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📣We’ve got some bittersweet news to share. The one and only Carra Martinez () is moving on to her next professional chapter this month. Carra will be joining the extraordinary team at YoungArts in Miami as their Senior Director of Artistic Programs.

Founded in 1981, YoungArts () identifies exceptional young artists, amplifies their potential, and invests in their lifelong creative freedom. It’s a fantastic organization with a brilliant team, and Carra will undoubtedly do great and mighty things in this new role.

Carra is one of the smartest, funniest, and big-hearted people we’ve ever met. She is a brilliant colleague and dear friend. Her role with Fusebox as Co-Artistic Director and Director of Live in America was transformational. She has helped shape and expand our thinking in so many ways. Her leadership, vision, and producing of Live in America was truly inspired.

Thanks for everything, Carra! You are forever part of the Fusebox family. We are so excited for you and the YoungArts team. We will miss you tremendously! ❤️❤️

Look who we ran into at the Edinburgh Fringe! Chris Grace is knocking the socks off festival audiences with Sardines (A Comedy About Death) that we had the pleasure of presenting, in its workshop version, this past April at Fusebox! Busy as ever, he's even brought back his hit show Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson. Can't wait for more audiences to laugh so hard they cry and cry so hard they laugh 😂 ❤️


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The Forgetting Curve by Graham Reynolds and Jim Findlay on themes of memory is still deeply etched on our minds! 🎹🎶🥁

What's floating in your memory stream today? 💭


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Last summer Deen Rawlins-Harris and five amazing teens from Austin came together to imagine a performance festival created for teens, by teens. And thus Revive Youth Festival: Teen Bands Showcase was born 🥁 👏 🎶 🎸 🎤

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Infuse a little of ⚡energy into your day and live that hype life! 🙌

This high octane performance on the rooftop of lives forever in our memories 💙🪩

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An inspiring 5 days at the with a wonderful group of colleagues. Performances in rock quarries, athletic fields, the 14th century palace of the Pope, a nursing home, cloisters, a school, and some regular old theaters. Grateful to .albertine for organizing and grateful to all of the artists and colleagues for the sharing of ideas/perspectives and lively conversations.

A little Monday blues? A dose of CB Goodman's () In The Beginning will cure whatever ails ya! Who caught this show at this year's fest? 🐑 🌴

Just wrapped up an action-packed 3 days in Marseille with a group of the most wonderful artists and colleagues. Some truly beautiful, amazing performances. Thank you .albertine

Join us June 15th at 2:00pm, for a new iteration of Gesel Mason’s () YES, AND

Marking the last of three Host: Fusebox programs, this performance will occupy all floors of the Jones Center, with Lubaina Himid’s work as a stage, the audience is invited to be immersed by both works, traveling up and culminating at the Rooftop followed by a reception.

Yes, And is a collection of performance experiments that place an expanded vision of Black womanhood at the center of its creative process. It takes an iterative approach to performance informed by the creative expertise and lived experiences of Black women (cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming.) Yes, And asks: “Who would you be and what would you do if, as a Black woman, you had nothing to worry about? What would you create and how might you be in community with others?” These questions catalyze a methodology of undoing and re-imagining that offers participants and witnesses the freedom “to find” and to “be found” from this recalibrated place.

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Dorian Wood () brought the genre-defying Canto de Todes to this year's fest. This is but a small glimpse at the immersive 12-hour composition and installation that emphasized the urgency of folk music as a vessel for social change. Featuring local artists and .beau.elliot, they brought their moving performances to this unique, durational, spatial, ever-evolving experience.

Presented in partnership with and the Museum of Human Achievement.

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𝙃𝙊𝙎𝙏: 𝙁𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙭, an exhibition celebrating Fusebox's 20 year history, opened last month in collaboration with . Tomorrow evening, May 29th, is another chance to view this specially curated space when you join us for a one-night, multi-media installation and performance of TOMORROW IS CANCELLED presented by theater artist Jim Findlay in collaboration with sound/video artist Jim Dawson, and performer Cyrus Moshrefi.

Described as a “ritual performance exploring the constructive use of violence,” the work is presented in conjunction with the current HOST: Fusebox exhibition.

Beginning at 8pm with a cocktail reception and film-installation, at 8:45pm the audience will gather within an audio-visual environment that unfolds and develops over time, including participatory and performance elements on the Jones Center rooftop. This event is free, but please RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3KikYXF

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👀 Looking back at the time Amrita Hepi () graced the Fusebox stage at the Rollins Theatre () in 2023 with her performance of Rinse.

Rinse and Amrita are currently at Montreal's Festival TransAmériques () going on May 22nd - June 5th. Read a short interview between Amrita and FTA to explore her thoughts on this powerful work. 💙
https://fta.ca/en/interview-with-amrita-hepi/

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An all new slate of co-curated programming begins this fall, as Fusebox + announce our 2024/25 performance series. Tickets are live today for our Fusebox family (before they are available to the general public). Be the first to get your tickets!

