Daring Dance in Dallas: Charles Santos on the 2016/17 TITAS Season
Dallas is a strong dance city for many reasons, TITAS Presents at AT&T Performing Arts Center being one of them.
Nancy Wozny
Performania: Curious Connections
During an email exchange with Jessica Lang about her collaboration with architect Steven Holl for Tesseracts of Time, I realized that I could hear the sounds of construction of Holl’s new Glassell School, part of the new MFAH campus, from my desk as I was typing.
The ACTX Top Ten: July/August 2016
Our top ten picks for arts + culture events happening across Texas in July and August 2016.
Objects & Motion: Jonah Bokaer at Soluna
Jonah Bokaer folded space in two in one sweeping motion. OK, so maybe he used a super long piece of paper to do that. Not everything that moves in a Bokaer concert is human.
Performania: Festival Fever
I got it bad, festival fever. And I am not alone; Texas is right there with me.
Waltzing with Ghosts: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Revises Giselle
On a sunny May afternoon, I found myself spellbound, watching Houston Ballet principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh rehearse the very first meeting between Giselle and Albrecht.
A Season Six Celebration: A Visit with Bruce Wood Dance Project’s Kimi Nikaidoh
Bruce Wood Dance Project celebrates its sixth season with the Dallas premiere of Bruce Wood’s Anything Goes, along with world premieres by BWDP répétiteur/rehearsal director Joy Atkins Bollinger and NobleMotion co-artistic director Andy Noble, on June 17-18 at Dallas City Performance Hall.
Ten Not So Tiny Dances at CounterCurrent 2016
The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center opened its third CounterCurrent's with Ten Tiny Dances on April 12, 2016.
Performania: Israeli Dance in Texas
I’ve been obsessed with Israeli contemporary dance since returning from International Exposure 2015 last December, and for good reason: Some of the best contemporary dance on the planet harks from the tiny seaside city of Tel Aviv.
The Sears Effect: Kelly Sears at Aurora Picture Show
When the lights came up after an hour of Kelly Sears' shorts I felt like an extra from The Manchurian Candidate, with a mild case of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, complete with the eyeball spinning.
Kinetic Storyteller: A Conversation with Charles O. Anderson
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.
A Delicate Collaboration: Jonah Bokaer on Rules of the Game at Soluna
Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham and Pharrell Williams open the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Nancy A. Hasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Soluna International Music & Arts Festival with the world premiere of Rules of the Game, with choreography by Bokaer, visuals by Arshamand music by Williams, played live by the DSO and arranged by David Campbell, on May 17 at Winspear Opera House.