By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Houston native, Emily Ballew Neff, still remembers her first visit to San Antonio about 30 years ago. On that occasion she visited the exhibition Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, presented by the San Antonio Museum of Art. “That exhibition was such a knockout, and it was a very important experience for me,” said Neff in a …
We are all witnessing the tragic war in central Europe, so it’s not surprising that San Antonio artists and arts organization want to express their concern and support for the suffering people of Ukraine. A large group of well-known San Antonio poets will gather Saturday afternoon in Main Plaza, to read poems “in solidarity with Ukraine.” Organized by Natalia Trevino …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Tamara Adira was 29 when she happened to see a flamenco performance at the Red Room Club in New Orleans. It was love at first site. She knew right away that she wanted to learn more about this thunderous dance. And she did. Adira is today a leading flamenco dancer/choreographer and producer in San Antonio, and …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Back in 2014, the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony, known as MOSAS, created an independent nonprofit that stayed dormant for a number of years. But it has now been revived to help MOSAS to return to music making. Named MOSAS Performance Fund, the organization is a 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to present professional symphony …
As you know, the performing arts have been hit hard by the pandemic, but the good news is that things are slowly but surely returning to a normal. The latest proof of this welcome development is a new announcement from the Public Theater of San Antonio about resuming the previously promoted season. Only one show, “A Bronx Tale – The …
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 …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor If you are a poet who loves the visual arts, you may be interested in entering the second annual Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, a city-wide “grass-roots” project coordinated by San Antonio poetry champions Jim LaVilla-Havelin and Linda Simone in honor of National Poetry Minth, which is in April. Though the term “ekphrastic” is still unknown to a …
