2018 Arts Hall of Famers Announced

Kleins, Hamrick, Naimpally, and Blumensaadt to be inducted

"...the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, honoring leaders in dance, theatre, and arts philanthropy...."

April 16, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Jennifer Sherburn's 11:11

This project of 11 different dance programs in 11 months goes through one stage after another

"...11:11 is a series of 11 site-specific dance performances over 11 months. It started last November and..."

May 5, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

Belle & Sebastian Hikes Energy Rates

Time to dance with the Scottish posh pops – Friday at the Moody

"...sextet put out an album far better suited to dance clubs. Founding keyboardist Chris Geddes rang up ahead of..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Music Post by Abby Johnston

'Om Shanti – Once Upon a Time in Bollywood'

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

"...the classical realm – think of the Bharata Natyam danced by Anuradha Naimpally and Gina Lalli or the traditional..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From the Vaults: Talking 'Trash'

Andrew Garrison discusses filming Allison Orr's 'Trash Project'

"...In the documentary Trash Dance, which opens today at the Violet Crown Cinema, filmmaker..."

May 3, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dances Made To Order

Anthropomorphism, upheaval, and memory in dance for the small screen

"...the premiere of the Austin edition of the online dance-film festival Dances Made To Order, choreographers Ellen Bartel, Kathy..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Dances Made to Order

Get out the vote: an online dance-film festival on themes chosen by you

"...back to the mirrors, facing a studio full of dancers and attempting to bridge a gap between a Big..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Realer and Queerer at Bernadette's

Get Real, Stay Queer

"...There's a new dance party in town and it's taking over Tuesday nights,..."

Sept. 18, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Liz Williams

Damsels in Distress

Greta Gerwig stars in Whit Stillman's new film that's full of awkward artifice and – dance.

"...with the character’s deepest desire: to create a new dance craze. The film’s crazy finale, in which the entire..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Arts Awards

A fall harvest of theatre, dance, and architecture prizes

"...of playwriting in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, received the Creative Research Award at the 15th annual..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happy Feet Two

Some penguins march; these animated penguins dance – and sing – just like they did the last time around, only with a little less novelty.

"...The sequel opens with a big song-and-dance number in which young Erik (Ava Acres) is unable..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alpha and Omega

This 3-D animated film is about two wolves trying to find their way back to their pack.

"...howling at the moon is code for the mating dance. ("Was it good for you?" one wolf leers at..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Voice of Her Own

The onetime Ballet Austin dancer creates an outlet for her choreographic work

"...or downing leftover wassail, the first rehearsal of Voice Dance Company is under way in a vast studio off..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

So You Think You Can Hate?

Homophobia shown over same-sex dancing couple on awful show.

"...I did. I watched So You Think You Can Dance last week, and I totally cried when the two..."

May 26, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...of art – keeping the visual arts apart from dance and classical music apart from theatre and everyone apart..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How She Move

She move something fierce in this low-budget Canadian crowd-pleaser about stepping.

"...fuzzy (How She Move, which screened at last year's Sundance, wears its low budget on its sleeve; the upshot..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kickin' It Old Skool

Jamie Kennedy wakes up after a breakdancing injury put him in a coma 20 years ago. That's when this film's real trauma begins.

"...the song is playing on the radio while 12-year-old breakdancer Justin Schumacher (Alexander Calvert) pops and locks in front..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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

Minister of Grace

At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.

"...men are Fayard and Harold Nicholas, the brothers who danced their way to fame with a singular form of..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shakti: The Power

"...subtitles) is a peculiar mix of the usual Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle and an earthy dramatic realism (and I'm told..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spells-bound

Seattle's 33 Fainting Spells, which enchanted local audiences with the dance drama The Uninvited in 1997, makes its long-awaited return to Austin.

"...was so singular a work -- suggesting how modern dance might look had Alfred Hitchcock and Buster Keaton been..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Scanlines

Dance With Me

"...Strictly Ballroom with less smarts, and you get a dance-romance that's as captivating as it is cheesy. Set in..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature

B.A.P.S.

"...teeth, and enough spandex to put the Solid Gold Dancers to shame, the pair dream of one day opening..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Only the Strong

"...sweepstakes is capoeira, the Brazilian athletic technique that combines dance and martial arts moves. Long ago, the tradition was..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Match Factory Girl

With not even 70 minutes total running time and, seemingly, not more than two dozen total lines of dialogue, The Match Factory Girl spins a compelling narrative, a devastating cultural portrait, and an object lesson in the less-is-more school of storytelling.

"...on TV. Her evenings are passed in a dreary dance hall where she's the picture of a sad wallflower..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Danzón

A woman leaves her home and family in Mexico City to embark on a romantic quest in Veracruz only to lose sight of the original subject of her search and, in the process, find something more precious – herself.

"...her self. The danzón is a popular Mexican ballroom dance, a kind of sensual but precise box step that..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Edward II

"...moments and compelling images, like when Edward and Gaveston dance a last dance while songstress Annie Lennox sings Cole..."

May 1, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Stinks

"...is self-evidently message bound. There's also an unexpectedly lovely dance sequence in which Brooks and his down-and-out guide and..."

Aug. 2, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Residential Address: Rent Party’s Hot Jazz Makes Peace With the Swing Era

Sextet merges decades on the dance floor, Fridays at Long Play East

"...on East Cesar Chavez, nestled in between the thunderous dance music pumping out of the Granny's Tacos truck and..."

April 14, 2023 Music Feature by Gary Lindsey

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