Following Harvey, Houston Ballet's Spring Season is Back On Track
When Hurricane Harvey badly damaged Houston Ballet’s Wortham Theater Center this fall, all programming was cancelled and the fate of the company’s upcoming season was unclear. Yet over the past few months, the greater performing arts community has pulled together to help the company get its fall season back on its feet. This week Houston Ballet announced new dates and venues for its Spring 2018 Season.
The spring season will continue the company’s “Hometown Tour” of Houston theaters that they began for Nutcracker season, switching between the George R. Brown Convention Center’s General Assembly Hall and Resilience Theatre (a fitting name, no?), Sarofim Hall at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Jones Hall, and the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston. The company is making light of the situation, titling their two mixed repertoire programs scheduled for the Brown Center “Unconventional Ballets at the Convention Center.” (They’ve also had plenty of fun with wordplay while advertising their productions of The Nutcracker held in Sugar Land, TX, a city just south of Houston.) The season showcases the full diversity of Houston Ballet’s offerings, from Alexander Ekman to Don Quixote to a world premiere by artistic director Stanton Welch celebrating Houston’s resilience.
Sara Webb and Connor Walsh with Artists of Houston Ballet in “Swan Lake” choreographed by Stanton Welch. Photo by Amitava Sarkar, Courtesy Houston Ballet.
The company’s full list of new dates and venues are listed below:
Rock, Roll & Tutus
Unconventional Ballets at the Convention Center
March 1-4, 2018 — George R. Brown Convention Center’s Resilience Theatre
Don Quixote
April 13-15, 2018 — The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts—Sarofim Hall
Artists of Houston Ballet in”Don Quixote” choreographed by Ben Stevenson. Photo by Amitava Sarkar, Courtesy Houston Ballet.
Academy Spring Showcase
May 24-26, 2018 — Moores Opera House at the University of Houston
Play, the program formerly titled Global Movements
Unconventional Ballets at the Convention Center
June 8-10, 2018 — George R. Brown Convention Center’s General Assembly Hall
Swan Lake
June 23-July 1, 2018 — Jones Hall
