How TikTok Made Line Dancing Cool Again
After a few decades in the purgatory of corniness, fans of artists such as Beyoncé and Dasha are embracing the separate-but-together choreography.
After a few decades in the purgatory of corniness, fans of artists such as Beyoncé and Dasha are embracing the separate-but-together choreography.
This “grown-up drill team” will strut and sparkle in five parades this month.
Meet the Ab Boyz: professional quince cadets primed for the TikTok generation.
For its big-butted bumblebees, hairy rats, and Sugar Plum dancers, the festive ballet requires complex wigs and opulent costumes, many of which need to be zipped on or off in seconds.
. . . and Allison Orr, the founder of Forklift Danceworks, helps them turn their everyday movements into choreography with a mission.
The gay, Black social media influencer and Houston Ballet soloist is shaking up the world of classical ballet.
The Houston social media influencer is a gay Black man with a gift for the absurd and a passion for platform heels. He’s also a star dancer in one of the world’s most rigid, gendered, and segregated art forms.
The founders of Los Danzantes ATX bring the same vitality to their food and their dancing.
A new documentary about the dance visionary from Rogers shows how he nurtured fellow artists—even while pushing them (and himself) relentlessly.
This month, WhiteClaw Hard Seltzer wants to celebrate Selena and her legacy with the ultimate dance playlist.
The Christmas classic is the ballet world’s biggest annual event (and a major moneymaker), so dancers and administrators have gotten creative.
While dancers at Fort Worth’s Texas Ballet Theater do pliés at home barres improvised from pipes and shower handles, administrators are making do with a $2 million budget shortfall.
While quarantined and away from home, I keep coming back to the late Texan choreographer’s works—which are newly available to watch online.
A viral smash on TikTok, the song is part of a club music lineage that exists for the sole purpose of getting people moving.
Dozens of Azteca dancers, clad in regalia, came together during Austin’s largest Día de los Muertos celebration.
The second annual celebration of theater, comedy, and dance displayed the many dimensions of Latinidad.
The ballet standout dishes on viral stardom, modeling for Ralph Lauren, and becoming a queer icon.
In Marfa, a big night out means one thing above all: the cumbia.
From a honky-tonk in Odessa to a Catholic church in Houston, there’s one night of the week when you’re guaranteed to find Texans at their snappiest.
Break out the hog-bladder balloons and get ready to chase livestock! It’s time for a look at Texas’ Christmas past.
Which Oscar-winner did Alvin Ailey act alongside in the play Call Me by My Rightful Name ?
I’ve danced all my life, and I really thought that I would eventually open a ballet school. It’s a wonderful discipline and a wonderful release. I started dancing when I was three because I loved the pink tutu and the ballet shoes. I got myself involved—it wasn’t anything that my
While other high school students spend their afternoons running track or singing in the choir, Diana Fox and Josh Zuniga are perfecting their cha-cha and two-step. Actually, the Missouri City duo is doing those other things too, but much of their extracurricular time is spent defending their title as Teen
I started dancing when I was five, after [Houston dance teacher] Emmamae Horn visited my school and asked my parents if I could enroll in her dance class. It must have run in the family, though, because my parents were great dancers too. When I was about nine, I remember
I enrolled at the University of Texas in 1950 during a post-war period that produced many talented individuals. Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, Liz Smith, Robert Benton, Pat Hingle, Word Baker, Kathryn Grant (later Mrs. Bing Crosby), and I all graduated with degrees in drama. We did lots of dance concerts
Culturally centered.
I had my first dancing lesson in Amarillo with Constance Ferguson. Constance had been out in California studying ballet with Theodore Kosloff, one of Pavlova’s partners, but she came back to Amarillo and wanted to open a dancing school. Up on the very top floor of a great old hotel
When country hunk Billy Ray Cyrus his megahit “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992, country dancing—or at least a modern version of it—returned to vogue. Cyrus’ novelty song was released with a video that showed a line dance specifically created for the song, and—in a flashback to the Urban Cowboy craze of
Backstage at the Houston Ballet is a world of pastel shadows, brilliant spangles, and anxious waiting.
If it’s Saturday night and you just got paid, you’re a fool about your money and don’t try to save—go dancing.