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  Houston Ballet's Just is a Gut Punch Through Cyberspace

  October 10 at 9:44 a.m.

  Houston Ballet opens their season with A Night at Jacob's Pillow, a digital premiere of Artistic Director Stanton Welch’s Just.

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  Houston Ballet Will Open its 2020-21 Season Digitally With Stanton Welch's Just

  September 20 at 4 a.m.

  Houston Ballet has decided to delve even deeper into the digital world, announcing today that it plans to offer even more performances in that vein than it originally anticipated. As a result, its season opener for the 2020-21 season will be Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch's Just which was...

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  Houston Ballet's Planned Performance of La Bayadere Comes Under Fire

  September 8 at 4 a.m.

  A Hindu rights activist based in Nevada is accusing the Houston Ballet of cultural insensitivity and is urging it to cancel its upcoming performances of La Bayadère, scheduled for February, saying the ballet set in India "trivializes Eastern religious and other traditions." La Bayadère, a ballet originally performed in Russia...

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  Houston Ballet Reshuffles Its Dance Card Again

  July 20 at 10 a.m.

  The ongoing pandemic has once again altered scheduling for another Houston arts group, this time the Houston Ballet that today announces two fall performances will not be held in-person and The Nutcracker will not be performed this year. Also, because of resulting financial losses, it could no longer retain all...

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  Catching up With the Arts in Houston With Online and Re-Opening News

  May 20 at 4 a.m.

  As Texas begins to open up again while the coronavirus is still very much with us, some arts groups are staying online while others are carefully opening up while keeping to the governor's guidelines of no more than 25 percent of listed occupancy at any time. And if you've ever...

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  Catching Up With the Arts in Houston

  May 4 at 4 a.m.

  Hands down best news recently for Houston's performing arts and their artists was Houston Grand Opera's announcement that on the second try for money from the Payroll Protection Plan they were successful in securing $2.5 million and able to rehire the staff they'd laid off. According to HGO the PPP...