An artist and educator from upstate New York, Kerri Lyons Neimeyer joined Frame Dance Productions' Community Ensemble in 2015. It was the best decision she ever made.
Witnessing Jaruam Xavier at the Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival I attended the first night, Friday, April 18, of the two-night annual Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival, presented by Houston’s own Pilot Dance Project, celebrating its exciting 5th anniversary of promoting dance films, companies, and performances created by Latino/a/x makers in our region, Latin America, […]
A Look at the Artists in Residence Performing in Barnstorm Dance Fest’s Tenth Anniversary Program Adele Nickel, Ashley Clos, and Paty Lorena Solórzano. What this, the tenth cohort of Dance Source Houston’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program, does brilliantly is to show that dance can grapple with topics as universal and esoteric, as intricate and […]
Rivkah French Choreography (RFC) presented the inaugural Limitless Festival weekend of dance November 1-3 of this year at the always inviting DeLuxe Theater on Lyons Street in Houston’s Fifth Ward. The location – and the fact that Fifth Ward residents were invited to participate in the fest for free – is characteristic of RFC’s ethos […]
For their fall offering, Kelly Ann Vitacca knew that she wanted her namesake contemporary ballet company to bring exciting female creators to the Houston dance scene. “To do a whole woman-created evening is something special for us,” says Vitacca. “I looked for who might be in line with our creative image, and creators who would be very […]
According to the Sangita Raknakara, a definitive musicological text from 13th century India, when vocals, instruments, and dance come together, “music is born.” On a recent mid-fall evening at the Kaplan Theater at the ERJCC, Kalpana Subbarao and her collaborators prepared to share the virtuosic rhythmic compositions and choreography that made up the 5×5 program, […]
When we consider the purpose of dance and other art practices, we usually discuss their value as expressions of ideas and emotions, contributions to the cultural discourse, creative explorations of a subject, or awareness of a particular point of view. And this is good; if art needs justification, these purposes are more than enough. Sometimes, […]
Houston is a Black arts city. Black artists who were born and/or bred and/or artistically arrived in Houston have been seismic culture-makers on the national and international stage for the last century, and, here in Houston, Black dance lives, thrives, and innovates. It does so because it is – historically and currently – nurtured by […]
Imagine a stalactite. The stalactites, if you need a reminder, are the hanging-on ones and the stalagmites, their brothers, are the standing-up ones. Both are formed by the same process of dissolution, precipitation, and depositing of minerals. Stalactite formation is a way for the minerals in rock to distill themselves down to an elegant point. […]
Barnstorm Dance Fest is, like the population of our city, a heady and delicious feast made of pieces with diverse origins and flavor profiles. Each of the three programs is designed to nourish, surprise, and delight its audience, and it was a thrill to speak with these three featured choreographers about the ingredients and processes in the […]
The Houston Arts community has long been familiar with Kelly Ann Vitacca’s artistic and dance ethos. The Vitacca Vocational School for Dance has been part of our landscape since 2012, producing rigorously trained, capable and creative dancers who have gone on to fill the highest tiers of ballet education and professional performance. What is new […]
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