Author Archives: Nichelle

Nichelle is a versatile digital marketing and communications professional. She has led and implemented social media, blog and email content strategy for two of Houston’s best-known institutions. She is also the founder of DanceAdvantage.net, the spot dance students, teachers and parents turn to for guidance in dance education.

Dominic Walsh Dance Theater Collaborators Celebrate Ballets Russes Centenary

Throughout the year, venues and dance companies all over the world have been staging tributes to The Ballets Russes and its impresario, Serge Diaghilev. Honoring the centenary of the influential ballet company’s formation with re-imaginings of four of its most noted works, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater recently presented its own salute, 1909-2009: The Great CollaboratorsContinue reading “Dominic Walsh Dance Theater Collaborators Celebrate Ballets Russes Centenary”

A Well-Built House Stands Up

Clearly, the collaborators are all on the same page with House. Deborah Schlidt’s dreamy film collage weaves in and out of the action as naturally as any performer making an entrance. Images of various types of dwellings, from hovels to tract houses, segue to demolished and water-logged homes. Reclaimed by nature with the brute force of Hurricane Katrina, these homes (or ones like them) may have given up parts of themselves for repurposing in Babette Beaullieu’s found object sculpture and set pieces.