Katricia Lang

There is a screening for every night this week courtesy of WorldFest-Houston. Short and feature. Fiction and documentary. Film and TV. The festival continues its survey of Chinese cinema with its 3rd annual Panorama China. The festival also showcases an incalculable number of short films including Texas shorts, romantic dark comedy shorts, and many others.

Lil Buck brings Memphis Jookin to classical music; Paris Opéra Ballet étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot brings je ne sais quoi to Rothko; and Parisian Kuchipudi dancer Shantala Shivalingappa brings Indian classical dance to Dance Salad Festival 2017.

Jorge Casco didn’t need Captain America or Iron Man when he was a kid. At 15, he watched FLY Dance Company b-boys make leaps like Superman at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Casco saw them as heroes. “I was just a kid doing local break dance. Small performances,” he says. “I didn’t know you...

Barnstorm Dance Fest brings the down-home spirit of a hoedown to contemporary dance. The two week showcase-style dance festival from Dance Source Houston includes three programs and spans 21 contemporary dance artists and companies. Dance Source Houston artist in residence Laura Gutierrez performs Locomote, a solo work of her own...

A seasoned dancer has an internal, intuitive understanding of her piece and the audience, says Nancy Henderek, Artistic Director of Dance Salad Festival 2016. “Instead of three turns, they may try four. Or they’ll stretch their bodies longer. They can feel where to put in something more.” This mirrors Henderek’s...