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UPDATE 5.17.2011

Press Response to Dance Salad Festival 2011:

Review from The Houston Chronicle.

Online review of the first evening's program from Houston Press.

Review from Dance Magazine.

Review from the The Daily Cougar.

KUHF's The Front Row radio interview with Dance Salad Artistic Director Nancy Henderek, Nai-Ni Chen, and Jasmin Vardimon. Click here.

Houston PA's Laurent interviews Nancy Henderek to preview the 2011 festival. Click here.

Houston Press profiles Nancy Henderek in their series 100 Creatives.

Dance Source Houston interviews choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.

Preview from The Houston Chronicle.

CultureMap Houston looks at National Dance Week and previews the festival.

Backstage at Dance Salad photo gallery at Houston Press.

Festival preview from Houston Press.

One Tibetan Thing, Reproduced from ArtsJournal.

Full Press Release for the 2011 Festival is now available. (Updated 3/26)

Special Announcement: Vladimir Malakhov will be performing ALL THREE nights of Dance Salad Festival! Malakhov, of Staatsballett Berlin, will be performing La Morte del Cigno (The Dying Swan), with choreography by Mauro de Candia and music by Camille Saint-Saëns. Complete evening programs are linked below.

2011 DANCE SALAD EVENING PROGRAMS A listing of each evening's performances: (Note: All Programs are subject to change.) Thursday, April 21, 2011 Friday, April 22, 2011 Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Festival week starts with the Choreographer's Forum: A Conversation, on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 6:30PM.This year's Forum, featuring Choreographers from Asia---Willy Tsao from Hong Kong, Li Hanzhong from Beijing, China, Sang Jijia, born in Tibet, now living in China, and Nai Ni Chen, Chinese American based in New York, born and raised in Taiwan--will be moderated by Maggie Foyer, from Dance Europe in London and will offer a special opportunity to glimpse these artists' creative process, hear their points of view and to see film clips of their work. This event is generously co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, more info at lectures@mfah.org. The reception will follow in the lobby of the Museum.

Free admission, no reservation required.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, 77005.
Event Listing at MFAH Calendar

 

Three Evening Performances are scheduled on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 21, 22 and 23, 2011 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. Included in this year’s Festival are:

Ballet National de Marseille, France, Metamorphoses by Frederic Flamand

Beijing Dance/LDTX, China, Standing Before Darkness by Sang Jijia; All River Red by Li Han-zhong, Pilgrimage by Cui Tao

Staatsballett Berlin, Germany, Artistic Director Vladimir Malakhov, La Morte del Cigno (The Dying Swan) by Mauro de Candia.

BJM Dance Montreal, Canada, Locked Up Laura by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Eastman, Antwerp, Belgium, Faun by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, Impromtu by Derek Deane

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company with Ahn Trio, New York, USA, Temptation of the Muses by Nai-Ni Chen

Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium, Sonata by Maurice Bejart

Jasmin Vardimon Company, England, Yesterday by Jasmin Vardimon

Zoran Markovic & Maša Kolar, Serbia (Markovic) and Croatia (Kolar), Bonet danced and choreographed by Markovic and Kolar; No Cha Cha Cha by Stephan Thoss

Estonian National Ballet, Tallinn, Estonia, Apart by Oksana Titova and Taavet Jansen

 

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Visit the Gallery for more photos of 2011 festival participants.

 

 

 

 

Press Response to Dance Salad Festival 2010:

Review from Dance International (PDF).

Houston Accueil's interviews with Eric Gauthier, Gauthier Dance, Stuttgart, Germany; Raphael Coumes-Marquet Dresden SemperOper Ballet, Germany; dancers from Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy, France. (PDF article in French w/ English translation)

KUHF's The Front Row radio interview with choreographer Eric Gauthier, choreographer Eva Duda, and Dance Salad Artistic Director Nancy Henderek. Click here.

Review from Dance Magazine (PDF).

Review from Dance Europe (PDF).

Review from The Houston Chronicle.

Review from the University of Houston's Daily Cougar (PDF).

Review from San Diego News Network.

Interview with Drew Jacoby from Culturemap.com.

Interview with Nancy Henderek in Prime Living magazine (PDF).