Tirkedu Houston is a fun-filled weekend of enthusiastic and energetic Israeli dancing. Longtime favorite David Dassa, a world-renowned Israeli dance teacher/choreographer based in Los Angeles, will lead the residency. David has taught Israeli folk dance for the past 33 years and conducted hundreds of workshops throughout the US and abroad. He has two of the world’s premiere folk dance camps: Camp Rikud and Winter Rikud in December.
 
The weekend will include an Erev Shabbat Get Together, teaching sessions for intermediate to advanced dancers with reviews at the end of each session and a Saturday night dance party.
       

Mixed Bag is an exhilarating array of Houston pre-professional dance featuring Carver Dance Company, Exclamation Dance Company, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) and Vitacca Dance Project. Read their bios.  
 

Exclamation Dance Company

Vitacca Dance Project

Sat, Jan 26
8:00 PM Concert
 
Sun, Jan 27
3:00 PM Concert  
 
$16 ERJCC Member
$22 Public
$12 Sr Adult & Student
 

   
Erin Reck

Join us for another memorable evening of dance, Houston Choreographers X6, as the Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre plays host to six of Houston’s dance professionals. Featuring: Kristen Frankiewicz, Laura Gutierrez, Lydia Hance, Erin Reck, Sandra Organ Solis and jhon r. stronks.
Read their bios.
  

Lydia Hance    jhon r. stronks

Sandra Organ Solis

NEXT: An Evening of Choreography of Israel and Spain
Washington based Company E will be conducting a week long residency, sharing their unique style of dance at local schools, before they perform NEXT: An Evening of Choreography of Israel and Spain at the ERJCC. 
 
Company E, a contemporary repertoire dance company, dance education and interdisciplinary arts organization based in the US capital city of Washington D.C., emphasizes international collaborations with the great choreographers and dancers at work today. The company of five dancers, under the Artistic Direction of Paul Gordon Emerson and Kathryn Sydell Pilkington, focus on the next generation of brilliant, cutting edge choreography. 

 
NEXT: An Evening of Choreography of Israel and Spain is an Israeli influenced program with four of the main six works connecting to Israel either directly or indirectly. The Spanish piece by a choreographic team from Barcelona had its world premiere recently in D.C. The program will include the following pieces: Alma, choreography by Rachel Erdos (Israel) with original music by Alberto Schwarz of  Tel Aviv; Inside It's Raining, also created by Rachel Erdos (Israel) with original music by Alberto Schwarz; Theater of Public Secrets choreography by Ronen Koresh (Israel/USA), music by Eric Satie; Y, a choreographic collaboration based on the art created by Company E for its Kennedy Center production of “Looking for Don Quixto;” You Go First, choreography by Loni Landon (USA) music by Hildur Godnadottir; and Few, choreography by Thomas Noone and Nuria Martinez (Spain), original score by Miguel Marin.  
 
Photo credit: Paul Gordon Emerson
    

Founded in 1984, Stephen Petronio has created this company with a focus on “new music, visual art and fashion” as they “collide in his dances producing powerfully modern landscapes for the senses.” Stephen Petronio is one of the leading dance-makers of his generation. 
 
Repertory master class intermediate/advanced level dancer. Must be 14 years+.
        
Photo credit: Sarah Silver

Motionhouse was founded with the aim to create “performance (that) are rooted in dance but draw on theatre, circus, acrobatics, and film to create work that makes you think and feel.” Motionhouse is one of the UK’s foremost dance theater companies founded by Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards in1988. 
 
For intermediate to advanced dancers 14 years and older. 
 
Photo credit: Chris Nash