In the midst of its celebratory 50th anniversary season comprised entirely of works created for the company by world-renowned choreographers, Houston Ballet presents Forged in Houston March 12-21....
2019 was a year of firsts for the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston and its Dance Program Chair Jennifer Mabus as the school’s inaugural cohort of dance majors stepped into the studio for the fall semester....
Group Acorde wants people talking about art—theirs or otherwise. The interdisciplinary, Houston-based quartet—dancers Lindsey McGill and Roberta Paixão Cortes, bassist Thomas Helton and saxophonist Seth Paynter—are in the middle of their fourth season....
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. ...
Celebrating its 24th anniversary in Houston and the 27th season since its inception in Belgium, Dance Salad Festival returns to the Wortham this Easter weekend (April 20-21) with its customarily diverse mix of classical and contemporary works from all over the world. ...
One of the remarkable things about dance is its consistent ability, despite diversities in origin, method, belief, or even time, to demonstrate our human similarities while providing opportunities to celebrate and appreciate cultural differences....
Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas is home to one of the nation’s most highly regarded and rigorous dance programs....
In Texas, as in most other regions, funds for contemporary dance are spread thinly, even across companies considered to be the toast of the state’s dance scene. ...
Harper Watters. Photo by Jordan Matter.
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Ballet has at times in its history seemed myst...
Nichelle Suzanne is (shhh) not a native Texan, but she too got here as fast as she could. A Houston dance instructor and writer, she is the founder and editor of DanceAdvantage.net, where she covers all things dance and dance training.
