Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
WORLD PREMIERE
“TAMALALIA FOREVER!”
As every good Houstonian knows, Tamarie Cooper creates another in a series of wholly original, full-scale musicals every summer—a Houston institution with a cult following—featuring wildly irreverent scripts, riotously funny songs, wackadoodle dances, spectacular sets, large casts of quadruple-threat performers, a small but mighty band, and of course Houston’s own Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and Bugs Bunny rolled into one, the undefeated champion of ass-clownery, Tamarie Cooper, co-star Kyle Sturdivant forever at her side, chewing up all her expensive scenery.Read more
Challenging Brown , written by Cris Eli Blak, winner of the 2025 Fade To Black Arts Festival and The Ensemble Theatre’s Premier Theatre Readings, is a powerful story of perseverance, education, and the cost of breaking barriers in a divided America.
Set in 1967 Texas, the play follows Gordon Brown as he becomes the first Black teacher at an all-white high school, stepping into a world shaped by open hostility, quiet resistance, and the daily pressure of proving he belongs. As Gordon confronts racism from both students and faculty, he must lean on his convictions, his dignity, and the support of those closest to him to navigate a system built to reject his presence.
This presentation is the 3rd installment of the Shabach Enterprise Vanguard Series, which spotlights compelling new work and bold contemporary voices.
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
Houston Black Dance Festival , presented by Dance Afrikana , is a biennial cultural celebration held in Houston, Texas. The festival celebrates the richness, innovation, and global impact of African and African diasporic dance traditions through community workshops, artistic exchange, and film presentations.Read more
