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, […]
Two to Watch: Laura Edson and Sidra Bell Create New Works for The Houston Met’s 2|2 By Michael Wade Simpson Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s artistic director, Marlana Doyle, clearly has a mission in bringing freelance choreographersfrom all over the US to work with her dancers. “The diversity of dances creates more versatile dancers, and the […]
Jessica Lang Dance stops in Dallas and Houston Jessica Lang paints movements in broad strokes, making her one of the most visually exciting choreographers in the dance world. Houston’s Society of Performing Arts presents Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) on Sept. 20, following the TITAS presentation in Dallas on Sept. 14. My first introduction to Lang […]
NobleMotion Heads Back to the Studio for a Hobby Show While other companies go on hiatus during the summer months, NobleMotion Dance dives deep into intense rehearsal for their early September show, “Collide: An Evening of Collaboration”, at the Hobby Center. The NobleMotion aesthetic is defined by a relentless physicality combined with powerful visuals. Artistic […]
Amy Llanes wants you to feel uncomfortable when you view her choreography. To Llanes, the Artistic Director of Rednerrus Feil DanceCompany (RFDC), when an audience leaves feeling awkwardly pensive, she’s done her job. Her upcoming performance Inside Out, which will be closing the 2012-13 season of HopeWerks “works-in-progress” series, is centered around some weighty topics, such […]
Inside Out by Amy Llanes To Close Out HopeWerks’ 2012-13 Season by Abby Koenig Amy Llanes wants you to feel uncomfortable when you view her choreography. To Llanes, the Artistic Director of Rednerrus Feil DanceCompany (RFDC), when an audience leaves feeling awkwardly pensive, she’s done her job. Her upcoming performance Inside Out, which will be closing the […]
Sara Webb Revisits Peter Pan Houston Ballet principal Sara Webb holds the coveted spot of Wendy in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan, a role she will revisit for the third time on June 13-23. Webb first performed the role just one year into being a soloist. Although Webb’s career was nurtured by Ben Stevenson, she became the first […]
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 […]
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