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Dallas has a new jazz modern dance company ready to premiere work for your pleasure. 8&1 Dance Company,...
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Review: Cinderella
You know right away you are in fresh take on a classic fairy tale when you find out that Cinderella’s mother leads a group of zomberinas. Stanton Welch’s “Cinderella” is a triumph on several levels. From the first few notes of [...]
Review: Gallim Dance
Lush, fierce dancing punctuated with thrilling bouts of kinetic wit characterized Gallim Dance’s performance as the highlight event of the Jewish Community Center’s annual winter festival known as Dance Month [...]
Cultural Warrior: Nancy Henderek
NOW ON HER 17TH SEASON, AND her 20th if you count the work she did in Brussels, Belgium, Dance Salad Festival director Nancy Henderek is a cultural ambassador on the international stage. [...]
Review: American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre Winspear Opera House, Dallas January 20–21, 2012 TITAS opened the latter half of their 2011–2012 dance season by bringing in America’s most beloved ballet company, American Ballet Theatre. On Friday, January 20 (with a second performance on Saturday), ABT performed four pieces from their extensive repertoire at [...]
Review: A Crack in Everything
The intensity of the dancing proved the most striking aspect of Zoe|Juniper’s “A Crack in Everything,” and that’s saying a lot, as the installation, spanning photography and video designed by Juniper Shuey, [...]
Review: La Vie a Pleines Dents
In an empty second floor retail loft in the Houston Pavilions, Hope Stone Dance Company has set up a pastiche of dining room table chairs settees and carpet squares flanking a portable [...]
Stanton Welch: Houston Ballet’s Fast and Furious Choreographer
HOUSTON BALLET’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Stanton Welch wasted no time ascending to world renown as a choreographer. Once he got started, that is. Most dancers expect to spend years in the studio and on the stage before moving on to a choreographic career. [...]
Under the Great Dance Umbrella
WHEN THAT TRANSLUCENT WHITE umbrella floats on stage during Alvin Ailey’s masterwork “Revelations” during Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s return to the Society for the Performing Arts Jones’ Hall stage on March 2–4, it will be a historic occasion. [...]
Fill Up Your Dance Card
A Virtual Feast of Out of Town Dance WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE SUCH a vibrant local...
An Evening of Magic
Houston Ballet’s Jubilee of Dance Offers New and Classic Works December 2 Jubilee of Dance Wortham Theater...
Let’s Dance
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Southern Methodist University. As part of the centennial celebration, look the...