Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...remarkable contributions to the community in the areas of dance, classical music, theatre, visual art, and comedy...."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Nine Austin arts organizations find grants in their stockings, courtesy of a Santa played by the National Endowment for the Arts.

"...contribution to our national and local cultural heritage. From dance to opera to theatre to cinema to folk art,..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

"...attractions, assembled outside the Dougherty Arts Center for the Dance Umbrella project The Architecture of Seeing. A drag queen..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Arts Review

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Animation

Five works of superior, ambitious animation.

"...fever dream of multiplying objects engaging in Busby Berkeley dance numbers. Visually magnificent, "Possessions" is an explosion of colors..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Articulations

Leading off the new year with good news: an arts success story from the Paradox Players and grants for Austin artists from the NEA.

"...Dance Umbrella, which received $20,000 to support the presentation of..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

On the Funding Front

"...context, to members of the Austin community; $20,000 to Dance Umbrella in support of Dance Umbrella's ongoing presentation of..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Make It Work

Music to get down with

"...maybe now is the time to learn to appreciate dance pop...."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...(Sally Jacques Productions): Sally Jacques ended her trilogy of dances on scaffolds with more breathtaking acrobatics and some unexpected..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Contemporary Austin Goings & Comings

Judith Sims retires, Deming sculpture Mystic Raven returns

"...Cohen noted, "She was a founding participant in Austin's Dance Umbrella, brought internationally-renowned dance artist Deborah Hay to Austin..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dancing Through Uncharted Territory

Choreographic explorers Sharir & Bustamante and their 20-year expedition of discovery

"...seasons, but their expedition through the frontiers of modern dance has been going on for more than two decades...."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happy Camper

Judith Sims on 23 Years with Austin's Art Museum

"...inter-disciplinary programs. She was a founding participant in Austin's Dance Umbrella, brought internationally-renowned dance artist Deborah Hay to Austin..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Top Ten Dance Events of 19991. DANCEfest (Chris Valentine) Austin's first annual..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Give 'Em a Hand

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...critics has recognized the year's most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, the visual arts, and theatre. The nominations..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tere O'Connor

Don't fret over getting this choreographer's dances, and you'll be richly rewarded

"...Audiences navigating contemporary dance as an art form are similar to those anxious..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Intel building, took top honors, wining five awards, including Dance Concert (an award it shared with Tapestry Dance Company's..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Points of Departure

The Viewpoints Invade Austin

"...Bartow, Artistic Director of the NYU Department of Drama. Dance, music, theatre, were to be cross-listed. Performers were to..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Postmarks

VanScorned

"...Don Clinchy More Dance Coverage..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column

Ringing in the New Year With Raw Paw

Austin art collective parties out 2014

"...Just look to Raw Paw, whose upcoming New Year’s Dance Revolution creatively unites sound and style with the purpose..."

Dec. 29, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Moving Real Strange for Free

Butoh performances by Spank Dance Company

"...different from the more familiar Western forms of modern dance as an arsenic-based life-form is from our own human..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ready for My Close Up

Dancing Where the Audience Can See Everything

"...Don't expect to see sweet little dances if you go see Kathy Dunn-Hamrick's Close Ups. Just..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"...Funk, all three became Austin music institutions. Their performance umbrella Body Rock regularly packs out local spaces. More than..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Arts Groups

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

"...$15,000 to support its juried choreographic competition New American Talent/Dance, in which emerging choreographers K.T. Nelson, Dominic Walsh, and..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Compagnie Julie Dossavi/Trey McIntyre Project

World-class choreographers from Paris and Houston dance into Austin the same week

"...next week that takes the form of two world-class dance companies, Compagnie Julie Dossavi and Trey McIntyre Project, performing..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

I'd Like to Thank ...

The 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Match-Play, the Rude Mechanicals' theatrical take on Deborah Hay's dance The Match, the only other show to capture more..."

June 9, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...Annual Tapestry Tap Jam Our most joyful and eclectic dance company hosts its annual salute to National Tap Day,..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The House That PAC Built

"...That danced the Taylor off its feet,..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam

"...An Austin artist whose work spanned the communities of dance and design, theatre and art, has died. Michael Jay..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Arts Column

Austin Arts Get Going in 1995 Forward Motion

"...commissioned a new virtual reality performance work from Sharir Dance Company, and Austin electronic composers such as Russel Pinkston,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

Cinderella/Mi Madre y Yo

Mothers danced in both Long Center venues on Mother's Day, but oh, what different moms

"...most touching aspect of Mi Madre y Yo, a dance-theatre piece by Barcelona-based choreographer Sònia Gómez, was how much..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Articulations

The National Endowment for the Arts played Santa Claus last week, dropping federal funding in the stockings of arts organizations, and even went so far as "comin' to town" to do it, announcing $26 million in grants, including $287,000 to 14 local artists and arts organizations, from here in Austin.

"...Dance Umbrella: $20,000 to support the presentation of dance events..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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