The first thing I appreciated about viewing CHANT – the latest performance from Andy and Dionne Noble’s prolific NobleMotion company – is the way the performance just started. Nothing was announced to the audience and nothing in the environment changed but the diminishment of the house lights. The three cocoon or pod or husk-like structures […]
BOOT’s Break-In Dance Fest Showcases Young Choreographers from Texas Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH), Matchbox 2August 6-7, 2026 I recently interviewed Meg Booth, President and CEO of Performing Arts Houston, for an article and she referred to an evening shared by different performing artists as a mix tape. I immediately wished I’d come […]
On May 1, 2026, Silambam Houston performed to a sold-out audience at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts’ Zilkha Hall. Kavya: Poetry in Motion was produced as part of the Houston is Inspired series, a short-term residency program that gives select local artists and organizations the opportunity to utilize the Hobby Center’s technical, administrative, […]
Conversations, Community, Care, Among Other Things 4 Corners by Karen Stokes Dance Choreography/Direction: Karen StokesPerformers: Brittany Bass, Bryan Bradley Peck, Michelle Reyes, Donald Sayre I’m finding it difficult to write about this performance. It’s not that I have nothing to say, but I don’t know where to start. Usually with my dance writings, I’ll simply […]
As a former New Orleanian and New Yorker, I’ve lost track of how many natural and man-made disasters I’ve endured. Sometime between the COVID-19 pandemic and my first prescription for amlodipine and atorvastatin, I realized that the constant feeling of fight or flight was not only unproductive but could send me to the emergency room. […]
A single open room with a chandelier and dimmed lighting. Cabaret posters and scattered leaflets found among littered cigarettes accompany a piano in this enchanting venue. Cafe menus printed auf Deutsch duet with dancers poised at random around the space, costumed in delightfully flamboyant black and white Weimar German attire, are set to make you […]
When you bring an audience together to play La Lotería, you make them ask, “Am I lucky?” When you devise a spell to bring Lotería cards to life, you make them ask, “Was it real?” Audiences at Cynthia Garcia’s La Baile de Lotería, The Pilot Dance Project’s latest evening- length work, may have thought they […]
Houston’s strength has long been its diversity, of people, cultures and ideas. It feels only natural, then, that the city would give rise to a dance company like Mezclada, whose very name means “mixed.” Under the direction of Artistic Director Joel Aguilera, Mezclada thrives on fusion, weaving together contemporary dance, breaking and Latin rhythms into […]
“CODED: Conversations You Didn’t Know We Were Having”, an “evening of dance, drag, and drama” by show creator Travis Propkop, was a collaborative and interdisciplinary event, clearly community-driven and filled with love. I can say with certainty that my investment in this work is because of just how good this show really was. I wish […]
Connoisseurs know that exceptional flavor is about locale. Unique geographies and histories, traditional and innovative uses of matter and method, it all combines with time to a distinctive yield, a family of products that share characteristics and tendencies that become an identity, recognized and referred to by experts, fans, and lovers of the genre. Jessie […]
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