“I can’t go a day without clicking my camera. Capturing the personalities in the flowers, capturing the personality of the ice that forms on the lake by my house…I see the dancers in those flowers and that ice.” Moses Pendleton, artistic director of the dance company Momix, is wired to…
Showing that dancers are some of the strongest and toughest breed of performing artists, the dancers of the Bruce Wood Dance Project are keeping the faith and moving forward with the work of their artistic leader by honoring his memory with their fall show, Lovett + More, at the Dallas…
TITAS is starting its dance season off with a little bit of magic by bringing back audience-favorite, MOMIX. It’s been almost four years since MOMIX presented their full-length production, Botanica, at the Winspear Opera House, and had us all dreaming of flowers, forests, and dinosaurs, but they are finally back…
Dark Circles Contemporary Dance has already scheduled an additional performance this weekend. Saturday night sold out quickly. The season premiere of one of Dallas’ top emerging companies expects full houses at the Sanders Theatre in Fort Worth. Originally founded in Seoul, South Korea in 2010, DCCD moved state-side in 2013,…
Tifa Tittlywinks, Kiki Maroon, Divertida Devotchka, Vivienne Vermuth, Layna D’Luna, and Lola LeStrange want to show you their naughty bits. Seriously. And, they are doing it all in the name of video games. A dream come true, right? You can thank Viva Dallas Burlesque for it; see, there’s a reason…
“It’s just a jump to the left. And then a step to the right. With your hand on your hips. You bring your knees in tight. But it’s the pelvic thrust. That really drives you insane. Let’s do the Time Warp again.” I promise you, this will be your anthem…
Named Best Classical Music Addition of 2013 by Dallas Observer, Dallas Chamber Symphony (DCS) is gearing up for a new season. At just 4 years old, DCS has quickly become one of the most exciting and innovative professional performance ensembles in North Texas, and a lot of that has to…
The fall dance season is starting off with “the best dance festival ever!” says arts patron and Dallas DanceFest producer Gayle Halperin. Back after nearly 10 years, the Dallas DanceFest will definitely give a lay of the Dallas dance land, but we’ll have to see if it’s actually the best…
“The Dallas DanceFest is very timely. Dance is surging forward…and it’s exciting because there are more emerging dance companies than ever before,” says Gayle Halperin, Vice President of Development for the Dance Council of North Texas (DCNT) and Chair of the Dallas DanceFest Committee (DDF). Returning after a 10-year hiatus,…
In May, Brad McEntire and Audacity Theatre Lab brought eight artists and eight solo shows to town and stacked them all together inside the Margo Jones Theatre. For the first festival of its kind here, Dallas Solo Fest went well. So well, in fact, that McEntire has devised a quarterly…
Celebrating its 27th year, the Dallas VideoFest (DVF) and the Video Association of Dallas (VAD)–an organization committed to the exhibition of independent, alternative, and non-commercial media–are ready to try something new. Since 1986, when they presented the inaugural program, Video As A Creative Medium, at the Dallas Museum of Art,…
What do hyenas, haikus and theater have in common? One man: Matt Tomlanovich. If you’re friends with the beloved director and actor on Facebook, you have probably been exposed to his “Hyena Haikus,” and you’ve probably noticed that they have been absent as of late. That’s because Tomlanovich has been…
As part of its mission to broaden the general public’s awareness of the cultural aspects of Middle Eastern dance and music, The Isis Foundation will be presenting its 14th annual Yaa Halla, Y’All event. Hundreds of local, national, and international professional, amateur, and student belly dancers and Middle Eastern musicians…
She was tiny. She was blonde. Her green eyes looked into your soul and shook it silly. The curves of her hips were pathways to pleasure. If she wiggled her butt, then it was all over. You were hooked. Candy Barr got you. This is the legend of infamous Dallas…
Get connected. Go to Mars with some guy named Jon. Reverse roles and play a game. Watch a lizard boy eat a Dorito. Talk about white Russians with Tyler’s mom. All of these things and more will happen at Sundown Collaborative Theatre’s “We’ve Done It Again: A Mixtape,” the group’s…
The Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC) will present its annual juried membership show at the Mary Tomás Gallery in the Dallas Design District. CAC is a nonprofit community arts organization and school of visual arts geared toward beginning, emerging, and working artists, and the selections for the show represent…
Where did the summer go? It’s been a relatively quiet and cool one this year, and that can only mean one thing. That we’ve all been be resting and waiting for August to hit and for the performance season to start again. Dancers who have been gone all summer training…
When you walk up the secret staircase at the front of the lobby of the Texas Theatre, you’ll be taken up to a room with a simple, small window and a strange looking safe. This is The Safe Room. At different times throughout the year, it is made to look…
At 7 p.m. Friday at Ro2 Art, Erica Felicella invites you tell her all your secrets. Imagine if you had the opportunity to leave some of your worst memories, thoughts, and actions behind. Imagine if you could clear your head and heart by passing along burdens to another vessel and…
Stiff Who killed Mickey Blake? That’s exactly what Jeff Swearingen is trying to figure out in his newest play, Stiff. The 2014 Mastermind takes us back to the 1950s, when Broadway was booming, directors were dreaming big, and critics were the almighty and powerful ones who had the ability to…
“It’s like I can feel our electrons falling so love with each other’s positive particles…Because chemistry is the only thing deep enough to explain this.” This the last line in the trailer for Chipping Smooth, the inaugural work from Pipe Dream Productions, a rag-tag organization of artists founded just this…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Taylor “Effin” Cleveland (not his real middle name, obviously, but he’s badass enough to call himself…
