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Hi Andrea,
Welcome to Movers & Shakers, Dance Houston's
monthly e-newsletter. Read on to find out the latest
news about dance in Houston!
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The Edge, Houston's Biggest Hip-Hop Festival is
February 28th |
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Dance Houston is excited and proud to present The
Edge, a high-energy festival featuring the most
popular hip hop companies in Houston! On February
28, 2009 at 8pm, ten hip-hop companies will take the
stage at the Wortham to show Houston their latest
choreography and most exciting moves. As the biggest
hip-hop dance festival in Houston, it's the one
chance you have all year to spend an evening
enjoying live performances of the dance that defines
today's youth culture.
So Real, our headliner, has recently returned to
Houston from touring the nation after winning 2nd
place on America's Best Dance Crew last summer.
Other companies featured will be Planet Funk, Wyld
Styl, Ghost Crew, HIStory, The 8th Edition,
ILL-Ovation, Fyasko, Sol y Luna, and Inertia Dance
Company. The Edge highlights the most progressive
and organically trained dancers in Houston. We hope
to see you at the show!
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Fall in Love with Dominic Walsh! |
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Dominic Walsh Dance Theater's upcoming show,
entitled Bourne-Kyliá-Walsh: A Masterful Mixed
Repertoire, will take place on February 12, 13 and
14, 2009. Featured in this show is a White Swan duet
from world-renowned choreographer and director
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. This is the first
time a company other than Bourne's has been able to
perform the White Swan duet, and is a huge
honor for the Dominic Walsh company. Also to be
performed is Jirí Kylián's male solo Double You,
and Dominic Walsh's For theTwo of You and
Bello.
The performance will take place at the Hobby Center
for the Performing Arts in the Zilkha Hall at 7:30pm
and prices range from $23-$81. Don't miss out on
this Valentine's Day weekend event that is sure to
steal your heart! You can purchase tickets by
calling the Box Office at 713-315-2525.
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Pat Graney's House of Mind Will Blow Yours |
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World-renowned choreographer, Pat Graney's latest
work, House of Mind, is a cutting-edge
performance/installation illustrating Graney's
mental landscape and amalgamates female memory,
collective unconscious, and family and cultural
histories. Graney creates an expansive kinesthetic
sense of her work that takes the audience on an
intense and thought-provoking journey through her
past and her mother's battles with Alzheimer's
disease.
The public is invited to tour the installation, a
multi- sensory experience that physically manifests
aspects her mind, and then experience a
choreographed performance, in which each viewer's
experience will be as unique as memory itself.
Premiering last weekend, January 30 and 31, final
performances will be held February 5, 6, and 7, 2009
at 7:30pm at the DiverseWorks Theater. The
installation will be open to the public from January
31 through February 21 during gallery hours. Tickets
for Pat Graney's House of Mind are available online
through
DiverseWorks Theater or by calling 713-335-3445.
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Last Chance To See Tetris |
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Barnevelder is excited to present the premier of
Tetris, January 29th through February 7th.
Rooted in the psychological theories and concepts of
Voice dialogue, the premise, as described by
choreographer Toni Valle is "that we are not one
personality, but many selves, each working
separately and together to protect and sustain the
individual person."
Collaborating for this innovative concert are
artists Tom Boyd, Houston Ballet's scenic designer,
lighting designers Jeremy Choate and Christina
Giannelli, Mechelle Flemming, Corian Ellisor, Alex
Abarca, Erica Lewis, Lindsey McGill, Jennifer Magill,
Joe Modlin, Catalina Molnari, Priscilla
Nathan-Murphy, Brittany Wallis and Bianca Torres-
Aponte.
The final performance will be February 7th at 8pm at
Barnevelder Theater, 2201 Preston. Mark your
calendars, you won't want to miss this event!
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Review of Triple Focus |
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On January 24th we saw "Triple Focus", a show
featuring Revolve Dance Company, Urgeworks, and
Uptown Dance Company. It was a nicely balanced show,
as each company was given a chance to show its own
uniqueness and individual strength. The objective of
the show was to present an evening of current
contemporary dance by commissioning a new work from
each company as well as presenting a work from the
group's repertoire. There were some experimental
choices made by the choreographers but none that
went so far as to alienate the enthusiastic crowd.
As a whole, the experimentation yielded positive
results, giving the audience a nice, fresh program
that esacped dance cliché.
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Eat Food? Support Dance Houston! |
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If you shop at either Kroger or Randall's grocery
stores and want to also support Dance Houston when
you do, please visit our website to download a
special form that you can use when you shop and
Kroger's Neighbor to Neighbor and Randall's Good
Neighbor programs will donate a percentage to us.
Like Kroger?
Click here. A Randalls fan?
Clic k here instead.
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Summer Camp Registration Now Open
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Once again, Dance Houston is holding a popular
annual summer dance camp for kids ages 12-17! We've
been calling it "Young and Intense" but don't let
the name scare you. Classes are designed for any
skill level, from beginner to advance. What is
intense about our camp is that it last for 3 weeks,
Mondays - Fridays, 8am - 5pm at the Wortham Theater
Center and this year the dates are from August 3-21.
Our camp covers a wide range of dance styles
including hip hop, contemporary, jazz and
international dance, just to name a few. At the end
of camp, there is a wonderful public performance at
the Wortham Theater where the kids can show off
their new moves!
Please check our website now for registration
information. If you have any questions about camp
between now and then, call us at (713) 526-1049. We
would be happy to hear from you!
Summertime, the Dancing's Easy... |
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