For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving

Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt

"..."Like so many of us, these pandemics – COVID-19 and ongoing systemic racism..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Last week, SXSW announced that high-concept horror A Quiet Place is this year's..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"...A third of the way into Charles "Chuck" Eldon Lokey's 300-page screenplay..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Food-o-File

"...by Virginia B. Wood..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Food Column

Food-o-File

Shake-ups on Sixth

"...Last week marked some sudden changes in the local restaurant scene with three..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Austin-Based Choreographer Hopes to Make a "Social Justice Summer"

With some crowdfunding support, Charles O. Anderson will be able to make dances for this time

"...Like everybody else in the world, Charles O. Anderson had big..."

June 12, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vincent Mantsoe and Dance Theatre X

Defining African-derived contemporary dance with professor Charles O. Anderson

"...When modern-dance pioneers like Mary Wigman and Martha Graham appropriated bits..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Best Choreographic Carrier of Remembrance

Charles O. Anderson

"...By its nature, movement happens in the now. But it can spring from..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Best of Austin Feature

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...In a way, his dance (Re)current Unrest began with Beyoncé, said choreographer Charles O. Anderson during a Fusebox Festival..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...Money is tight. Spaces are dark. Companies can't produce. The..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...E.A. Poe may not have gotten much love in his lifetime,..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

UT Dance Repertory Theatre’s Fall for Dance

Work after work in this program emphatically spoke to current events, to the here and now

"..."Now!"..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent

"...Sometimes universities feel like the most insular of places, ivory..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Repertory Theatre's Fortitude

In this spring concert, a profound and moving tribute to a missing member of the Theatre & Dance Department community

"...A hand fluttering over a chest. Such a simple gesture, and yet the..."

March 22, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Catalyst

Dance Repertory Theatre's successful spring concert guided its audiences to heaven

"...Catalyst, by University of Texas undergraduate dance group Dance Repertory Theatre, was a..."

March 30, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Robert Faires' Top 10 Works That Spoke to Me About 2020

Throughout 2020, performances and books seemed to contain messages about the year – its trials, its traumas, and its echoes in history

"...I experienced less art this year (for reasons that don't need repeating), but so much of..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019

It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music

"...1) SILENT NIGHT (Austin Opera) This rich staging of the Puts/Campbell Pulitzer winner about..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Draylen Mason Is Still Being Remembered, and How Matters

A year after his death, we should do as Draylen did

"...A year is plenty of time for something to get lost, for a keepsake..."

March 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...One could be forgiven for expecting something very different than..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

More Than One Complication

KDHDC and line upon line percussion provide a moving-people people-watching performance

"...In her preshow address, wearing rolled-up jeans and a pair of oxfords..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Roots and Wings

The works in Dance Repertory Theatre's spring program proved unexpectedly timely in a week of unrest and anxiety

"...Roots and WingsB. Iden Payne Theatre, UT campus April 20..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...When the discipline under discussion is dance, it's the nature of the artists to..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The crowd could hardly compete with the one packed into the..."

June 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2016 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The crowd awaits the start of the 2016 Austin Critics Table..."

May 26, 2016 Photo Gallery

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Capital T Theatre had a reason to crow at the Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Year of the Booster

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For anyone feeling down about the state of our city,..."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Clerks II

Kevin Smith is on solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.

"...Directed by: Kevin Smith. Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith,..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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