Dance
Demi Dancers at Houston Ballet: The eye-opening world of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker
Stanton Welch framed his new Nutcracker as a coming-of-age story, with a young Clara at the center of his dazzling holiday ballet, now entering its second year.
It Happened in Texas: Vaslav Nijinsky’s tour with the Ballets Russes
In early December 1916 Vaslav Nijinsky, the greatest dancer alive, spent a week in Texas.
Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward
As a dancer and teacher, Lily Cabatu Weiss operated close to the ground.
This Season and Beyond: Dallas’ Avant Chamber Ballet Thinks Ahead
Avant Chamber Ballet’s 2017-18 season takes several steps forward.
The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space
Harvey took the floor away from us, and for a large part of the arts sector, the floor was mighty shaky before the storm hit.
Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the innovative, quirky or simply new shows to devour like Christmas candy each most-wonderful-time-of-the-year
Choreographer at the Helm: Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Bridget L. Moore Charts New Territory
Bridget L. Moore can’t quite see her alma mater from the window of her Dallas Arts District office.
History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF
Every year a cluster of dance films make the Houston Cinema Arts Festival line-up, Nov. 9-13. This year they run the gamut, where dance and dancers are the central focus (Rebels on Pointe and No Maps on my Taps/About Tap), to films where dance is used sparingly, in a more poetic realm (Pendular).
Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut
In Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1845 children’s book Struwwelpeter, a little boy is warned by his mother to stop sucking his thumbs, lest they be cut off by a scissor-wielding, red-legged tailor.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship
When Houston Ballet takes the stage next fall for the Houston premiere of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, Sept. 22-24 at the Hobby Center, it will surely be new for the audience, yet also be a continuation of a storied relationship between the company and the legendary British choreographer.
New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season
Watching a rehearsal of Mayerling I witnessed a company in motion in more ways than the splendid dancing in the room.