Nancy Wozny is a contributing editor for Dance Magazine. She covers the arts for Culturemap, Pointe Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher and other publications. She is a 2011 Scholar in Residence at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and is the Editor for Arts+Culture Texas.
Life & Laughter Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous hat blocking your view? Just about all of that has happened to me as an audience member, which is why Jerome Robbins’ comic masterwork,The Concert, resonates with me and anyone who has ever been to theater. Robbins’ seminal […]
Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous hat blocking your view? Just about all of that has happened to me as an audience member, which is why Jerome Robbins’ comic masterwork,The Concert, resonates with me and anyone who has ever been to theater. Robbins’ seminal ballet will […]
Painting With the Body SPA Brings Shen Wei Dance Arts to Houston Shen Wei may be best known for orchestrating the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which involved 16,000 performers in the bird’s nest stadium. He’s known for creating meditative work with strong visual elements, such as abstract painting, striking lighting and minimalist […]
Dance and film are joined by movement as camera and body come together. Frame Dance Productions’ newest offering, Quiver, makes the most of that fact. Frame Dance artistic director Lydia Hance navigates a dual career track, exploring both film and live performance, and the intersection of both. Quiver opens with an oscillating pulse of a blurry dancer, with […]
Imagine a room full of dancers twisting, spinning and hurling themselves through the air with complete conviction. Place choreographer Peter Chu in a studio with The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, add a tremendous amount of dedication and skill, and you are bound to have a compelling show in the works. “I love what you are […]
Off the Floor: Houston Ballet soars again in a trio of works by Stanton Welch, Edwaard Liang and Mark Morris As I rushed past a gaggle of squawking grackles on my way to the show, little did I know the real flock was inside as Houston Ballet took flight in Edwaard Liang’s soaring new ballet, […]
Brazilian Grooves Grupo Corpo at Society for the Performing Arts Pulsing rhythms, a seamless, fluid movement language, and mesmerizing choreography that spreads out horizontally across the stage evoking the sea and the mountains characterize Grupo Corpo (Group Body), Brazil’s leading contemporary dance troupe. The company arrives in Houston for the very first time for two […]
Houston Ballet’s Stand-Out Principals Joseph Walsh and Connor Walsh Blade-like limbs sliced through the air exactly in unison, mastering the fierce architecture of Aszure Barton’sAngular Momentum. The stage was jam-packed with dancers, blazing white lights and a striking linear set, yet Joseph and Connor Walsh’s brief but affecting duet galvanized our attention. The audience got a […]
Performance installation puts people in a state of unease, possibly because they don’t know where they are on the continuum observer and participant. Most people got there early enough to have some fun with Tony Feher’s hanging tiny water bottles, warming up the space, getting our hellos done through play. I enjoyed a wonderful catch […]
Dancing at the Edge of the World SPA brings Stephen Petronio’s Underland to Houston “We conjure worlds out of nothing,” wrote Stephen Petronio in his essay “Why I Dance” in Dance Magazine. And what a world the New York choreographer has conjured inUnderland, making its Houston premiere on January 11, 2013 through the Society for the Performing Arts. Petronio originally […]
Recent Comments