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Vitacca Ballet’s FEM4 Places Artistic Gems on the Houston Stage 

Vitacca Ballet’s FEM4 Places Artistic Gems on the Houston Stage 

For their fall offering, Kelly Ann Vitacca knew that she wanted her namesake contemporary ballet company to bring exciting female creators to the Houston dance scene. “To do a whole woman-created evening is something special for us,” says Vitacca. “I looked for who might be in line with our creative image, and creators who would be very […]

Kathak Multiplied: Innovation and Connection in Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5 Performance

Kathak Multiplied: Innovation and Connection in Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5 Performance

When we consider the purpose of dance and other art practices, we usually discuss their value as expressions of ideas and emotions, contributions to the cultural discourse, creative explorations of a subject, or awareness of a particular point of view. And this is good; if art needs justification, these purposes are more than enough. Sometimes, […]

Group Acorde’s Premiere “Beat” Explores What’s at the Heart of Mental Health and Resilience

Group Acorde’s Premiere “Beat” Explores What’s at the Heart of Mental Health and Resilience

There’s an intriguing link between the heart and your mental health. Studies reveal that a consistently elevated resting heart rate may signal anxiety, depression or even PTSD, long before other symptoms appear. The rapid pulse during moments of stress is not just a physical reaction—it’s a window into the mind’s struggles. For Group Acorde, this […]

Dance News

Dance Source Houston Presents Mind The Gap 32

Dance Source Houston Presents Mind The Gap 32

Contact:Mollie Haven MillerExecutive DirectorDance Source Houston713.224.3262mollie@dancesourcehouston.org Dance Source Houston Presents Mind The Gap 32 HOUSTON, TX November 4, 2024 – Dance Source Houston (DSH) will present the 32nd edition of Mind The Gap on Tuesday, December 3 at 7:30pm at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH), continuing the organization’s 20th anniversary season. This program […]

Houston Contemporary Dance Company Presents Vigorous Spirit

Houston Contemporary Dance Company Presents Vigorous Spirit

October 22nd, 2024 1302 Houston Ave, #300 Houston, TX 77007 (713) 804-6646 houstoncontemporary.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marlana Doyle, (713) 804-6646 ext 3, marlana@houstoncontemporary.org Houston Contemporary Dance Company Presents VIGOROUS SPIRIT NOVEMBER 2ND, 2024 7:30PM PERFORMANCE RESERVED TICKETS: $25-50 HOBBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 800 BAGBY STREET HOUSTON, TX 77002 (713)-804-6646 Houston, TX – Houston Contemporary Dance Company will present […]

Vitacca Ballet Premieres Work By Internationally Renowned Choreographer Micaela Taylor

Vitacca Ballet Premieres Work By Internationally Renowned Choreographer Micaela Taylor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: SHAUNA TYSOR PR@VITACCADANCE.COM Vitacca Ballet Premieres Work By Internationally Renowned Choreographer Micaela Taylor Micaela Taylor’s First Ever Houston Commission Premieres November 1 and 3 at The Hobby Center, Zilka Hall HOUSTON, TEXAS [October 17, 2024]: Vitacca Ballet Artistic Director + Founder Kelly Ann Vitacca is pleased to announce a World Premiere […]

Reviews

Music is Born: Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5  

Music is Born: Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5  

According to the Sangita Raknakara, a definitive musicological text from 13th century India, when vocals, instruments, and dance come together, “music is born.”  On a recent mid-fall evening at the Kaplan Theater at the ERJCC, Kalpana Subbarao and her collaborators prepared to share the virtuosic rhythmic compositions and choreography that made up the 5×5 program, […]

The Reach and Limit of a Work-Life Balance – Isabella Mireles Vik presents Human Resource: Corporeal Experiences in Professionalism

The Reach and Limit of a Work-Life Balance – Isabella Mireles Vik presents Human Resource: Corporeal Experiences in Professionalism

Performers: Ariaza Ariaza, Lindsay Cortner, Gabrielle De La Rosa, Isabella Mireles VikSound piece: Jamie Hernandez 2024 Texas Biennial, Blaffer Art Museum/Dudley Recital Hall, University of HoustonOctober 17, 2024 Just a year ago, the Dance Dish ran an artist highlight on Isabella Mireles Vik that described her work as visceral and challenging, potentially disturbing to an audience. […]

Chapman’s Entanglements Resonates on Both a Human and Quantum Scale

Chapman’s Entanglements Resonates on Both a Human and Quantum Scale

“We’re in the universe and the universe is in us.”  Resonating over projected images of the cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s breathy baritone poetically summarizes our connection not only to the stars in our vast universe but to one another. Science, it turns out, posits what mystics, spiritual teachers and artists have suggested all along: We […]

Choreographing Memory: Mark Aguilar Explores His Sister’s Experiences

Choreographing Memory: Mark Aguilar Explores His Sister’s Experiences

Choreographing Memory: Mark Aguilar Explores His Sister’s Experiences “Metamorfosis”Choreographer – Mark AguilarPerformer – Aniya Wingate Mark Aguilar’s six-and-a-half minute dance, “Metamorfosis,” starts with a montage of home video, at least one of which is date-stamped in 2009. The focus is children. Driving kiddie racecars and bumper cars. Swinging in a backyard. A family activity taking […]

A Tapestry of Femininity: Exploring The Pilot Dance Project’s “Aureate”

A Tapestry of Femininity: Exploring The Pilot Dance Project’s “Aureate”

I imagine each member of the audience for The Pilot Dance Project’s evening-length work Aureate leaving The DeLuxe Theater in Houston’s Fifth Ward mentally clasping their own tendrils of meaning. Within the tapestry woven by Artistic Director Adam Castan͂eda and choreographer/designer Ashley Horn, one might focus on individual themes like the natural world, sacred iconography, […]

Highlights

Meet the Artist: Carolina Salomon Simon

Meet the Artist: Carolina Salomon Simon

Carolina Salomon Simon is a multi-faceted working dance artist. She choreographs, teaches, and performs right here in Houston, TX and beyond. A graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee as well as Houston Ballet Academy, Simon specializes in teaching ballet and contemporary dance. Her instruction and choreography has been showcased in Mexico City and New […]

A Student-Centric, Holistic Approach to Dance Pedagogy

A Student-Centric, Holistic Approach to Dance Pedagogy

Frame Dance is gearing up to offer two unique, separate but related, professional development opportunities for dance educators and classroom teachers in June 2024. This program, a brand-new offering by Frame Dance, will be based on an impactful and innovative curriculum and pedagogy developed by founder Lydia Hance, and dance educator Ashley Horn. Centered around […]

University of Houston Department of Dance Welcomes New Leadership: Teresa Chapman Steps into Dream Job

University of Houston Department of Dance Welcomes New Leadership: Teresa Chapman Steps into Dream Job

In 2005 when Teresa Chapman was concluding an impressive performance contract with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Tacoma Park, Maryland, she was invited to interview for a dance faculty position at the University of Houston. She walked into the office of the Director of the School of Theater, and a student was asleep on […]

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