Trailer from Fusebox Festival April 2017, Stateside Theatre (Austin, TX)

Photos from Fusebox Festival - April 2017 at Stateside Theater (Austin, TX)

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Ballroom Marfa

Ballroom Marfa is a nonprofit cultural arts foundation based in Marfa, a remote town of 2,000 people in Far West Texas. Their contemporary art and performance space was founded by Fairfax Dorn and Virginia Lebermann in 2003 in a ballroom that dates to 1927. Funded by donations from individuals and foundations, Ballroom Marfa produces ambitious exhibitions; commissions extraordinary works that are site-specific and site-inspired; enables profound cultural happenings and connections; and shares the landscape of the Big Bend with a diversity of artists and musicians.

Fusebox Festival

Fusebox Festival brings artists and audiences together to explore vital issues, ideas and new possibilities. Their ongoing investigation positions the arts at the center of local, national, and global conversations about contemporary life and culture. The 13th annual Fusebox Festival will present dozens of adventurous local, national and international artists across all disciplines in Austin, TX on April 12-16, 2017

Creative Capital

Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel and career development services. Their pioneering approach, inspired by venture capital principles, helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding and career development services valued at $45,000, for a total commitment of up to $95,000 per project. 

Golden Hornet

Golden Hornet, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is REIMAGINING CLASSICAL MUSIC through collaborative creations and adventurous programming with commitments to justice and innovation.

A bilingual cross-border opera about Pancho Villa, the enigmatic general, legendary bandit, and hero of the Mexican Revolution.

Una ópera bilingüe y transfronteriza sobre Pancho Villa, el general enigmático, bandido legendario, y héroe de la revolución Mexicana.

Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance is a bilingual cross-border opera about the life and death of Pancho Villa.  Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, the project is the third installment of The Marfa Triptych, a genre-hopping trilogy of musical performances by visionary composer Graham Reynolds. The opera is an insightful examination of the Mexican and Mexican-American impact on the culture and politics of West Texas, contributing to the current and timely conversation about borders and the limitations of the concept of delineated states.

Exploring facts from Villa's biography while also examining the mythology surrounding him, the opera will ask what Pancho Villa means to Mexican and American culture and where these meanings intersect and conflict. The opera brings together artistic collaborators from both sides of the river to engage in a borderless conversation about the shared history between Mexico and the United States,

Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance is the epic closing chapter in The Marfa Triptych.  Reynolds experiments with an exciting hybrid of composition and production techniques while leading an eight piece ensemble to bring Lagartijas Tiradas Al Sol's fascinating libretto to an intensely visceral and intimate life.