Casting Light on Houston Ballet’s 2022 Lineup
The second part of Houston Ballet’s 2021-2022 season features productions that reflect the wide-ranging talents and skills of the company’s dancers.
Dance
Pegasus Contemporary Ballet Takes Flight over DFW
North Texas has a new ballet company, but don’t expect a production of Swan Lake or The Nutcracker. “I love those ballets; I’ve performed them as a professional,” says Diana Crowder, Artistic Director and Founder of Pegasus Contemporary Ballet.
The Underworld on Stage: ‘Hadestown’ Tours Texas
Even once the show goes on, the director’s work is still not done. This has become especially true for the Tony winning director of Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin.
Taking Flight: Dallas Black Dance Theatre forges new connections in its 45th anniversary season
“It’s surreal to think that the start of our 45th anniversary began with our Jacob’s Pillow debut,” says DBDT artistic director Melissa M. Young.
It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns
“It’s Houston. Literally every single thing is happening, including filmmaking. Everything is happening in Houston.”
Dancing on a Lake and Other Pandemic Miracles
If 2020 into 2021 was the ultimate annus horribilis, the year really became the worst of times for that most ephemeral and impermanent of arts, live performance.
Straight to the Top: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project returns
Now in its 7th season, AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project is still an excellent launch-pad for the unique.
TITAS Leaps Into Live Performance
The name of TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND’s new season—its first full return to live performance since the pandemic—packs a punch.
Catching up with Dallas Dance Maverick Danielle Georgiou
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows her that Danielle Georgiou—who is perhaps the most eclectic choreographer in the DFW dance space—is already ramping up for a packed summer and fall season.
ISHIDA Brings Literature to Dance for Texas Audiences
Brett Ishida, a California transplant to Austin, is bringing her new Austin-based contemporary dance company ISHIDA to the stage for the company’s first evening-length production since the pandemic began.
SPA Welcomes Audiences Back with a New Season
Over the years, I’ve realized something as an arts writer and audience member: There’s a fine art to programing performing arts.
‘All the Devils are Here’: A Storm of Movement and Story from Open Dance Project
“These pitiful souls being tossed to and fro in the waves among you, their stories are mine as well,” decrees the magician Prospera in the Open Dance Project’s All the Devils are Here: A Tempest in the Galapagos.