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 […]
Painting With the Body SPA Brings Shen Wei Dance Arts to Houston Shen Wei may be best known for orchestrating the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which involved 16,000 performers in the bird’s nest stadium. He’s known for creating meditative work with strong visual elements, such as abstract painting, striking lighting and minimalist […]
Recked Productions Takes to the Pool Imagine you are strolling around Hermann Park and you notice a gaggle of enchanting dancers around the perimeter of the gigantic Jones Reflection Pool. You may have to look twice to make sure what you are seeing is real, and it is. You have just stumbled upon Recked Productions […]
By Misha Penton His frilly miniskirt swirls beneath a casual t-shirt. His eyes are lined in smoky shades of kohl, and his hair is cropped close in an auburn coif. A cabaret tune wafts through the dance space and he slinks in a barefoot, high-heeled pantomime, imaginary cigarette in hand. The next moment, he is […]
Liz Magic Laser and Nora Chipaumire at DiverseWorks Presenting experimental, provocative, performance-driven work is nothing new for DiverseWorks, and this month is no different. On second thought, it’s quite different — at least in terms of what audiences may have come to expect. First on the DiverseWorks calendar isTell Me What You Want To Hear, a video installation […]
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