Performania
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.
Dance
Making the Leap: Rednerrus Feil offers first Full-length Into-Me-See
Typically people keep their most intimate thoughts to themselves. Pubescent girls with sneaky younger brothers or the particularly paranoid may even keep theirs under lock and key. Artists like Amy Llanes, however, process intimate thoughts through choreography and then share them publicly on stage.
Movement and Color
Modern dance has a history of its choreographers being in conversation with visual artists. Two of the more famous examples would be Martha Graham with Isamu Noguchi and Merce Cunningham with Robert Rauschenberg.
Two to Watch: Laura Edson & Sidra Bell Create New Works for The Houston Met’s 2|2
Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s artistic director, Marlana Doyle, clearly has a mission in bringing freelance choreographersfrom all over the US to work with her dancers.
Prone to Roam
Artists are leaving Texas, and for good reason. Touring equals two important things for the state's performing artists: unprecedented exposure and a chance to get off the island. An invitation to perform on the road carries with it a certain cachet, elevating an artist’s hometown reputation and expectations.
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
Full Heart Dancing
IMAGE: Airs by Paul Taylor. Photos by Paul B. Goode. Paul Taylor Dance Company Returns to Houston Paul...
The Darkness of Light
The audience for NobleMotion’s Collide experiences a tender moment in the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts’ Zilkha Hall before the show even begins. The curtain is raised and the dancers and Austin-based rock band My Education are visible for all to see. The dancers mark the evening’s work while My Education runs through their set.
Summer Rites at Freneticore
In what other season would you see sparkling fringe, bright pink hoop skirts, and male feet and svelte legs in point shoes skimming across the floor?
A Decade of Dance
With the 2013-14 season, Stanton Welch moves into his 10th year as artistic director of Houston Ballet, one of the leading companies in the nation.
Sydney Skybetter and the Hacker Ethos
Sydney Skybetter is a keynote speaker at the 2013 Houston Arts Partners Conference, on Sept 13-14 at Houston...
The Lone Star State en Pointe
No, ballet wasn’t born in Texas. But, in accord with the proverbial Law of Attraction, it got here as fast as it could.
Since the arrival of a troupe of traveling Russians during a time when even Hollywood movies were still, literally, finding their voice, the art and practice of ballet has been nurtured by Texans, who support not one, but three multi-million-dollar-budget ballet companies, and a host of smaller, but no less notable, organizations.