Nancy Wozny
The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up
It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more.
Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology
Frame Dance presents its seventh annual Frame x Frame Film Festival Nov 1-30 in a first ever online format, in three weekends and six outstanding programs.
The Choreography We Carry: Considering Our Dance DNA with Houston Ballet Principal Connor Walsh
Dance artists are shaped by the work they dance, and the relationship between the dancer and the dance-maker is extremely potent when it comes to what we see on stage.
Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center
Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.
Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up
We are back for our epic annual public chit chat, a tiny snapshot of the thousand dishy emails that fly across the inter tubes discussing what we just saw, missed, didn’t understand or flat out loved.
Labor in Motion: Laura Gutierrez at DiverseWorks
Choreographer Laura Gutierrez honors her father’s 48 years of labor in the premiere of In Tarps I Trust, commissioned and presented by DiverseWorks on Feb. 22-24, 2024 at the MATCH in Houston.
When a Ballet becomes a Poem: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Delmira Premieres at Houston Ballet
For choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, poetry and ballet share a similar terrain.
POP DEMO: Toni Leago Valle’s Speakeasy Comes to the MATCH
Houston’s favorite provocateur Toni Leago Valle is back at it this fall with the premiere of 6 Degrees in her latest opus, POP DEMO, which she describes as “a dance/theater experience blending political commentary, offbeat theater, aerial, contemporary dance and visual projections.”
Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up
It’s been way too long since I sat around the virtual table with our fabulous theater writers Lindsey Wilson and Tarra Gaines to chat about all things performing arts in Houston, Dallas and beyond.
Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations
With a tagline of “international, powered by women & curiously lo-fi,” Frame Dance’s line-up this year for Frame x Frame Film Fest 2022 offers a range of impactful films.
A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’
City Council Meeting was developed by Aaron Landsman amd Mallory Catlett, with design by Jim Findlay, and developed (in part) during a residency at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.