💫 Use the offer code FUSEBOX to get priority tickets here: https://buff.ly/3VaYVIG

This special offer is valid on all five of the Fusebox + TPA shows highlighted below PLUS the rest of the full TPA season. Save 20% when you buy three or more shows.

Please join us May 29th for a one-night, multi-media installation and performance of TOMORROW IS CANCELLED presented by theater artist Jim Findlay () in collaboration with sound/video artist Jim Dawson () and performer Cyrus Moshrefi.

Described as a “ritual performance exploring the constructive use of violence,” the work is presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, HOST: Fusebox.

Beginning at 8pm with a cocktail reception and film-installation, at 8:45pm the audience will gather within an audio-visual environment that unfolds and develops over time, including participatory and performance elements on The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center rooftop.

A school bus fight in North Texas. An intricately impossible escape from Iran. A sanctuary for spiritual violence in a former nunnery. All are situations and sites through which the artists consider societal effects and experiences of violence via the mediums of film, audio, and performance.

The galleries will be open for viewing HOST: Fusebox and Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend.

This event is free to attend but please RSVP at the link in bio.

The Fusebox archives unearthed a new batch of memories for featuring Rachel Mars at Fusebox Fest 2019 alongside Katie Bender & Gabrielle Reisman in Next Year People.

It was part faux documentary, part bacchanalian unraveling of our best laid plans. Anyone remember seeing this production at the Santa Cruz Studio Theater?

Thankfully Rachel Mars () is back on Austin stages this weekend! Get your tickets now to see 's production of 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙨 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙩: 𝙊𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙇𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨.

It's a funny, intimate solo show, triangulating the s*x and love letters of long dead artists, contemporary s*xts, and a meditation on the construction of the q***r female body. How do we write ourselves and for whom?

💌When: May 10th at 8pm, 11th at 8pm, and 12th at 5pm
💌Where: CRASHBOX (5305 Bolm Rd, Ste 12)

There are only 3 public performances so nab those tickets https://buff.ly/3wvVK4G

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Anito brought us to such ephemeral lands, and yet our minds are still nestled within the roots of the balete tree 🌱🫚

has captured these phenomenal moments that allow us to continue to tap into a small piece of ancestral memory that Justin Talplacido Shoulder () and the Anito team have created with their multi-sensory storytelling talents.

Thank you to the Anito creative team for traveling to Fusebox Festival this year and sharing your stories.

🌱Justin Talplacido Shoulder ()
🌱Corin Ileto (.ileto)
🌱Eugene Choi  ()
🌱Fausto Brusamolino ()
🌱Matthew Stegh
🌱Penelope Leishman
🌱Jeff Khan ()

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Gorintō II opens tonight! It is the second iteration of an immersive performance project started back in 2019. This multi-sensory piece for five sound artists is set in the inverted round, creating an intimate, surprising relationship between audience and performer. Three nights only!

Drew Silverman and COTFG present this visual representation of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. Please join the escape into these essential elements of existence, an hour where the audience members are invited to be fellow travelers within the framework of the composition and visual design. The audience is encouraged to lie down on a collection of pillows and rugs (as well as bring their own favorite comfort items) to experience a series of projections on a surface hung from the ceiling.

Get your tickets today:https://buff.ly/4d4jeyb

Fly into a new week like ! We get an adrenaline rush every time we think of Radioactive Practice 🤸⚡ which dancer are you channeling today?

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Saying goodbye to my mom today. I am so grateful for the unyielding, steady stream of love and support she (and my dad) showed me. To honor the memory of both of them, my sisters and I (and Fusebox) are announcing a new cash award in their name to be given to an extraordinary artist each year. 100% of all dollars donated to this fund will be given directly to the chosen artist each year. Lizzy Berry, Cate Berry, Cindy Berry Ollig

Fusebox | Kindful To honor the memory of Genelle and Ronald Berry Sr, Fusebox is proudly announcing the creation of a new cash award in their name to be given to an extraordinary artist each year. 100% of all dollars donated to this fund will be given directly to the chosen artist each year.

Gorintō II is landing May 2nd to 4th --part soundscape, part classicist composition, part sound bath, and part ASMR dream. 🌀☁️🎶

Drew Silverman (), , and Fusebox present this visual representation of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. Gorintō II is intended to be an escape hatch leading to these essential elements of existence, an hour where the audience members are invited to be fellow travelers within the framework of the composition and visual design. The audience/performer relationship melts away and invite all to feel as a single organism.

This is a second iteration of an immersive performance project started back in 2019. The audience will gather in a circle centered in the space and are encouraged to lie down on a collection of pillows and rugs (as well as bring their own favorite comfort items) to experience a series of projections on a surface hung from the ceiling. The musicians will be positioned around the audience, as will a truly surround sound speaker set up for maximal auditory experience.

