SXSW Music Live: British Jazz

U.S. Immigration can’t keep great jazzmen/women down

"...London’s Native Dancer played music closer to R&B than jazz, but keyboardist..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael Toland

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

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

"...began as an entertaining lecture-demonstration and morphed into a 16-dancer embodiment of cultural labels on the female body, from..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Jennifer Sherburn's Riverside

With her new site-specific dance Riverside, choreographer Jennifer Sherburn says, "Come on in, the water's fine!"

"...water. It had to be in water, as in dancers diving into the stuff and moving through it. She..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant

Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic

"...had raised some money to direct my first film, Dancer, Texas, so I probably spent six months full-time on..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...in Queens with an out-of-work actress and an out-of-work dancer. We lived on the third floor of a three-family..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Magdalena Jarkowiec's Us Kids Are Alone in the House

The Austin-based choreographer is home alone with her soft-sculpture mutants

"...Ballet – just one of Jarkowiec's affiliations as a dancer and teacher – she is creating giant heads that..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Art or Parenting?

Four professional artists discuss how having kids has affected their careers and ways of working

"...same time on a weekday afternoon: Aara Krumpe, professional dancer at Ballet Austin for 17 years, and wife and..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Coming Home

Zhang Yimou's latest is a family drama set against the winds of history

"...Unlike her parents, Dan Dan is a gifted ballet dancer in the People’s Republic of Pirouetting with Rifles. Having..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet Me in Montenegro

Real-life couple and co-directors explore whether love is better the second time around

"...few days of sunny, smiley sensuality, Lina, a Norwegian dancer, vanishes, leaving Anderson only a brief note and a..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Last Survivors

A different kind of post-apocalyptic teen heroine

"...of one of The Last Survivors' cloudless skies. A dancer by training, Richardson had only just moved to Los..."

Aug. 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...mother on the stage when she accepted her Outstanding Dancer award for her work in Belle Redux and shook..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Avid Dancer

"...Avid Dancer1st Bath (Grand Jury)..."

March 20, 2015 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Tuning Project

The improvised movements of Julie Nathanielsz and her dancers were full of refreshing surprises

"...causes a similar affliction. The Tuning Project, for which dancer-choreographer Julie Nathanielsz brought in improvisation guru Karen Nelson to..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Coherence

What seems at first a normal dinner party, slyly turns into an eerie and ominous Something Else.

"...defined by region-appropriate careers (the bit player, the ballet dancer, the herbal specialist, the Skype executive, and so on)...."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Got My Mojo Workin'

Paul Oscher used to blow harps for Muddy Waters

"...joint. I walk off the bandstand towards the shake dancer. I'm walking to the bathroom, and she's putting her..."

June 27, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Toe to Toe With a Life in Dance

A ballerina inspires two choreographers in AFS Doc Nights offering

"...affectionately called by those who knew her, the Paris-born dancer whose professional and personal trajectory soared early, before plummeting..."

June 6, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...damaged female characters (see the director’s Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Antichrist for reference), it’s her..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'From Silence to Power'

Bonnie Cox stages dances drawn from traumas to move through them

"...Dancer-choreographer Bonnie Cox and I are trying, over the phone,..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Battle of the Year

In this dance competish, it's U.S.A. all the way.

"...that they should create a dream team of American breakdancers. Taking over 20 players to a former youth detention..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

'Om Shanti – Once Upon a Time in Bollywood'

The cinematic musicals of India dance their way onto the stage in Austin

"...Indian cinema from which this large-scale production – 80 dancers, 20 actors, a $140,000 budget – takes its inspiration...."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

And You Were There, and You Were There, and –

"...Dany Casey dancer, choreographer..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Arts Feature

Gold Show / Rose Show

This program of films and dances by choreographers Heloise Gold and Julie Nathanielsz invigorated the senses

"...head. But Gold Show/Rose Show, a joint concert by dancer-choreographers Heloise Gold and Julie Nathanielsz, were reminders of the..."

June 21, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

'Double Step'

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

"...In 1981, Kathy Dunn Hamrick needed to replace a dancer for her first professional dance concert, and the person..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For the Love of Seabrook: A Photo Tribute

May 1, 2013. 27 photos.

"...Dancer Mizarre, aka Raven Hinojosa, nestles with "AAF" Editor Kate..."

May 1, 2013 Photo Gallery

Mystikal

Final SXSW Live Shots

"...drunk and weary. At one point, the platformed go-go dancer decided to take a load off. "Been at this..."

March 22, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Fusebox Festival

2013 lineup features Deborah Hay dance, line upon line percussion, Peat Duggins, and the return of Action Hero

"...– performed by New York-based Jeanine Durning and Australian dancer Ros Warby...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Arc of Crystal Clarity

Rob chats with Gavin Russom and Viva Ruiz of the Crystal Ark

"...witch in Spanish, that was great. She was a dancer, as well. When I played her the music, she..."

Jan. 10, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...Orleans and includes a stint as a championship Irish dancer, being the go-to kid in his hometown's theatre community,..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Anna Karenina

Joe Wright's bold but empty imagining of Tolstoy's classic is set mostly within the walls of a theatre.

"...balletic matador. In fact, everyone here moves like a dancer – from servant to tippy-toe socialite – and the..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

José Luis Bustamante

The disappearance, and tentative return, of a choreographic presence

"...sustained focus from not just the choreographer but from dancers, which translates into investments perhaps not required for the..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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