DSH Member Directory
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Randall
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Flinn
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Amy
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Elizabeth
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Contemporary, Modern
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Aimed Dance, a 501(c)3 performing arts organization, seeks to foster an awareness of and value for dance as a fine art within our community by providing educational programs, live performance events, and a professional network. Cultivating a sense of collaboration, Aimed Dance strives to engage, invest, and inspire our community while offering access and exposure to past, present, and future dance ideologies.
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Ashley
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Horn
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Jill
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Reason
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Alexander
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Pandiscio
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Enriching lives through the beauty of classical ballet.
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Lindsay
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Gary
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Houston’s home for African and Diasporic Dance
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Demarco
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Howard
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At the Artz, we strive to provide a safe and fun environment to learn all things aerial and circus arts related. We believe that working out can be fun and challenging while building self confidence which can have a major impact on one's overall health. Educating our community about aerial fabrics, lyra and trapeze while throwing in overall wellness is what keeps us going.
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Lydia
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Hance
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In 2010, Lydia Hance founded Frame Dance Productions to bring radically inclusive and deeply personal contemporary dance to Houston. To date, Frame Dance has created over 40 unique site-specific performances and nine dances for the camera. Our productions were described by Arts + Culture Texas Editor-in-Chief Nancy Wozny as “some of the most compelling and entertaining work in Houston.”
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Sandhya
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Raghuraman
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Indian, Multidisciplinary
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Garage Arts Project is a nonprofit dedicated to providing an immersive platform for artists and audiences to foster creativity and goodwill, increase appreciation of the arts and strive for better cultural understanding. We promote local artists (performing and visual), encourage and create opportunities for audience-artist interaction, and bring various cultural groups together.
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Roberta Paixao
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Cortes
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Dance Genre(s)
Contemporary
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Group Acorde's mission is to cultivate and educate diverse audiences through live, thought-provoking, original and affordable performance collaborations between contemporary dance and experimental music. The company broadens its reach through community partnerships that aim to include and engage people from all walks of life through education, dialogue and accessibility.
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Amy
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Pearl
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Celebrating 25 years of powerful, joyful, and profoundly human performances in Houston’s artistic community. Jane Weiner, Artistic Director of Hope Stone Dance, creates dance/theater performances of strong, technical ensemble work with “effortless partnering” and “gorgeous, big-hearted movement.” Her work has been performed throughout the country to critical acclaim.
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Angela
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Lee
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Dance Genre(s)
Ballet
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Houston Ballet is the fourth largest ballet company in the country and was founded in 1955 to create a resident ballet company in Houston, Texas.
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Marlana
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Doyle
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Dance Genre(s)
Contemporary
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The Houston Contemporary Dance Company’s mission is to ignite passion for contemporary dance by providing world-class professional repertory concert performances and community engagement activities that are accessible to all regardless of race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, gender variance, or nationality.
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Michelle
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Smith
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Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Modern, Multidisciplinary, Musical Theatre, Tap, Theatre Jazz
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Move. Evolve. Belong.
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Rathna
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Kumar
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Indian
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Samskriti, as it is popularly known, is the first and premiere non profit Indian American arts organization in Texas, established in 1994. Its mission is to be an effective cultural conduit between the East and the West, narrowing the cultural divide through performances of different traditional Indian art forms that inform and educate while entertaining diverse audiences.
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Brett
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Ishida
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Dance Genre(s)
Contemporary
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ISHIDA Dance Company is a new world-class contemporary dance company for Houston presenting new creations and works by contemporary masters that have never premiered in Houston.
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