And the winners are . . .

Dance folks honored by the Austin Critics' Table include

Dance Concert
The Trash Project, Forklift Danceworks

Short Work
“Angel of My Nature,” Truth & Beauty/The Bach Project
Choreographer
Deborah Hay, No Time to Fly

Dancer
Masa Kolar, “Your Provision”
Jaime Lynn Witts, Truth & Beauty: The Bach Project

Ensemble
Ears Wide Open, Tapestry Dance Company

Congrats to all the winners! Lovely to spend an evening patting artists on the back.

Critics' Table Awards are Monday, June 7!

See you at Cap City Comedy Club, 7 p.m.

2010 Austin Critics' Table Nominees

Congrats to the 2010 nominees! See the list here in the Chronicle.

A Doll, a Dance

It's amazing how much my mood for the day improved after talking with Stephen Mills for 20 minutes about Coppélia. The resulting article is here.

So You Think You Can Make a Dance?

That would be a clumsier title for Ballet Austin's biennial New American Talent/Dance competition (though the copyeditor part of my brain can't stand that use of the slash). I wrote about the dances here.

Oh, dear: An "ungainly, overstretched, underedited work" by UT

Is that lame that I just quoted my own work? Read about the whole mess, and some less messier works not involving body paint, here.

In the first draft I said he had balls

but I decided that was disrespectful to a guy who put on a pretty good program. My take on Truth and Beauty: The Bach Project is here.