Houston Ballet Announces Promotion of Danbi Kim to Principal Dancer

MEDIA CONTACT:Casey Giltner206.708.0085press@houstonballet.org Houston Ballet Announces Promotion of Danbi Kim to Principal Dancer HOUSTON, TX – JUNE 23, 2026 – Houston Ballet is proud to announce the promotion of Danbi Kim to Principal Dancer. Formerly a First Soloist, Kim was promoted on Sunday evening, June 21, 2026, following her performance in the title role of the Company’s production of Giselle, […]

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

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 […]

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 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

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

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

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 […]