Dance Source Houston is excited to unveil the lineup for Barnstorm Dance Fest 2026, taking over Matchbox 2 at Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (MATCH) April 14-18. This five-day celebration of movement features 15 live performance works, 6 dance films, 3 artist panels, and a workshop series. Barnstorm invites audiences to take a journey […]
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 […]
The 2025-26 Artists In Residence – Violet Moon, Andrew Smith, and Karmetra Shy – are developing new works to share at Barnstorm Dance Fest next April. Each month leading up to the festival we’ll be checking in with the cohort to learn more about their background, artistic practice and creative process, and how you can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Behind The Scenes With Mind The Gap 38
Dance Source Houston will present the final Mind The Gap performance of 2026 on December 2 at MATCH. The program includes solo and ensemble pieces influenced by a range of dance forms. Learn more about the 6 works that will be presented on the program directly from the artists and get your tickets at matchouston.org/events/2025/mind-gap-xxxviii. Emilie […]
Choreographer Adam Castan͂eda Presents Carnegie Summer
This new work is inspired by the Near Northside’s Carnegie Neighborhood Library and Learning Center. HOUSTON (March 15, 2026) – Houston-based choreographer and lifelong resident of the Near Northside, choreographer Adam Castan͂eda presents a new twenty-minute dance work, “Carnegie Summer.” Inspired by the Carnegie Neighborhood Library and Center for Learning, this new work pays homage […]
Dance Source Houston Presents Barnstorm Dance Fest 2026
Dance Source Houston is excited to unveil the lineup for Barnstorm Dance Fest 2026, taking over Matchbox 2 at Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (MATCH) April 14-18. This five-day celebration of movement features 15 live performance works, 6 dance films, 3 artist panels, and a workshop series. Barnstorm invites audiences to take a journey […]
Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival Takes The Stage
Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival Takes The Stage March 27 – 29The sixth annual festival will be presented at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH). HOUSTON (February 15, 2026) – The Pilot Dance Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization with the mission to empower and transform communities through innovative dance and performing arts experiences, […]
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 […]
Mezclada Blends Beats, Vitality and Heart in Mind, Body & Soul
Houston’s strength has long been its diversity, of people, cultures and ideas. It feels only natural, then, that the city would give rise to a dance company like Mezclada, whose very name means “mixed.” Under the direction of Artistic Director Joel Aguilera, Mezclada thrives on fusion, weaving together contemporary dance, breaking and Latin rhythms into […]
“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
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
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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