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Barnstorm Dance Fest Brings a Variety of Movement Styles to the MATCH

Barnstorm Dance Fest Brings a Variety of Movement Styles to the MATCH

Since 2015, Houston dance audiences have been treated to the Barnstorm Dance Fest, produced by Dance Source Houston. Bringing together dance artists from Houston and across the nation, it has programmed modern/contemporary, ballet, tap, and classical Indian dance (to name only a few styles) comfortably next to each other.  June 2023 will see Barnstorm do […]

DSH Artists-in-Residence Explore New Territory for Barnstorm

DSH Artists-in-Residence Explore New Territory for Barnstorm

Everyone needs a helping hand, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned after ten years in the non-profit producing world, it’s that artists very often need more than that. We need lifelines – a grant, a commission, a gatekeeper’s favor – something to propel us to the next stage of our artistic careers, and, by […]

Wild She Dances Explores 1950’s America in an Abandoned Rice Mill

Wild She Dances Explores 1950’s America in an Abandoned Rice Mill

In a world so driven by the now and the new, we don’t often pause to reflect deeply on our history. The forward motion of American culture and the desire for constant progress is a state we find ourselves in over and over again. Along with this drive towards progress, however, comes a dismantling and […]

Dance News

Houston Contemporary Dance Company Presents Moving Myths & Restore

Houston Contemporary Dance Company Presents Moving Myths & Restore

HOUSTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY Presents MOVING MYTHSJUNE 3rd, 20231PM and 4PMTICKETS $15-$25HOBBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS800 BAGBY HOUSTON, TX 77002(713)-315-2525 RESTOREJUNE 9TH, 20238:30PM PERFORMANCE FREEMILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE6000 HERMANN PARK DRIVE HOUSTON, TX 77030 Come and experience a magical performance of Moving Myths presented by Houston Contemporary Dance Company and the Institute of Contemporary Dance […]

3… 2… 1… Aimed Dance Launches Summer Fest 2023

3… 2… 1… Aimed Dance Launches Summer Fest 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2023 CONTACT | Amy Elizabeth | Artistic Director | amyelizabeth@aimeddance.org  3… 2… 1… Aimed Dance Launches Summer Fest 2023 Beaumont, Texas – Aimed Dance is thrilled to announce Summer Fest 2023 – 3 Weekends of Concerts, 2 Weeks of Classes, 1 Summer Dance Festival – to be held July 10 […]

DiverseWorks Announces Aesthetic Inheritances

DiverseWorks Announces Aesthetic Inheritances

DIVERSEWORKS ANNOUNCES AESTHETIC INHERITANCESStacey Allen, in collaboration with Danielle Mason and Keda SharberJoin us for a film screening and conversation with 2022-23 DiverseWorks Project Freeway Fellow Stacey Allen. Aesthetic Inheritances is a project by performance artist Stacey Allen, created in collaboration with cultural preservationist and photographer Danielle Mason, and filmmaker Keda Sharber, that explores the preservation […]

Reviews

In Retrospect: Open Dance Project Delivers a Timely Reflection on 1968

In Retrospect: Open Dance Project Delivers a Timely Reflection on 1968

In 1968, the whole world was watching one of the most tumultuous years in American history unfold at home on television. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Bobby Kennedy, still mourning his brother along with the country, was killed only a few months later. The nation’s young adults mobilized in protest against our […]

Silambam Celebrates Indian Independence in Waking Up Free

Silambam Celebrates Indian Independence in Waking Up Free

The great Indian subcontinent celebrated seventy-five years of independence from British colonial rule on August 15, 2022. To commemorate this significant milestone, Silambam Houston, under the executive and artistic direction of Lavanya Rajagopalan, presented Waking Up Free: India’s Journey, on March 31, 2023. The evening-length production, created in collaboration with Shri Silambam Academy in Chennai, […]

Mimi diLuna Dances Tales of Siddhartha in Mind The Gap XXIV

Mimi diLuna Dances Tales of Siddhartha in Mind The Gap XXIV

Mind The Gap XXIV, March 28, 2023, had a unique lineup of dancers and choreographers. More than half of the pieces presented were of styles originating in India and Sri Lanka. It was a fitting context for Mimi diLuna’s two works, “Snowy-Silver Elephant” and “Hansadhwani: Voice of the Swan.” The two pieces are stories of […]

Joel Aguilera Checks “All of the Above” with First Evening-Length Concert

Joel Aguilera Checks “All of the Above” with First Evening-Length Concert

Joel Aguilera is a choreographer who has been gradually making his mark in Houston over the past few seasons. His work has appeared in several high-profile showcases, including Dance Source Houston’s Barnstorm Dance Fest, Dance Houston’s Annual Celebration of Dance, and Dance Source Houston’s Mind the Gap series. I recognized Aguilera’s rising star a few […]

The Fairytale Project Gives Texas History a New Rhythm at Discovery Green

The Fairytale Project Gives Texas History a New Rhythm at Discovery Green

The power of Stacey Allen, the founder of Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective, is her ability to merge African American-Texas history, pedagogy, Diasporic African concepts and culture, with her extensive contemporary and African dance training. She does so expertly with her latest work, The Fairytale Project,  a multi-disciplinary dance theater piece for children that reimagines the […]

Highlights

Steps for Dancing Connects With Houston Through Dolly Goyal’s Energy and Experience

Steps for Dancing Connects With Houston Through Dolly Goyal’s Energy and Experience

Dolly Goyal, proprietor of Steps for Dancing, embodies Houston’s status as the most diverse city in the United States, a point of pride widely cited over the last year. Her energy shines through our Zoom call, in which I learn about her years of international experience. She clearly conveys her passion not only for dancing […]

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