Sonkiss’d The Chronicles of Creation
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...
View ArticleSummer Rites at Freneticore
In what other season would you see sparkling fringe, bright pink hoop skirts, and male feet and svelte legs in point shoes skimming across the floor? What about feather collars, shirtless men, and...
View ArticleSonKiss’d Dance Theater’s Go
SonKiss’d Dance Theater billed its show Go as an “experience” because of the company’s commitment to sharing their Christian faith above their own performance. SonKiss’d Dance Theater presented Go, a...
View ArticleAir Dancing
Air Dancing VauLT Hosts its 2nd Annual Festival of Aerial Arts Imagine muscular, dare-devil dancers tumbling from vaulted ceilings and catching themselves in floor-length panels of silky fabric. They...
View ArticleKaren Stokes Dances History
It just feels good when theater seats are full with students wrestling and curious about what modern dance means. This was the case at The Barn for Karen Stokes Dance’s opening night student preview...
View ArticleDance Gallery Festival Offers Power, Punch a Welcome Dose of Subtlety
This year’s Dance Gallery Festival felt like going through a break-up, complete with bitterness, anger, fear, and the sweet memories that you must contextualize among the darkness. I was left...
View ArticleDance From the Heart’s Empowerment Gathering
Belly Dance 2.0 Dance From the Heart’s Empowerment Gathering By Lydia Hance If you were to ask me what it’s like to watch a woman descend into the splits with three foot swords balanced on her head, I...
View ArticleDance Houston Ups Their Game
Festivals are perfect for dance newbies—there’s generous variety, and you get to sample dance in small doses. It’s rare that parkour, ballet folkorico, classical Indian dance, and edgy contemporary can...
View ArticleTell Your Story Because No One Else Will
Dana Nicolay’s True Story Dances by Lydia Hance If variety is the spice of life, then Beyond! by Nicolay Dance Works, performed on March 6 and 7, 2015 at The Barn, was muy calliente. Artistic Director...
View Article‘Tis the Season for Snow and Dancing
Clara, sugar plums, and the rest of the Land of Sweets have the monopoly on winter holiday ballets, so when I heard about FrenetiCore Dance’s new version of The Snow Queen, I was all ears. I’ve been...
View ArticleHouston, the Dancers have Landed
Lori Yuill Presents Site-Site Specific Work, The Story of a Space Here’s a fact that you’ll want to put in your back pocket: Houston rates first among the nation’s 10 most populous cities in total...
View ArticleStepping in the Gap
Painter Ergon Schiele once said that “to restrict an artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.” With grants diminishing, artists turning to jobs with better pay, and performance venues...
View ArticleHolding Space Dance Collective Brings The Flow Arts To Light
“I love doing narrative work,” Maggie Lasher declares. “I’m really drawn to how I can tell stories without words. As a kid I loved the picture books that told stories without any words.” She also loves...
View ArticleAshley Horn Challenges and Transports Audiences in Vesper
We all seem to seek mindfulness, but when you get the opportunity to stop and reflect, do you? Social media scrolling is an epidemic. We tap our fingers on our screens and live one inch below the...
View ArticleUptown Showcases International Choreographers
Imagine Marc Chagall is coming to your house to paint his next masterpiece. I’m sure you’d want to provide him the best paint, pulsating colors, and the perfect setup for his canvas. What an honor to...
View ArticleDance to Remember
Teresa Chapman makes large, expansive dances. She eats up space by reaching off-center and fully commits her body with breath. In her upcoming show Balance, she investigates the sensations of being...
View ArticleDance Gallery Festival Takes a Chance on New Choreographers
Independent choreographers often bounce from festival to festival showing their work, even paying a performance fee for their work to be seen. Finding funding to produce new work on a stage is...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Consideration of Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
The artists of Transitory Sound and Movement Collective refer to themselves as a “living sculpture” rather than a dance company or a sound ensemble. Their work is an ongoing conversation between sound,...
View ArticleDance at the J: Celebrating 40 Years of Commitment to Dance in Houston
The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center is a Houston gem presenting world-class dance in an intimate theater. For forty years, the leadership at the ERJCC has presented premier artists like Gus...
View ArticleSPA Presents the premiere of Harrison Guy’s Colored Carnegie
The Society for the Performing Arts presents the premiere of Colored Carnegie by choreographer and cultural trailblazer Harrison Guy on November 12 and 13, 7:30pm, at Jones Hall. Through dance, new...
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