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Stanton Welch’s 20 Years at Houston Ballet

In 2023, I had the privilege to cover the contributions of Stanton Welch during his 20th anniversary season at Houston Ballet for Arts and Culture Texas Magazine, Houston Ballet News and in the company’s 2023 Jubilee of Dance concert program. Click the image below to read the ACTX article.

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.

Houston Institutions: Dance Salad, “Sky” Dance & SPA’s New CEO

Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too

Three articles for Arts+Culture Texas Magazine covering Dance Salad’s 2019 festival, aerial dance throughout the state of Texas and an interview with Meg Booth, CEO of Houston’s Society of the Performing Arts.

Dance Month Scratches A Niche

Every year, The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston presents an entire month of dance events, filling a special niche within the local dance community by bringing small companies not seen before in the city and presenting Houston’s own emerging choreographers as well.