When your roster of artists includes dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre, musicians from the Tosca String Quartet, and two Artistic Directors that are already rising stars in their respective disciplines, your work has to meet some seriously high expectations. After seeing Dialogues, American Repertory Ensemble’s first performance event – a highly professional, intelligent, inventive and entertaining evening of music and dance – we think ARE lives... more ›

From the moment we woke up, something was different. Our fingers delicately tip-toed across our bedside table; we nimbly caressed our oddly rhythmic alarm into silence. Gone was our everyday stumbling stupor as we arose from the bed like a bird on a spring. ‘Twas replaced with physical ease – how nice – as we spun and we twirled, dipping and diving, shuffling gracefully to our morning…pee. (Ahhh.) This is no week in theatre,... more ›

UT's student resident dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre is premiering new work by David Justin, Yacov Sharir, and MFA candidate Ray Eliot Schwartz this weekend in an evening entitled PROOF. Sharir is one of the co-founders of popular Austin dance company Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and Justin, now the Artistic Director of DRT, has danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet. Out of the "four short stories with lasting impact and truth"... more ›