William Kentridge as a choreographer and performer in “The Head and the Load,” an opera which premiered at the Tate Modern Gallery in London, and is still touring Europe, and the United States.

Maqoma collaborated with Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah in the production, “Tree,” produced by Manchester International Festival and the Young Vic (2018). In 2020, Maqoma was honoured to deliver the prestigious International Dance Day message under the auspices of the International Theatre Institute and UNESCO.

Recently he was commissioned by Ballet De Lyon to create, “The Valley of Human Sounds” and

Ballet Black to create, “Black Sun”. Maqoma wrote and directed his first musical in 2022, “Third World Express” in collaboration with Shadrack Bokaba which premiered at the Mandela at Joburg Theatre. Shortly after he choreographed for another new musical, “Mandela”, directed by Schele Williams with music created by Greg and Shaun Borowsky produced by the Young Vic in London. ZO!Mute, a new double with Vincent Mantsoe will premiere at the Lesedi at Joburg Theatre in February 2023. Maqoma celebrates his fiftieth birthday in 2023 and he has curated a number of legacy projects that he will be revealing as the year progresses.

Vuyani Dance Theatre would like to thank the following:

Zakes Mda

BASA

Showtex

The Market Theatre

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Apr 25, 2023

Bass Concert Hall

Dream House Quartet

Katia Labèque, piano

Marielle Labèque, piano

Bryce Dessner, guitar

David Chalmin, guitar

Dan Bora, sound

North American Premiere Tour Produced by ArKtype /

Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Sami Pyne, Associate Producer & Tour Manager

Pianos by Steinway & Sons

Media Sponsor: KUTX-FM

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REPERTOIRE

Bryce Dessner Haven (2019) 8 min

Meredith Monk Ellis Island (1981) 5 min Arr. Lisa Kaplan

Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint (1987), 15 min

Arr. For 2 Guitars & Tape by Bryce Dessner

Philip Glass

Entr’acte

4 Movements for 2 Pianos (2008) 10 min

Thom Yorke Don’t Fear the Light, Part 1 & 2 (2019) 13 min

David Chalmin Eclipse (2023) 13 min Movement 1, 2 & 3

Bryce Dessner Sonic Wires (2023) 19 min

Movement 1 Spiral

Movement 2 Cherchebruit

Movement 3 Clouds

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Katia & Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide. They have played with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden

Staatskapelle, Filarmonia della Scala, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Ditto Royal Concertgebouw

Amsterdam, Santa Cecilia and Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of John Adams, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo

Dudamel, Gustavo Gimeno, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Pietari Inkinen, Louis Langrée, Zubin Mehta, Juanjo

Mena, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Seiji

Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Matthias

Pintscher, Georges Pretre, Sir Simon Rattle, Santtu Matias Rouvali, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson

Thomas and Jaap van Zweden. They have appeared with Baroque music ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, Musica Antica with Reinhard Goebel, and Venice

Baroque with Andrea Marcon, il Pomo d’Oro with Maxim Emelyanichev and also toured with The Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle.

Katia and Marielle have had the privilege of working with many composers including Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, György Ligeti, Nico Muhly and Olivier Messiaen. At Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles they presented the world premiere of Philip Glass’s new Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, the world premiere of Bryce Dessner’s concerto at Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and John Storgards and the new concerto written by Nico Muhly, “In Certain Circles,” was premiered by Orchestre de Paris with Maxim Emelyanichev in 2021 and New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden in 2022.

Another recent highlight was the tour with the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, through Germany, Austria and Holland.

Katia & Marielle Labèque play in festivals and renowned venues worldwide including the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Musikhalle, Munich Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, La Scala, Berlin Philharmonie, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, BBC Proms, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Salzburg. An audience of more than 33,000 attended a gala concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at Berlin’s Waldbuhne, now available on DVD (EuroArts). A record audience of

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more than 100,000 attended the Vienna Summer Night Concert in Schonbrunn (now available on CD and DVD by SONY). More than 1.5 million viewers followed the event worldwide on television.

