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Keeping SCORE: Toni Leago Valle Celebrates 20 Years

Keeping SCORE: Toni Leago Valle Celebrates 20 Years

Years can be counted by 10 in decades, by 100 in centuries and, though it’s little used in modern conversation, by 20 in scores, just as Abraham Lincoln did so memorably in his Gettysburg address. Celebrating onescore as a professional choreographer, Toni Leago Valle and her company 6 Degrees will present SCORE, an evening highlighting […]

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Diavolo Returns to Houston with City’s Premiere of S.O.S.

Diavolo Returns to Houston with City’s Premiere of S.O.S.

Diavolo is a dance company not for the faint of heart. When you watch Trajectoire, one of Artistic Director Jacques Heim’s signature works, you’re held captive by the gravity-defying assignment at hand. Dancers maneuver a 3,000-pound boat using only momentum to catapult themselves into the air with stunning accuracy, not to mention fluidity and grace. […]

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Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Starts New US Tour in Houston

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Starts New US Tour in Houston

When Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan takes the stage at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater, it will be their first performance in the USA since the pandemic began. The artistic director of the company, CHENG Tsung-lung, choreographed the work they’re presenting, 13 Tongues, a piece that incorporates the culture of a busy district in […]

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Years in the Making: Charting the Return of Karen Stokes Dance

Years in the Making: Charting the Return of Karen Stokes Dance

It’s not unusual for Karen Stokes to take her time developing an evening-length work for her company Karen Stokes Dance (KSD). The director of the dance program at University of Houston as well as an established dance artist, Stokes often begins with shorter pieces or one-acts that expand to a long-form presentation over a period […]

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Collaboration Branches Out in PDC Works’ Take Root

Collaboration Branches Out in PDC Works’ Take Root

I had the incredible fortune to have danced for Sophia Torres, artistic director of PDC Works, when the company still went by Psophonia. The work pushed me – emotionally and physically – to adopt different perspectives, including that of a tree in Phantasia 2007. We moved microscopically, miming the growth and intertwining of tree roots […]

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Tandem Summer Performances by NobleMotion Dance

Tandem Summer Performances by NobleMotion Dance

Hot on the heels of a successful summer intensive close to home and an immersive performance workshop in Italy, NobleMotion Dance will engage faithful fans and undoubtedly some fresh faces during two back-to-back weekends of dance in August. While epic spectacle is certainly within the NobleMotion wheelhouse, the company’s artistic directors Andy and Dionne Noble […]

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Dance Artists Shaun Keylock, Kayla Collymore, Ayan Felix, and Andrea Minotti Present Community-Based Work at Barnstorm Dance Fest

Dance Artists Shaun Keylock, Kayla Collymore, Ayan Felix, and Andrea Minotti Present Community-Based Work at Barnstorm Dance Fest

Dance Source Houston will be bringing back its Barnstorm Dance Fest 2022, featuring dance makers from Houston and the larger United States from June 6-12 at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH). The festival includes four programs, three featuring live performance and one offering a dance on film format. This year’s programs were curated […]

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This Year’s Barnstorm Dance Fest Returns Home to Offer Hope

This Year’s Barnstorm Dance Fest Returns Home to Offer Hope

Spring is traditionally the season of rebirth, but this summer Dance Source Houston’s Barnstorm Dance Fest blooms back to life. Reflecting that springtime abundance are this year’s Artists-In-Residence: Kemi OG (she/her), Kirstin Grbic (she/her), and Jakari Sherman (he/him). Each of them have been working hard with DSH to create new pieces that represent an assortment […]

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Nora Alami and Jadd Tank Invite Audiences into 3rd Body

Nora Alami and Jadd Tank Invite Audiences into 3rd Body

If you’re a Millennial of a certain age, the wellspring of imagination, creativity, and big-kid emotions probably has as one of its many sources the cultural phenomenon that was the Disney Renaissance. For a decade, the famed animation studio produced animated musicals of fairy tales, myths, and literary works that enchanted a generation of kids […]

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The Body as a Vessel Transitions from Passive Object to Active Process: DIVERSEWORKS presents Marina Magalhães’s WOMB, a project of BODY AS A CROSSROADS

The Body as a Vessel Transitions from Passive Object to Active Process: DIVERSEWORKS presents Marina Magalhães’s WOMB, a project of BODY AS A CROSSROADS

DiverseWorks presents Marina Magalhães’s Womb, a project of Body as a Crossroads on April 21 and 22 at 7 pm at MATCH. Womb lives in the sacred meeting space of dualities that Magalhães and her collaorators Bianca Medina and Tatiana Zamir refer to as “vesseling,” wherein it is possible to conjure spirit through flesh, find […]

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