Dance Ambassadors Return to Dallas
After a 20-year absence, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to North Texas for three performances on the Winspear Opera House stage, May 3-4. Artistic Director Robert Battle continues to surprise and delight audiences with premieres and new productions that expand his vision for the company, adding dynamic choreographic [...]
One Night Stand
“Pizzicato Porno,” a free one-night-only performance by artist/dancer Danielle Georgiou and actor/musician Justin Locklear will be presented this Sunday, April 7, by Ro2. This original work will feature video, live music, and dance. The 7:00pm performance will be followed by a reception at Ro2 Art’s Downtown Projects gallery [...]
My Brother’s Keeper
Bruce Woods Dance Project, Dallas “Between dreams and death, he waited for her homecoming.” This quote from poet Duane Michaels aptly sums up the Bruce Wood Dance Project’s “My Brother’s Keeper” that was staged at the Montgomery Arts Theater at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts March 15-16. Exploring the [...]
Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison March 7-17, for 10 days of theater, dance, visual art and for the first time opera. This year’s “Loop” will be focused on local performing groups and host theater WaterTower Theatre will produce a mainstage show of [...]
Dancing Left of Center
TITAS was founded in 1982 by co-founders Tom Adams and Gene Leggett, as the “Texas International Theatrical Arts Society,” to provide North Texas communities with the opportunity to experience the best of American and international music, dance, and performance art through a variety of presentations and educational [...]
New Works In Movement
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Returns To Texas In their highly anticipated return to Dallas on February 9, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will be gracing the Winspear stage with a program featuring new works by some of the world’s most sought after and inventive choreographers and composers — including famed Czech choreographer [...]
REVIEW: The Joffrey Ballet
On Saturday, January 19, the Joffrey Ballet returned to Dallas after twenty years, bringing with them a historical event: the recreation of Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 “Le Sacre de Printemps” (The Rite of Spring). But before we could see what 100 years had done do it, we were witness to its effects on contemporary dance. In [...]
The Drama of Dance
Since founding his company in 1984, Stephen Petronio has created a new world of dance: one that is reminiscent of the way it used to be. Where visual artists create set pieces and costumes for dancers, where musicians want to play live and compose original scores, and where fashion and pop culture live and breathe. [...]
Doug Varone: One Step Ahead
Award-winning choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, television, and fashion. He is a passionate educator and articulate advocate for dance. By any measure, his work is extraordinary for its emotional range, kinetic breadth, and the many arenas in which he works. His New York City-based Doug Varone and Dancers has [...]
Gaudium Dance: Bringing Joy
Gina Lee and her newish outfit of dancers, the Gaudium Dance Company, are set to premiere their first full-length evening of work, “The Problem of Pain,” which is inspired by the writing of C.S. Lewis under the same title, at Plano’s Courtyard Theater this October. Collaborating with other professional artists, speakers, and published writers, Gaudium’s [...]
