Coming Up
Here’s what’s going on in the near and not-so-near future.
September Salon | Thurs, Sept 26, 2024
Fusebox legends Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler (The Debate Society) return to Austin for our first ever Fusebox Artist Salon. We’ll then be joined by the brilliant Chris Grace, who is just off a fantastic run of his show Sardines (A Comedy About Death) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The amazing Pam Reyes will close out the evening with a short musical set, as we leave our bodies behind and float into the night sky.
More Info HereOctober Salon | Thurs, Oct 24, 2024
The October salon features a conversation with two local powerhouse collectives, The Puro Chingón Collective and Los Outsiders. Both have a long history with Fusebox, and we thought it would be fun to bring them together for one groundshaking night in October. We’ll also be joined by a guest artist for a special short performance.
More Info HereThe Storyville Mosquito | Kid Koala | Nov 2, 2024
Watch as a team of 14 performers bring a funny, charming, Chaplin-esque live theatre experience to life simultaneously on stage and screen with detailed miniature sets, live puppetry, cinematography, and live music by Kid Koala and a string trio. A young mosquito leaves his small town in the country to seek fame and fortune in the big city and fulfill his dream of playing in one of the greatest bands of all time at Sid Villa’s Music Hall.
More Info HereNovember Salon | Thurs, Nov 21, 2024
Our November artist salon features two remarkable artists from a not too distant Fusebox future. Ahamefula J. Oluo (a remarkable multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, comedian, and creator of live performance) is an artist we have admired for years. They will join us in conversation fresh off the premiere of their newest performance The Things Around Us, which beautifully weaves stories and anecdotes together with a live musical score that Ahamefule creates live through electronically looped trumpet, clarinet, and everyday objects. Austin’s own Joshua Banbury (a multi-dimensional vocalist and lyricist) will be performing a set with their trio in advance of next year’s Fusebox Launchpad, a new program designed to help local artists create ambitious live performance projects that premiere locally in Austin, with an eye toward then touring the show around the United States and the world.
More Info HereHonor, An Artist Lecture | Suzanne Bocanegra & Lili Taylor | Jan 31 + Feb 1, 2025
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 and worldview of women over time. Performed by celebrated film actor Lili Taylor and centered on one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s greatest tapestries, Honor is a brilliant weave of musical and theatrical elements that emerge in surprising and delightful ways.
More Info HereRooted Rhythms | Versa-Style Street Dance Company | Feb 28 + March 1, 2025
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 and energetic Rooted Rhythms pays tribute to leading artists of the ever-evolving global street dance culture that includes styles such as whacking, popping, locking and more.
More Info HereN O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Andrew Schneider | March 14 – 22, 2025
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 to immersion in a theatrical constellation of 4,000 reactive points of light and an enveloping 496-channel sound design. Part meditation, part exploration, an unseen narrator guides each visitor on their own individual journey. Viewers explore traces of themselves in starlight, the universe, and those who have been here before us.
More Info HereDakhaBrakha | April 11, 2025
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 of musical ideas. Meaning “give and take” in old Ukrainian, the quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted at the crossroads of Ukrainian folklore and theatre. Their musical spectrum is intimate then riotous, plumbing the depths of contemporary roots and rhythms, inspiring cultural and artistic liberation.
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