Arts & Culture Texas

Finishing Strong: TITAS/Dance Unbound assembles star-studded lineup for its spring season

Lindsey Wilson·March 10, 2022

During the first part of its 2021-22 season, TITAS/Dance Unbound treated Dallas audiences to U.S. and Texas premieres, reimagined cultural icons, exuberant Latin dance, and even pieces choreographed to the music of R&B legend D’Angelo.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

TITAS Leaps Into Live Performance

Lindsey Wilson·July 24, 2021

The name of TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season—its first full return to live performance since the pandemic—packs a punch.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

Tarra Gaines·June 11, 2021

Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Drawing Parallels with Houston Contemporary Dance Matriarch Marlana Doyle

Nichelle Suzanne·April 9, 2021

“I mean, I’m exhausted most of the time,” laughs Marlana Doyle, founder and executive/artistic director of Houston Contemporary Dance Company (HCDC), who is also president and CEO of the Institute of Contemporary Dance (ICD).

Dance Houston

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Lindsey Wilson·November 2, 2020

Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too

Nichelle Suzanne·September 10, 2019

Meg Booth worked with organizations like North Carolina Dance Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance and Dance/USA before spending 11 years directing dance programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Dance Houston

Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·June 13, 2019

Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Texas Scope Theater

Forward Facing Art: SPA’s Meg Booth Starts a New Chapter in Houston

Tarra Gaines·April 12, 2019

“I do passionately believe that the arts are avenues of hope.” So says Meg Booth, the new CEO at Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts.

Dance Houston Theater

Bold Choices: A Busy June and Blockbuster Season Ahead at TITAS

Manuel Mendoza·May 14, 2018

The current TITAS season comes to a close this month with performances by the long-running American dance companies Alonzo King LINES Ballet (June 9) and Parsons Dance (June 30) before the Dallas dance presenter launches its 2018-19 offerings later this summer.

Dance Design in Texas

The ACTX Top Ten: September 2017

Nancy Wozny·September 8, 2017

Arts + Culture events happening across Texas in September 2017.

Top Ten

Kinetic Storyteller: A Conversation with Charles O. Anderson

Nancy Wozny·April 6, 2016

Charles O. Anderson is an associate professor of African Diaspora Dance Studies and the Head of the Dance Program at The University of Texas at Austin.

Austin Dance

BODYTRAFFIC Makes Texas Debut

Claire Christine Spera·December 23, 2015

The new year brings something fabulously new to Texas: BODYTRAFFIC, a Los Angeles-based contemporary dance company known for its versatility and sparkling technique, makes its debut in Texas with performances at Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center Jan. 22 (part of the TITAS Presents series) and Houston’s Cullen Theater at Wortham Center Jan. 23 (presented by the Society for the Performing Arts and sponsored in part by the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston as part of the center’s Dance Month).

Dance

Art

Clay into Flora: Rebecca Manson at The Modern

Listen, Touch and Learn: Marie Watt at the Blanton

Soy de Tejas: Traveling exhibition unites the Lone Star State in Fort Worth with Latinx art

Music

Consumed by Love: Houston Grand Opera’s New Season of Romance and Passion

Love, Power and Gold: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performs Wagner’s Epic Ring Cycle

Houston Symphony Expands for the Strauss Festival

Dance

Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center

Canyon Dancing: Open Dance Project’s Annie Arnoult takes us inside a Georgia O’Keeffe painting

The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead

Theater

A Lifelong Exploration: Director Sasha Maya Ada navigates a new path for DFW theater

In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

Film

Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20

Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Texas, the Arts and Home

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Books

Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

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Finishing Strong: TITAS/Dance Unbound assembles star-studded lineup for its spring season

TITAS Leaps Into Live Performance

SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season

Drawing Parallels with Houston Contemporary Dance Matriarch Marlana Doyle

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too

Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages

Forward Facing Art: SPA’s Meg Booth Starts a New Chapter in Houston

Bold Choices: A Busy June and Blockbuster Season Ahead at TITAS

The ACTX Top Ten: September 2017

Kinetic Storyteller: A Conversation with Charles O. Anderson

BODYTRAFFIC Makes Texas Debut