Nancy Wozny is editor in chief at Arts and Culture Texas, a contributing editor at Dance Magazine and a frequent contributor to Pointe Magazine and Dance Teacher.
Gary Gibbs has served as the Executive Director of the Texas Commission on the Arts since 2007. Prior to joining the TCA, Gibbs served as Director of Education and Outreach at Houston Grand Opera for sixteen years.
Every year, I resist the list, and then cave with some kind of listicle of fave performances. Here are some moments that stood out for me on Houston's dance and theater stages. Oh, and one film performance, because I couldn't resist.
Ars Lyrica celebrates the New Year by taking a little jaunt to Venice with “Venetian Carnivale,” a concert featuring music by Monteverdi and Vivaldi, and performances by Sopranos Melissa Givens and Blair Doerge, violinist Yung-Hsiang Wang, Baroque flutist Colin St. Martin, and guitarist Richard Savino ...
Wendy Perron has led a distinguished life as a writer, editor, choreographer and dancer, which included dancing with the seminal post-modern choreographer Trisha Brown.
The holidays are no excuse to slow down your art-going, especially since this season seems to have a bounty of new productions, along with the old standards.
I've written more Nutcracker stories than should be allowed. Dance writers should have a quota. For a while, disaster stories were all the rage. Tales of a remote control rat going rogue on stage can seriously stir up holiday bluster.
