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This reminds me of a song…

March 27, 2017 - Lisa Pulsifer

The Harry Ransom Center holds a wide variety of materials, from Robert De Niro’s Taxi Driver script and costume to Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves. These and many other items are on display in our current exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center. The stories told in the exhibition can bring to mind music that’s meaningful to your experiences, and we invite you to share [Read more…] about This reminds me of a song…

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: exhibition, Music, playlist, songs, Spotify, Stories to Tell

The life of a dance costume, from the inside out

March 27, 2017 - Jill Morena

Shaping the fosshape form with heat guns

A costume worn for the Ballets Russes’s production of Narcisse, currently on display in the exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, presents an intriguing glimpse into behind-the-scenes work at the dance company that electrified pre-World War I audiences in Europe and beyond. [Read more…] about The life of a dance costume, from the inside out

Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Apryl Sullivan, Ballets Russes, corset, costume, dance, Ethafoam, exhibition, Fosshape, garment, Jill Morena, mannequin, Narcisse, Rigilene, seamstress, Stories to Tell

A touch of illusion… and sprinkle of paprika

October 19, 2016 - Christine Lee

The Harry Ransom Center partnered with Central Market to present “Dining with Harry Houdini,” a cooking class inspired by the life of the legendary performer and stage illusionist, on Sunday, October 16, 2016. [Read more…] about A touch of illusion… and sprinkle of paprika

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Central Market, cooking class, exhibition, Harry Houdini, Houdini archive, Hungarian, Hungary, illusionist, Louis Ortiz, Membership

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