Bryce Dessner is a vital and rare force in new music. He has won Grammy Awards as a classical composer and with the band The National, of which he is founding member, guitarist, arranger, and co-principal song-writer. He is regularly commissioned to write for the world’s leading ensembles, from Orchestre de Paris to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and is a high- profile presence in film score composition, with credits including The Revenant, for which he was Grammy and Golden Globe nominated, Fernando Mereilles’s The Two Popes, Mike Mill’s C’mon C’mon and Bardo, by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Dessner collaborates with some of today’s most creative and respected artists, including Philip Glass, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Paul Simon, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sufjan Stevens, Fernando Mereilles, Thom Yorke, Bon Iver, Nico Muhly, and Steve Reich, who named Dessner “a major voice of his generation.” Dessner’s orchestrations can be heard on the latest albums of Paul Simon, Bon Iver and Taylor Swift. Bryce Dessner has had works commissioned and premiered by today’s leading conductors including Esa Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Semyon Bychkov, and Santtu Matias-Rouvali. This season alone sees performances of his works by, amongst others, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre

de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, HR Sinfonieorchester, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. New works

Violin Concerto – commissioned by partners including Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orches-tra and San Francisco Symphony – and Mari, commissioned and performed by Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, Czech Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra – have been met with widespread public and critical success. Autumn 2022 sees Bryce as composer in residence at a number of European festivals including the Approximation Festival and November Music.

“Dessner [..] moves fluidly between rock and classical and everywhere in between, says the Guardian (October 2021). In addition to his role as one of eight San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners, Bryce Dessner is currently artist-inresidence at London’s Southbank Centre and with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Major works include Concerto for Two Pianos premiered by Katia & Marielle Labèque, London Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon; Violin Concerto premiered and performed internationally by Pekka Kuusisto, Trombone Concerto for Jorgen van Rijen commissioned by Dallas Symphony and l’Orchestre National d’Île de France; Voy a Dormir for mezzo soprano Kelley O’Connor and Orchestra of Saint Luke’s and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Skrik Trio for Steve Reich and Carnegie Hall; the ballet No Tomorrow co-written with Ragnar Kjartansson; Wires for Ensemble

Intercontemporain; The Forest for large cello ensemble, Gautier Capuçon and Fondation Louis Vuitton; and Triptych (Eyes for One on Another), a major theater piece integrating the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe and premiered by Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dessner also scored the music -- involving full orchestra and a 200-member choir -- for the Louis Vuitton show at the Louvre in Paris as part of Paris Fashion Week 2020. Dessner’s recordings include El Chan; St. Carolyn by the Sea (both Deutsche Grammophon); Aheym, commissioned by Kronos Quartet; Tenebre, an album of his works for string orchestra recorded by Germany’s Ensemble Resonanz and which won a 2019 Opus Klassik award and a Diapason d’Or; When we are inhuman with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Eighth Blackbird (2019) and Impermanence (2021) with the Australian String Quartet. Dessner’s other film score credits include The Two Popes, which won Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack awards; C’mon C’mon (2021) directed by Mike Mills and Cyrano (2021), the major musical by Joe Wright. Also active as a curator, Dessner is regularly requested to program festivals and residencies around the world at venues such as at the Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris, and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. He co-founded and curates the festivals MusicNOW in Cincinnati, HAVEN in Copenhagen, Sounds from a Safe Harbour and PEOPLE. Bryce Dessner lives in France.

Over the past ten years, David Chalmin has assumed an increasing number of roles: as a producer,

arranger and sound engineer alongside some of the most respected indie figure worldwide (The National, Shannon Wright, Richard Reed Parry, Efterklang...); as a contemporary music composer, having founded the Dream House Quartet with Bryce Dessner & Katia and Marielle Labèque (who hosted Thom Yorke on stage in 2019); and as a mastermind of dense, heady electronica with his album la terre invisible in 2019. The sixth movement of the piece Sept particules, composed in 2018 for harpsichordist Justin Taylor and his ensemble le consort, was sung to critical acclaim. And now, his soft, sensitive voice has become an integral part of all five tracks on Innocence, ep released on Yotanka records in June of 2022. He has recently worked on Electric Fields, a new project for Barbara Hannigan, Katia & Marielle Labèque with live videos by Netia Jones in which he performed live electronics. This work, co- written with Bryce Dessner premiered in November 2022 in Disney Hall, Los Angeles. Among his other compositions: a piece for organ constellation premiered at Variations Festival Nantes, a piece for 100 pianos, piano orchestra premiered at Paris Philharmonie, a ballet Star-Cross’d Lovers for two pianos, drums electronics and guitar created at the Cité de la Musique in Paris (recorded for Deutsche Grammophon), an original music for Madonna’s short film Her Story filmed by Luigi & Iango. He also created with pianist Katia Labèque a project on moondog’s music premiered at Les Nuits de Fourvières in Lyon. The moondog album was released by

Deutsche Grammophon. With the trio Triple Sun, with bass player Massimo Pupillo (zu) and drummer Raphaël Séguinier (ubunoir), he joined the Dessner Brothers (The National) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) for the project Invisible Bridge at the Paris Philharmonie.

