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Nancy Wozny

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Nancy Wozny once went 10 days without seeing any art, and well, she won't do that again.

Raised in an art-as-food group family, Wozny has been inflicting her opinions on the unsuspecting since her parents first dragged her off to see The Pirates of Penzance, which, at age seven, she found lacking in depth. Today, she divides her time between covering every inch of Houston's art-scape in CultureMap and writing for Pointe MagazineDance SpiritDance TeacherDance Source Houston, and Dance Magazine, where she is a contributing editor.  She was a 2005 NEA Fellow at the Institute for Dance Criticism and scholar in residence at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 2010 and 2011.

In addition, her work as appeared in the Houston Chronicle, ArtsHouston, HOUSTON, Downtown, CultureVulture, Dance Studio Life, and numerous other publications. In 2006, she retired from her previous life as a movement therapist, where she headed up the Feldenkrais program of movement re-education at Baylor College of Medicine's Pain Control and Functional Restoration. She continues to draw from her clinical experience as a frequent contributer to Dance Magazine's Your Body column. As a leading voice on dancers' health, she has covered such subjects as smoking, sleep, brain research, diabetes, somatics, and health screening.

She blogs at Dancehunter, Houston's longest running dance blog.

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The Arthropologist

Dancing at the Waterwall: Houston's great outdoors sets the stage for unique dance festival

By Nancy Wozny

A grove of oaks, an open green field, the face of skyscraper and a wall of thundering falling water make for one unforgettable stage for dance this weekend. Stephan Koplowitz ...


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The Arthropologist

Here's the perfect Mother's Day gift for any mom: Treat her to an "artful" event

By Nancy Wozny

Sons and daughters, put down that corsage. Forget brunch reservations. Let's take la momma to see some art. There's a bevy of artful adventures for a mom to ...


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The Arthropologist

Hot dance bods bring a tragedy to life: Dominic Walsh finds his wow in Camille Claudel

By Nancy Wozny

I lost myself in Libbie Masterson's latest batch of photographs — NUIT: The French Landscape at Night, at Wade Wilson Gallery — during her FotoFest show. The dreamy landscapes possessed an ...


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The Arthropologist

Frogs on bikes wearing Tom Ford & saving Athens: A new take on Greek extravaganza, The Dionysia

By Nancy Wozny

It's spring, you know what that means: The city hands its keys over to Dionysus, or, OK, technically, John Harvey, playwright and director of University of Houston’s Center ...


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The Arthropologist

The best of Latin American cinema: A newbie's guide to the Latin Wave film festival

By Nancy Wozny

My son is blogging in Spanish from Argentina and I recently moved down the street from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This year might be the one that I ...


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The Arthropologist

Russian fever grips Houston: How FotoFest is changing the city

By Nancy Wozny

Anybody else have the urge to hole up with Dr. Zhivago with some blintzes and a shot of vodka? Or is it just me that has seen a fixation on ...


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The Arthropologist

Frank Sinatra lives to dance in Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away

By Nancy Wozny

Ol' blue eyes could do no wrong in my house. For Italian-Americans, Frank Sinatra was up there with Giuseppe Verdi, or at least Puccini. We are talking about mandatory listening ...


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The Arthropologist

Life after the awards roll in: The H-Town director behind Natural Selection reveals all

By Nancy Wozny

Never judge a film by its title, its cast or its setting. That was the lesson for me in Natural Selection, an extraordinary first feature film written and directed by ...


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Suspended in dance

Floating in time: Modern dancer's improvisations are a perfect match for extreme slow-motion video

By Nancy Wozny

She spins, but just as the turn completes itself, time elongates, stretching into unseen territory. It's as if we are on a roller coaster winding the swerve of a ...


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The Arthropologist

Between Kosovo and Houston: Apocalypse Town brings rock 'n' roll to the one-man show

By Nancy Wozny

Part travelogue, part monologue, part one-man show plus band, call it what you want. Anthony Barilla is back with Apocalypse Town, a musical memoir of his life between Kosovo and ...


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The Arthropologist

The next big step: Roberta Stokes ties one on; Jessica Boone goes Missing; Courtney D. Jones discovers vibrator play

By Nancy Wozny

Thresholds, milestones, next steps and big changes. They happen in an artistic life. They are happening right now for three outstanding Houston artists, Roberta Stokes, with Tie-Breaker at Art League ...


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Suspended in Dance

Turning point: Extreme slow motion video captures Houston ballet dancer's every move

By Nancy Wozny

“I can slow time down,” I told neuroscientist David Eagleman about my abilities to watch dance. “No, actually, you can't,” he responded. According to Eagleman, my perception of time ...


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The Arthropologist

Women are under attack in America, but a new Talento Bilingue show fights back

By Nancy Wozny

Who could imagine that in 2012 women would be under siege? It's a time to garner strength from powerful women, even if they hark from the 17th century. Writer ...


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The Arthropologist

That's life! Photographer captures dancers in everyday settings doing extraordinary things

By Nancy Wozny

In an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry unapologetically tells Elaine that he's never been to the ballet. Really? I wonder what kind of uproar would have been caused had ...


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The Arthropologist

Bosom Buddies: Men on pointe get in touch with their feminine side in Houston Ballet's Cinderella

By Nancy Wozny

So there's no pumpkin turning into a gilded carriage in Stanton Welch's Cinderella, running at Houston Ballet, Thursday through March 3. Get over it, there are men dancing ...


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The Arthropologist

She can't dance: Here's how Madonna can get her smooth moves back

By Nancy Wozny

The Madonnabowl brought back a favorite rant topic for me, the importance of training in the arts. Madge looked terrific, sounded the same, but her dancing was MIA. (I couldn ...


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The Arthropologist

Houston dancers celebrate Black History Month with works that nod to the past and look to the future

By Nancy Wozny

A wedding in Mali, the Buffalo Soldiers and Rosa Parks all find their way into motion as Houston explodes with dance in celebration of Black History Month. Urban Souls Dance ...


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The Arthropologist

Get there, stat! This Emergency Room is a welcome space for emerging Houston artists

By Nancy Wozny

"I'm going to the Emergency Room. Want to come?" Lawndale's Dennis Nance asked me during Ana Serrano's opening at Rice Gallery. "Why, am I bleeding?" Once up ...


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The Arthropologist

"Stoppard is like Shakespeare": Guy Roberts goes revolutionary in tackling The Coast of Utopia

By Nancy Wozny

The last time I saw Guy Roberts, he was wielding a sword. These days, as Michael Bakunin, he's wielding big, idealistic thoughts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel ...


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The Arthropologist

SYTYCD star Neil Haskell talks stuntin' in advance of Bring it On: The Musical's Hobby Center run

By Nancy Wozny

Yes, it's true, I was a back-up cheerleader in sixth grade for the girls' junior varsity field hockey team. It doesn't get any worse than that. I never ...


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