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Inspiring Houston through dance for over 30 years
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This year at the Sunflower Ball, we’re honored to celebrate jhon r. stronks for 20 years of artistry and service to Houston Met Dance. 🌻

As a queer artist, choreographer, dance educator, and arts administrator, jhon r. stronks has helped shape Houston’s dance community through bold creative work, inspiring classes, and programs that have supported dancers of all ages.

Join us on Saturday, September 26, as we honor jhon r. stronks and celebrate the people who keep Houston’s arts community thriving.

Visit metdance.org to learn more.

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Support the artists who make Houston shine. 🌻

Every ticket to Houston MET Dance’s Sunflower Ball helps provide performance opportunities for local artists, arts education for thousands of students, and affordable classes that keep our community dancing.

Join us on Saturday, September 26, to celebrate and support Houston’s vibrant arts community while enjoying live performances, drinks and bites, a silent auction, raffles, and more.

We can’t wait to dance the night away with you! 💛 Visit metdance.org to learn more.

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My Top 5 this week, is spotlighting Michelle Smith, the powerhouse who launched Houston Metropolitan Dance (aka @HoustonMetDance ) back in 1995.

Nearly 30 years later, she’s still leading the charge—energizing dancers, inspiring artists & shaping a community that moves with purpose.

Her my top 5 includes:

▪️ @HermannPark
▪️ @HendersonandKane
▪️ @GoodeCoTaqueria @GoodeCoBBQ @GoodeCoKitchenandCantina @ArmadilloPalace & @GoodeCoSeafood
▪️Brays Bayou Bike Trails
▪️Goforth Park on Horsepen Creek

On Saturday, October 18, 2025, Michelle & Met Dance mark 30 incredible years with a high-energy anniversary gala packed with live performances, food, drinks & a can’t-miss dance party in the Museum District. taken in Houston Met Dance by @houstonmetdance

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Don’t miss these upcoming workshops!

Saturday, October 17th and November 14th
• 10:00a - 11:30a Inter. Jazz Technique
• 11:45a - 12:45p Theatre Jazz/ Choreography
• 1:00p - 2:00p Theatre Tap / Choreography

Classes:
• Theatre Jazz is a high-energy, expressive dance class. Designed for combining traditional jazz technique with storytelling, and theatrical showmanship. The open level class will begin with a warm up, then focus on a choreographed combo set to songs from broadway musicals.
• Theatre Tap is an open level tap class, focusing on the classic style of broadway tap musicals. We will focus on practicing tap technique in a warm up, then incorporate those steps into a choreographed combo set to music from broadway musicals.

About Alissa:
Alissa grew up in southeast Texas, and graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BFA in Musical Theatre and Dance. While in college, Alissa started her professional career by performing in Houston Symphony’s A Very Merry Pops, dancing aboard Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, and being cast in Theatre Under the Stars’ production of Hello, Dolly!. Upon graduation, she began her career as a Radio City Rockette, as well as performing in numerous productions at TUTS.

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Save the Date!!! In one month, La Maleza: Weeds as Teachers will come to life! 🌱
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📆November 6 & 7
🕖 7:00 PM Doors Open
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7:30 PM Show
Reception to Follow
November 7 Post-show chat with the artists.
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📍Houston Met Dance
4916 MAIN STREET,
HOUSTON, TX, 77002
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Check the link in bio for more information and tickets.
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Description:
From the Spanish for “wild growth/undergrowth” or, understood to mean “sickness,”La Maleza: Weeds as Teachers,” is an experimental dance performance and installation created in collaboration with composer and sound artist Anthony Alméndarez (Houston, TX), visual artist Nicole Sara Simpkins (Minneapolis, MN), and featuring choreography by Paty Lorena Solórzano. Through conceptual choreography and improvised vignettes, the dance questions what it means to be uprooted and/or find roots in unfamiliar spaces, and what plants can teach us about healing troubled environments. The work is an invitation into a sensory experience to rethink the concept of “weeds.”
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🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽
This performance is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
The project is also supported by Houston MET Dance through their Creative Incubation Residency, made possible with funding from Houston Endowment.
Generous support also provided by an Early Career Collaboration Enhancement award from the Diverse Intellengences Summer Institute (DISI).
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Early support for this project was possible through the Dance Source Houston AIR program. 💚

@dancesource
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@houstonartsalliance
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We’re back! Join @loriyuilldance and myself for class starting tomorrow October 2. #yaydance

Where? @houstonmetdance the home for thinking/moving artists 💘
Time? Fridays 10:00 am!

