Friday Night's Alright for Dance Fighting

And if it gets a little crazy, well, hey

"...we're gonna do some sketches and stuff, and some dance numbers of our own, between the competitions," says Lendo...."

July 19, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Last Dance

"...the ingenue minor leagues, Sharon Stone has had to fight her way back into respectability. For the past year,..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Queer Dance Freakout Returns for the Texas Primaries

Why we want Cruz out and how to make your perfect protest sign

"...descend on the Capitol. A year after bringing their dance party protest to Gov. Greg Abbott’s mansion – in..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Fight the Power

The deafening silence of rap in times of need

"...very frustrated, satiating myself with a fallback: Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.”..."

Dec. 1, 2014 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

AC Food Fight: Tacos at ACL

Handheld food won’t interrupt the dance party

"...got enough energy to keep up with the nonstop dance moves of David Byrne. But which one of these..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Food Column by Jessi Cape

Rick Perry, Lord of the Dance?

Why would a former Texas governor go on reality TV? Why not?

"...at least she'll always know that she got to dance with Billy Dee Williams...."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: Dance Dance Party Party Reboot Reboot

Get down with your bad self sans fear of crotch-leeches

"...6 years old, I discovered dancing. Swept up in Flashdance fever, my mom had dubbed the soundtrack onto a..."

July 11, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

The Luv Doc: He Doesn’t Dance

Otherwise known as reactive immobility

"...out something disturbing about my new boyfriend: He doesn't dance. I can't believe this issue never came up until..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Dance, Girl, Dance

It was a good year for women filmmakers at a recharged Sundance Film Festival

"...The 2010 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, which took place Jan. 21-31 in Park..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

QueerBomb 2019 Needs Volunteers to Keep Fighting the Good Fight

Event organizers say they're short on queerpower

"...at sunset for a queer procession. As always, a dance party to commemorate the day, follow...."

Jan. 30, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

The Voucher Death Dance

The House voucher vampires get a lesson in slaying the beast

"...The floor fight featured high drama, with anti-voucher Rep. Carter Casteel, R-New..."

May 27, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Jimmy's Hall

Ken Loach film is based on an episode in the life of Jimmy Gralton

"...lessons – but most important, it’s a place for dance, and it’s in dance that Jimmy’s Hall proves most..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Last Hero in China

"...to kids, a nasty slavery ring, a rigged lion dance contest, a political assassination, and, well, I think you..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Gay Place

One year later, Queer Dance Party Freakout returns to remove Sen. Cruz from office

"...that I walked up to the Governor's Mansion and danced my face off in the name of queer rights,..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Tuxedo

"...boat to China and forced to toil as unpaid fight-scene extras in the faltering Hong Kong film industry for..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...locally as "Gilleyrats") showed up every night to drink, dance, fight, flirt, make out, bullshit, shoot pool, and see..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Endhiran (Robot)

This extravagant Indian/Tamil production is an apocalyptic science fiction rom-com with elaborate dance set-pieces and music by A.R. Rahman.

"...his own Academy Award for Slumdog Millionaire), famed martial-arts fight choreographer (and Fantastic Fest Lifetime Achievement Award winner) Yuen..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

"...last, from that most graceful of art forms, a dance inspired by Death Race 2000!..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Aaja Nachle

A dancer in New York returns home to India to see the teacher who taught her to dance and, ultimately, fight to save the school he built.

"...Dutta and Vinay Pathak. Not screened for press. A dancer in New York returns home to India to see..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Striptease

"...a couple minutes of the running time and her dance routines are “artier” than the standard bump and grind...."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time in China III

Jet Li is back as the legendary physician and martial arts master in this third outing in Hark's "historical" epics.

"...lion heads used in various martial arts ceremonies and dances. Arriving in town at the height of the Lion..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...There dance stood in the mid-1970s, stripped to the bone, only..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Run by Families, Run for Families

It's a Friday evening at the Santa Cruz Center for Culture, and as the Aztlan Dance Company rehearses its production of Reflexiones '02, the company shows how after 30 years it's still not only an exhilarating dance company, but very much a family affair.

"...Driana Gonzalez yells from offstage. Sweat flings from the dancers' faces, their chests heave, feet moving so swiftly that..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...on how each of these attacks inspired people to fight back, form caucuses, hold vigils, and join forces to..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Against the Ropes

Like a lot of sports movies, this biopic about boxing promoter Jackie Kallen is better than it has to be but not as good as it ought to be.

"...the street! Excelsior!) The script (by Save the Last Dance scribe Cheryl Edwards) is meatier than the finished product..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The King's Man

Spy comedy threequel is a king-sized disaster

"...Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Arterton, Charles Dance, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode and Tom Hollander...."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tap That Nut

In Tapestry's Of Mice & Magic, dance is more than the medium; it's the message

"...fact, rhythm itself – that is inspiring the latest dance variation on The Nutcracker, what Tapestry Dance Company Artistic..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records Screening at Fair Market Encores With Cold Cave and Ministry

Chicago industrial began as dance punk

"...freak of Eighties industrial noise, heavy metal, and electronic dance brutalizers Ministry, Al Jourgensen promised an “acoustic version of..."

April 20, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Shrewd Productions' The Madres

In Stephanie Alison Walker’s new play, women’s fight for the “disappeared” in Argentina’s Dirty War proves timely

"...so relevant. You wish that the story of mothers fighting desperately to reunite with their lost children had nothing..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Gay Place

OUTsider Fest heads into the woods and will "emerge ready to fight"

"...a place to gather, collaborate, and "emerge ready to fight," he told the Chronicle earlier this week. As for..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

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