Emancipating the Soul Urban Souls Dance Company By Adam Castañeda A line of Congolese villagers dance for healing as their spines undulate while they pass magic from palm to palm. Three figures in trench coats stand underneath an umbrella, waiting for rain, or a bus, or a cue to move. A mass of black […]
We entered from the back alley/loading dock side of the converted warehouse now known as Hardy and Nance Street Studios. A small,rectangular cement room with chairs set all around the periphery greeted us. There was no program to prepare us, so we waited until Leslie Scates, dancer, and Damon Smith, upright bass player, entered […]
Performance installation puts people in a state of unease, possibly because they don’t know where they are on the continuum observer and participant. Most people got there early enough to have some fun with Tony Feher’s hanging tiny water bottles, warming up the space, getting our hellos done through play. I enjoyed a wonderful catch […]
Jubilee of Dance: A Tribute to Amy Fote What a bittersweet night at Houston Ballet’s Jubilee: a Tribute to Amy Fote. Although we could have watched her dance all night, there were other treats in store. As usual, the Jubileeprovided a smashing sampler of what’s to come and greatest hits, including Melissa Hough and Connor Walsh’s […]
Karen Stokes Dance Vine Leaf Dances. November 15-17, 2012 Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex by D.L. Groover I suggest the team from Hazmat examine the water supply around here. Something mysterious is happening. For the second time in less than a week, there was a full house for modern dance. Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex was packed to the […]
Group Think Nexus Revolve Dance Company, with Ad Deum Dance Company. November 9-10, 2012. Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex It was a big old party at Barnevelder for the first night of Revolve Dance Company’s annual fall concert, Nexus. Even better, it was packed with youngsters eager to watch dance. Most looked like dance students – no doubt from North […]
October 25-27, 2012 Barnevelder However hard the blows life can inflict, it is what comes afterward that determines the quality of one’s life, whether one survives or succumbs. Regifting Lions, a collaboration of Lynn Lane, Catalina Molnari and Toni Leago Valle, explores the question “Why do some stagger and crumple in the aftermath of trauma, while others find the […]
Spring Street Studios Friday, October 19, 2012 VauLt Dance Company, choreographer Amy Ell’s performance company, inaugurated their new home in Spring Street Studios with an hour’s length program. Thread was the title given on the printed program handed out before the show, but some publicity had a subtitle:Stories of Eight Women and Their Lessons in Limitation. […]
Following only a week after the latest Bollywood Blast programming, Samskriti’s Incredible India! event at Miller Outdoor Theatre on September 8 showcased two energetic dance troupes from India, one traditional, one contemporary: NADAM (Nathan Academy for Dance and Music), and Stem Dance Kampni. The operative word of the night was kathak, a millenia-old form of Indian classical dance that takes […]
Lots to Look at: The Dance Gallery Festival at Sam Houston State University The Dance Gallery Festival is aptly named; it’s a gallery of sorts where we can observe choreographers from Houston and New York and, this year, even Italy. Started by Astrid von Ussar, the Festival has found a home at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), […]
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