Dominic Walsh Dance Theater teams up with Mercury Baroque once again to perform the romantic Romeo & Juliet. This well-known work of Shakespeare's continues to resonate with audiences young and old. Today, three hundred years later, Dominic Walsh and Antoine Plante bring the story to stage with over thirty dancers, actors, musicians, and singers. Baroque music, opera, and theater compliment the exqusite dance technique displayed by Walsh's first-rate dancers. Ty Parmenter and Felicia McBride will dance the lead roles, while Paris and Friar Laurence are played by actors, Adam Van Wagoner and Jim Johnson respectively. Lord Capulet and the Nurse roles will be sung by opera singers Gabriel Preisser and Ana Treviño-Godfrey.

To add to all the excitement on stage, Fabio Toblini, a native of Verona, Italy, highlights the performers through his brilliant costume designs. Walsh says "Fabio's work has that same organic quality that I use in creating movement; he suggests a period of time without being specific. His costumes are more like clothes; very natural." The collaboration of all these performers and artists is not to be missed! February 11 and 13, 2010 at 8:00 PM and a 2:00 PM matinee on February 14th at the Wortham Theater Center's Cullen Theater.

January 30: The men of Alpha Phi Alpha took first place at the regional competition of the Sprite Step-Off at the HP&E Expo hosted by Texas Southern University. Pinpoint synchronization, dynamic themes, and powerful energy defined their champion movement. The University of Houston fraternity will go on to nationals on February 20 in Atlanta.