Posted on · Houston Matters learns more about the annual CounterCurrent festival, a multi-day event featuring themes driven by women and artists of color sharing their perspectives.
Posted on · Choreographer Garrett Smith takes on traditional gender roles in dance with 'Imitations,' his piece at this year's Dance Salad Festival.
Posted on · Houstonian Ronnette Ramirez talks about how she became a belly dancer.
Posted on · You might not think being a ballet dancer is a 40-hour-per-week job, but Kim Stafford, a former dancer for the Houston Ballet, says rising to the rank of Sugar Plum Fairy was a pretty grueling task.
Posted on · A preview of Society for the Performing Arts' upcoming season and their presence at Theater District Open House 2017.
Posted on · KĀVYA: Poetry in Motion uses classical Indian dance forms as well as modern dance, unified with poetry and music to tell stories of the human experience.
Posted on · What's the most-used illegal drug in Greater Houston? And how has drug use in the city and Texas changed over the years? The leading researcher in the state answers those questions.
Posted on · (Above: The interior of Houston’s Jones Hall. Image Courtesy: SPA Houston) The Houston-based Society for the Performing Arts is somewhat unique in the region’s arts scene because it features, well, a little bit of everything. SPA performances range from musical acts to puppetry shows to dance companies to appearances by authors. This year, SPA celebrates its 50th anniversary […]
Posted on · This week (April 13-15, 2017), dance troupes spanning genres and countries are descending on Houston for the annual Dance Salad Festival from the Houston International Dance Coalition. One such group is the Susanna Leinonen Company of Finland, which will perform two pieces: a modern dance interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and a contemporary piece called […]
Posted on · Emmy Award-winning tap dancer and choreographer Jason Samuels Smith was in Houston last week (Feb. 9, 2017) to give a master class on tap at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center in Meyerland. And we wondered: could he teach all of Houston to tap over the radio? He dropped by our Geary Performance Studio to […]
Posted on · Amid a White House characterizing the media as the “opposition party,” instant feedback – both positive and negative – via social media, coarsened public discourse on, well, everything that seems to even challenge objective facts, and long-standing debate in the public – and in media itself — over the role journalists should play, it can […]
Posted on · Houston Ballet's 2016-2017 season will keep you on your toes! Artistic Director Stanton Welch gives us an exclusive look at what's coming up.
Posted on · It might sound like a strange pairing – William Shakespeare and traditional Indian dance. But a Houston choreographer is exploring new territory by merging the two. News 88.7’s arts and culture reporter Amy Bishop has more on a performance uniting eastern and western art forms from Silambam Houston Indian Classical Arts. The group performs its production of […]
Posted on · Move and groove this Fourth of July with American dance music!
Posted on · Kim Stafford, a former dancer with the Houston Ballet, talks about how she got interested in ballet and about the demands of the art form. MORE: Houston Ballet Performance Caters to Kids With Special Needs (Houston Matters, March 27, 2015)