Dance Salad Festival is a curated, international production with performances by companies from around the world, chosen solely for their excellence - an event that can be seen only in Houston, Texas. Celebrating its 13th anniversary season in Houston, its 16th season since its inception in Brussels, Belgium, Houston's Dance Salad Festival always promises a tremendous gathering of world-class performers. The festival takes place the week of the USITT Stage Expo and Conference and I have put together a group rate discount for attendees of USITT.

 Don't miss this opportunity to see many of the world's finest dance performances! 

Dancers from the following companies have been confirmed for the 2008 Festival:

Národní divadlo, The National Theatre Ballet, Prague (Czech Republic)

making its North American debut performing three choreographic works, two of them US premiers. This company is the flagship of the Czech Ballet institutions.

BIRTH-DAY: Jirí Kylián (The Netherlands)

A Premiere for the USA, the choreographic masterpiece, BIRTH-DAY, was created by legendary choreographer Jirí Kylián. Originally performed by Nederlands Dans Theater III, a new company called Paradox On will perform BIRTH-DAY with the original cast NDT III dancers.

CAR-MEN: NPS Dans, Jirí Kylián (The Netherlands)

Choreographer Jirí Kylián’s new film, directed by Boris Pavel Conen. CAR-MEN is a black and white film based on the four archetypes featured in Bizet’s opera, Carmen. Maggie Foyer, in a Dance Europe review, (October, 2007), says that, "Kylián's Car-Men is destined to become a later-day cult silent movie."

The National Ballet of Canada (Toronto, Canada)

Christopher Wheeldon’s, Polyphonia, will be a Houston premiere for this highly acclaimed British choreographer. Founded in 1951, The National Ballet of Canada, with more than 60 dancers, is Canada’s premier dance company and ranks as one of the world’s top international ballet companies.

Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company (China)

This renowned Chinese modern dance company is performing The Cold Dagger, choreographed by Li Han-zhong and wife, Ma Bo, set to music by American cellist David Darling.

Hamburg Ballet (Germany)

Hamburg Ballet dancer/choreographer, Yaroslav Ivaneko, has received many choreographic awards and has danced with Hamburg Ballet since 1999. He is showing his piece, Ne m'oublie pas with music by Yann Tiersen.

Marcin Krajewski

a principal dancer performing with the Ballet of the Teatr Wielki -Polish National Opera (Warsaw, Poland). Marcin will perform Le Burgeois, a solo piece choreographed by Ben Van Cawbenberg. Set to music by Jacques Brel, the piece reveals Marcin Krajewski’s exquisite talent as a dancer and his natural ability as an actor. Housed in the historic 1833 Opera House, Teatr Wielki, the Warsaw Ballet Company has been Poland’s leading ballet company for the past 160 years. The company has worked under many master choreographers.

Makoto Matsushima (Tokyo, Japan)

dancing in his own choreography, Invisible City. Makoto Matsushima has been the core member of internationally acclaimed Japanese dance theatre company PAPPA TARAHUMARA, which recently performed at BAM in New York City. In addition to touring with the company worldwide on a regular basis, he has been creating solo pieces and collaborating on choreography in Europe and China.

WHO

Houston International Dance Coalition's

WHAT 

DANCE SALAD FESTIVAL

WHEN 

March 20, 21, & 22, 2008
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30pm

WHERE 

Wortham Center, Cullen Theater
501 Texas Ave. Houston, Texas

HOW

Discount ticket information for USITT exhibitors and attendees coming soon!

For the latest information on the upcoming season and photos of the dancers coming, visit www.dancesalad.org.