LOCAL Houston | The City Guide JANUARY 2016 | Page 26

FRESH ARTS SCENE
WE HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR THIS YEAR, AND THE ARTS IN HOUSTON ARE GIVING
US GOOD REASON TO REMAIN OPTIMISTIC.
THE OTHER MOZART | LOTT ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
January 7–9 Performances are at 8pm.
There was another Mozart – a forgotten genius: Nannerl, the sister of Amadeus.
THE OTHER MOZART is the true and untold story of a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal
acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. With the opulent
beauty of the 18-foot dress that makes up the set, the sweet smell of perfume
and the clouds of dusting powder rising from the stage, the performance creates
a multi-sensual experience that The New York Times calls “strikingly beautiful,”
and transports the audience into a world of outsized beauty and delight – but
also of overwhelming restrictions and prejudice. There, in communion with the
audience, this other Mozart at last tells her story. Performances take place at the
MATCH downtown, 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. Tickets are $45.
For more information, visit www.lottentertainmentpresents.com.

SLAVS AND TATARS: LECTURE SERIES | Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the Arts
January through April
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Blaffer
Art Museum, presents a lecture series by Slavs and Tatars. Founded in 2006,
Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east
of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as
Eurasia. They have exhibited in ma