Creative Minds Collaborative

Artists Open House Series 2
2020-08-30 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | TX
Click Here to Register to August 30, 2020 showing
Featuring artists: Allison Miller & Oliver Halkowich of Houston Ballet, Laura Hilley of Uptown Dance Centre, Pianist Dr. Makiko Hirata, Author Kenny Fries
CMC presents the 2nd series of Artists Open House with an entirely new cast!

Inspired by poem/essay – How Disability Can Save Your Life – by award winning author, Kenny Fries. The program begins with the reading, followed by dancers’ performance to Dr. Hirata’s accompaniment to pieces by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Beethoven.
The Artists Connection Q & A will open conversations for the viewers and artists.
The program is Free / By donation. Registration limited to 100.
Contributions in any amount is appreciated, and will directly support the artists appearing on this program.
Click Here to make a donation.
Click Here to Register to August 30, 2020 showing

Ballet Masterclass with Laura Hilley
2020-08-30 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Register Here to join Masterclass taught by Laura Hilley of Uptown Dance Company, before her performance for Artists Open House 2!
Ballet Masterclass is on Zoom Webinar, open to Ages 12- Adults. Registration fee: $15

Artists Open House Series 2
2020-08-23 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Click Here to Register to August 23, 2020 showing
Featuring artists: Allison Miller & Oliver Halkowich of Houston Ballet, Laura Hilley of Uptown Dance Centre, Pianist Dr. Makiko Hirata, Author Kenny Fries
CMC presents the 2nd series of Artists Open House with an entirely new cast!

Inspired by poem/essay – How Disability Can Save Your Life – by award winning author, Kenny Fries. The program begins with the reading, followed by dancers’ performance to Dr. Hirata’s accompaniment to pieces by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Beethoven.
The Artists Connection Q & A will open conversations for the viewers and artists.
The program is Free / By donation. Registration limited to 100.
Contributions in any amount is appreciated, and will directly support the artists appearing on this program.
Click Here to make a donation.
Click Here to Register to August 23, 2020 showing

Ballet Masterclass with Allison Miller
2020-08-23 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Register Here to join Masterclass taught by Allison Miller, First Soloist with Houston Ballet, before she premieres for Artists Open House 2!

Ballet Masterclass is on Zoom Webinar, open to Ages 12- Adults. Registration fee: $15

Allison Miller was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and studied in Ellenton, Florida with Diane Partington, Rey Dizon, and Filipp Gadar. In 2002, Ms. Miller attended the North Carolina School of the Arts where she studied with Warren Conover, Melissa Hayden, and Susan McCullough. She joined the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in 2004. Under the direction of John Meehan and Clinton Luckett, Ms. Miller performed in Costa Rica, Bermuda, London, and various American cities. While in the Studio Company, she worked with distinguished choreographers Sean Curran, Benjamin Millepied, Stephen Mills, Dominic Walsh, and Brian Reeder. She has performed exciting roles in Saint Leon’s La Vivandiere and Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 (coached by Merrill Ashley), and she has danced the roles of the Snow Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy (coached by Gelsey Kirkland) in The Nutcracker with Ballet Pacifica.

Artists Open House - Traces of Us. Performance #3
2020-05-31 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Register on Zoom now. Limited to 100 seats per performance
Registration Fee: $15. Proceeds will directly support the artists participating in this program
Houston Ballet dancers, Axiom Quartet cellist unite for ‘Traces of Us’

Join us for a live multidisciplinary online art experience, hosted by Chris Johnson, that reflects on how we maintain the positive connections in our lives via our virtual avatars.
Inspired by the form and content of Jacqui Sutton’s poem Contact Tracing, the event will begin with a reading of the poem by the poet herself.
From the unique perspective of their own homes, Nao Kusuzaki, Creative Minds Collaborative Artistic Director, will perform alongside Houston Ballet principal dancers, Chun Wai Chan and Karina Gonzalez. Patrick Moore, of the Houston based Axiom Quartet, will augment the self-choreographed performance with solo virtuoso cello pieces by Bach, Saint-Saens, and Handel.
In addition, several new pieces have been commissioned by the Houston based composer Karl Blench. The new works of Karl Blench will take the musical ideas from the older works on the program to mirror the idea of contact tracing musically.

This event will take place on the video conferencing platform Zoom. Every attendee of the event will have the best seat in the house to experience these world class performers artwork. In addition, attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with these artists through Zoom’s chat feature.

Artists Open House: Traces of Us. Performance #2
2020-05-30 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Register on Zoom now. Limited to 100 seats per performance
Registration Fee: $15. Proceeds will directly support the artists participating in this program.

Houston Ballet dancers, Axiom Quartet cellist unite for ‘Traces of Us’

Join us for a live multidisciplinary online art experience, hosted by Chris Johnson and inspired by Jacqui Sutton’s poem Contact Tracing.
From the unique perspective of their own homes, Nao Kusuzaki, Creative Minds Collaborative Artistic Director, will perform alongside Houston Ballet principal dancers, Chun Wai Chan and Karina Gonzalez. Patrick Moore, of the Houston based Axiom Quartet, will augment the self-choreographed performance with solo virtuoso cello pieces by Bach, Saint-Saens, and Handel.
In addition, several new pieces have been commissioned by the Houston based composer Karl Blench.

Every attendee will have the best seat in the house to experience these world class performers’ artwork. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with these artists through Zoom’s chat feature and Q & A session.

Artists Open House: Traces of Us. Performance #1
2020-05-24 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago)
Register on Zoom now. Limited to 100 seats per performance
Registration Fee: $15. Proceeds will directly support the artists participating in this program.

Join us for a live multidisciplinary online art experience, hosted by Chris Johnson and inspired by Jacqui Sutton’s poem Contact Tracing.
From the unique perspective of their own homes, Nao Kusuzaki, Creative Minds Collaborative Artistic Director, will perform alongside Houston Ballet principal dancers, Chun Wai Chan and Karina Gonzalez. Patrick Moore, of the Houston based Axiom Quartet, will augment the self-choreographed performance with solo virtuoso cello pieces by Bach, Saint-Saens, and Handel.
Chun Wai’s choreography
In addition, several new pieces have been commissioned by the Houston based composer Karl Blench.

Every attendee will have the best seat in the house to experience these world class performers’ artwork. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with these artists through Zoom’s chat feature and Q & A session.
