A Dance Writer Moves On

After a decade with the Chron, Jonelle Seitz takes her leave

"...Oh, friends in Austin's dance community, this is news I'm sorry to deliver. After..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Arts Post 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

"...urgency of everyday life. But other times, as with Dance Repertory Theatre's program of dance works informed by African-American..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Shall We Dance?

"...Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe, Akira and Emoto. Shall We Dance? is, at heart, something like a modern-day Cinderella, a..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Call them contemporary or modern, but Paul Taylor's dances are always masterful

"...The origin of modern dance is usually attributed to the barefoot dance-makers who rebelled..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

2017 Austin Dance Festival

This year's showcase of two dozen dances proved how Austin's dancing has risen to the level of its dance making

"...Austin, in 2008, I interviewed Ellen Bartel about the dance festival she directed, Big Range Austin. Austin was a..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

ISHIDA Dance Company's Beginning / αρχή

This contemporary dance troupe's dynamic debut with "small bites" whetted the appetite for a full meal

"...Beginning/ αρχή, the first public showing by Austin-based ISHIDA Dance Company, the audience was treated to a host of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

UT's Cohen New Works Festival Brings Experimentation to the Stage

Campus hosts a weeklong celebration of working outside comfort zones

"...When curtains rise on the Cohen New Works Festival on April 15, over 30 original student creations..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Post by Alyssa Hiarker

Shall We Dance?

Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, and Susan Sarandon co-star in in this tempting remake of a Japanese film about a man's midlife slump.

"...the Rain, when he ebulliently proclaimed in song: "Got-ta dance, got-ta dance, got-ta daaaaance!" In other words, when a..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company

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

"...aloft a tone of generosity. Along with two short works of her own, she presented creations by two of..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Disrupted

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

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick invited the Dallas-based Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, a youthful troupe that has appeared at Hamrick's Austin..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

'Water Works'

The charming and fun aquatic ballets at Barton Springs Pool return on video

"...take a couple dozen swimsuit-clad performers and present a dance around and in its chilly waters. These aquatic ballets..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cats Don't Dance

"...this Tinseltown tradition, and it's another delight. Cats Don't Dance is an inspired movie movie, one that celebrates and..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Performa / Dance's Artist and Muse

Performa / Dance's program of four pensive and sensitive works explored physical and emotional distress and pain in great depth

"...Mark your calendars for next June: Performa/Dance, led by choreographer Jennifer Hart, presents just one concert..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

The sophomore model of the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival at the UT Department of Theatre and Dance is a full10 days of original dances, dramas, solo performances, site-specific productions, and musicals, supplemented by panel discussions, master classes, and open classes having to do with the work presented -- 45 events in all.

"...Two years ago, the UT Department of Theatre and Dance inaugurated a festival showcasing new performances of plays, dances,..."

April 4, 2003 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

Gotta Dance!

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

"...world. Within one year, he went from having minimal dance experience to choreographing musicals for St. Edward's University and..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Lindsey Schwartz

Dance Repertory Theatre's 2019 Fall for Dance

In works ranging from tender to tense, the student dancers in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance embodied the spirit of "I can do anything"

"...in the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance, were tearing up the stage of the B. Iden..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Dance and Classical Treasures of 2017

Much outstanding new dance and music this year took its cue from the world around us and pressing social issues

"...VOICES (Chorus Austin) A treasury of captivating new choral works by Texas composers sung with evident joy, care, and..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Performa / Dance's Confections

This evening of works, performed outdoors at the Umlauf, mixed art, beauty, and nature in ways that enraptured

"...experience of something special. Live at the Umlauf's recent Performa/Dance night was just that sort of happenstance. The event,..."

April 19, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2015

Leaving deep impressions from 2015's dance and classical music works were the unexpected elements, like screen doors, trees, and car horns

"...composer Nico Muhly. 6) The Trees Of Govalle (Forklift Danceworks)..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The All-Overs Brings Badass Baseballish Thrills to Modern Dance

Jennifer Sherburn & company are batting 1000

"...But it is about an acclaimed dance company’s return to heart-quickening, music-spiked, fiercely kinetic live performance...."

Nov. 10, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

This Is Who We Are #12: Tapestry Dance Company's Rhythm … of a Life

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...In tribute to that spirit, this series recalls past works that affirm our creative force...."

May 27, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin's Masters of Dance

This triple bill of abstract works was a tribute to the piano and its range, excellently performed

"...Piano moves the body. It's a rule that ballet dancers live by – in the daily class, the pianist..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Building the Wall

UT Department of Theatre & Dance rushes to get Robert Schenkkan's timely political drama onstage

"...a script that the UT Department of Theatre & Dance promotes as having been written in "'a white heat'..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...The dancers were unhurried as they paced and pivoted, evoking the..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

'Ignite: Three Works'

Choreographer Jennifer Hart and dancer Edward Carr gather kindling, set a match

"...mid-morning sun in May, is tender and organic. Both dancers are barefoot, and Thompson's brown hair, in a long,..."

June 13, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

Comedy and collaboration were distinguishing elements in the 2009 New Works Festival

"...30-plus projects in the 2009 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas Department of Theatre..."

April 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

University Co-op Presents the 2005 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

"...This year's New Works Festival runs eight days with performances beginning at 2pm..."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance of the Prodigal Son

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

"...amount of "growing up" there: first as a principal dancer, then as a dancemaker. His work became so highly..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

"...First, after years of developing and finishing a major dance project – about which Chronicle critic Jonelle Seitz wrote,..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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