Texas Performing Arts Crosses Media for 2024-25 Season

Works by David Byrne, Conspirare, Twyla Tharp, and more

"...resonate with stories, and echo with the sound of dance – both world class and very much amateur –..."

May 14, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

In Memoriam: Greg Easley

Remembering the beloved choreographer, dancer, and teacher

"...The dance scene in Austin didn’t begin in the Seventies, but..."

June 4, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

Step Up: All In

The dance competition continues – but this time in Vegas.

"...Mining its dance crew from previous outings in this harmlessly addictive dance..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting'

Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke serve as inspirations for Ariel Dance Theatre's new dance-and-music collaboration

"...avid fan," admits the artistic director of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre. But with a husband who is, in her..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The FP

This potential cult-movie masterpiece is likely the most original dance film you'll see this year.

"...very least, and probably revive the sacred art of Dance Dance Revolution wherever it plays...."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Body Shift

Bringing differently abled and able-bodied dancers into the studio together

"...or 'inclusive,'" admits Allison Orr, artistic director of Forklift Danceworks. For promoting Body Shift, a weekendlong dance workshop co-presented..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Center Stage

Students at the American Ballet Academy in New York vie to join the professional corps.

"...this era's contribution to the time-honored tradition of such dance dramas as The Turning Point, A Chorus Line, Saturday..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saturday Night Fever

"...something more from life. A sensation on the disco dance floor, he follows his instincts – and his feet..."

April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In Memoriam: Phyllis Slattery

Remembering the longtime director of Dance Umbrella

"...The Austin dance community has lost one of the dearest friends it..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Battlefield America

It's You Got Served for a younger dance generation.

"...little sweaty fun there is on hand, this hip-hoppy dance-off melodrama is about as funky as an Amish funeral...."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Letters at 3AM

Anthony Powell is the least known of the greatest 20th century novelists

"...quotes it near the end of his opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. (His last name, by..."

June 5, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

The Distance Danced

Between its old and new versions of 'Swingin' Then & Now,' Tapestry Dance Company has swung a long way, baby

"...The last time Tapestry Dance Company presented the program Swingin' Then & Now, the..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Endless Poetry

Portrait of an artist as a young man

"...autobiographical cycle, and is the follow-up to 2013’s The Dance of Reality, Jodorowsky’s magisterial evocation of his childhood in..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Revolve Austin: A Movement Display

This party / showcase allowed attendees to move through a historic house and observe the work of nine dance companies

"...Revolve Austin, an event presented by NunaMaana Immersive Dance Theatre and Verge Dance Company, gathered nine dance groups..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Multilingual in Movement

Hubbard Street Dance returns with an international program

"...Dance is its own language, with a specific vocabulary, set..."

Jan. 26, 2015 Arts Post by Andrew Long

First Street Studio

New Eastside performance venue debuts with Chaddick Dance Theater's 'Turned Inside Out'

"...Partnering: Dancers do it all the time in performance, and the..."

May 23, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Interior Landscape of the Emotional Mind'

Chaddick Dance Theater's latest explores movement through a movable feast

"...of the time, the only people moving at a dance performance are the dancers. But for Chaddick Dance Theater's..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Go for It!

A young woman in Chicago learns to overcome her fears and become a hip-hop dancer in this inspirational dance movie.

"...Festival, bears many of the traditional markings of the dance-competition genre (the Step Up and Stomp movies): the self-taught..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moving Real Strange for Free

Butoh performances by Spank Dance Company

"...different from the more familiar Western forms of modern dance as an arsenic-based life-form is from our own human..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Next Step

"...it explores the narcissistic backstage drama of the workaday dance world. It gives us a sense of what it's..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Tango Lesson

"...Pablo Veron. Entranced by the implicit subtext of the dance form in which the sexual dynamic is formalized into..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sarafina!

"...becoming a famous star. The film's opening song and dance number has her sashaying through a fantasy that features..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blue Lapis Light's Beyond the Clouds

This aerial dance company's production brought its dancers down to earth but still lifted us up

"...Jacques' Blue Lapis Light productions. No 20-story buildings with dancers racing across its glass face. No towering smokestacks with..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...In a way, his dance (Re)current Unrest began with Beyoncé, said choreographer Charles O...."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post 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!"

"...kind fella with a pool to host my next dance performance. I'd love to talk more about it and..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet 422

Doc captures young dancer Justin Peck choreographing his first ballet

"...Jody Lee Lipes, just as considered as Jerome Robbins’ dance choreography were Lipes’ camera movements, be they elegantly gliding,..."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Talking Trash

Trash Dance streams here for the next two weeks – for free

"...have shown so much love for the film Trash Dance, the producers of America Reframed, which is currently streaming..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ringing in the New Year With Raw Paw

Austin art collective parties out 2014

"...Just look to Raw Paw, whose upcoming New Year’s Dance Revolution creatively unites sound and style with the purpose..."

Dec. 29, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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