Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas

Tarra Gaines·October 23, 2017

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

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Theater

Choreographer at the Helm: Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Bridget L. Moore Charts New Territory

Manuel Mendoza·October 19, 2017

Bridget L. Moore can’t quite see her alma mater from the window of her Dallas Arts District office.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Editor's Picks

History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF

Nancy Wozny·October 16, 2017

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).

Dance Film Houston

Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut

Manuel Mendoza·September 22, 2017

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship

Nancy Wozny·September 13, 2017

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.

Dance Houston

New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season

Nancy Wozny·September 13, 2017

Watching a rehearsal of Mayerling I witnessed a company in motion in more ways than the splendid dancing in the room.

Dance Editor's Picks Houston

Texas Studio: jhon r. stronks

Lawrence Elizabeth Knox·August 8, 2017

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.

Dance Features Texas Studio

Young, Female & Powerful: Laura Gutierrez and Matt Hune’s Rite of Spring at the Rec Room

Nancy Wozny·July 11, 2017

The young women have spoken and not a word was uttered.

Dance Houston

Spirit, Promise and Giving Back: REACH at Houston Ballet

Nancy Wozny·July 5, 2017

Entering the lobby at Houston Ballet's Center for Dance for Project REACH on balmy Saturday night felt like going to a club where all of the city's A-lister dance folks had gathered for something big and important.

Dance Features Houston

Forklift Danceworks Dives into Austin’s Public Pools

Claire Christine Spera·June 25, 2017

It only takes one summer in Texas to feel the heat, and the City of Austin Aquatics Division is feeling it these days in more than one way.

Austin Dance

Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures

Nancy Wozny·June 14, 2017

When I saw that this year's Marfa Sounding focused on the great California-based legend and dance maker Anna Halprin, I knew that I had to make trek to Marfa for Memorial Day weekend.

Dance West Texas

Growing from Within: Bruce Wood’s Legacy Alive in Journeys

Manuel Mendoza·May 23, 2017

Three years after the death of choreographer Bruce Wood, his Dallas dance company is thriving. That’s not something anyone could’ve assumed at the time, even the people now building on his considerable body of work so well.

Dance

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres

Dance

Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas

Choreographer at the Helm: Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Bridget L. Moore Charts New Territory

History, Poetics & A Party: Dance Films at HCAF

Fairy Tales & Fairies: Dark Circles Contemporary Dance’s Elevator Project Debut

Sir Kenneth MacMillan & Houston Ballet: Mayerling Continues a Storied Relationship

New Dancers & Epic Works: Houston Ballet’s Fall Season

Texas Studio: jhon r. stronks

Young, Female & Powerful: Laura Gutierrez and Matt Hune’s Rite of Spring at the Rec Room

Spirit, Promise and Giving Back: REACH at Houston Ballet

Forklift Danceworks Dives into Austin’s Public Pools

Disco Balls in the Desert and other Marfa Adventures

Growing from Within: Bruce Wood’s Legacy Alive in Journeys