Nichelle Suzanne is a web and social media specialist for Rice University and the founder of DanceAdvantage.net. For 10 years, she has covered dance in Houston and beyond for publications such as the Dance Dish, Arts+Culture Texas, CultureMap, and the NYC Rockettes blog at Rockettes.com.
by Nichelle Suzanne A year ago, Jane Weiner and Hope Stone Inc. were on the hunt for a new studio space and on the edge of embarking on a capital campaign to support it. The lease for their space in the Tribeca Lofts on West Clay Street was ending and their need for, not just […]
Years In the Making – Uptown Dance Company Infusion 2014 As Artistic Director of Uptown Dance Company and the director of her own school, Uptown Dance Centre, Beth Gulledge-Brown has officially been doing double-duty in the Houston dance community for 10 seasons. On October 11th at the I. W. Marks Theatre Center’s Kaplan Theatre, Uptown […]
Ad Deum presents From One Heart In the 14 years since Randall Flinn founded Ad Deum Dance Company, it has quietly and humbly grown into one of Houston’s largest small, contemporary dance ensembles. Known worldwide for their faith-based mission, the company members are a multi-national and very skilled group of dancers who hail from all […]
If you’ve been watching dance in Houston for less than a decade, it is possible the name Dana Nicolay won’t ring a bell. Nicolay’s company, Nicolay Dance Works, brings Timeline to The Barn (formerly Barnevelder Movement/Arts) February 28 and March 1. Those longer acquainted may recall that Nicolay first arrived as a Houston Ballet apprentice […]
Amanda K. Miller-Fasshauer always hopes for a very organic process when making art. Her medium is movement. She is a choreographer and a dancer, but sees herself very much like a gardener. “I plant the seeds: poetry, ideas, music, wishes, and then watch it grow. And, like a gardener, I tend to it meticulously, care […]
Typically people keep their most intimate thoughts to themselves. Pubescent girls with sneaky younger brothers or the particularly paranoid may even keep theirs under lock and key. Artists like Amy Llanes, however, process intimate thoughts through choreography and then share them publicly on stage. Her company Rednerrus Feil Dance presents its first full-length event, Into-Me-See, […]
Change is inevitable. As a result, so is adaptation. – “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change,” someone paraphrasing Darwin once wrote. Psophnia’s latest production, “Taking Flight”, premieres March 24 and 25 at City Dance Studio’s new location on West Clay. […]
Psophonia Spreads Its Wings on Memorial Day Weekend Change is inevitable. As a result, so is adaptation. – “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change,” someone paraphrasing Darwin once wrote. Psophnia’s latest production, “Taking Flight”, premieres March 24 and 25 at […]
ERJCC Scratches A Niche: The 33rd Annual Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre Find a need and fill it.She didn’t directly quote this old success adage, but it’s a precept Maxine Silberstein, Dance Director of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston (ERJCC), puts into practice when coordinating the organization’s Dance Month series, which […]
Houston Contemporary Dancesquared No, The Stoners and The Metronics are not emerging indie-rock bands. These handles are how Hope Stone and Houston Metropolitan Dance Company members have been referring to themselves as they merge for their joint performance, squared dancer, November 9 and 10 in the Wortham’s Cullen Theatre. An alliance built on mutual admiration and like-mindedness, Hope Stone helmswoman, […]
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