Daily Archives: 04/21/2010

(Community Matters) Premieres tomorrow.  Third Coast Digest interview here

(Community Matters) FuseBox performances  Steven & I are prioritizing: (in addition to those featured further below): LA Party (this Thur & Fri at AV Stage, Ballet Austin), Big Dance Theater (4/27 – 29 at the Long Center), Paved Paradise Redux (4/30 & 5/1 at Rollins Stage), Gravel Works (4/23 – 24 @ the Off Center), Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (4/25, the Off Center), Tosca String Quartet (Graham Reynolds 4/26 at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz), Quest for the West (Kirk Lynn & Thomas Graves 4/24 & 4/25 – 5/1), and Late Nights @ US Art Authority (every night 4/22 – 5/2) – plus so many other really great shows.

Outside of our jobs & church, the FuseBox Festival is the community/arts initiative with which Steven and I are most engaged this year – time, talent & treasure.

Yesterday evening, we hosted a reception for FuseBox major donors and VIP pass holders.  Festival founder & artistic director, Ron Berry gave us a preview of the various performances during the next ten days, joining us included: Chris Mattson, Deborah Green, Amy & Kirk Rudy, Laurence Miller, Mark Holzbach & Dana Friis-Hansen, Michael Mitchell, Marcy Hoen & Bijoy Goswami, Phil Soltanoff & David Barlow (LA Party) and other friends.

Festivities start today with the Allison Orr & Graham Reynolds commissioned piece including 200+ two steppers at the State Capitol’s south entrance.  Stubb’s BBQ serving free food from 6 to 6:30, when the performance begins.

Immediately after, Julie Thornton’s TestPerformanceTest is presenting Velvet Suite at the Paramount (free performance) featuring Japanese dancer Kaiji Moriyama.

All followed by an invitation only celebration of the launch (thank you TestPerformanceTest)

Other major FuseBox donors but who weren’t able to join us yesterday: Carla & Jack McDonald, Julie Thornton, John Thornton, Ronald & Genelle Berry, Kent Fuka, Jeanne & Mickey Klein, Suzanne & David Booth, Dan Heath, Drink & Eve McArthur, Lora Reynolds, Amy Bryant, Margaret Keys, Jo Krause, Diane Land & Steve Adler, Tim McCabe, Lauren Siegel, Carl Tyson, Harvey Guion, Jennifer Haley, Tony Martinez & Carli Saenz, Steve Moore, Jason Neulander, Katie Pearl and Shawn Sides.  None of this possible without (first) Ron Berry and the donors and extraordinary – nearly & literally free – staff including: Natalie George, Dani Pruitt, Elle Mahoney, Eliot Haynes, Sam Webber, Shoshona Currier, Bryan Schneider, Shannon Richey, Shobie Partos and many more.