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Houston, Would You Care For a Dance?

By Adam Castaneda
Oct 10, 2017

First-rate dance productions, as many in Houston’s arts community know, don’t come cheap.
Giselle at Houston Ballet Has a Spectacular Second Act

By Adam Castaneda
Jun 10, 2016

How does a choreographer approach reconfiguring one of the foundation story ballets? If you're Stanton Welch, it's making the narrative stronger than what it already is. Such is the case with his shimmery new Giselle, a tale of love and betrayal and the power of the supernatural Willis, spirits of...
Alexander Ekman's Cacti Elates in Houston Ballet's Spring Mixed Rep

By Adam Castaneda
May 27, 2016

The Set-up: Houston Ballet's Spring Mixed Repertory is a behemoth of heavyweight dances, including two titans of the ballet canon and a new work from this decade that has been making its rounds of the world's major companies. Together, the three pieces may be taken as an example of the...
Houston Ballet's Winter Mixed Repertory is in Turns Fascinating, Eerie-gorgeous and Exhilarating

By Adam Castaneda
Mar 12, 2016

In preparing to watch the opening night of Houston Ballet’s Winter Mixed Repertory Program, the excitement centered expectedly on Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite. As far as dance musicals go, it’s hard to beat West Side Story, with Robbins’ athletic, electrically charged choreography just as potent as the music...
GONZO247 Is the Reason Houston Will Have the First Graffiti Museum in the Country

By Adam Castaneda
Oct 6, 2015

It’s two or three in the morning, and the quiet of the night has a 13-year-old kid by the name of Mario Enrique Figueroa Jr. on high alert. He’s positioned himself in an alley behind a convenience store in Houston’s East End and he’s prepared to outrun anyone in uniform...

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