For Houston dancers and choreographers, the start of a new year signifies more than a clean slate and an opportunity to make good on a host of personal resolutions. January means that it’s Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre. 2015 marks the 35th year of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center’s annual dance celebration, which […]
Storytelling, Masculinity, and What “It” Is Farrell Dyde Offers a New Show at The Barn Farrell Dyde is a dancer and choreographer with a large body of documented work. In fact, you can search his name on YouTube and come up with dozens of videos reaching back to the 1970s. On November 21 and […]
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 […]
Air Dancing VauLT Hosts its 2nd Annual Festival of Aerial Arts Imagine muscular, dare-devil dancers tumbling from vaulted ceilings and catching themselves in floor-length panels of silky fabric. They swing and spiral and climb as if gravity is just a little weaker for them. It’s part circus, part post-modern dance with enough spectacle to engage […]
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 […]
TWO SWANS & A BEAUTY Texas Ballet Troupes Conclude on a Classical Note IMAGE ABOVE: Sara Webb and artists of the Houston Ballet in Stanton Welch’s Swan Lake. Photo by Amitava Sarkar. Texas Ballet companies conclude their seasons with vintage warhorses: Swan Lake,at Texas Ballet Theater, May 30-June 1, and Houston Ballet, June 5-15; and The Sleeping Beauty, atBallet Austin, May 9-11. . […]
MUSINGS ON BALLET’S FAMOUS FAUN The Tanaquil LeCercq Documentary Screens at the MFAH IMAGE ABOVE: From Afternoon of a Faun. Photo courtesy Kino Lorber, Inc.. Every now and then, I like geek out on ballet history. It’s such a strange and astonishing tradition. So, of course, I’m thrilled to see Nancy Buirski’s film Afternoon of a Faun: […]
DiverseWorks Presents Karen Sherman’s One with Others “I became a dancer by accident. Or, at least entirely, unintentionally,” says choreographer and dance artist Karen Sherman. “I just kept saying yes. For over 20 years.” Houston audiences have the chance to follow Sherman on a journey that uses all the major art forms — music, sound, […]
By Michael Wade Simpson Changing hoods is not always easy for an urban dance school. Sherese Campbell, whose company, City Dance, will present a concert, “Random Acts” on Saturday, April 26, at their new studio theater, says that when she moved her school not long ago from a home a block from Rice University to […]
Elephant in the Black Box Makes Their US Debut at Dance Salad A Conversation with Jean Philippe Dury By Michael Wade Simpson Jean-Philippe Dury began his career in the corps of the Paris Opera Ballet, and then moved to Spain as a principal dancer with Nacho Duato’s, Compañía Nacional de Danza de España. His own […]
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