Not Every Mountain
Austin’s Rude Mechs return to one of their most beguiling works. Not Every Mountain is a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world. It tells the story of the life cycle…
PAST FUSEBOX PRESENTS EVENTS INCLUDE:
Shopping Center of the Universe
Robin Frohardt—the visionary behind the critically acclaimed Plastic Bag Store (TPA ’22) and a 2024 Herb Alpert Award-winner—returns to Austin with a new, genre-defying live-cinema performance. For…
The 4th Witch
Emmy Award-winning Manual Cinema returns to Texas Performing Arts with another masterfully crafted, beautifully handmade production. This all-new performance blends shadow puppetry, live-action silhouettes,…
Instructions for a Séance
Katie Bender—Harry Houdini enthusiast, mom, struggling artist—says she’s been leaving her house after the kids go to sleep… sneaking into TPA’s rehearsal studio, stealing items from the…
Michael Sakomoto + DJ Spooky: Work in Progress
time/life/beauty Creative residency and work-in-progress showing Dance and media artist Michael Sakamoto, composer-musician Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and dancer-choreographer Mohamed “Barges”…
Can I Be Frank?
In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis turns to the work of queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya in Can I Be Frank? Maya…
DakhaBrakha
DakhaBrakha is world music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine. Reflecting fundamental elements of sound and soul, they have been leaving audiences breathless for more than a decade with their utterly unique mix…
There There
“There There” is an immersive three-screen installation experience adapted and expanded from Andrew Bujalski’s 2022 movie of the same name. Across a series of interconnected “duet”…
Rooted Rhythms
Celebrating their 20th anniversary as a vanguard Hip Hop and street dance ensemble, Versa-Style shines a spotlight on West Coast Hip Hop and the street dance styles that originated in L.A. The uplifting…
N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Texas Premiere Inspired by visions of the Milky Way and Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, the stars is an introspective, awe-inspiring journey into a matrix of light. Visitors move from total darkness…
Honor, An Artist Lecture
This slyly subversive performance by conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra masquerades as a medieval art lecture before swiftly transforming into an irreverent and hilarious critique foregrounding the work…
32 Sounds
An immersive documentary and profound sensory experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound. From filmmaker Sam Green and featuring original music by JD Samson, 32 specific audio recordings…
The Storyville Mosquito
Kid Koala’s latest project is a remarkable live cinema event, featuring a team of 14 performers, miniature sets, live puppetry, gorgeous cinematography, and live music by Kid Koala and a string trio….
Love in Exile
Grammy Award–winning vocalist Arooj Aftab makes her Austin debut with the Love in Exile Trio, featuring two of her most trusted collaborators: polymath pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad…
Tremble Staves
Tremble Staves is a collaboration between The Living Earth Show (guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson) with 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning Navajo composer Raven Chacon. Deemed “outstanding”…
FOOD
Why do we eat what we eat? Where does it come from? Do we need what we eat? Do we eat what we need? What does it really cost? An intimate dinner party performance of smell, taste, and touch, FOOD offers…
Cultural Exchange Rate
Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. One marked by war survival, valueless…
Radioactive Practice
Named one of the ‘Best Dance Performances’ of 2022 by the New York Times. Award-winning choreographer Abby Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending work that brings together a mosaic group of…
The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body
The VORTEX and Fusebox Festival proudly present the world premiere of The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a new choreopoem by award-winning playwright and Black cultural studies scholar, Lisa B….
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