Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's True Story

In Kathy Dunn Hamrick's new dance, communities, like truths, were fluid and the movement was incomparable

"...the few moments when the dancers moved synchronously in Kathy Dunn Hamrick's newest work for her company of nine,..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company

In making her new dance, Kathy Dunn Hamrick kept turning things upside down

"...With typical candor, Kathy Dunn Hamrick admits that when she began to create..."

June 17, 2011 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis Loring

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company

In this short works program, the troupe explored the solace and thrills in the company you keep

"...program of her company's June concert with other choreographers, Kathy Dunn Hamrick set aloft a tone of generosity. Along..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Everything! Everything! Everything!

The achievement of this new work is that it lives up to its name, including all that is remarkable about KDHDC

"...the work that closed the 19th season of the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: dancers visible through screen doors,..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Disrupted

KDHDC and Dark Circles Contemporary Dance used classical music to launch into playful patterns and absurd rituals

"...Choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick invited the Dallas-based Dark Circles Contemporary Dance,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

More or Less

Kathy Dunn Hamrick's dance, performed to Steve Reich's Drumming in its entirety, had rhythms moving the dancers and moving through them

"...to recorded excerpts of Steve Reich's Drumming, but until Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's More or Less, with choreography..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company

The local choreographer chooses carefully two troupes to dance with hers

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick isn't going to let just any dance..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Glacier

As an elegy to the ice, this dance aestheticized doom but left us plenty of edge

"...Given the pensive direction that choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick's work has taken lately – the subtle..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company

An impossible symphony and a manipulated dance challenge our experience of time and memory

"...The Big Small, a dance choreographed by Kathy Dunn Hamrick and performed by her company last month,..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick was reading a dance review when a..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Energy Abounding

Few words better encompass what the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Company is all about

"...The strikingly lovely Kathy Dunn Hamrick, who has been creating dances with the..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Moving Backward to Go Forward

The opening of its fourth season finds the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company moving backward in order to go forward.

"...That is how choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick tackled one of her newest pieces, "City..."

April 26, 2002 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis Loring

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018

Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...community." For four decades, he's made good on that. Kathy Dunn Hamrick..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Double Step'

Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Kate Warren bring their dance companies together, but they've been in step for decades

"...things, it seems, are meant to be. In 1981, Kathy Dunn Hamrick needed to replace a dancer for her..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pun de Deux

Kathy Dunn Hamrick gives the lowest form of humor a lift in The BarreTenders

"...our city's playful choreographers would be woefully incomplete without Kathy Dunn Hamrick. She has, after all, been responsible for..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Breathe, Fall, Suspend

Kathy Dunn Hamrick explains what modern dance is and why she keeps making it

"...rebirth and rejuvenation, so it's appropriate that each spring Kathy Dunn Hamrick and the dancers in her company premiere..."

April 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

2016 Austin Festival of Dance

The second round of Kathy Dunn Hamrick's streamlined contemporary dance festival is as carefully curated as the first

"...Leave it to Kathy Dunn Hamrick, choreographer of resonant dances and developer of..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...A Jazz Nutcracker, Dec. 10-20, at the Long Center Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Ready for My Close Up

Dancing Where the Audience Can See Everything

"...to see sweet little dances if you go see Kathy Dunn-Hamrick's Close Ups. Just because they're in the informal..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

Retracing Their Steps

Two choreographers explain why it's tough to get old dances back on their feet

"...throbs with energy," says dance company director and choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick. "But when you're trying to bring a..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...however, the impulse toward fusion isn't always consciously directed. Kathy Dunn Hamrick, artistic director of the Kathy Dunn Hamrick..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

That Better Place

Choreographer Kate Warren and Her Crystal Eyes

"...that balance through choreographing Fugue State, a solo featuring Kathy Dunn Hamrick. This solo was inspired by the book..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...the Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Norman Blumensaadt (theatre), Kathy Dunn Hamrick (dance), Jeanne and Michael Klein (patronage), and..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center More or Less, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Co. One Step at a Time:..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Light In Your Shoes, Tapestry Dance Company True Story, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company The Warriors, Arcos Dance..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Come and Don't Get It

You already have a job; no need to make another one out of figuring out art

"...through space in a movement exercise that she – Kathy Dunn Hamrick – had undertaken with four other choreographers..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play and Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's The Undoing of Nonet were..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Fever

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

"...Dance and Wicked Cricket and Blue Lapis Light and Kathy Dunn Hamrick and ...); some lodged in academe at..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Royal Pair: Games We Play

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's latest offering, Royal Pair: Games We Play, offered abstracted versions of popular children's games with subtle humor and playfulness, yet the production's lighting and electronica-style accompaniment conflicted with the choreography in what seemed a friendly battle, for center stage.

"...The inspiration for Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's latest offering, Royal Pair: Games..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Flash Dance: 30 Dances in 60 Minutes

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Flash Dance: 30 Dances in 60 Minutes won't give you Jennifer Beals, just clean, clear movement in expressive, compact little nuggets

"...So it is with choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick, who has gotten into the act this..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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