Saturday is National Dance Day, another day that you can celebrate through clever Facebook status updates, Instagram hashtags, and throwback photos to your drill team days and those terrible costumes your dance teachers used to make you wear. Or, you could actually get off your butt and dance. Novel idea,…
Mark Floods loves him. He loves him so much he curated his work into a group show in New York called, Mark Flood Resents. If that’s not reason enough to get yourself to RE Gallery on Saturday for the opening of Alika Herreshoff’s first solo show in Dallas, then I…
The Dallas DanceFest is back. After a 10-year hiatus, the festival that began with outdoor performances at the Annette Strauss Square returns with the same premise but a new venue, the Dallas City Performance Hall. Its original debut in 1985 started off small, featuring only three companies: Dallas Black Dance…
Remember those long days stuck inside a cold cement-block room listening to your college professor drone on about the rules of financial accounting as you dreamed about laying out by your apartment’s pool? Ok, so maybe I was a business major as an undergrad and sucked at accounting, so I…
Who are Soner and Patricia Rodriguez? What does their work entail? Is it just graffiti or is it something more? With Urban Nature, Kirk Hopper Fine Art is opening up its walls for these two artists to redefine and contextualize how we view graffiti, a form of expression and language…
“Caligrafitizm.” That’s the first word you see when you look up graffiti artist Soner’s website. What does it mean? Well, it’s an amalgamation of his largest influences: calligraphy, typography, graffiti and graphic design, and it truly describes his work. His large-scale murals are fantastical explorations of the interplay between text…
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth wants you to help them choreograph their next piece. Really. If you have the desire to make somebody’s body wiggle, this might be your chance. With their latest offering, Some Assembly Required, Artistic Director Kerry Kreiman and her dancers are reaching out to the social media world…
Ryder Richards. It’s a name made for the arts. And Richards delivers. He is an artist, a writer, a curator, and an educator.
Summertime can lead to feelings of wanderlust, boredom, and – if you’re lucky – a really good tan. In the summer, it’s super easy to just want to relax all day long, stare out your window, and daydream. But it is in those dreams that something great can come. The…
Who is Bozo Texino? I have no clue. But The Public Trust plans to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they host artists Ralph White and Bill Daniel, who are currently on tour with their traveling exhibition, Tramp Species of the American Southwest…
For 32 years, Ballet Concerto has been ringing in summer with an outdoor end-of-the-season concert series at the Trinity Park Pavilion in Fort Worth. Well attended every year, with more and more people coming out, laying down their blankets, and cuddling up with a glass of wine, and chowing down…
Think back to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the dancers who “magically” painted a large-scale intricate landscape of mountains and waters with just their hands and feet. Do you remember who choreographed that? Probably not, but TITAS and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are ready…
“They are all untitled, and I think he did it on purpose, so as to minimize preconceptions that might influence anyone looking at them,” curator Dr. Karin Oen tells me as she walks me through the installation of artist Shen Wei’s exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The…
“What I hope people gain from my work is a glimpse of beauty, and to engage in the mysteriousness of the unknown.” Shen Wei. Dancer. Choreographer. Painter. Art historian. Creator of the internationally lauded Shen Wei Dance Arts in New York City, and coming to Dallas’ Winspear Opera House on…
The show must go on. This testament has never been truer than in the case of the dancers of the Bruce Wood Dance Project, as they mourn the loss of their leader. Wood was more than just their choreographer; he was their friend. He was loved by many, and mourned…
On the heels of a number of dance companies following the theatrical standard of announcing their season’s offerings, fledging company Avant Chamber Ballet is presenting a line-up that promises to keep audience and dancers busy in the coming year. Avant Chamber Ballet is one of the newest ballet companies on…
Willie Baronet is an artist who wears his intentions on his sleeve. His primary interest is interventionist art and he spends much of his time creating projects that force people to pay attention to someone or something. Currently, Baronet is preparing for a coast-to-coast homeless sign buying trip that will…
To break in their new space in Expo Park, Cohn Drennan Contemporary’s inaugural show, scrapbook, takes us on trip through Texas counterculture from 1982-2002. With a book release and photography exhibition by Dan Allen, the show pays homage to the neighborhood with its portraits of the people who frequented the…
Get Wrecked It’s that time of year again when Art Conspiracy starts prepping you for the art party of the fall. You know the one. They take over a warehouse, hundreds of local artists donate original pieces, and all money raised goes toward a selected beneficiary. Sound good to you?…
When the weather gets hot and sticky, schools start to close, and we all mentally check out and start dreaming of beers and beaches and sleeping until noon. But dancers never stop. The beginning of June marks the end of many companies’ spring seasons and the start of professional training…
Friend. Brilliant choreographer. Tenacious. Humorous. A fighter. Stubborn. Advocate for dance. Committed. Collaborator. There are not words to adequately and appropriately describe the man who helped to usher in this new era of dance in Dallas. Bruce Wood was a tidal force in the city’s culture, a man born to…
Bruce Wood, founder of Bruce Wood Dance Project and perhaps one of the areas most esteemed choreographers and advocates for the Dallas dance scene, has died of complications from pneumonia and heart failure. He was 53. His death was extremely unexpected. I just saw Bruce a couple of weeks ago…
