Kerri Lyons Neimeyer

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.

Kathak Multiplied: Innovation and Connection in Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5 Performance

Kathak Multiplied: Innovation and Connection in Kalpana Subbarao’s 5×5 Performance

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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Houston Black Dance Festival is a Treasure of African Diasporic Dance Luminaries Right in Our Well-tended Back Yard

Houston Black Dance Festival is a Treasure of African Diasporic Dance Luminaries Right in Our Well-tended Back Yard

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 […]

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Hang In There! NobleMotion Dance Digs Deep Questions, Topples Easy Answers In Cave Exploration “Stalactites”

Hang In There! NobleMotion Dance Digs Deep Questions, Topples Easy Answers In Cave Exploration “Stalactites”

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. […]

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Barnstorm Dance Fest 2024 Sets a Rich and Satisfying Table, Times Three! 

Barnstorm Dance Fest 2024 Sets a Rich and Satisfying Table, Times Three! 

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 […]

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Vitacca Ballet Makes a Creative Launch into Artist-Audience Connection

Vitacca Ballet Makes a Creative Launch into Artist-Audience Connection

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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