Dan Bora is a designer, producer, and engineer for albums, film scores, and live sound. He has worked with Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, The Magnetic Fields, Nico Mühly, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others. His credits include Academy Award-winning Fog of War as well as the revival of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. Dan’s live work has been praised as “deft,” “provocative and even poignant...” (New York Times).

Sami Pyne is the associate producer at ArKtype, one of the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. She is also an NYC-based independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the production process for creators. Sami’s had the pleasure of working with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon’s Sophia Club, The Martin E. Segal Center, Signature Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Play Company (PlayCo), The Tank, The New Ohio, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center.

Shenandoah Conservatory

BFA, 2017. Graduate of the Columbia University Theatre Management & Producing MFA program, 2020. Operations Committee leader of the Creative & Independent Producers Alliance. Fellow of WP Theater’s 2022-2024 Producers Lab. www.samipyne.com for more info.

ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s A Thousand Ways, nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds w/ JD Samson, Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron

Mitchell’s The Origin of Love, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher

Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man In a Case, and Nalaga’at

Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not By Bread

Alone. Ongoing collaborations include Basil Twist, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, and Compagnia

T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Justin Peck & Sufjan

Stevens’ Illinois, 600 Highwaymen’s The Following Evening, Timothy

White Eagle’s Indian School, and Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present. He is a founding member of CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance). More information at arktype.org.

Special Thanks

To Bob Bursey and the amazing team at Texas Performing Arts, Vivian Chiu, Gill Graham, Samantha Holderness, The Kitchen, Rachel Fine, Jennifer Newman and Yale Schwarzman Center, Shanta Thake, Guillaume Loubère, Paschalis Zervas, Melay Araya, Deutsche Grammophon, and the team at Unison Media.

Dream House Quartet debut EP now available - new LP slated for Fall release, both on Universal / Deutsche Grammophon.

For further information on Dream House Quartet, please contact: Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President ArKtype tommy@arktype.org

Press Representation: Andrew Ousley, Unison Media andrew@unison.media

Bryce Dessner compositions performed by special arrangement with Chester Music Ltd.

Philip Glass composition performed by special arrangement with Dungaven/Chester Music Ltd.

Meredith Monk composition is performed by special arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes

Dream House Quartet debut EP out now on Universal / Deutsche Grammophon. Download here:

Apr 29–30, 2023

McCullough Theatre

Texas Performing Arts

Smart Art for Kids presents

Compagnia TPO Farfalle

in co-production with Teatro Metastasio

Stabile della Toscana

Leadership support for Smart Art for Kids is provided by the Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation.

Media Sponsor: Do512 Family

Direction: Francesco Gandi and Davide Venturini

Choreography: Anna Balducci, Piero Leccese

Dancers: Sara Campinoti, Valentina Sechi

Technicians: Massimiliano Fierli, Francesco Frosini

Digital Design: Elsa Mersi

Sound Design: Spartaco Cortesi

Computer Engineering: Rossano Monti and Martin von Gunten

Scenography and Objects: Gregory Petitqueux

Costumes: Loretta Mugnai

Scenography Assistant: Livia Cortesi

Voice Over: Charlotte Zerbey

Collaboration on Script:

Stefania Zampiga

Management: Valentina Martini

Executive Producer, US Tour:

ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Generous support for student tickets and community engagement is provided by the Applied Materials Foundation.

ABOUT COMPAGNIA TPO

Compagnia TPO was founded in Prato, Italy in 1981 as a children’s theater company devoted to creating works that are highly visual and multidisciplinary in the use of music, dance, art, sculpture, digital media, computer technology, lighting and sound. TPO is an award-winning, internationally recognized company who believes in creating dance/ theater works for children that are visual and conceptualized moving paintings which use movement, artistic objects, mechanical and digital devices and the interplay of lighting, all geared to a child’s eye.

In 1999, Davide Venturini and Francesco Gandi became the artistic directors of TPO. With the emerging technology that has evolved, TPO has grown more and more on the use of digital technology, graphics, video and how to combine these elements with the more traditional art forms of dance, theater and music.

