After the Flood SPA brings Motionhouse to Houston Motionhouse makes their Houston premiere with Scattered, a collaboration between artistic director Kevin Finnan with digital artists Logela Multimedia. Kinnan discusses his process, the dire subject of water and his highly physical brand of dance theater with A + C editor Nancy Wozny. A + C: What drew you […]
Houston Ballet’s Stand-Out Principals Joseph Walsh and Connor Walsh Blade-like limbs sliced through the air exactly in unison, mastering the fierce architecture of Aszure Barton’sAngular Momentum. The stage was jam-packed with dancers, blazing white lights and a striking linear set, yet Joseph and Connor Walsh’s brief but affecting duet galvanized our attention. The audience got a […]
Dancing at the Edge of the World SPA brings Stephen Petronio’s Underland to Houston “We conjure worlds out of nothing,” wrote Stephen Petronio in his essay “Why I Dance” in Dance Magazine. And what a world the New York choreographer has conjured inUnderland, making its Houston premiere on January 11, 2013 through the Society for the Performing Arts. Petronio originally […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Uptown Dance Centre is a hothouse where dance flourishes on many levels. How could the dancers not grow wildly in an environment where there are kindergartners sharing studios with pros, and the pre-professional company trains for 30 hours, 6 days a week? Beth Gulledge-Brown, who opened the studio after dancing in New York and South […]
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 […]
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