Dance Source Houston’s (DSH) will present the 29th edition of the Mind The Gap series at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) on Tuesday, March 19 at 7:30pm. The evening’s roster includes local choreographers and companies, including Jai Alexander / choreobyjai, Keeley Dunnam Dance, Persi Mey, Sara Draper, Shruthi Mohankumar, and Steps For Dancing. […]
Previews
Michele Brangwen Explores Love as Wellspring of Activism
There is a moment in Faces of Sun and Wind where the quartet of dancers whirl in one direction, then the other. There is a fleeting snapshot of connection through the hands, in pairs, before each digs into the space around them, upper bodies swaying side-to-side. Their arms propel them into repeated high releases before […]
Dance Source Houston (DSH) will present the 28th edition of the Mind The Gap series at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) on Tuesday, February 20 at 7:30pm. The evening’s roster includes local choreographers and companies, including Karen Imas, Mars, Preeti Ramakrishnan, Ren Hall, SpaceTribe, and Zinnia Havelka. The hour-long program will feature a […]
Dance News
Diverseworks Presents Memory Fleet: A Return To Matr
DIVERSEWORKS PRESENTSMEMORY FLEET: A RETURN TO MATRJasmine HearnApril 6 & 7, 2024 AT HOUSTON MET DANCE Houston TX, March 7, 2024) DiverseWorks is pleased to announce the premiere of Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr, a performance, installation, and archive by Jasmine Hearn, on April 6 at 7 PM and April 7 at 2 PM at Houston Met Dance, 4916 Main St #100, Houston, TX […]
Dance Source Houston Presents Mind The Gap XXIX
Contact:Mollie Haven MillerExecutive DirectorDance Source Houston713.224.3262mollie@dancesourcehouston.org Dance Source Houston Presents Mind The Gap XXIX Dance Source Houston (DSH) will present the 29th edition of Mind The Gap on Tuesday, March 19 at 7:30pm at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Housotn (MATCH). The evening will include works by local choreographers and companies including Jai Alexander / […]
Dance Source Houston Announces 2024 Groundwork Grantees
Contact:Mollie Haven MillerExecutive DirectorDance Source Houstonmollie@dancesourcehouston.org Dance Source Houston Announces 2024 Groundwork Grantees Dance Source Houston, an arts service organization supporting the Greater Houston dance community, is thrilled to announce the 18 recipients of 2024 Groundwork Grant funds, including 13 dance nonprofit organizations and 5 fiscally sponsored projects. Each member of the grantee cohort was […]
Reviews
Rama Vaidyanathan’s ‘New Dimensions to the Maargam’ presented by Samskriti
The Maargam in the south Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam has always held a fascination for me. Conceived as a format for the traditional solo recital, the Maargam represents the idea of an emotional, spiritual journey undertaken by a dancer through her repertoire, on which, if the performer is sufficiently skilled, the audience is […]
When Dancing Takes on Politics in POP DEMO
6 Degrees Artistic Director Toni Leago Valle explores the three-ring circus that is contemporary politics in her latest show, POP DEMO, which runs through September 23 at the MATCH (3400 Main Street). The show’s characters are rendered as political cartoons who inhabit a 1920s-style speakeasy; Travis Prokop as Monsieur Ballista preening at the entrance reinforces […]
The Most Non-traditional Review: An Experiment by Ashley Horn & Lydia Hance
This is a story about the most surreal experience I’ve ever had. It may read like a novel by Haruki Murakami or like some modern Alice in Wonderland in which Alice is 33 years old and drives a Subaru. But this story isn’t fiction. It happened to me on Friday, August 18th at Frame Dance. […]
High Powered Play: NobleMotion Dance Enters Their 15th Season with PowerPlay
Fifteen years ago, I was sitting in the audience of the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex, scribbling notes in the dark as I watched Program B of that year’s Big Range Dance Festival. My review of that evening was one of my earliest dance writings for Dance Source Houston. All these years later, I found myself again […]
Location, Location, Location: Reflections on the Pilot Dance Project’s The Delicate Space
I. Physical Site The Delicate Space took place in the yard of a house in north Houston, just inside the Loop. It is the home where Adam Castañeda, the artistic director of the Pilot Dance Project, grew up. This knowledge immediately lends weight to the production. Words like “childhood home” have emotional content that can […]
Highlights
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 […]
Artist Highlight: Isabella Vik
Isabella Vik is full of contrast–inviting and dark, eager and defiant, rooted and free. There is no separating the artist from the art. To witness Vik’s work is to witness her. To meet her is to know you’re in the presence of a maker. Working in the intersection of dance and performance art, Vik […]
Dr. Lindsay Gary Connects Places of Home in Space Taking Residency
Dr. Lindsay Gary, founder and artistic and executive director of Dance Afrikana, started her company with the simple objective of protecting the work of her fellow dancers. “We were not being advocated for,” she says, recalling her early years as a backup dancer for Afrobeats and Afro-Caribbean music acts. “There were situations where we weren’t […]
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