By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor If you haven’t yet visited Ruby City, here’s a good reason to go: the new exhibit featuring the work of Venezzuelan-born artist, Arturo Herrera, who now lives in Berlin. Though the show is housed in the Studio Gallery in Chris Park, a short distance from the main museum, you can do it all in a couple …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor It’s been more than 142 years since Henrik Ibsen wrote his famous play, “A Doll’s House,” which ended with his protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband, Torvald, and slamming the door shut on their life together. Since that first dramatic exit, Ibsen’s play has been a staple of Euro-American theater, always praised as an early thespian manifesto …
The dance scene has been kind of low-key in recent months but dance will grace at least two San Antonio stages this weekend. Ballet San Antonio is presenting its season finale, “Don Quixote” at the Tobin Center, and the innovative, young company Ballet Neplanta is presenting its new work “Valentina” at the Carver Community Cultural Center. The ballet “Don Quixote” …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The story of “Don Quixote” has been around since the 1600s when Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes wrote it in 1605. It first became a staged baller in Moscow and then, in a modified version, in St. Petersburg in 1871, danced to a musical score by Ludwig Minkus. And it continues to grace theater stages across …