Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages
Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!
Dallas/Ft Worth
Texas Lens: Watching Dallas Dance
I became an accidental dance critic in Dallas a decade ago, just in time.
Thriving at the Helm: Joy Bollinger Finds her Stride at Bruce Wood Dance
Five years after the death of its namesake choreographer, Bruce Wood Dance is in a good place.
Icon of Style: Dior at DMA
Before the word “Dior” became synonymous with haute couture, before the House of Dior became the global fashion giant and icon of style, Christian Dior, the pioneering designer, ran art galleries and organized exhibitions that featured artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Alexander Calder, Jean Cocteau, Dalí and Duchamp.
Disappearing into California Conceptualism at The Modern
In 1971, artist Chris Burden vanished for three days. No one knew where he had gone, and for those three days the artist questioned his own existence and what his disappearance meant.
Children at Play: Gary Lee Price at Dallas Arboretum
Well-behaved visitors to the Dallas Arboretum wouldn’t dare. But people who are sculpted in bronze in can get away with a lot more, can’t they?
Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran
Cast your brain on the ocean of pop culture references for “perpetual worker” and you may come up with workaholic TV dads, the Energizer Bunny, or even Sisyphus, doomed to an eternity of useless boulder-pushing.
Texas Studio: Annette Lawrence
Annette Lawrence reads me something she’s written about her work: “I’m tuned in to things that go unannounced and remain steady, continuous, and unremarkable on the surface, but hold magic over time.”
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Looks Ahead with New Artistic Director at the Helm
The wall next to Melissa Young’s desk is covered in neatly arranged Post-it notes. It’s how the artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre keeps track of her future plans for the company.
Immigration Remains Pressing Issue in Real Women Have Curves at Dallas Theater Center
As soon as Dallas Theater Center (DTC) announced its 2018-19 season, my group text with Houston theater writers began buzzing with excitement over productions of The Wolves and Sweat.
Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration
The Dallas Opera commemorates a handful of anniversaries next season, and the most notable involves one of your not-so-catchy numbers.
Texas Studio: Adrian Esparza
“There are associations that come with the use of a sarape, especially now with recent political and economic border issues,” says Adrian Esparza, referring to the brightly colored, blanket-like shawls from Latin America that inform and compose much of his work as well as the constant issue of the Mexican-American border, in which Texas is often found at the center.