Nichelle Suzanne is a content strategist, digital storyteller and dance writer. A dancer and dance educator for 25 years, she is also the founder of DanceAdvantage.net. Since 2009, Nichelle has covered dance in Houston and beyond for publications including The Dance DiSH, Arts+Culture Texas, CultureMap, Houston Ballet News and Rockettes.com.
20 years ago, what’s now known as a hashtag was still just the pound sign on your cell phone. That is, if you even owned a cell phone 20 years ago. Last evening at Honored Guests, the 4th celebratory program of METdance company’s 20th anniversary season, audience members were encouraged to use their cell phones […]
METdance and Apollo Chamber Players Mix Mediums By Nichelle Suzanne Collaboration between artists is derived by a certain alchemy – part methodical exploration and part magic. On April 10, Houston’s METdance venture a little experimental magic of their own when they come together for An Evening With Apollo Chamber Players. As the two Houston ensembles […]
Things have changed a lot in the last 20 years. Our phones. Airport security. The Internet. Something that has not changed one bit is Nancy Henderek’s commitment to presenting a feast of outstanding dance in Houston. Houston International Dance Coalition’s Dance Salad Festival, which she produces and curates annually, is celebrating its platinum anniversary this […]
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. […]
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