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 […]

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 […]

Dancing the Buddha’s Story

Everyone loves a good story, including dancers. But for choreographer Emilie Anne, a powerful story is also reason to make dance. Her latest work, “The Great Departure,” will premiere December 2 as part of Dance Source Houston’s beloved Mind the Gap series, and was inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s ambitious 1987 novel, Old Path White […]

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 […]

Rainbow Riots and Coded Messages: Conversations You Need to Hear

“CODED: Conversations You Didn’t Know We Were Having”, an “evening of dance, drag, and drama” by show creator Travis Propkop, was a collaborative and interdisciplinary event, clearly community-driven and filled with love. I can say with certainty that my investment in this work is because of just how good this show really was. I wish […]