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Choreographers Mind The Gap For The First Time In 2023

Choreographers Mind The Gap For The First Time In 2023

Dance Source Houston’s (DSH) showcase style performance series Mind The Gap is back at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) next Tuesday, February 28 at 7:30pm with a brand new line up of works. The program will feature a total of 6 new danceworks, including creations by local choreographers Teresa Chapman, Amanda Monteith, Violet […]

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Mezclada Answers “All of the Above” in the Company’s First Evening-Length

Mezclada Answers “All of the Above” in the Company’s First Evening-Length

The spirit of Houston, TX is in Mezclada Dance Company. Personality, confidence, warmth, and style draws you in and makes you feel welcomed by this ensemble of artists. Donned in colorful costumes, it’s as if they’re welcoming you to the party, and you’re about to have a really good time. “The diversity within our city […]

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Fresh Fruit and Murder – Bones and Memory Dance Takes a Whack at the Lizzie Borden Story

Fresh Fruit and Murder – Bones and Memory Dance Takes a Whack at the Lizzie Borden Story

Heather VonReichbauer, through Bones and Memory Dance, has been building a body of work that explores the macabre and unsettling. Her previous full-length evening shows include Dark Waters (2017), an exploration of Appalachian murder ballads, and Madness, Memories, and Woe (2018) which delved into the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe. Just before the […]

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Moroccan Dance Live! Presented by Kristina Koutsoudas at Houston Fringe Festival

Moroccan Dance Live! Presented by Kristina Koutsoudas at Houston Fringe Festival

On November 3rd, Houston-based dancer/choreographer/teacher Kristina Koutsoudas and company will present an evening-length program of contemporary and traditional indigenous Moroccan dance. In a wide-ranging conversation spanning diverse topics, Kristina shed light on her journey as a dancer and choreographer, her inspiration and process in creating this work, and the history of Middle Eastern dance at […]

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Peter Chu’s chuthis. and Houston Contemporary Dance Company Merge in Liminal Traces

Peter Chu’s chuthis. and Houston Contemporary Dance Company Merge in Liminal Traces

This weekend at Asia Society Texas Oct. 22-23, Houston Contemporary Dance Company (HCDC) and project-based dance company chuthis. merge to present Liminal Traces. The evening of dance will feature the work of chuthis. artistic director and choreographer Peter Chu, an artist who frequently occupies the interstitial spaces of contemporary dance. In his career, Chu has […]

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Keeping SCORE: Toni Leago Valle Celebrates 20 Years

Keeping SCORE: Toni Leago Valle Celebrates 20 Years

Years can be counted by 10 in decades, by 100 in centuries and, though it’s little used in modern conversation, by 20 in scores, just as Abraham Lincoln did so memorably in his Gettysburg address. Celebrating onescore as a professional choreographer, Toni Leago Valle and her company 6 Degrees will present SCORE, an evening highlighting […]

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Diavolo Returns to Houston with City’s Premiere of S.O.S.

Diavolo Returns to Houston with City’s Premiere of S.O.S.

Diavolo is a dance company not for the faint of heart. When you watch Trajectoire, one of Artistic Director Jacques Heim’s signature works, you’re held captive by the gravity-defying assignment at hand. Dancers maneuver a 3,000-pound boat using only momentum to catapult themselves into the air with stunning accuracy, not to mention fluidity and grace. […]

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Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Starts New US Tour in Houston

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Starts New US Tour in Houston

When Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan takes the stage at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater, it will be their first performance in the USA since the pandemic began. The artistic director of the company, CHENG Tsung-lung, choreographed the work they’re presenting, 13 Tongues, a piece that incorporates the culture of a busy district in […]

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Years in the Making: Charting the Return of Karen Stokes Dance

Years in the Making: Charting the Return of Karen Stokes Dance

It’s not unusual for Karen Stokes to take her time developing an evening-length work for her company Karen Stokes Dance (KSD). The director of the dance program at University of Houston as well as an established dance artist, Stokes often begins with shorter pieces or one-acts that expand to a long-form presentation over a period […]

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Collaboration Branches Out in PDC Works’ Take Root

Collaboration Branches Out in PDC Works’ Take Root

I had the incredible fortune to have danced for Sophia Torres, artistic director of PDC Works, when the company still went by Psophonia. The work pushed me – emotionally and physically – to adopt different perspectives, including that of a tree in Phantasia 2007. We moved microscopically, miming the growth and intertwining of tree roots […]

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