CORE Performance Company performs “Visual as Experience”
at “Artful Thursday” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Based on exhibition "Contemporary Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection"

Houston--May 1, 2007—The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents CORE Performance Company in “Visual as Experience” as part of the museum’s Artful Thursdays on May 10, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. The performance will take place in and around the exhibition of Contemporary Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection. Representing the highlights of the past three decades of Latin American art, the exhibition focuses on the importance of performance in the visual arts.

Navigating the gallery space with a riveting performance, CORE Performance Company will respond to the diverse and complex styles, movements and genres represented in the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art. Engaging the human body while exploring the performative in the visual arts, CORE Performance Company creates a visceral experience of the poetic universes embodied in the exhibition.

“Artful Thursdays” at the MFAH explore art in a friendly, informal atmosphere. Special performances such as this by CORE Performance Company and other events surrounding the museum’s exhibitions including literary readings, behind-the-scene talks, walking tours and concerts, highlight art at the MFAH. The program is cosponsored by KUHF 88.7 FM.

MFAH Hours and Admission

The Audrey Jones Beck Building is located at 5601 Main Street. Admission is free on Thursday, courtesy of Shell Oil Company Foundation. For more information, call 713-639-7300. For information in Spanish, call 713-639-7379, or email lectures@mfah.org. TDD/TYY for the hearing impaired, call 713-639-7390. The museum’s parking garage is in the MFAH Visitors Center, located at 5600 Fannin Street at Binz Street (entrance on Binz). Free parking is available in two lots on Main Street, at Bissonnet and at Oakdale.

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CORE Performance Company, the professional touring company of Several Dancers Core, focuses on the ongoing development of the artistic process through the creation of new work. Made up of individual artists, the company performs new choreography that evolves through an intentional collaboration of experimentation and improvisation with artists from different mediums.

Committed since 1980 to innovation, risk-taking and collaboration, Several Dancers Core (SDC), a nonprofit dance organization, creates, performs, and presents contemporary dance. SDC promotes dance awareness and education through performances, presentations, workshops, and classes in contemporary approaches to movement and is dedicated to opening new channels of communication between artists and the community. For more information about Several Dancers Core, please call 713-862-5530 or visit www.severaldancerscore.org.

Several Dancers Core is funded in part by grants from Alternate ROOTS and the Ford Foundation, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Pattillo Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Endowment Inc., and AirTran Airways.

Photo URL: http://www.severaldancerscore.org/press/photos/havelkimjuana.jpg
Photo credit: Kim Coffman, Dancers: Kim Kleiber and Juana Farfan

Note: For interview requests, contact Susan Schmaeling at 713-349-0780 or saspr at swbell.net.