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Behind The Scenes With Mind The Gap 39

Behind The Scenes With Mind The Gap 39

Dance Source Houston will present the final Mind The Gap performance of the 2025-2026 season on May 19 at MATCH. We asked the choreographers about the works they’re sharing – about the impetus, the process, what they want audiences to know, and why the’re sharing it at Mind The Gap. Learn more about the 6 […]

Culminations – In Barnstorm Programs, Artists Present Work a Lifetime in the Making

Culminations – In Barnstorm Programs, Artists Present Work a Lifetime in the Making

For each of the 2025-26 Dance Source Houston Artists in Residence, the past nine months of dance creation have been an opportunity to spend time with and flesh out essential parts of their lived experiences. For Andrew Smith, it is his experience as a queer man raised with Mexican and American concepts of masculinity. For […]

Third Space of The Week: Artists for People: Humanity Benefit Concert Supporting Gaza and Houston Immigrant Communities

Third Space of The Week: Artists for People: Humanity Benefit Concert Supporting Gaza and Houston Immigrant Communities

In a time of increasing social conflict, political uproar, and class unrest, Houston’s own Violet Moon is collaborating to make room for collective feeling and fundraising right here in our own city. Their first festival, Artists for People: Humanity Benefit Concert Supporting Gaza and Houston Immigrant Communities, fiscally funded by Fractured Atlas, is sure to […]

Dance News

BOOT Dance Project Announces Featured Artists for 2026 Break-In Dance Fest

BOOT Dance Project Announces Featured Artists for 2026 Break-In Dance Fest

MEDIA CONTACT: JESSIE FERGUSONJESSIE@BOOTDANCEPROJECT.ORG HOUSTON, TX — {June 4, 2026} — BOOT Dance Project is proud to announce the featured artists selected for the 2026 Break-In Dance Fest, taking place August 6–7 at The Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH). Now in its second year, Break-In Dance Fest continues its mission of creating meaningful […]

Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective Premieres From Gorée to Galveston: Diaspora Cycling

Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective Premieres From Gorée to Galveston: Diaspora Cycling

Contact: Stacey Allen Email: staceyallencde@gmail.com Phone: 832-244-9326 Website: www.niasdaughters.com  Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective Premieres From Gorée to Galveston: Diaspora Cycling at the Official Juneteenth Return in Galveston  Galveston, TX – Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective will premiere From Gorée to Galveston: Diaspora Cycling, a new work by Houston choreographer, educator, and scholar Shani Diouf, as part of the Official […]

Group Acorde Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Representation of Form

Group Acorde Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Representation of Form

Media Contact: Roberta Paixao Cortes(281)8273091www.groupacorde.org  Houston’s collaborative dance and live music performance company Group Acorde celebrates 10th anniversary recreating Representation of Form at MATCH in July 2026 Houston, TX, May 27th, 2026-Group Acorde presents Representation of Form: a multimedia, immersive, contemporary dance and live music performance highlighting photographer Christopher Peddecord’s work, acclaimed by the Houston Chronicle […]

Reviews

Silambam Finds Threads of Poetic Unity in Kavya

Silambam Finds Threads of Poetic Unity in Kavya

On May 1, 2026, Silambam Houston performed to a sold-out audience at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts’ Zilkha Hall. Kavya: Poetry in Motion was produced as part of the Houston is Inspired series, a short-term residency program that gives select local artists and organizations the opportunity to utilize the Hobby Center’s technical, administrative, […]

Conversations, Community, Care, Among Other Things

Conversations, Community, Care, Among Other Things

Conversations, Community, Care, Among Other Things 4 Corners by Karen Stokes Dance Choreography/Direction: Karen StokesPerformers: Brittany Bass, Bryan Bradley Peck, Michelle Reyes, Donald Sayre I’m finding it difficult to write about this performance. It’s not that I have nothing to say, but I don’t know where to start. Usually with my dance writings, I’ll simply […]

Following the Breath with Group Acorde

Following the Breath with Group Acorde

As a former New Orleanian and New Yorker, I’ve lost track of how many natural and man-made disasters I’ve endured. Sometime between the COVID-19 pandemic and my first prescription for amlodipine and atorvastatin, I realized that the constant feeling of fight or flight was not only unproductive but could send me to the emergency room. […]

An Evening Immersed in the Avant-Garde: Open Dance Project presents DADA GERT

An Evening Immersed in the Avant-Garde: Open Dance Project presents DADA GERT

A single open room with a chandelier and dimmed lighting. Cabaret posters and scattered leaflets found among littered cigarettes accompany a piano in this enchanting venue. Cafe menus printed auf Deutsch duet with dancers poised at random around the space, costumed in delightfully flamboyant black and white Weimar German attire, are set to make you […]

Do You Feel Lucky? A Winning Evening with The Pilot Dance Project

Do You Feel Lucky? A Winning Evening with The Pilot Dance Project

When you bring an audience together to play La Lotería, you make them ask, “Am I lucky?” When you devise a spell to bring Lotería cards to life, you make them ask, “Was it real?” Audiences at Cynthia Garcia’s La Baile de Lotería, The Pilot Dance Project’s latest evening- length work, may have thought they […]

Highlights

“The Studio is a Place for People to Feel Things”: Making Dance with Aufheben’s Isabella Mireles Vik 

“The Studio is a Place for People to Feel Things”: Making Dance with Aufheben’s Isabella Mireles Vik 

Aufheben is a young, project-based assembly of dancers that has been part of Mexican-Norwegian artist  Isabella Mireles Vik’s artistic production since 2023 and has already been professionally endorsed by  Houston art orgs such as Hunter Dance Center, DiverseWorks, and the Texas Biennial 2024. While the artistic bona fides keep rolling in, Vik remains leery of […]

Houston Met Celebrates Thirty Years of Service

Houston Met Celebrates Thirty Years of Service

Reaching a thirteenth anniversary milestone is a cause for celebration in any context, but in the world of non-profit dance organizations, the Pear Anniversary is nothing short of a miracle. It’s also a testament to enduring vision, continued reinvention, and the sheer work and commitment of the leaders behind the mission. On Saturday, October 18, […]

Kinetic Classrooms: Frame Dance Reimagines Early Childhood Education

Kinetic Classrooms: Frame Dance Reimagines Early Childhood Education

In many classrooms today, movement is treated as a side dish—served in quick bursts between long stretches of sitting. Children are offered structured, screen-led brain breaks to get their wiggles out before returning to a static learning model. But what if movement wasn’t just a release valve? What if it could be woven into the […]

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