Honoring Texas Artists: The Texas Medal of Arts Awards come to Austin
You may be hard-pressed to explain what ZZ Top, Eva Longoria, Willie Nelson and Walter Cronkite have in common, but for the Texas Cultural Trust, the answer is simple: Texas.
Dance
Cultural Awareness Threads Through Dance Month 2017 at the Kaplan
One of the remarkable things about dance is its consistent ability, despite diversities in origin, method, belief, or even time, to demonstrate our human similarities while providing opportunities to celebrate and appreciate cultural differences.
Altered Reality: Pilobolus brings Shadowland to Texas
Even if you’re never seen Pilobolus in concert before, you’re probably familiar with the acrobatic dance troupe’s work. After starring in a Ford commercial over a decade ago, in which the dancers’ silhouetted bodies became the car, the commercial opportunities kept coming: a high-flying performance at the 79th annual Academy Awards, appearances on Sesame Street, Oprah, Ellen, The Today Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and more.
Performania: Texas Dance Ambassadors
I spend a lot of time outside of Texas, for work, family, but mostly to keep up with my home artform: Dance. Nothing makes me happier than running into Texas dance artists doing work outside of Texas. So when a friend came up to me during my time at Jacob’s Pillow asking me if I knew that a Houston dancer was performing with the renowned choreographer Jonah Bokaer, my response was a proud, “Why, yes I do!”
Dancing Bodies Wake Up Space: Third Coast Dance Film Festival at Aurora Picture Show
I'm convinced that most spaces can be improved by the presence of a few dancing bodies.
Clara’s Big Dream: Houston Ballet’s New Nutcracker
Snow, a Sugar Plum Fairy and a gigantic Christmas Tree are three things we all expect from any production of The Nutcracker.
Coming Home: Annie Arnoult
Hunter Dance Center’s director Annie Arnoult shows no signs of slowing down as she enters her second season back home.
Animated Dance: The Proximity of Being at Luminaria
For San Antonian Barbara Felix, the human form is a never-ending source of fascination.
Breaking Boundaries: METdance’s Big Year
After twenty years of success, a dance company might find itself hard-pressed to top itself season after season—but not the team at METdance.
Performania: Houston Ballet’s Fresh Nutcracker
Houston Ballet is throwing a little holiday get-together, at least that's what it looks like from my seat at the front of the rehearsal room as the company enacts the famous party scene from the Nutcracker.
A Culture Collective: Art Outside the Therapy Hour
In the months following our two comedy improvisation classes with Beta Theater last year, our teacher, actor Jerry Emeka remarked candidly, “I could not for the life of me figure out what your collective ‘deal’ was.”
Identity and Mortality with ARCOS Dance
ARCOS Dance is known as an experimental platform for dance technology – a merging together of bodies in space and digital creation. It’s like a modern brand of philosophy, an embodiment of human history alongside a projection of its uncertain future.