Get your tickets today: https://buff.ly/4d4jeyb

Missed your chance to catch The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body during the festival? You're in luck, it's playing now through May 4th at ! Reserve your tickets today! https://buff.ly/3U6OQuB

This world premiere is a new choreopoem by award-winning playwright and Black cultural studies scholar Lisa B. Thompson (). The show premieres 25 years after the debut of her classic comedy Single Black Female and is dedicated to Thompson’s mentor and friend, the legendary theater director Shirley Jo Finney.

“The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body is my theatrical love letter to Black women and girls,” Thompson explains. “The piece calls for radical self-acceptance and self-compassion and celebrates peace, nurturing, rest, care, freedom, joy, and love. It’s about embracing the ‘soft life’ for Black women, whose labor and dedication has sustained people, communities, and institutions.”

With the talents of a seasoned artistic team and themes that progress the Black Lives Matter movement, The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body is poised to be a bold, influential work of theatre.

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Fusebox Festival Day 8, the final day! Make it an extra special art-tastic Sunday with our magical medley of final festival offerings. We've got plenty more for you to experience before the day is done, hope to see you out and about the festival stomping grounds! 💫 🤩

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Fusebox Festival Day 7! Thank you to everyone rolling along with us and bringing these fantastic shows to life 💜 there's so much popping off today that we won't attempt to list them all here but there is still time for you to jump on the Fusebox train 🚂🚂

Heads up that tomorrow is our final day so check the festival schedule in the bio 🔗 and see something amazing 🤩

Guadalupe Maravilla's Serpent of the Sun and the Moon, commissioned specifically for the solar eclipse is on view all week and beyond the festival at Waterloo Park - Lebermann Plaza. Take a performance break and stroll through the park and enjoy this celestial piece firsthand! ☀️🐍🌙

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This work is supported by the Simons Foundation and is part of its ‘In the Path of Totality’ initiative.

It's Fridayyy and Fusebox Festival Day 6! Unleash the weekend and go see the phenomenal performances guaranteed to brighten your creative spirits! 🕺 💫

A plethora of openings await you with Lisa B. Thompson's The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, alongside amazing company with CB Goodman's In The Beginning, Justin Talplacido Shoulder's Anito, and Abby Z and New Utility's Radioactive Practice! 🎉

☕ Stop in for a coffee break with our Artist Talk featuring Avery-Jai Andrews, Coka Trevino, Joshua Banbury, and Kenyon Adams today delving into the amazing possibilities of corridors of the rts between cities featuring all alumni. Then pop over to MoHA and bring snacks over to The Rubber Repertory as they start their 18 hour weekend upon treadmills. 🏃🏃🍿

Finish the evening with the musical stylings of The Illustrious Blacks and Joseph Keckler on the rooftop of 🎶

Fusebox Festival Day 5 and there's so much to explore!

Take your coffee break with us and meet us at and catch and Paola Mathé () in conversation ahead of the opening of The Black Feminist Guide To The Human Body.

Tania El Khoury () continues her interactive family memoirs today at with Cultural Exchange Rate.

Don't miss the Mountains in Stars—record release and performance at featuring and in action.

is back for more wry comic performance enchantment !

And of course our grand opening over at is today! Celebrate 20 years of Fusebox with a brand new exhibition Host: Fusebox --an interactive gallery experience featuring a sampling of works by Fusebox artists over the years plus there's cake and extraordinary performance sets by Australian duo, The Huxleys!

What's on your Fusebox schedule today?

Fusebox Fest Day 4 and we're ramping up the energy! Dorian Wood () is defying music genres with 12 hours of unfolding composition in CANTO DE TODES, Tania El Khoury () opens her interactive family memoirs today at with CULTURAL EXCHANGE RATE, Chris Grace () presents a work-in-progress of his newest show answering the most existential and funniest of life's questions, and Sam Green () screens his profoundly sensory live documentary.

With all these experiences and artworks don't forget to grab lunch Fusebox Style with our first Artist Talk of the festival. 12:30-1:30pm swing by and join Taylor Davis and Jessy Wilson to hear about their work creating as multi-hyphenates.

Add this double header of unworldly performances to your Friday night Fusebox plans! April 12th together with the we’re opening up the Jones Center rooftop with the magically operatic and the fantastical duo . Get to the rooftop early to grab a drink, bump into friends, and take in the festival liveliness. ✨🪩

A little rain won't stop us from getting excited about Fusebox Fest Day 3! Tonight is hosting a conversation with Academy Award®️-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green () about his creative process. The talk will begin at 7pm at the AFS Cinema and will be moderated by SXSW Film & TV Director Emeritus Janet Pierson (). The event is free, click here to reserve your tickets: https://buff.ly/3TPWGII

32 Sounds will be screened at the Bass Concert Hall tomorrow in partnership with !