{"id":26266,"date":"2025-10-29T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:15:06","slug":"uptown-players-announces-2-new-shows-for-2026-dallas-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26266\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Players announces 2 new shows for 2026 Dallas lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new museum tour featuring huge airy installations \u2014 also known as balloons \u2014 is coming to Dallas: Called Let\u2019s Fly \u2013 Art Has No Limits<\/a>, it’s a multisensory exhibition from an entity called the Balloon Museum, and it will touch down at Dallas’ South Side Studios at 2901 Botham Jean Blvd. on Saturday, November 22, where it will reside until April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

Created by Italy-based Lux Entertainment, Let\u2019s Fly will feature huge artworks spanning more than 65,000 square feet. Rooted in the concepts of flight, freedom, and lightness, the exhibition explores air as both a physical element and a symbol of movement and limitless travel.<\/p>\n

According to a release, Lux Entertainment specializes in traveling as well as site-specific exhibitions that combine monumental artworks, engaging environments, and live performances. In June 2024, an Italian investor SIMEST (CDP Group) pledged $5.8 million to expand Lux into the U.S., spawning the creation of the first permanent Balloon Museum overseas.<\/p>\n

Their mission is to transform entertainment into a personal journey, where the audience is not a spectator but a protagonist via innovative formats such as Balloon Museum, This is Wonderland, Christmas World, and Color Hotel.<\/p>\n

Balloon Museum was founded in Rome in 2021 as a pioneering art space dedicated to showcasing inflatable and air-based contemporary installations that merge creativity, technology, and sensory exploration. They have four main exhibitions: Pop Air, EmotionAir, Let\u2019s Fly, and Eupho\u044fia, which have toured across three continents.<\/p>\n

Let’s Fly previously stopped in Austin<\/a> and, simultaneous to Dallas, it will also stop in Houston<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

The dozens of artists featured in each exhibit vary from city to city; Dallas’ Let\u2019s Fly \u2013 Art Has No Limits stop will include:<\/p>\n

\u201cSqueezed In,\u201d an installation inhabited by oversized characters, by Lucas Zanotto\u201cHer Joy,\u201d a mirrored sphere that breathes and reflects light like a resonating body, by Alex Schweder\u201cCrazy Love for Polygons” explores geometric forms, by Cyril Lancelin\u201cBalloon Tree,\u201d uniting nature and artifice, by Myeongbeom Kim\u201cLava Lamp,\u201d a 44-meter psychedelic and breath-like installation inspired by the iconic 1963 lamp, by Michael Shaw\u201cBB,\u201d using hundreds of balloons to explore symmetry and reflection, by Tadao Cern<\/p>\n

One notable piece is Christopher Schardt’s \u201cMariposa\u201d, a 26-foot butterfly sculpture with 39,000 LEDs, which was first presented at Burning Man 2023.<\/p>\n

Dallas seems to have a child-like rapture for big bouncy round things \u2014 from the Yayoi Kusama pumpkins<\/a> at the Dallas Museum of Art to Bubble Planet<\/a>, the immersive experience with larger-than-life bubbles which makes its debut at Grapevine Mills on October 23.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith its world-class arts scene and bold, design-driven landscape, Dallas offers the perfect backdrop for Balloon Museum\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Fly,\u201d says Lux Entertainment founder Roberto Fantauzzi in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to bring an exhibition that reflects the city\u2019s scale and spirit \u2014 dynamic, creative, and constantly in motion, always reaching for what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new museum tour featuring huge airy installations \u2014 also known as balloons \u2014 is coming to Dallas:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18322,18323,18356,102,104,103,6569,18357,18358,18359,2509,18360,18327],"class_list":["post-26266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-application-pending","tag-bj-cleveland","tag-bruce-wood-dance","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dance","tag-gay-pride-celebration","tag-joy-bollinger","tag-kalita-humphreys-theater","tag-theater","tag-theatre-three","tag-uptown-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}