May, 2014

Houston Ballet Caps The Season With Swan Lake

Houston Ballet Caps The Season With Swan Lake

Sarah Lam 713-535-3226 Kimberly Cedeno 713-535-3224 pr@houstonballet.org HOUSTON BALLET CAPS THE SEASON WITH STANTON WELCH’S ROMANTIC CLASSIC SWAN LAKE   New Zealand Designer Kristian Fredrikson’s Spectacular Scenery and Costumes Inspired by Pre-Raphaelite Paintings  First Soloist Katharine Precourt and Newly Promoted Soloist Nozomi Iijima Make Their Debuts as the Swan Queen  Principal Karina Gonzalez Performs the Swan […]

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Psophonia Dance Company Presents Intrepid

Psophonia Dance Company Presents Intrepid

For Immediate Release Contact: Sophia L. Torres May 15, 2014 713-834-4162 psophonia@gmail.com (Houston, TX) This season, Psophonia Dance Company presents the work of three dynamic choreographers in Intrepid, June 6-7, 2014 at 8pm at City Dance Studio. The evening length program features new creations by Artistic Director Sophia L. Torres with guest choreographers, Estela Tejeda […]

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Dinner Theater Redefined

Dinner Theater Redefined

Frame Dance Productions Serves Up a Delicious Event Just when I thought Houston dance was experiencing a bit of a lull, in walks a gaggle of Search Optimizer workers, Deuce Ticklebeetle, Shelly Kelly, Roxi Wright, Gretchen Charise Kittridge, Gwenevieve Hues, and Alyssa Roberts, to Good Dog Houston to mess with our heads. The event was […]

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Much More Than Good Dance

Much More Than Good Dance

Ad Deum presents From One Heart In the 14 years since Randall Flinn founded Ad Deum Dance Company, it has quietly and humbly grown into one of Houston’s largest small, contemporary dance ensembles. Known worldwide for their faith-based mission, the company members are a multi-national and very skilled group of dancers who hail from all […]

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Two Swans & A Beauty

Two Swans & A Beauty

TWO SWANS & A BEAUTY Texas Ballet Troupes Conclude on a Classical Note IMAGE ABOVE: Sara Webb and artists of the Houston Ballet in Stanton Welch’s Swan Lake. Photo by Amitava Sarkar. Texas Ballet companies conclude their seasons with vintage warhorses: Swan Lake,at Texas Ballet Theater, May 30-June 1, and Houston Ballet, June 5-15; and The Sleeping Beauty, atBallet Austin, May 9-11. . […]

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The Plies Continue

The Plies Continue

THE PLIES CONTINUE Houston Dance Collective Brings Back Morning Classes IMAGE ABOVE: Catalina Alexander, JoDee Engle and Courtney D. Jones. Photo courtesy of the artists. News of Houston’s dance hubHope Stone closing sent a shock wave of concern through the dance community. The loss of Hope Center hit hard and fast, posing the question, where will […]

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Musings On Ballet’s Famous Faun

Musings On Ballet’s Famous Faun

MUSINGS ON BALLET’S FAMOUS FAUN The Tanaquil LeCercq Documentary Screens at the MFAH IMAGE ABOVE: From Afternoon of a Faun. Photo courtesy Kino Lorber, Inc.. Every now and then, I like geek out on ballet history. It’s such a strange and astonishing tradition. So, of course, I’m thrilled to see Nancy Buirski’s film Afternoon of a Faun: […]

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Ad Deum Dance Company Presents From One Heart

Ad Deum Dance Company Presents From One Heart

Ad Deum Dance Company presents From One Heart. Photo by Scott Morrow. Ad Deum Dance Company presents FROM ONE HEART, a fresh and innovative springtime mix of choreographic bouquets. With a recent return from their annual New York tour and major performance in an open air festival in Times Square, the dancers are eager to bring the […]

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Houston Ballet Showcases Three of the 20th Century’s Greatest Choreographers In Modern Masters

Houston Ballet Showcases Three of the 20th Century’s Greatest Choreographers In Modern Masters

Contact: Sarah Lam 713-535-3226 Kimberly Cedeno 713-535-3224 pr@houstonballet.org   HOUSTON BALLET SHOWCASES THREE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S GREATEST CHOREOGRAPHERS IN MODERN MASTERS MAY 22 – JUNE 1  Company Premiere of Jiří Kylián’s Comic Sechs Tänze Highlights the Program  George Balanchine’s Ground-Breaking Masterpiece The Four Temperaments Returns to the Repertoire for the First Time in a Decade  Houston Ballet Holds Dance […]

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Ashley Horn’s Woolgathering Closes 2013-2014 HopeWerks

Ashley Horn’s Woolgathering Closes 2013-2014 HopeWerks

Media Contacts: Cori Miller HopeWerks Director cori@hopestoneinc.org & Alina Slavik Communications Manager alina@hopestoneinc.org 713.526.1907 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ashley Horn’s Woolgathering closes 2013-2014 HopeWerks season with an evening of dance and daydreams HOUSTON, TEXAS – May 6, 2014 – In Woolgathering, a makeshift blanket fort encloses dancers and audience in a surreal world of introspective musings. Dancers negotiate complex and, at […]

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