Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Opera Collaborate for ‘Pulcinella’
Pulcinella is an odd duck of a ballet.
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Made in Texas: Trey McIntyre Returns with a Houston Ballet World Premiere
In the midst of its celebratory 50th anniversary season comprised entirely of works created for the company by world-renowned choreographers, Houston Ballet presents Forged in Houston March 12-21.
Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance
If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.
Texas Lens: 10 Years of Flamencura in Austin
I sat down with Director Olivia Chacón to discuss Austin’s burgeoning flamenco scene, the growth of the studio and the company’s next theatrical production.
Starting from Scratch: Jennifer Mabus builds a Dance BFA at the University of St. Thomas
2019 was a year of firsts for the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston and its Dance Program Chair Jennifer Mabus as the school’s inaugural cohort of dance majors stepped into the studio for the fall semester.
Texas Studio: Catherine Turocy
Search for information on baroque dance and it won’t be long before you come across the name Catherine Turocy.
Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun
Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing.
Awakening Conversation: Group Acorde Gives Us Something to Talk About
Group Acorde wants people talking about art—theirs or otherwise. The interdisciplinary, Houston-based quartet—dancers Lindsey McGill and Roberta Paixão Cortes, bassist Thomas Helton and saxophonist Seth Paynter—are in the middle of their fourth season.
Ready for the Classics: Avant Chamber Ballet Tackles ‘The Nutcracker’ and More
Dallas’s Avant Chamber Ballet is taking the plunge: The seven-year-old company unveils its first staging of The Nutcracker, complete with a live orchestra, on Dec. 20.
The World Dances: TITAS Brings International Troupes to Dallas
TITAS stands for Texas International Theatrical Arts Society, but not since the 1999-2000 season has the presenter put so many international acts on stage.
Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’
The problem with bringing a groundbreaking work of art into the world is that sometimes it alters the landscape so much that when we revisit it we might forget that such a wonder didn’t always exist.
Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too
Meg Booth worked with organizations like North Carolina Dance Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance and Dance/USA before spending 11 years directing dance programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.