Being Wendy
Sara Webb Revisits Peter Pan Houston Ballet principal Sara Webb holds the coveted spot of Wendy in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan, a role she will revisit for the third time on June 13-23. Webb first performed the role just one year into being a soloist. Although Webb’s career was nurtured by Ben Stevenson, she became [...]
Read MoreRecked Productions Takes to the Pool
Recked Productions Up For Air Imagine you are strolling around Hermann Park and you notice a gaggle of enchanting dancers around the perimeter of the gigantic Jones Reflection Pool. You may have to look twice to make sure what you are seeing is real, and it is. You have just stumbled upon Recked Productions latest [...]
Read MoreLife & 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. [...]
Read MoreSite Specific
Review: The Vessel The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company takes a giant leap forward with The Vessel, its triptych program performed last April 11, 12, at the Wortham’s Cullen Theater. Its diverse dancers with their everyday bodies have never looked better as a group, each one dancing as if their life depended on it, fully committed [...]
Read MorePainting With the Body
SPA Brings Shen Wei Dance Arts to Houston Shen Wei may be best known for orchestrating the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which involved 16,000 performers in the bird’s nest stadium. He’s known for creating meditative work with strong visual elements, such as abstract painting, striking lighting and minimalist costumes. Houston audiences get [...]
Read MoreReview: Quiver
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 [...]
Read MoreThe Met on the Move
Imagine a room full of dancers twisting, spinning and hurling themselves through the air with complete conviction. Place choreographer Peter Chu in a studio with The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, add a tremendous amount of dedication and skill, and you are bound to have [...]
Read MoreExperiential Experiments
Liz Magic Laser and Nora Chipaumire at DiverseWorks Presenting experimental, provocative, performance-driven work is nothing new for DiverseWorks, and this month is no different. On second thought, it’s quite different — at least in terms of what audiences may have [...]
Read MoreHow the World Dances
New and Familiar artists showcased at Dance Salad Festival For a curator of art or a producer of theatrical work, there’s no denying the affirmative impulses of that eureka moment when they have discovered an artist for their showcase. For Dance Salad Festival Artistic Director Nancy Henderek [...]
Read MoreHouston Ballet: The Rite of Spring
Off the Floor: Houston Ballet soars again in a trio of works by Stanton Welch, Edwaard Liang and Mark Morris As I rushed past a gaggle of squawking grackles on my way to the show, little did I know the real flock was inside as Houston Ballet took flight in Edwaard Liang’s soaring new ballet, [...]
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