Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas
Speaking with Amy Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Dance at Lamar University, it occurred to me that I’ve been writing about her work since 2012.
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A New Flock: Jennifer Mabus Launches Grackle Dance Collective in Dallas
I would wager that anyone familiar with Texas dance would say that it was only a matter of time before Jennifer Mabus initiated her own creative platform.
Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match
Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.
Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach
Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.
‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston
Choreographers, like artists of all mediums, find inspiration in both grand realizations and quiet moments.
Breaking Boundaries: METdance’s Big Year
After twenty years of success, a dance company might find itself hard-pressed to top itself season after season—but not the team at METdance.
Sea & Space: Karen Stokes Mines Houston’s History
All too often choreographers of modern dance present work based on material they without question know and understand: their own life stories, experiments based on individual movement practices, or explorations of thematic content that shoot out of their imaginations.
Powerful Presence: CORE Presents Dance from Israel at Miller
If movement can reveal a national identity and specific cultural context, then the dance work of Israel is defined by a heightened sense of immediacy.
Texas Cultural Trust Prepares Students for Success in the Digital World through Art
As every working artist knows, being a creative means being an entrepreneur, and being an entrepreneur means being connected to the digital world.
Shifting Focus: Two Star Symphony at Mid-Career
Jerry Ochoa, Jo Bird, Margaret Lejeune and Debra Brown of Two Star Symphony. Photos by Sarah Prikryl. Houston’s...
Re-envisioning A Streetcar Named Desire: The Scottish Ballet stops in SA and Houston
Does the steamy story of Stella, Stanley and Blanche DuBois make compelling dance theater?
The Little Prince & More
Unchambered with Matt Dane and Christina Jennings at ROCO