TPO has created new methods of interaction between performers, the audience, and stage spaces by applying computer sensors and triggers to images and sound, and they have found new ways to collaborate with a variety of artists: dancers, actors, directors, musicians, engineers, designers, writers and illustrators to create new works. These concepts have created fame and a reputation for TPO throughout Europe, Australia, the United States, South America and Canada. Davide Venturini (Director) studied sociology at Cesare Alferi University in Florence. He has been with TPO since 1983. Within it, he has

directed productions with an eye to the pedagogical aspects of art, and in particular the processes of visual communication, emphasizing the value of images and the use in theatre of hi-tech devices. He currently holds the post of TPO author and Artistic Director.

Francesco Gandi (Director) studied at the DAMS Academy in Bologna. Since 1987 he has conducted his research activity with the TPO in the roles of author, director and actor. His works typically make prevalent page 2 of 2 use of images, props, figures and, in his latest productions, technology. He currently holds the post of President of the TPO Cultural Association.

ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann (Executive Producer) specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria ThiérréeChaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s A THOUSAND WAYS, nora chipaumire’s NEHANDA, Sam Green’s 32 SOUNDS w/ JD Samson, Bryce Dessner’s TRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron Mitchell’s THE ORIGIN OF LOVE, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, Big

Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s MAN IN A CASE, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s NOT BY BREAD ALONE. Ongoing collaborations include 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, and Compagnia T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Justin Peck & Sufjan Stevens’ ILLINOIS and Scott Shepherd’s THIS IGNORANT PRESENT. He is a founding member of CIPA (The Creative & Independent Producer Alliance). More information at arktype.org.

Booking Direction

David Lieberman –Artists Representative

P.O. Box 10368 Newport Beach, CA 92658

Ph: 714-979-4700

E-mail: info@dlartists.com

Texas Performing Arts Staff

Bob Bursey

Executive and Artistic Director

Bianca Hooi

Assistant to the Executive and Artistic Director

B USINESS OFFICE

Robert Cross General Manager

Kamille Deysel

Senior Human Resources Coordinator

Kristi Lampi

Associate Director, Business Operations

Leigh Remeny Business Operations Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Anna Langdell Director of Development

Amy Burgar

Associate Director, Development

Chelsea Casner

Development Associate

Miguel Robles

Development Associate

EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT

Tim Rogers

Director of Education and Engagement

Brenda Simms

Program Coordinator, Education & Curriculum Development

FABRICATION & ACADEMIC PRODUCTION

Jeff Grapko

Director of Fabrication and Academic Production

Scott Bussey

Facility Manager and Senior Technical Director

J. E. Johnson

Associate Director, Fabrication

Karen Maness

Associate Director, Fabrication

Jason Huerta Operations Manager, Fabrication

David Tolin

Project Manager, Fabrication

Carolyn Hardin

Properties Manager

Hank Schwemmer

Lead Fabricator

Ashton Bennett Murphy

Project Specialist, Fabrication

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Phil Rosenthal Director of Marketing and Communications

Brady Dyer

Associate Director, Communications

Lizzie Choffel Cantu

Senior Graphic Designer

Erica De Leon

Marketing Specialist, Digital Media

Romina Jara

Marketing Manager

PRODUCTION

Jim Larkin

Director of Production

Blake Addyson

Production Supervisor

Kat Carson

Production Supervisor

Travis Perrin

Staging and Rigging Supervisor

Sarah Cantu

Master Electrician

Michael Shanks

Assistant Lighting Supervisor

Drew Millay

Audio Video Supervisor

Chris Braudt

Assistant Audio Video Supervisor

PROGRAMS & EVENTS

Eleanor Stefano

Associate Director, Booking and Sales

Amber Goodspeed

Associate Director, Event Management

Ellie Holm

Event Manager

Brendan Burke

Programming Manager

TICKETING & GUEST EXPERIENCE

Tara Vela

Director of Ticketing and Guest Services

Amanda Adams

Associate Director, Guest Services

Shade Oyegbola

Associate Director, Ticketing

Meredith Delay

Patron Services Manager

Dianne Whitehair

Ticketing Systems Manager

Basil Montemayor

Ticketing Manager

Texas Performing Arts is also proud to acknowledge the hundreds of part-time and volunteer staff who play a critical role in presenting our annual season of world-class performing arts events to the Austin community.

