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If you’re curious how the art of the ancient world might translate to contemporary fashion or just how many Rodgers and Hammerstein II aficionados can fit in a football stadium, you’re in the right place. We have this and much more, so keep reading to find this week’s best virtual and socially distanced events.
Fashion Fusion VI: Antiquities to Modern Art on Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. Presented virtually this year, the annual collaboration sees student-designers from HCC’s Fashion Design program challenged to create looks inspired by the museum’s collection. During the program, viewers will also get behind-the-scenes peeks into the designers’ studios and vote for their favorite creations. You can watch the runway looks, modeled in the MFAH galleries, on Facebook Live.
Nothing says holiday tradition around town like making your way down to the Wortham Theater Center to see
The Nutcracker each year. Well, it’s anything but a normal year, but despite living in a post-COVID world, the Houston Ballet and Artistic Director Stanton Welch have attempted to make lemonade within the lemon-tations of the year in the form of
Nutcracker Sweets. The hour-long mixed repertory makes the necessary move to cyberspace, with a program featuring two new works from Welch, a new work spotlighting Houston Ballet II and Students of Houston Ballet Academy, and an abbreviated version of
The Nutcracker culled together from footage taken in 2018.