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.
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 […]
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 […]
Connoisseurs know that exceptional flavor is about locale. Unique geographies and histories, traditional and innovative uses of matter and method, it all combines with time to a distinctive yield, a family of products that share characteristics and tendencies that become an identity, recognized and referred to by experts, fans, and lovers of the genre. Jessie […]
In an evening of choreography by longtime collaborator Garrett Smith, Vitacca Ballet gave audiences the drama and dynamism, the precision and uplift that we have come to expect from the unstoppable five year-old company. Smith is a Houston-trained dancer and choreographer who has been with Vitacca since its inception during the pandemic. Founder and Artistic […]
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, […]
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