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), […]
The lady dance-makers rocked the Wortham during Houston Ballet’s Women@Art, an evening of work by Julia Adam, Aszure Barton and Twyla Tharp. Barton’s Angular Momentum proved to the big news of the night. Barton, a rising star with an original choreographic voice, has made her mark across a great swath of the ballet and contemporary world in […]
Amy Fote commands the stage as Cio-Cio San in Houston Ballet’s season opener, Madame Butterfly. With Fote’s imminent retirement later this fall, the radiant principal is cherishing every last arabesque, as demonstrated in her masterful performance. There is a completeness present, as if each corner of the choreography has been thought through and considered. Stanton Welch’s […]
NobleMotion Dance & David J. Deveau Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex Friday, August 31, 2012 Lights flash, arc, blind, blink. Arms, legs, faces appear, disappear. Shadows bend, swallow, haunt. Spitting Ether: A Reality Bending Dance, created in collaboration by NobleMotion Dance and lighting designer David J. Deveau, is an evening of light and dance, yes, but perhaps […]
There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances. The dance festival in Western Massachusetts, has now been running for 80 years, since Ted Shawn freed himself from a vaudevillian past, (and a dancer wife, […]
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival August 5, 2012 If I had to label the genre of Jonah Bokaer’s new work, Curtain,premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I would say it’s a thriller, more in genre of Inception than any garden variety car chaser. Performed by Bokaer and his frequent collaborators, Adam H. Weinert and James McGinn. Curtain is really a cluster […]
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