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When the curtain falls on the final performance of its 24th season, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks will dance away into history and an era of dance in Austin will end

For its first concert of 2006, Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks not only showed off new dances, it let the audience question their creators about how they were made

The disappearance, and tentative return, of a choreographic presence

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

With The Leaf Storm, choreographer José Luis Bustamante and songwriter Lourdes Pérez have become the wind, blowing past boundaries between artforms to share their vision in collaboration and spinning elements of their lives into an artistic whirlwind.

Duos Danceworks: Double the Pleasure...

New Era for Sharir & Co.

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

The Austin Arts Commission has found itself stewing in a bubbling gumbo of controversies this year, and lately that gumbo has been getting hotter and hotter, with resignations from the Commission, an investigation by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and a call for reforms by a City Council member.

States of Grace, the opening program for Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks' 20th anniversary season, provided an optimistic opening to 2003, with bold and imaginative choreographers presenting creative movement against which the rest of this year's work will have to be measured.

Four months after using a new guideline to declare Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks ineligible for city arts funding, threatening the company's survival and sparking community concern, the Austin Arts Commission reversed course and cleared the way for the company to receive money from the city.

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

In The Automated Body Project, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks' latest attempt at synthesizing dance and technology, the company took a step back from larger venues and as a result, the humanness and beauty within the movement became more evident.

Tracking the recent history and redevelopment of Austin's Cultural Arts Program

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires lists his favorite performances of dance and classical music from 2005

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

The Cyclical Night: Puzzles in Moonlight

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

The Austin Critics Table has named six inductees for the 2005 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

Catch the Bus Art

Austinites turned out by the thousands to enjoy the first First Night Austin on New Year's Eve, as one 'Chronicle' writer saw for himself

A major change in direction for Teatro Humanidad.

Terry Galloway keeps the Olympic flame alive.

Danceworks director Cindy Goldberger leaves Austin as playwright Colin Swanson returns for a visit, and who are Ballet Austin's lucky mothers?

Five dancers from UT cross cultures to partner with five dancers from Colombia

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards