Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company

In this short works program, the troupe explored the solace and thrills in the company you keep

"...own, she presented creations by two of her company dancers, a work by New York-based Project 44 (which she'd..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Spectrum Dance Theater’s Rambunctious

The company’s program, with a new work inspired by the 1966 UT Tower shooting, spoke powerfully to our present moment

"...can our country's artists tell us about ourselves? Spectrum Dance Theater, based in Seattle and headed by revered contemporary..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Card

"...Performa/Dance: 4x3: Four Works by Three Choreographers June 10 &..."

June 10, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Top 9 Lasting Impressions in Dance From 2009

Recalling a year in which cranes became dancers and dancers became stars

"...lit by phosphorescence against the infinity of night, harnessed dancers floated through perpendicular somersaults like rotating stars. Spectacle, yes,..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Aztlan Dance Company: A Dancer's Life

Longtime Aztlan dancer Stephanie Mayorga Keeton doesn't just like to dance: She needs to dance

"...During a break in rehearsal, Aztlan Dance Company member Stephanie Mayorga Keeton confides, "We've got to..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Extending a Dance's Life: Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay forges her own answer to the issue of how one keeps choreography alive beyond one's own physical and mortal limitations with Nine Nights of Music in May, in which her solo "Music" is performed and adapted by four diverse artists.

"...many, many years, and it works for techniques and dances that require specific movements to specific music -- ballet,..."

May 3, 2002 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis Loring

Qmmunity: Dance, Dance (Queer Austin Remix)

Two queer DJ-centric parties fire up a weekend full of great events

"...I Don't Even Know Anymore I Just Want to Dance. If you couldn't tell, this here's a dance party:..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Column by James Scott

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's Everything! Everything! Everything!

The achievement of this new work is that it lives up to its name, including all that is remarkable about KDHDC

"...As two performers danced entrancingly in the open expanse of the stage, a..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Performa / Dance's Confections

This evening of works, performed outdoors at the Umlauf, mixed art, beauty, and nature in ways that enraptured

"...experience of something special. Live at the Umlauf's recent Performa/Dance night was just that sort of happenstance. The event,..."

April 19, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Performa / Dance's Artist and Muse

Performa / Dance's program of four pensive and sensitive works explored physical and emotional distress and pain in great depth

"...Mark your calendars for next June: Performa/Dance, led by choreographer Jennifer Hart, presents just one concert..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Tapestry Dance Company's April Fools

This remount of the tap troupe's valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance

"...That would be Tapestry Dance Company, which in its show April Fools summoned the..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Performa / Dance's Midsummer Offerings

The three dances in this mixed program all turned on the difficulty of making connections

"...to be understood was the theme, threaded through three dances on romantic, familial, and communal relationships, of the third..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Satan Said Dance Shuffles the Life of a Young Woman

Katarzyna Roslaniec's portrait of a girl made from single moments from her life

"..."Satan Said Dance doesn't have a linear succession," director Katarzyna Roslaniec clarifies..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014

It was a year in which the personal shone through in dance and classical works small and large

"...2) THERE, THE MAGNIFICENT (Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company) This dance's celebration of small virtues and little..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Treasures of 2010

Music and movement in 2010 made the mundane sacred and the serious silly

"...6) 'NO TIME TO FLY' (DEBORAH HAY DANCE COMPANY/UT CENTER FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES) Dancing for..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Garth Fagan Dance

The man who choreographed The Lion King comes to Austin with dances full of surprises

"...Garth Fagan, 68, describes the principles driving his decades-old dance company: "My first impetus was to have people dancing,..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

UT Department of Theatre & Dance: Gotta sing! Gotta dance!

The new Musical Theatre Pilot Project aims to prepare UT undergrads for belting for Broadway

"...the interim chair of UT's Department of Theatre & Dance. "Putting together a program in musical theatre is a..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Dance Review: Ventana Ballet’s UNDEAD: Haunted House of Dances

Ventana makes ballet accessible with an exhilarating Halloween production

"...entire setup of Ventana’s work is designed to make dance immediately, arrestingly accessible. It’s a tangible experience for the..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Down the Rabbit Hole With Performa/Dance’s FINDING ALICE (IN WONDERLAND)

Things get trippy on Ballet Austin's stage

"...else do I have in me?” says Jennifer Hart, Performa/Dance choreographer and artistic director. “I don’t know if I..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Sir Woman & Friends Dance Off the Lockdown in New Video

Singer collected clips from fans and family dancing to “Making Love”

"...home. Her band also kicks in with their own dance moves – including those of fellow Glorietta all-star Matthew..."

May 15, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Tapestry Dance Company's Austintatious (Too)

This revival of a 2002 production paid tribute to the spirit of the city but also showed how the troupe embodies its best qualities

"...the first number in this season opener for Tapestry Dance Company placed us "On the Banks of Auditorium Shores,"..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Diverse Space Dance Theatre's Memoirs and Armours

The company's season closer showed the young dancers' commitment to a shared vision and their potential as artists

"...It's a curious thing, this dance show mounted by Violet Crown Players and Diverse Space..."

May 10, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Aztlan Dance Company's The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep Fried

In the troupe's latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied

"...Roén Salinas, artistic director of Aztlan Dance Company, began the show by lighting a fire. The..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...in the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance production, co-directed by Charles O. Anderson and Robert Ramirez...."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Still Now

Shrewd Productions' Still Now provides a fresh perspective on cancer through butoh

"...The line is directed toward a young American dancer by her sensei, a master of the Japanese postwar..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Let’s Dance

The best places to find dancing queers this weekend

"...saccharine sweet days of pop. Like a middle school dance all over again, except this time everyone’s out, sexy,..."

May 2, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Review: 'The Dance of Reality'

The fantastical director's first foray in 23 years is a family affair

"...and blood-spattered than 1989's utterly unhinged Santa Sangre, The Dance of Reality is based on Jodorowsky's autobiography, and in..."

March 12, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Tapestry Dance Company

Poet Zell Miller III joins the dancers of Tapestry to make music together

"...to make music. In recent shows, nationally acclaimed Tapestry Dance Company has been making rhythm even more explicit in..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Luv Doc Recommends: Who Is Your Daddy? Little Lounge Lizards' June Dance Party

Qua Bottle Lounge, Saturday, June 6, 2009

"...out and see what happens. For instance, having a dance party at Qua for "for cool kids ages 10..."

June 5, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Ballet Austin: Save the last dance for me

Four of the company's most gifted dancers are taking their leaves after this season's finale

"...A ballet dancer's career, like an athlete's, can be cruelly short. You..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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