Kristina Koutsoudas teaches young children the Qashqai, a folk wedding dance from southern Persia during the Asia Society's inaugural Family Day Celebrating Eid.
Read MoreRoya uses as its primary base the beautiful steps of Persian folkdance, including those lovely cascading hands that look like doves in flight. Roya is not folk dance in its original form, but it maintains the cultural integrity of the vocabulary it represents.
Read MoreChoreographers commissioned for this season of Houston Choreographers X6 are Rebekah Chappell, Randall Flinn, Ashley Horn, Kristina Koutsoudas, Cori Miller and Heather Nabors.
Read MoreIn Western culture, dance is the province of the theatrical stage. A dancer is understood to be a disciplined technician of a movement vocabulary that the non-dancer does not possess. But for the rest of the world, dance isn't so much a chosen vocation as it is an integral part of everyday life.
Read MoreDancer-choreographer, Kristina Koutsoudas describes Nour-An-Nisa – The Light of Femininity, a program of Middle Eastern, Near Eastern and North African traditional and contemporary dance that she presents this weekend at the Rothko Chapel.
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