Accelerating Their Artistic Voice: Dallas Black Dance Theatre builds on recent triumphs with inspiring season
By all measurements, Dallas Black Dance Theatre had a stellar 2021 and first part of 2022.
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‘Survivance’: The Carter Turns the Lens Over to Indigenous Photographers
Speaking With Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, on display at the Amon Carter through Jan. 22, 2023.
Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach
The 2022-23 season is a bit of a homecoming for Bruce Wood Dance.
Loud and Clear: Vignette Art Fair amplifies women’s voices
The Vignette Art Fair gives women artists from all over Texas the opportunity to exhibit their work and make their voices known.
The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas
In 1980, two years after Teatro Dallas was founded by Cora Cardona and Jeff Hurst, only 9.9% of Dallas’s 904,078 residents ticked the newly added box for “Hispanic.”
Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy
Ten years is a huge milestone for an arts organization, and Avant Chamber Ballet is celebrating accordingly.
Between sacred and secular: Murillo at the Kimbell
Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo might be hailed as the leading religious painter of Seville during his lifetime, which spanned 1617–1682, but he wasn’t initially a favorite of former Louvre curator Guillaume Kientz.
Full Strength: TITAS/Dance Unbound Returns with a Packed Season
After a shortened 2021-22 season, TITAS/Dance Unbound is roaring back for its first full, live season since the pandemic. That’s 10 companies, hailing from four countries, with five making their Texas debut.
All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare Dallas turns 50
Nothing says summer in Dallas quite like Shakespeare in the Park. For 50 years now, the Bard of Avon’s fans have been unfurling blankets, laying out picnics, and popping the corks on glistening bottles of chilled wine before enjoying an evening of iambic pentameter under the stars.
Finishing Strong: TITAS/Dance Unbound assembles star-studded lineup for its spring season
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.
A Closer Look: Avant Chamber Ballet stretches into new venues for its 9th season
Of all the changes to come out of the pandemic, having an audience be closer to its performers is not one many dance groups anticipated. But Katie Puder, Avant Chamber Ballet’s artistic director, is thrilled with this outcome for her company.
In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages
It can be argued that wrestling is a form of theater, with its dramatic storylines, thrilling choreography, and powerful characters.