Dance

It’s been almost ten years since the heads of Dance Source Houston, the Bayou City’s diligent and committed resource organization for the local field of dance, hatched an inspired plan. Executive Director Mollie Miller and then Board President Stephanie Todd Wong recognized a need for performance opportunities for the city’s dance-makers, as well as production training so that these artists could utilize the newly opened Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH).

Balance, an ability vital for a dancer en pointe or leaping from earth to air, is equally necessary for an artistic director programming a new ballet season. And this is especially true for a company as large as the Houston Ballet with its rarity of two artistic directors, Stanton Welch and Julie Kent.

When the English National Ballet first commissioned international superstar choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create the ballet that would become Broken Wings, the original concept was to create a dance about “a woman from literature or history that was damned and doomed.”

Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.