Blog – Nichelle Suzanne

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?" ~ Nietzsche

Développement: Houston Ballet

I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to delve deeper into the Houston Ballet repertoire by penning features for their news magazine and programs.

Covering Dance at Arts and Culture Texas

I contributed my first article to the state-wide publication, Arts and Culture Texas, in 2013. I’ve written feature stories on Houston Ballet, Dance Salad Festival, Performing Arts Houston (formerly SPAH), Houston Contemporary Dance Company and more.

Here’s the DiSH

Contemporary dance in Houston has gradually returned to the stage as the threat of Covid-19 subsides. With that, my contribution to Dance Source Houston’s publication The Dance DiSH has also picked up again.

The Last One Before a Global Pandemic

Artists of Houston Ballet in rehearsal for Trey McIntyre’s Pretty Things, Photo by Amitava Sarkar, courtesy of Houston Ballet.

The Last One Before a Global Pandemic… Little did I know that life—and art—as we knew it would be interrupted for months.

These Stories Have Houston and Dance in Common

Group Acorde Roberta Paixao Cortes and Lindsey McGill with musician Thomas Helton in Dependent Configuration, at the MATCH on January 2019. Photo by Lynn Lane.

Learn about the Houston-based quartet Group Acorde and the two dancers and two musicians who founded it. Then, read the University of St. Thomas dance program’s origin story.