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 […]
High Altitude Dancing Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Returns to the SPA stage Imagine a ballet company that exists in two cities, doesn’t go near a classic story ballet, cultivates groundbreaking choreographers before they become famous, presents other dance companies and has an award-winning folkloric outreach program. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB), making a pit stop […]
Care to Dance? Houston Brazilian Festival Returns to Jones Plaza You don’t have to wait for anyone to ask you to dance in Brazil, so why should you have to wait at Jones Plaza, the site of the Houston Brazilian Festival, which runs from 1 to 10pm on Sunday, September 2? Four different bands […]
Hope Stone and NobleMotion Rule Houston’s Dance Stages Houston’s August dance scene belongs to Hope Stone Dance and NobleMotion Dance as they offer brave new works for local dance fans. Jane Weiner plans a deconstruction of Mozart’sRequiem, she calls it WRECK-WE-UMMM, while Andy and Dionne Noble combine forces with lighting designer David Deveau on a new […]
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