There is a moment in Quiver, Frame Dance Productions’ latest dance-on-film, when four dancers reach their arms upwards, throats open, and turn around themselves in exquisite floor-length blue skirts. The quartet gives the impression of a contemporary American, twenty-first century interpretation of a whirling dervish. Quiver is made up of striking, pristine images accompanied by a haunting score […]
Learning to Listen Frame Dance Productions’ Ecouter There is a moment in Quiver, Frame Dance Productions’ latest dance-on-film, when four dancers reach their arms upwards, throats open, and turn around themselves in exquisite floor-length blue skirts. The quartet gives the impression of a contemporary American, twenty-first century interpretation of a whirling dervish. Quiver is made up of striking, pristine […]
Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan Returns to Houston Ballet “I love my childhood,” mused my son, at age nine, as if he where inhabiting his adult self for an instant. You can’t go home again, unless you are Peter Pan, or Trey McIntyre, who recently returned to Houston to freshen up his charming Peter Pan for the Houston Ballet. Premiered […]
Life & Laughter Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous hat blocking your view? Just about all of that has happened to me as an audience member, which is why Jerome Robbins’ comic masterwork,The Concert, resonates with me and anyone who has ever been to theater. Robbins’ seminal […]
Houston Ballet Brings The Concert Back Wrong seat? Bickering couples in the row in front of you? Enormous hat blocking your view? Just about all of that has happened to me as an audience member, which is why Jerome Robbins’ comic masterwork,The Concert, resonates with me and anyone who has ever been to theater. Robbins’ seminal ballet will […]
Watching the Dance Audience in the Park By Sara Draper I am not a dance reviewer, but here I am writing about Erin Reck’s 2:00pm dance happening at Hermann Park today, Up For Air. It is Saturday, May 18, 2013. Mainly, I want to recall observations of children and other accidental audience members who happened upon […]
The Chronicles of Creation By Lydia Hance Christopher (YungChris) Thomas is the choreographic and faithful force behind SonKiss’d Dance Theater, a group devoted to mixing faith and urban artistic expression to bring new audiences and hearts to church/art/church. Befitting the troupe’s inaugural solo dance concert, SonKiss’d Dance Theater premiered “The Chronicles of Creation” on April […]
Dance and film are joined by movement as camera and body come together. Frame Dance Productions’ newest offering, Quiver, makes the most of that fact. Frame Dance artistic director Lydia Hance navigates a dual career track, exploring both film and live performance, and the intersection of both. Quiver opens with an oscillating pulse of a blurry dancer, with […]
To honor its ten-year anniversary FrenetiCore Dance Theater revisits its first full-length work, The Scared Harp, a collaborative effort between choreographer Rebecca French, the group’s artistic director, and company dancers. We’re told it’s been reworked, but the sketchiness of concept says “work in progress.” This al fresco dance, a country-fried interracial Romeo and Juliet, seemed […]
The Urban Side of Houston Dance Hip-Hop Takes Center Stage at Dance Houston Festival by Adam Castañeda Sneakers, oversized denim, and baseball caps in reverse were the costume of choice for many of the performers at the Wortham Center on April 6. Young people (many in their teens), stomped, pop and locked, and grooved across […]
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