Demi Dancers at Houston Ballet: The eye-opening world of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker
Stanton Welch framed his new Nutcracker as a coming-of-age story, with a young Clara at the center of his dazzling holiday ballet, now entering its second year.
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It Happened in Texas: Vaslav Nijinsky’s tour with the Ballets Russes
In early December 1916 Vaslav Nijinsky, the greatest dancer alive, spent a week in Texas.
Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward
As a dancer and teacher, Lily Cabatu Weiss operated close to the ground.
This Season and Beyond: Dallas’ Avant Chamber Ballet Thinks Ahead
Avant Chamber Ballet’s 2017-18 season takes several steps forward.
The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space
Harvey took the floor away from us, and for a large part of the arts sector, the floor was mighty shaky before the storm hit.
Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the innovative, quirky or simply new shows to devour like Christmas candy each most-wonderful-time-of-the-year
Choreographer at the Helm: Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Bridget L. Moore Charts New Territory
Bridget L. Moore can’t quite see her alma mater from the window of her Dallas Arts District office.
History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF
Every year a cluster of dance films make the Houston Cinema Arts Festival line-up, Nov. 9-13. This year they run the gamut, where dance and dancers are the central focus (Rebels on Pointe and No Maps on my Taps/About Tap), to films where dance is used sparingly, in a more poetic realm (Pendular).
Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut
In Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1845 children’s book Struwwelpeter, a little boy is warned by his mother to stop sucking his thumbs, lest they be cut off by a scissor-wielding, red-legged tailor.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship
When Houston Ballet takes the stage next fall for the Houston premiere of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, Sept. 22-24 at the Hobby Center, it will surely be new for the audience, yet also be a continuation of a storied relationship between the company and the legendary British choreographer.
New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season
Watching a rehearsal of Mayerling I witnessed a company in motion in more ways than the splendid dancing in the room.
Texas Studio: jhon r. stronks
Growing up, jhon r. stronks was never in one place for long. Born in Fresno, his childhood was spent globetrotting to accommodate his stepfather’s occupation as an airline pilot.