Nancy Wozny is a contributing editor for Dance Magazine. She covers the arts for Culturemap, Pointe Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher and other publications. She is a 2011 Scholar in Residence at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and is the Editor for Arts+Culture Texas.
by Nancy Wozny American identity is in the air, thanks to a gaggle of presidential hopefuls who rant endlessly about immigration, American values, and what makes this country great. Leave it to the modern dancers to take their own more nuanced stance, which is exactly what happened on the Open Dance Project stage during their […]
Dance Source Houston Offers Residencies to Three Texas Dance Artists The loss of the DiverseWorks dance residency several years back, and more recently, Hope Stone’s Hope Werks residency took a toll on Houston’s dance making scene. Enter Dance Source Houston (DSH), moving into its 10th year with a can do attitude. As the only dance […]
021 Urban Songline at the Blaffer Art Museum A group of dancers commandeered Blaffer Art Museum on Nov. 18, led by Houston improvisation legend Leslie Scates and University of Houston’s School of Theatre & Dance faculty Karen Stokes, Teresa Chapman and Becky Valls. The event, called, 021 Urban Songline, was part of Buildering: Misbehaving the […]
MOUNTAIN DANCING JUN 5, 2014 | NANCY WOZNY | NO COMMENT | DANCE MET Dance Returns to Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Stage IMAGE ABOVE: MET Dance in Larry Keigwin’s Air at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Stage in 2012. Photo by Christopher Duggan. Set against the mountains and the surrounding forest, the stage offers a breathtaking way to witness dance. Performances are free, family friendly and […]
ROOM TO MOVE JUN 3, 2014 | NANCY WOZNY | ONE COMMENT | DANCE, HOUSTON Houston Ballet’s Summer Intensive Program Offers a Full Experience IMAGE ABOVE: Houston Ballet readies itself for its 2014 Summer Intensive program. Photo by Cameron Durham. They say that all dancers really need is an empty room; sometimes several can make all the difference. Houston Ballet’sCenter for Dance, with […]
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 […]
Houston Ballet celebrated its leader’s tenth year at the helm by performing three of his works in one evening, a perfect Stanton Welch Wonderland and a great way to examine this choreographer’s gifts to ballet. Each showed off a particular strength and thread in his work. With Beatae Memoriae (Of Blessed Memory) we see […]
NobleMotion Heads Back to the Studio for a Hobby Show While other companies go on hiatus during the summer months, NobleMotion Dance dives deep into intense rehearsal for their early September show, “Collide: An Evening of Collaboration”, at the Hobby Center. The NobleMotion aesthetic is defined by a relentless physicality combined with powerful visuals. Artistic […]
Sara Webb Revisits Peter Pan Houston Ballet principal Sara Webb holds the coveted spot of Wendy in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan, a role she will revisit for the third time on June 13-23. Webb first performed the role just one year into being a soloist. Although Webb’s career was nurtured by Ben Stevenson, she became the first […]
Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan Returns to Houston Ballet “I love my childhood,” mused my son, at age nine, as if he where inhabiting his adult self for an instant. You can’t go home again, unless you are Peter Pan, or Trey McIntyre, who recently returned to Houston to freshen up his charming Peter Pan for the Houston Ballet. Premiered […]
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