House Managers

Dina Black

Virginia Bosman

Margaret Byron

Nancy Carrales

Sheri Dildy

Janine Dos Remedios

Tony C Garcia

Sam Hallam

Leslie Hawkins

Carlos Hernandez-Heine

Olga Kasma-Carnes

Charlotte Klein

Tamara Klindt

Sharon Kojzarek

Eric Lee

Lara Miller

Mad Poarch

Kimberly Reaves

Jessica Reed

Lee Rodgers

Mary Ruiz

Micah Sall

Student Employees

Alina Almaraz

Leah Austin

Nahla Beltran

Sarah Bhalla

Zoe Bihan

Cassiy Bivens

Ezra-Rose Bolender

Mathaly Carranza

Ciara Casarez

Benjamin Cervantes

Demian Chavez

Shivani Chidambaram

Kathyrn Clark

Audrey Clay

Bridgette Clifford

Maria Dalton

Kaila Delafance

Vio Dorantes

Melissa Elkins

Sarah Elliot

Laine Farber

Carla Garcia

Indigo Giles

Isabelle Gilmore

Gabriel Gomez-Reyes

Trinity Gordon

Alisse Guerra

Joshua Hale

Samuel Hallam

Catherine Heeman

Faith Hilchey

Isabella Hollis

Ari Jamison

Victoria Jefferson

Nereida Jimenez

Haley Johnson

Bindi Kaplan

Lucy Kulzick

Abigail Lantis

Austin Luchak

Gilbert Martinez

Angela Mata

Jonah Maughan

Elias Merlo

Eliza Moldawer

Samantha Moles

Genevieve MonterrosoSyevens

Aria Morgan

Lauren Mural

Hannah Nelson

Gracie Sanders

Hasina Shah

Andrea R Stanfill Castro

Debra Thomas

Kristine Tydlacka

Leah Waheed

Marty Watson

Tonya Woods

Sally Zukonik

Braden Newlun

Lanna Nguyen

Benjamin Nunn

Samuel Oladejo

Humberto Ortega

Leila Rabah

Morgan Randall

Zackary Reed

Bryce Riggle

Natalia Rodenzo

Hayley “Lee” Rodgers

Sabrie Rodriguez

Daniel Ruiz Bustos

Victoria Salazar

Simon Salinas

Hasina Shah

Lance, Shook

Matthew Smith

Nguyen Tang

Jeffrey Tran

Michelle Upham

Isabel Velasquez

Sydney Villaruel

Rylee Vines

Julia Yelvington

Jacob Zamarripa

Leadership Board

The Texas Performing Arts Leadership Board is a group of volunteer leaders in the arts, business, and philanthropy. The Board is dedicated to expanding Texas Performing Arts’ world-class programming, positioning the organization as an international leader in the performing arts, and strengthening the bond between the performing arts and the communities we serve.

Donors

Board Members

Brian Haley, Chair

Carly Christopher

Jaime Davila

Tamara Dorrance

Dennis Eakin

Deborah Green

Michael Herman

Steve Kahng

Nancy & Angus Littlejohn

Chris Mattsson

Lauren Reid

Marc Seriff

Lisa B. Thompson

Natasa & Michael Valocchi

Texas Performing Arts is a nonprofit supported by generous patrons and donors. We extend a special thank you to the following major supporters:*

$100,000+ Anonymous

Carly & Clayton Christopher

William & Anita Cochran

Kandace & Dennis Eakin

Deborah Green and Clayton Aynesworth

Caroline & Brian Haley H-E-B Tournament of Champions

Abbey & Mike Herman

Steve Kahng

Angus & Nancy Littlejohn

Julia Marsden

Chris Mattsson

Susan & Robert Morse

Marc & Carolyn Seriff

St. David's Healthcare Texas Capital Bank Tocker Foundation

$50,000–99,999

Carolyn Rice Bartlett Charitable Foundation

Special gratitude to donors who have established endowments at Texas Performing Arts to provide long-term funding for mission-driven projects and programs:

Alex and Dee Massad Endowment Fund Arts Education Endowment

Joann and Gaylord Jentz Endowment for Student Engagement

Kathy Panoff Texas Performing Arts Student Engagement Endowment

Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Concert Hall Endowment

William & Anita Cochran Endowment for Performing Arts Access & Education

Phillip Auth Endowed Dance Fund for Texas Performing Arts

Performing Arts Center Endowment for Performing Excellence

Robert L. Tocker Endowed Excellence Fund for Student Volunteerism

Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production

Z. T. Scott Family Endowment for the Performing Arts

*Gifts pledged or received Sep 1, 2021 through Dec 1, 2022

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Texas Performing Arts Residencies help Austin-based artists of international renown create new work. The residencies are laboratories for developing projects that will go on to have a tangible impact on American culture.

