Curtain up.During a recent visit to the Houston Ballet The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fifth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. [1] , I saw a wonderful thing at intermission. In the red-carpeted grand foyer of the Wortham Center, alongside the gourmet items and elegant photo display, there was a table laden with brochures and flyers. These materials included information on the many groups that make up Dance Source Houston. A local service organization, DSH DSH Disproportionate Share Hospital DSH Domestic Short Hair (cat) DSH Deliberate Self-Harm DSH Desperately Seeking Help (USENET) DSH Dyschromatosis Symmetrica Hereditaria has members in modern dance, jazz, tap, and flamenco flamenco, Spanish music and dance typical of the Gypsy, or gitano. Flamenco dancing is characterized by colorful costumes, intense and erotic movements, stamping of the feet (zapateado), and clapping of the hands (palmada , as well as in Houston's Black Dance Festival and the international Dance Salad Festival. Any patron of Houston Ballet could meander meander Extreme U-bend in a stream, usually occurring in a series, that is caused by flow characteristics of the water. Meanders form in stream-deposited sediments and may stack up upstream of an obstruction, resulting in a gooseneck or extremely bowed meander. over and learn about the other types of dance happening in their city. It's the same philosophy that Pacific Northwest Ballet The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. showed last year when it invited local modern dance companies (Spectrum Dance Theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. and Molly Scott/Powell Performance) to be part of its Celebrate Seattle Festival--plus they had Portland's Ten Tiny Dances performing during intermission. I hope to be seeing more of this kind of sharing and generosity in the future. Dancers in small companies have shown such crossover spirit for a long time. Our cover subject, the gorgeous Natalia Alonso, is just as comfortable in modern and jazz as in ballet. When you see her onstage, you don't think, "There's a terrific ballet dancer (or modern or jazz dancer)." You just think, "There's a terrific dancer!" Sadly, after seven years with Ballet Hispanico, she is leaving. Happily, she is joining Complexions, another company that demands extreme versatility. Read Ann Farmer's "Lustrous lus·trous adj. 1. Having a sheen or glow. 2. Gleaming with or as if with brilliant light; radiant. See Synonyms at bright. lus , Luscious, and Lovely" to find out why. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Our newly updated edition of the College Guide is out this month (go to dancemagazine.com for a copy). Looking through its pages, with 180 college dance departments profiled (and 600 listed), it's hard to imagine that there was a time when going to college was considered a no-no for a serious dancer. But now we are seeing many professional dancers who have gone-or are going--to college. Granted, those four years of combining leaps with the library may not enable you to do 32 single-double fouettes. But it will expand your knowledge, stimulate your curiosity, and contribute to your career in ways you couldn't have imagined. In "Dancing Toward a Degree," Lea Marshall speaks with five dancers who managed to go to college and dance. And in doing so, they have shaped themselves as both people and artists. Wendy Perron Per´ron n. 1. (Arch.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; - usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions. , Editor in Chief wperron@dancemagazine.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion