Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison...
Dance
Brazilian Grooves
Grupo Corpo at Society for the Performing Arts [Reprinted from Dance Source Houston] Pulsing rhythms, a seamless, fluid movement language, and mesmerizing choreography that spreads out horizontally across the stage evoking the sea and the mountains characterize Grupo Corpo [...]
Conversations in Movement
Lucinda Cobley and Teresa Chapman Team Up at Wade Wilson Art A casual chat between painter Lucinda Cobley and choreographer Teresa Chapman at a Galveston party prompted a collaboration, Shifting Spaces, an excerpt of which will be performed on March 28 at Wade Wilson [...]
Playing with Speed
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Returns to Dance Salad Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is part of a rising crop of freelance choreographers making their marks all over the world. Ochoa has created works for Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet [...]
Nutrition for a Dancer’s Soul
New Works at Houston Ballet A pensive Mireille Hassenboehler sits in the corner waving her hands in quick patterns while counting and glancing down at her notes. Completely absorbed in the process, Hassenboehler navigates her way though the new passages she has just learned from [...]
Emancipating the Soul
Urban Souls Dance Company A line of Congolese villagers dance for healing as their spines undulate while they...
Review: La Bayadère
If it be true that “ballet thy name is woman” (so says Balanchine), then in Houston her name is Karina Gonzalez, a dancer of such extraordinary power that she assumes the center of any stage where she finds herself. So, it made perfect sense for her to be the on cover [...]
Review: Erin Reck
Knowing When To Come Up for Air Recked Productions, Drive by Theater at the Photobooth on Montrose It’s not that often that the choreographer hugs you during the show, but that’s what happened to me when Erin Reck snaked through the audience at Drive by Theater [...]
Review: Ballet Austin
It has taken me 25 years to get to Ballet Austin. Although I’ve toured their stunning building, located in the heart of Austin’s bustling warehouse district, this was my first time seeing the company. Just about everything about the experience felt fresh, from the slick-yet-welcoming video [...]
Elementally Earthen
Hands reach into the air, imitating the motions of field laborers in daily fruit gathering work. The movement...
Grace + Power
Houston Ballet’s Stand-Out Principals Joseph Walsh and Connor Walsh Blade-like limbs sliced through the air exactly in unison, mastering the fierce architecture of Aszure Barton’s Angular Momentum. The stage was jam-packed with dancers, blazing white lights and a striking linear set, yet Joseph [...]
Dancing Left of Center
TITAS was founded in 1982 by co-founders Tom Adams and Gene Leggett, as the “Texas International Theatrical Arts Society,” to provide North Texas communities with the opportunity to experience the best of American and international music, dance, and performance art through a variety of presentations and educational [...]