Imagine a room full of dancers twisting, spinning and hurling themselves through the air with complete conviction. Place choreographer Peter Chu in a studio with The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, add a tremendous amount of dedication and skill, and you are bound to have a compelling show in the works. “I love what you are […]
Dancing Through the Here and Now iMEE takes ora to Italy by Nancy Zastudil Move over and make way as iMEE traverses masses of land and bodies of water to perform new works by Maurice Causey, Spencer Gavin Hering and Andrea Dawn Shelley. Created especially for their international debut in Turin, Italy, as part […]
How the World Dances New and Familiar artists showcased at Dance Salad Festival By Adam Castañeda For a curator of art or a producer of theatrical work, there’s no denying the affirmative impulses of that eureka moment when they have discovered an artist for their showcase. For Dance Salad Festival Artistic Director Nancy Henderek, that moment […]
Brazilian Grooves Grupo Corpo at Society for the Performing Arts Pulsing rhythms, a seamless, fluid movement language, and mesmerizing choreography that spreads out horizontally across the stage evoking the sea and the mountains characterize Grupo Corpo (Group Body), Brazil’s leading contemporary dance troupe. The company arrives in Houston for the very first time for two […]
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Returns to Dance Salad Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is part of a rising crop of freelance choreographers making their marks all over the world. Ochoa has created works for Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, The Scottish Ballet, Washington Ballet and others. But it was a chance meeting between […]
By Adam Castaneda Hands reach into the air, imitating the motions of field laborers in daily fruit gathering work. The movement then morphs into joyous exuberance as they are liberated from the toils of unfair working conditions. This rousing ballet is Si Se Puede, an homage to Cesar Chavez and the Latino American experience. It’s […]
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 […]
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