The All-Overs Brings Badass Baseballish Thrills to Modern Dance

Jennifer Sherburn & company are batting 1000

"...But it is about an acclaimed dance company’s return to heart-quickening, music-spiked, fiercely kinetic live performance...."

Nov. 10, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick was reading a dance review when a phrase caught her eye: "multiple cuppings..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company

An impossible symphony and a manipulated dance challenge our experience of time and memory

"...The Big Small, a dance choreographed by Kathy Dunn Hamrick and performed by her..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Dance of the Century

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

"...take a summer course with Wigman, the German expressionist dancer and choreographer who was one of the mothers of..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Vincent Mantsoe and Dance Theatre X

Defining African-derived contemporary dance with professor Charles O. Anderson

"...When modern-dance pioneers like Mary Wigman and Martha Graham appropriated bits..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Call them contemporary or modern, but Paul Taylor's dances are always masterful

"...The origin of modern dance is usually attributed to the barefoot dance-makers who..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Dance

Ongoing Dance Events

"...Austin Ballroom Dancers play swing, Latin, rock, and ballroom classics weekly. Smoke-..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...a fusion of different cultures, so why shouldn't the dances she creates be the same? "I am part Italian,..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Ballet East Dance Company: Reclaiming the modern in a pomo world

Rodolfo Mendez wants us to remember that before there was postmodern, modern dance ruled

"...It may seem odd to imagine something "modern" being forgotten, but that looks to be what's happening..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Chaddick Dance Theater

After a stellar career in San Francisco, a choreographer follows her heart to Austin

"...San Francisco. As artistic director of Company Chaddick, the modern dance company which she founded in 1985, she choreographed..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Free Dance!

Complimentary classes at Ballet Austin and Tapestry, plus a free monthly tap show

"...• Ballet Austin holds its annual day of free dance classes this Sunday, Sept. 12, 2-6pm. "Come Dance!" lets..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shall We Dance?

"...Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe, Akira and Emoto. Shall We Dance? is, at heart, something like a modern-day Cinderella, a..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks: Save the last dance for me

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

"...An era in Austin dance is ending...."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company

The local choreographer chooses carefully two troupes to dance with hers

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick isn't going to let just any dance troupe share a bill with the company that bears..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Just Dance

Moving Into New Forms at the Performing Arts Center

"...Sydney Dance Company Cross-disciplinary is the focus this fall in dance..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

Shay Ishii Dance Company's Dancestry ... Vivid

Audiences gained much from this program's re-creations of historic dances by Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and Lucia Dlugoszewski

"...In April 2000, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company premiered Lucia Dlugoszewski's "Motherwell Amor," a contemplative ode..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Fever

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

"...Or, say, a month. Because this town boasts enough dance makers to fill a page of the calendar with..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ISHIDA Dance Makes Its Debut

A world-class contemporary dance troupe for Austin makes its first moves

"...Where does a dance company begin? In the case of Ishida Dance Company,..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gotta Dance!

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

"...world. Within one year, he went from having minimal dance experience to choreographing musicals for St. Edward's University and..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Lindsey Schwartz

Mother-Daughter Dance

Anuradha Naimpally and Purna Bajekal are of two generations, but they share one timeless tradition

"...required by Bharata Natyam, the style of classical Indian dance that Naimpally has performed, taught, and promoted under her..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Top 10 Dance Phenomena

Chronicle Arts writer Jonelle Seitz recalls 2008, in dance

"...1) Sharon Marroquin The nuance and precision of this dancer-choreographer's movement and thinking left most of the audience in..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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

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

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

SXSW Music Live: Modern Outsider Showcase

Austin label packs club, dance floor, and homegrown breakouts

"...Modern Outsider’s SXSW showcase proved why the imprint earned repeat..."

March 15, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Dance:

"...DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE presents The Noh Project: Koe, a work combining..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Arts Feature

Page Two: You Always Remember the Dance

First steps, two step

"...and the Rolling Stones. You realize you almost never dance around the room alone anymore. Ever. Used to do..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Fourth Annual Ultimate Book & Dance Affair

Kathy Dunn Hamrick's casual fundraiser gives pros and amateurs alike room to move

"...Martha Jones, 72, has been taking dance classes two or three times per week since her..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Visionary Charles Santos Heads to NYC Life Cycles

"...his life in Austin, founding the Austin Festival of Dance, his impending move to New York City, his new..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Arts Feature

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