Thinking/Moving is a movement practice that facilitates a sensorial approach to build somatic skills for efficient dancing.
This class will honor the intelligence of the body through physical rigor as participants explore various approaches and processes to movement including phrase work, floor work, partnering, and methods of improvisation.
Thinking/Moving instructors Paty Solorzano @patygirasola and Lori Yuill @loriyuilldance cultivate dynamic physicality, embodied, and expressive dancing.
This class welcomes all bodies and abilities. Thinking/Moving is an invitation to all curious thinkers and movers across artistic disciplines.
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#houstondance #contemporarydance #improvisation #houdance by @houstonmetdance

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Don’t miss our raffle & silent auction! Link in bio ✨🛒🛍️ Purchase $5, $10, or $20 raffle tickets for items like $300 to @lucilleshouston, shopping at @shoptootsies, a special trip to @cactus_music, & more!
✨ Raffle closes online today at 6pm. You do not need to be present to win. ✨
Silent auction closes Monday! 🎉
The Sunflower Ball is TONIGHT!

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Caturday Haiku
Special caturday today
I'll dress like a sunflower
For the ball tonight by @houstonmetdance

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Here are just a few of the performers that you will see at Houston Met Dance’s Sunflower Ball on Saturday, September 26. Buy your tickets now or at the door! 🌻

After many years in the studio together Nicole McNeil and Lori Yuill are melding their creative capacities with NMLY.dance, a convergence of their intersectional interests and individual studio practices. Intentionally, they entered this venture with a desire to deepen their collaborative practice, calling on multiple voices to shape the direction of the creative act. Their goal is to entangle different artistic practices to reveal new ones and rediscover old ones. NMLY.dance projects explore multimedia performance using dance, projections, and sound design always with the goal of melding different perspectives in order to build new worlds for audiences to inhabit with them.

Under the artistic direction of HMD’s Associate Director of Programming Lori Yuill, The TerraForm(ed) Collective is an extension of Houston Met Dance’s Adult Studio programming, aimed at providing dance opportunities to adults who are interested in any and all aspects of dance making. TerraForm(ed) Collective performs dances made in response to nature, and for the Sunflower Ball, is taking inspiration from sunflowers (of course!).

Sunflower Ball attendees will get to witness performance powerhouse Michelle Reyes in a solo from Riddles Three’s June 2026 performance, BIG DOG choreographed by Peri Mey. Michelle is a company member of Riddles Three and a cherished member of HMD’s faculty!

Riddles Three: Founded by choreographer and wearable art designer Persi Mey in 2024, Riddles Three is a physically rigorous performance art company that aims to inspire and connect audiences to personal memories through larger collective themes of conditioning and culture. We work through a blended movement base rooted in martial arts, contact improvisation, and contemporary and modern dance.

Houston Met Dance is excited to have Houston’s own Michele McKnight as the DJ for the Sunflower Ball. Michele has spent almost 20 years transforming dance floors from intimate weddings to packed festival stages. With an instinct for crowd energy and a genre-fl taken in Houston Met Dance by @houstonmetdance

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Did you know there's a ball going on this Saturday at Houston Met Dance? by @houstonmetdance

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Houston's Contact Improv Jam has been running for three years! 🥳 Join us every 2nd and 4th Friday at @houstonmetdance for workshops and open jam space with rotating facilitators @bhbuck2 and @persi_mey
The jams are accompanied by live music played by @blackmoorebeats 🙌
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Open level Workshops 6:30 - 7:15pm
Jam 7:30 - 9:30pm
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⚠️ Regular jams are not filmed or documented in order to maintain the integrity of the space 🙏 by @houstonmetdance

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Thank you so much to the companies and individuals who donated to our silent auction & raffle!

Check out the auction via the link in our bio to see what amazing items are available 🎉

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