Award-winning playwright and director Virginia Grise makes work through a political and historical lens. With her collaborator Martha Gonzalez, Grise is developing Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind. The music-driven performance is based on Helena María Viramontes’ 2007 novel Their Dogs Came with Them.

A legend in postmodern dance whose approach to movement changed how the world makes and views dance. Based in Austin since 1976, Deborah Hay recently established her archive at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Her latest work is a collaboration with Austinbased composer Graham Reynolds.

Virginia Grise Deborah Hay Kenyon Adams

An interdisciplinary artist and creative director, Kenyon Adams seeks to reclaim or expand embodied ways of knowing, towards imagining and constructing sustainable futures. He is developing Compline, a ritual performance work with a vocal ensemble inspired by the “night prayer” from the early Christian church.

Texas Inner Circle Members

Texas Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the financial support of our members. Each year, members help fund robust education and engagement initiatives, affordable student tickets, and critical student employment opportunities that make Texas Performing Arts so much more than what you see on our stages.

BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLE

$10,000+ ChemCentric *

Julie and Steve Avery

Joe Batson

Jeff and Katie Berkaw

Dianne and Robert Brode

Virginia and Gilbert Burciaga

Dennis Eakin Kia *

Joanne Guariglia

Gretchen and Lance Kroesch

Julia Marsden

Mary G. Yancy

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE

$3,000–9,999

Anonymous

Drs. Lynn Azuma and Brian Hall

Deepika and Somdipta Basu Roy

Debra Bawcom

Renee Butler and Kay Stowell

Lee Carnes

Edwina P. Carrington

Suzanne and Bill Childs

Colleen Clark

John Coers

Ronda & John Cullen

Legacy Deo

Aubrey and Bobby Epstein

Jim Ferguson and Art Sansone

Frost Bank *

Jorge Garcia

Phil and Lisa Gilbert

Brian Gleason

Brian Hampton

Lisa Harris

Gladys M. Heavilin

Mary Ann and Andrew Heller

Frank N Ikard Jr

Kerry Keller

Kyongmee Kim

Chris and Melissa Knox

Kelley Knutson and Carol Walsh-Knutson

Cathy and James Kratz

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Loftus

Sue and Gary Lowe

Mary and Lynn Moak

Donations made as of

Dec 1, 2022

We regret that limited space does not allow us to list every member. For information on ways to give, please visit texasperformingarts.org/ membership, call the membership office at 512.232.8567, or email us at support@texasperformingarts.org.

*Corporate Circle members

Kari Nations and Michael Gibertini

Jacqueline and Shawn O’Farrell

Wayne Orchid

Janis and Joe Pinnelli

Alicia Pounds

Javier Prado and Family

Debbie and Jim Ramsey

Gina and Don Reese

Chuck Ross and Brian Hencey

Michael Regester

Kenneth Sandoval

Syd Sharples

Robyn and Bret Siers

Laura and David Starks

Shari and Eric Stein

Carole Tower and Matthew St. Louis

Louann and Larry Temple

Claudia and Bill Wilson

Annie Zucker and Michael Regester

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

$1,500–2,999

Mandy and Heather Andress

Bonnie L. Bain

Addison, Sydney, Kori, and David Baker

Carolyn R. Bartlett

Becky Beaver

Carolyn and Andrew Birge

Grizelda and Tim Black

Casey Blass and Lee Manford

Tahra and Michael Boatright

Kara and Shelby Brown

Peggy and Gary Brown

Kimberly Brown

Shellie and Martin Campos

Barbara Cappa

Kelli and John Carlton

Martha Carr

Carol and Shannon Casey

Sue and Kevin Cloud

Anita and William Cochran

Niccolo and Natasha De Masi

Margaret Denena and Cliff Knowles

Ken Dockser

Susan and David Donaldson

Lyzz Donelson

Barbara Ellis and Alex McAlmon

Kevin Espenlaub and John Hampton

Laura L. Estes and Joyce A. Lauck

Carol and Clint Fletcher

Pamela and David Frager

Sandra Freed

Kelli Furrer

Susan Gammill

Nancy Gary and Ruth Cude

Cheryl and

R. James George, Jr.

Susan and Barry Goodman

Melissa and Rick Gorskie

Karen and Rowland

Greenwade

Sven Griffin

Cheri Gross

Juan M. Guerrero, M.D.

