The city — ranked second among American cities in the Creative Industries 2008 study for the number of arts-related businesses it has — has no professional dance critic. The recent loss isn’t even from the LATimes, which hasn’t had a full-time dance critic for awhile. It’s Laura Bleiberg, who’s leaving the Orange County Register. 

It’s the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, it’s Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth’s  Barefoot Brigade at the Bath House Cultural Center and it’s The Makeover at the Runway Theatre in Grapevine. And here’s Gini with more …
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Painter Jennifer Morgan’s “Wild West” exhibition is at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, the North Texas Jazz Festival is at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison and Gini is at the mike for more events. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

It’s Granbury Gallery Night in downtown Granbury, it’s Texas Ballet Theater’s Dracula at the Music Hall in Fair Park and it’s singer Diane Reeves at McFarlin Auditorium. And it’s Gini with more.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Take a shot for art at the Amsterdam Bar — it’s a fundraiser for the Deep Ellum Association — while Dawn Hunter’s exhibition, Spectacle Spectacular, at the Mesquite Art Center,  examines 20 years of fashion shots from Vogue. And Gini has more for you, including dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones at the Nasher Salon. 
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OK, now it looks to be a serious outbreak. They used to be called “happenings” and then “performance art.” Now they’re “spontaneous acts of musical theater.”
On the other side of the continent, in an innocent, unsuspecting food court in a Los Angeles shopping mall, actor-singer-dancers-improv artists with not enough paid employment top their frozen New York counterparts [...]

Author Thomas Cahill will discuss How the Irish Saved Civilization for Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Arts, Lola’s in Fort Worth will hold a St. Patrick’s Day Post-SXSW Hangover Party with O’Death and Langhorne Slim, Debbie Reynolds will be Simply Ballroom at the Meyerson Symphony Center and Gini will be simply informative [...]

Reason magazine has a fascinating Q&A with University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Margaret Dorsey, author of Pachangas. She has followed the great Americo Paredes (With His Pistol in His Hand, the source for the film, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) in studying the Texas-Mexico border culture, specifically, the pachanga.  It’s a local institution whose forms range [...]

Science Daily reports that recent neuroscientific studies of children have found corelations, if not definitive causal relationships for the following:
1. An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance.
2. Genetic studies have begun to yield candidate genes that may help explain individual [...]

The Metropolitan Classical Ballet is at Bass Hall, the Supersuckers and Rail Benders are at the Granada and portraits of Texas singer-songwriters by photographer Gary Goldberg are showing at Austin College’s Johnson Gallery.  But wait, Gini has more.
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