Group Acorde’s unique purpose is to produce high quality and original performing art collaborations between different art mediums, primarily between experimental music and contemporary dance. The company serves the Houston art community with innovative, accessible, engaging and thought provoking performances combined with its outreach program rooted in dialogue and education. Its primary activities are public performances that result from creation processes that invite different art mediums to dialogue, community engagements through question and answer sessions, outreach programs through special scheduled shows for public schools and organizations, and on site partnerships. Zero to low cost classes and performances have provided local dancers, students and mental health patients with dance to live music experiences. Group Acorde’s public performances use projection, visual art, musical instruments, and contemporary choreography, pushing how performance art is presented through unconventional soundscores and an overall interaction between different art mediums. These works have sparked curiosity from different art enthusiasts from all walks of life and ages, bringing together a diverse group of patrons. Past collaborators include a diverse group of artists: Israeli choreographer Anat Grigorio, Texas choreographer Jennifer Mabus, Brazilian visual artist Andre Amaral, Texas composer Andrew Leinhard, New York based photographer Christopher Peddecord, Houston based choreographers Spencer Gavin Hering and Dawn Dippel, New York based pianist Robert Boston, Houston native’s Natasha Manley, and queer choreographer and Dance Magazine’s 25 to watch Jasmine Hearn. Group Acorde has produced and presented seven full evening works to date: Unemojional in 2017 at REC ROOM; Origins in 2019 at MATCH, which received recognition from the Houston Chronicle in their “10 Exciting Houston dance performances of 2019” as “best contemporary collaboration;” Representation of Form in 2020, a multimedia event presented at MATCH gallery for which the company was on the Houston Chronicle’s “Must List” to watch, Adaptar: stories of adaptation presented at the historic fifth ward venue, The Deluxe Theater, that highlighted a work that told Roberta Paixao Cortes’ story of immigration from Brazil through original movement and music inspired by Brazilian culture. Beat, at MATCH that brought together a collaboration between local musical ensemble Relative Dissonance and featured original works between visual art, voice, contemporary dance and a musical string quartet, REpurpose at MetDance with an entire recycled and repurposed set, and most recently, Gasp,  at MATCH. Significant accomplishments include presenting a new work commissioned by Performing Arts Houston at the Cullen Theater titled Entrainment in 2024,  and being mentioned on the national publication Dance Spirit Magazine in 2024 and Arts and Culture Magazine in 2025.