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Madonna Remains a Prickly Pop Disruptor at Moody Center
First of two nights drives home Madge’s four-decade ubiquity
"...She’d tried that earlier, when she introduced a spooky dancer wearing a mannequin-like mask, who was meant to stand..."

April 15, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, February 9-15
"...20-May 20): “The greater the fool, the better the dancer.” Composer Theodore Hook said that. Poet Edwin Denby agreed...."

Feb. 9, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Carmen
Did Bizet's classic tragic opera need a soft reboot?
"...This is an art film – Millepied, a French dancer and choreographer, has reconceived Carmen (along with co-writers Alexander..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Come for Channing Tatum dancing. Stay for … Channing Tatum dancing.
"...Hayek Pinault generate some true fire. Tatum was a dancer back in the day and he’s still got the..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Aftersun
Poignant final holiday sums up a beautifully captured father-daughter relationship
"...casting of the American Rowlson-Hall, primarily a choreographer and dancer, makes most sense in one of these moments), and..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Arty Things to Do for Women's History Month
Celebrating achievements and creativity from Austin's women artists
"...iconic choreographer Deborah Hay in conversation with archivist and dancer Laurent Pichaud, featuring a preview of Dear Dancer, their..."

March 4, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Macaluso Sisters
An intimate and devastating family portrait across decades
"...oldest, good-natured Maria (de Luca), yearns to be a dancer. Teenage Pinuccia (Pomario) is more interested in catching the..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...turn at falling in love with a sweet little dancer." Like Charley Crockett, the vocal fingerprints of Choctaw Wildfire's..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

"Andy St. Martin: The Weight" at Prizer Arts & Letters
In his newest show, the artist is, as ever, nothing if not commitment incarnate
"...in 1991 to participate in a workshop conducted by dancer Deborah Hay. They've been those things while St. Martin..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Saint Maud
Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction
"...nurse. Her latest client is Amanda (Ehle), a once-famous dancer approaching the end of her life with understandable unease...."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Andrea Ariel Dances for Democracy
On Sunday, the artist's dancing mailbox was a Capitol surprise
"...dancing mailbox was actually Andrea Ariel, the award-winning modern dancer, choreographer, soundpainter, and artistic director of Ariel Dance Theatre,..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

AFF Short and Sweet: "Gabriela"
Natalia Kaniasty takes a look at a job you never think about
"...looked a little lost when I walked in; a dancer on break, skeptically asked: “are you here for an..."

Oct. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Is Who We Are #2: Sally Jacques' The Well Inside
A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive
"...resurfacing in it again and again. When the first dancer leaves the circle and walks toward the back of..."

May 5, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

And Then We Danced
Georgian coming-out-drama is extraordinary only for its location
"...have been set on the path of a professional dancer, but maybe it's the wrong dance for him. It's..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Getting Restless Hearts on Their Feet
Stagers help Ballet Austin dance Balanchine and Wheeldon
"...he hadn’t had to worry about as a professional dancer...."

Feb. 14, 2020 Arts Post by Sofia Tafich

Cunningham
Remarkable record of the middle years of the choreographer who rejected labels
"...gleaned from this documentary on Merce Cunningham, the influential dancer and choreographer who basically put the “modern” in modern..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

ISHIDA Dance Makes Its Debut
A world-class contemporary dance troupe for Austin makes its first moves
"...dancemaking diverges from poetry is that with dance, the dancers themselves, not just the author, get to be part..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

30 Years of “Best of Austin”
Some of the stories behind 10,484 awards
"...Best Dancer/Choreographer (Best Dance Company, Best Dancer or Dance Company)..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

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
"...19th season of the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: dancers visible through screen doors, taking pleasure in their fellows'..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A New Generation Brings Heloise Gold's "Bird Dream Dances" to Life
Taking wing with the bird dances Gold has been making for 40 years
"...Replace "nest" with "studio" and "bird" with "dancer," and you have what's happening with choreographic treasure Heloise..."

May 31, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback – Lords of the Dance: TC Superstar
TC Superstar promotes body movement, Dallas Acid get blissed with Laraaji, a black metal binge, and Trouble in the Streets breaks rules
"...TC Superstar's highly conceptualized performance aesthetic, in which female dancers execute strictly choreographed routines to each song. It's a..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Kin
Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal
"...ray gun along for the ride. Milly (Kravitz), a pole-dancer with a heart of gold, joins them after the..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre's Locked-In
A dance inspired by our rigid connection to our cell phones was more spontaneous and personal than its title implied
"...is one side of the Museum of Human Achievement, dancers Alyson Dolan, Angie Johnson, Clay Moore, and Lisa Anne..."

June 29, 2018 Arts Review

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
"...the Ballet Austin season ends but before the company dancers and Hart, who holds a position at the Ballet..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Phillip Wade and Friends on the West Austin Studio Tour
The artist has some creative friends show in his Clarksville home
"...for my mother, who used to be a ballet dancer.' And I said maybe I knew her, and, of..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

2018 Arts Hall of Famers Announced
Kleins, Hamrick, Naimpally, and Blumensaadt to be inducted
"...Company, Cafe Dance) – company founder, artistic director, choreographer, dancer, educator..."

April 16, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening soars in the last days of starlet Gloria Grahame
"...coolness. Bell, who shot to fame as a child dancer in Billy Elliot, looks spent from the effort. Bening,..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Leap!
An orphan has ballet-dancing dreams
"...a sad warmth to Odette, and Maddie Ziegler (the dancer in Sia’s “Chandelier” video) adds just the right amount..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Local Opera Local Artists' We Might Be Struck by Lightning
In this new pastiche chamber opera, LOLA takes us on a bold musical journey
"...the theatre, two singers slowly process upstage, embraced by dancers representing the emotional anchor of each character's storyline. Soon,..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché

Las Cuatro Estaciones: A Story of Human Trees
In Sharon Marroquín's new dance, we are all gnarled and heliotropic
"...– of individual trees and individual people, represented by dancers who, once the text has been spoken, fling themselves..."

March 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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