Houston International Dance Coalition's DANCE SALAD FESTIVAL April 1, 2, & 3, 2010 Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30pm Wortham Center, Cullen Theater 501 Texas Ave. Houston, Texas

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Update: 2010 Festival Press Release is now available.

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The much anticipated annual Dance Salad Festival returns the week of March 31st to April 3, 2010 beginning with the Choreographers’ Forum in the Brown Auditorium of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with a reception following. This year, Ben Stevenson, former Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet and currently the Artistic Director of the Texas Ballet Theater (Fort Worth/Dallas), as well as the German choreographer Christian Spuck from Stuttgart Ballet will discuss their work. A beautiful Pas de Deux from Ben Stevenson's newly created choreography From the Corner will premiere in Houston on the opening night of the festival by dancers from the Texas Ballet Theater. Christian Spuck's excerpted version of Return of Ulysses will be presented in Dance Salad Festival by the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium.


Three Evening Performances are scheduled on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 1, 2 and 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM in the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater. Each curated performance presents a roster of outstanding dancers and choreography from around the world. Among those coming to Houston exclusively for Dance Salad Festival are The Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium; Norwegian National Ballet, Oslo, Norway; Ballet de Lorraine, France; Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genéve, Switzerland; Hungarian National Ballet, Hungary; Compañia Nacional de Danza, Mexico; Netherlands Dance Theater; English National Ballet, London; Gelabert Azzopardi Companya de Dansa, Barcelona, Spain; Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Forth, Texas; Jacoby & Pronk, New York/Amsterdam; Gauthier Dance, Stuttgart, Germany; Central Europe Dance Theatre, Budapest, Hungary; and others. There will be more remarkable dance companies coming this year. The most updated information on the program will be available as soon as possible. Please, check for updates regularly.

Throughout the week of the Festival there will also be master classes, from intermediate to advanced level, taught by Festival participants at diverse locations throughout the city.

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Press Response to Dance Salad Festival 2009:

Review from Dance Europe (PDF).

Review from Dance International (PDF).

Interview with Mats Ek in the Houston Chronicle.

Review from Dance Magazine.

Review of Thursday's performance on Chron.com.

Review of Friday's performance on Chron.com.

Dance Source Houston interviews Nancy Henderek.