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.
New Space /Renewed Mission City Dance builds Momentum City Dance Company members pace through the sultry moves of director Sherese Campbell’s Rejuvenate: The D’Angelo Suite, one of the pieces headlining “Momentum”, their upcoming show that also features works by Stephanie Sermas, emerging choreography award winner Jaimee Vilela, and guest choreographer, Elijah Gibson, on Saturday, December 15th at 7:30 […]
Jubilee of Dance: A Tribute to Amy Fote What a bittersweet night at Houston Ballet’s Jubilee: a Tribute to Amy Fote. Although we could have watched her dance all night, there were other treats in store. As usual, the Jubileeprovided a smashing sampler of what’s to come and greatest hits, including Melissa Hough and Connor Walsh’s […]
Short Story Dances Karen Stokes on Vine Leaf Dances Choreographer Karen Stokes switches to short form in Vine Leaf Dances, which includes three premieres – Just Us, Midnight and Distreston & Balia – and one repertory work, Prelude to Three Temperaments. As artistic director of Karen Stokes Dance (KSD) and head of the dance division at University of Houston, Stokes is […]
Double Shift CORE Returns for a Free Show at Barnevelder Shift is not only the name of CORE’s upcoming free show at Barnevelder on November 2 & 3, but aptly defines the current state of this remarkable Atlanta and Houston based dance organization founded by Sue Schroeder. Shift features work by Houston choreographer Leslie Scates, former company […]
SPA brings Deborah Colker’s Mix to Houston Society for Performing Arts brings Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker performing their signature work, Mix,on October 12 at Jones Hall. In Mix, an enormous wall becomes a second floor as her über-strong dancer/athletes carry out Colker’s imaginative movement on the vertical plane. Houston audiences may know the Brazilian dance maverick from OVO,her insect-inspired Cirque du […]
Lots to Look at: The Dance Gallery Festival at Sam Houston State University The Dance Gallery Festival is aptly named; it’s a gallery of sorts where we can observe choreographers from Houston and New York and, this year, even Italy. Started by Astrid von Ussar, the Festival has found a home at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), […]
High Altitude Dancing Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Returns to the SPA stage Imagine a ballet company that exists in two cities, doesn’t go near a classic story ballet, cultivates groundbreaking choreographers before they become famous, presents other dance companies and has an award-winning folkloric outreach program. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB), making a pit stop […]
The lady dance-makers rocked the Wortham during Houston Ballet’s Women@Art, an evening of work by Julia Adam, Aszure Barton and Twyla Tharp. Barton’s Angular Momentum proved to the big news of the night. Barton, a rising star with an original choreographic voice, has made her mark across a great swath of the ballet and contemporary world in […]
Amy Fote commands the stage as Cio-Cio San in Houston Ballet’s season opener, Madame Butterfly. With Fote’s imminent retirement later this fall, the radiant principal is cherishing every last arabesque, as demonstrated in her masterful performance. There is a completeness present, as if each corner of the choreography has been thought through and considered. Stanton Welch’s […]
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival August 5, 2012 If I had to label the genre of Jonah Bokaer’s new work, Curtain,premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I would say it’s a thriller, more in genre of Inception than any garden variety car chaser. Performed by Bokaer and his frequent collaborators, Adam H. Weinert and James McGinn. Curtain is really a cluster […]
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