Real Life Love at Dance Salad: Texas Ballet Theater’s Leticia Oliveira and Carl Coomer
The fun part of Houston’s Dance Salad Festival, April 13-15, is in the mix of companies, dancers and choreographers.
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Hiding in Plain Sites: CounterCurrent Artists Reveal Stories throughout Houston
In 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts blazed a trail into the world of festival programming.
Rare Works, Beloved Classics & Surprises: Houston Ballet’s 2017-2018 Season
At first glance, Houston Ballet's 2017/2018 Season can look like a crash course in ballet, with something for everyone, including ballet connoisseurs, contemporary enthusiasts and those completely new to the art form.
Borders, Ritual and Awesomeness: Five Days of Fusebox
Fusebox, Austin’s contemporary, cross-disciplinary visual and performing arts festival, and all round benevolent force in the struggle to keep Austin weird, consolidated its offerings in 2016, going from a 10 or 12 day schedule to a five-day festival lineup.
Site-Specific Sightings: Laura Gutierrez at the Rec Room & Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre at Rice’s Skyspace
I'm fond of saying that there isn't a space that can't be improved by the presence of a dancer, or two, or in some cases, an entire dance company.
Coming Home to Texas and Sometimes Leaving Again
When a writer pitched a story about an actor leaving Texas I immediately said, “No thanks, I need to focus on those staying.” Although, now I can't help wondering what would have been in that exit interview.
Open Space: Dance at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts
“We are putting in a dance floor,” Alison Weaver told me during a hard hat tour of the Moody Center for the Arts, which opens this month on the campus of Rice University.
Substance & Spunk: Women Triumph in Life and Love in Stanton Welch’s Cinderella
Stanton Welch prefers strong heroines. So it's no wonder that his Cinderella knows her own mind. Houston Ballet fans will find that out for themselves when the company performs Welch's beloved story ballet Cinderella, March 2-12, 2017.
DSH’s Mind the Gap Mines the Personal and the Political
When I saw that Dance Source Houston cooked up a follow-up project for their AIR residency artists I had to go, mostly because it's just such a smart move.
Doing Well By Doing Good: Dallas Black Dance Theatre at 40
Forty years in the business – that fact has quietly crept up on Dallas Black Dance Theatre founder Ann Williams. “You don’t see what you’ve accomplished because every day you’re trying to make it happen,” says Williams, who has spent half of her life making it happen at the longest-running dance company in North Texas.
Fresh Start: Austin Welcomes Trey McIntyre
The word is out: renowned American choreographer Trey McIntyre calls Texas his home once again. McIntyre cut his teeth as a dancer and a choreographer at Houston Ballet.
Motion Redux: Tad Beck at FotoFest’s International Discoveries VI
When Vinod Hopson of FotoFest suggested that I check out the work of Tad Beck, I figured dance was involved. And indeed, Beck's work with renowned downtown dancemakers is compelling on several levels, from the detailed process to the end image, which involves re-photography and some actual dancing.