Jeffery Hammerberg

Jennifer and Randall Harris

Gunnar Hellekson

Anne and Thomas Hilbert

David Honeycutt

Amy and Jeffrey Hubert

Jeanine Hudson

Rob Ignatowski and Daniel Pacheco

Admiral and Mrs. B. R. Inman

Victoria Johnson

Gary C. Johnson

Kristie Johnston

Helen Johnston

Maxx Judd and Donn Gauger

K Friese & Associates*

Heather King

Betsy and Matt Kirksey

Sheila Kothmann

Loree and Burney LaChance

Calvin and Donna Lee

Sue and Larry Lewellyn

Mr. and Mrs. George F. Littlejohn

Dracos Locario

Jennifer and Christian Loew

Yadira and Delfino Lorenzo

Peggy Manning

Art Markman

Leslie and Charles Martinez

Richard McCathron

Alexandra and Tom McKeone

Ford McTee

Christine Messina

Jennifer and Jim Misko

Melissa Moloney and Chris Walk

Brenda and John Mosher

Miriam and Jim Mulva

Nall Family

Meri and Don Nelson

Marcia Nelson

Cathy Oliver

OroSolutions *

Terri Pascoe

Connie and Samuel Pate

Michele and Roy Peck

Shari and John Pflueger

Machelle Pharr

Liz and Jon Phelan

Leslie Powell

Sara and Dick Rathgeber

Elinor and Edwin Reese

Richie & Gueringer P.C. *

Alec Rhodes

Alyssa Russell

Susan Schaffer

Steve Schaffer

Nina and Frank Seely

Vijay Sitaram

Aurigo Software Technologies *

Balaji Sreenivasan

Sid Steadman

Lorri Stevenson

Robert Stiles

Bruce Stuckman

Peter and Joan Swartz

Caroline Tang

Caroline, Olivia, and John Taylor

John E. Thompson

Heather and Jeffrey Tramonte

Jonathan Tyner

Erin Vander Leest and Tom Pyle

Sara-Jane and Daniel Watson

Susan and Chris Wilson with Bonita Grumme

Dr. Lucas Wong and Dr. Lisa Go

CENTER STAGE

$600–1,499

Anonymous (8)

