Texas Studio: Gabriela Estrada brings dance history into motion
Choreographer and University of Houston Assistant Professor M. Gabriela Estrada has always looked to the past to inspire her work.
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Top Arts: In 2024, the Dallas Arts District is finally crowned the best in America
I moved to Dallas in October 2009, the same month and year that the AT&T Performing Arts Center opened.
Doing it all: Performing Arts Houston offers a big tent of arts experiences
“Zero constraints” that’s how Performing Arts Houston executive director Meg Booth describes the programming possibilities when the organization puts together a season lineup like the recently announced 2024-2025 season.
Unexpected Interactions: Texas Performing Arts offers a revamp of the audience experience
Arts lovers headed to performances know the drill: Enter the theater, settle into your seat and wait for the house lights to go down. Musicians, actors or dancers materialize onstage, and your adventure begins.
Art in Dark Places: Artists Sans Frontières comforts a world in crisis with the healing power of performing arts
In 2017, Dallas-based dancer and choreographer Katie Burks felt compelled to offer aid and assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Upon arrival in Houston, however, she quickly realized that she was well-meaning but ill-prepared, and not trained as a first responder or member of the military.
All That Dance Can Be: Ballet Austin’s Mind Opening New Season
Ballet Austin’s artistic director Stephen Mills remembers the time from his early professional career when concert dancers fell into one of two camps: ballet or modern.
All Together Now: Unexpected premieres and cherished favorites blend in TITAS/Dance Unbound’s new season
For more than 40 years, TITAS/Dance Unbound has been bringing in dance companies that entertain, educate, and inspire Dallas audiences, and its 2024-25 season is no exception.
Unique and Determined: ISHIDA Dance brings ‘Mutability’ to the Asia Society and The Long Center
Austin-based choreographer Brett Ishida boasts a whirlwind June with performances of her company ISHIDA Dance in “Mutability” on June 7-9 at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and June 12-14, 2024 at The Long Center in Austin.
Canyon Dancing: Open Dance Project’s Annie Arnoult takes us inside a Georgia O’Keeffe painting
I’ve come to the Open Dance Project’s Houston-based studio to watch an early rehearsal of company artistic director and founder, Annie Arnoult’s latest creation Red Landscape: Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas 1912-1918, and the dancers have put me to work, the work of representing the audience that is.
The Collaborative Spirit: Houston Ballet Offers a Lively Season Ahead
Julie Kent and Stanton Welch haven’t reached the point of finishing one another’s sentences. Nevertheless, just a few months after Kent joined Welch at the helm of Houston Ballet, they show clear signs of being in sync.
TX Studio: Adam Castañeda, processing life through dance
Dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Pilot Dance Project, Adam Castañeda didn’t begin dance training until his early twenties, yet he believes leaping over those childhood and adolescent studio years might have given him some advantages.
Texas Studio: Bombshell Dance Project Goes Immersive
Long-time friends and former dancers for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Emily Bernet and Taylor Rodman founded Bombshell Dance Project in Dallas in 2016.