Cynthia Abel

Amy Adame

Dwain Aidala

Mark Aitala

Emily Allen and Ron Altizer

Terry Amacher

Page and Neal Amador

Brian Amato

Joann Anderson

Joe Annis

Sandy and Richard Apperley

Christopher Arboleda and Jared Ellis

Cecelia Arvallo

Tony Aventa

Donna and Manuel Ayala

The Ballon Family

Billy Bambrey

Jana and Barry Bandera

Naomi Banks Miller

Elisa Barnes

Joshua Becker

Dr. Steven A. Beebe

James Benson

April Berman

Jay Bhattacharyya

Carolyn and Jon Bible

Denis Blake

Stephanie and Michael Blanck

Amy Bodin

Dave and Nancy Bourell

Robert Bracewell

Steve and Jen Braud

Brook and Gerald Broesche

Janice and Charlie Brown

Scott Brown and Cheri Lafrinea

Christy and William K. Browning

Robert Bush

Robert Butchofsky

Josie and Jim Caballero

Sam Caire

Kelly Canavan

Ms. Susie Capozza

Min Choe

Joann Cocoros

Sharon and Eric Cohan

Barbara Colley

Sarah Compton

Jeanette Cortinas

Mary Crouch

Jennifer and James Cuddeback

Justin D’Abadie

Elaine Daigle

Wilma Dankovich

Lorraine and John Davis

Nhu and Randall DeBastiani

Courtney and Adam Debower

Lisa and Paul Delacruz

Brad Diemer

Kathleen Dignan

Tracy DiLeo

Lucy Ditmore

Jennifer Dixon

Glenn and Britta Dukes

Maria Dwyer

Susan and David Eckelkamp

Michael L. Edwards

James Elacqua

Sheila Ellwood

Reva Enzminger

Jane W. Fountain

Drs. Donald and April Fox

Vivian and James Froncek

Katina and Matthew Gase

Jon and Joanna Geld

Breanna Giannoules

Sharon and Richard Gibbons

Glenn and Nancy Gilkey

Laura and John Gill

Danny and Harriet Gleason

Craig and Becky Griffin

Jana and John Grimes

Martin Grygar and Travis Maese

Dr. Suchitra Gururaj and Joe Carey

Maria Gutierrez and Peter Nutson

Tizzle Bizzle Hallock

Cindy and John Hanly

Amy and Peter Hannan

Darcy and Rick Hardy Family

Laura Harvey

Jane Hatter

Lynda Haynes

John Hernandez

James Hester

Marjorie and David Hunter

Victoria Husband

Jennifer Ice

Kathleen and Jim Jardine

Robert Johnson

Anita and Ralph Jones

Susanna and Michael Khazhinsky

Hugh King

Susan and Richard Klusmann

Jan and Orion Knox

Aileen Krassner Kiehl and Michael Kiehl

John Kump

Dr. Jeffrey Lazar

Karen Leiker

Donn and Jeanette LeVie

Stacy Libby

Luis Lidsky

Jessie Lorenty and Erika Esquivel

Simon Lorne

Richard Maier

Salman Manzur

Dick Marshall

Joyce Martin

Roxanne and Steve Martin

Olivia Martinez

Drs. Victor Martinez and Christopher Rose

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Masullo

Stephanie Mayes

Jim and Katie McClarty

Chris McClung

Denise McCullough

Frances Ellen and Paul Metzger

Lynn Meyer and Rick Clemens

Pauline and Alfred Meyerson

James W. Moritz

Nicole and Kent Morrison

Denise Margo Moy

Michelle and Eric Natinsky

Rachel Naugle

Marina Navarrete

Philip Neff

Brian Neidig

Margaret and Brian Nilson

Wynnell Noelke

Lori Nunan Shaw

Dan and Deborah O’Neil

Eric and Allison Olson

Augustine Park

Paulina Pastrana

Kelly Payne

Robert Pender

Karen and Wes Peoples

Cindy Perez

Brian and Adele Peterman

Terra and RJ Peters

Lisa and Kyra Peterson

Nancy and Frank Petrone

Tami Pharr

Allen and Tonya Place

Bonnie and James Pohl

Carla and Steve Portnoy

Wanda Potts

Kate and Scott Powers

Eric Rabbanian

Luis Ramirez

Tracy Rawl

Marquette Maresh Reddam

Dawn and Thomas Rich

Martin Ritchey

Jeanine and Dan Roadhouse

Alan Robinson and Susan Frentz

Laura Robinson

Cesar and Susan Rodriguez

Summer Rydel

Susan E. Salch

Al Sandoval

Julie and Richard Schechter

Diane Selkin

Christine and Anthony Sementelli

Lori Nunan Shaw

Amy Shipherd

Linda Simonson

Dustin Slack

Raymond Smith

Debbie Smolik

Kimberly and David Soloman

Toni and Ted Spalding

Karen Speier

Logan Spence

Richard Stanford

Paul Stone

Geeta and David Suggs

Suresh Sundarababu

Dona and Ali Tabrizi

Matthew Tanzer

Bri Thatcher and Andy

Modrovich

Mackenzie and Burwell

Thompson

Stacy and Michael Toomey

Alice Toungate

Michael Tracy

Gregory Tran

Claudia and Luis Trejo

Brooke Turner and Brian Johnson

Keith Uhls and Dan Hutchison

Saradee and Melvin Waxler

Kenneth R. Webb

Chrissie Welty

Marie and Phil Wendell

Leslie and Dana West

Leslie and Bryan Weston

Nancy Whitworth Spong

Michael Wilen

Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Williams

Carolyn Williams

Mike Wilson

Tanya Winch

Amy Wong Mok

Kevin Wood

Marian Yeager

Lena Yoo and Gerry Cardinal III

Mitch and Jeannette Young

Susan Zane

Get Your Class to Bass

Texas Performing Arts offers free tickets and related educational materials to area schools and educators designed to inspire the next generation of arts lovers including:

• Youth Performances - free daytime performances for K–12

• Students Experiencing the Arts with their Teachers

• Broadway Experience for Youth

• Teacher Tix @ TPA

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