Stage Notes: Eastfield to host first Dallas College dance concert; Broadway Dallas announces gala

An internationally renowned choreographer will receive a coveted award and showcase highlights from his dance company at The University of Texas at Dallas in November.

Moses Pendleton, founder and artistic director of the dance company MOMIX, has been selected to receive the 2025 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, the highest honor bestowed to artists by the university.

“He’s a multitalented, transdisciplinary artist. We really lucked out with him,” said Dr. Nils Roemer, dean of the Bass School. “We’re excited to bring him to campus.”

MOMIX, founded by Pendleton in 1980, has earned a global following for its inventive choreography, touring worldwide for more than four decades with productions that include Opus Cactus, Botanica, Lunar Sea, Alchemia, and Alice, among others. Before founding MOMIX, Pendleton co-founded the groundbreaking Pilobolus Dance Theater in 1971.

Broadway Dallas announces its 2026 gala celebrating Music Hall’s 100th anniversary

Broadway Dallas announced that tickets are now on sale for its 2026 Gala celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Music Hall at Fair Park, featuring a full performance of The Great Gatsby, for Saturday, Feb 21 at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

“We are looking forward to this once in a century event celebrating the 100th anniversary of our beloved venue, the Music Hall at Fair Park, and supporting the ongoing work we do to positively impact our community through the spirit of Broadway,” Ken Novice, president and CEO of Broadway Dallas mentioned in the press release. “Thanks to the vision and dedication of our Chairs, Phil and Toni Sanders, it will be a remarkable evening you won’t want to miss!”

Presented by The Addy Foundation and led by Gala Chairs Phil and Toni Sanders with Honorary Chairs John Quattrocchi and Joseph DeMartino, the 2026 Gala will take on the theme of the musical treating guests to the Roaring Twenties with grandeur and glamour.

The 2026 Gala holds special significance as it celebrates two cultural milestones: the centennial anniversary of both the Music Hall at Fair Park and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel The Great Gatsby.

The Broadway Dallas Gala, the organization’s largest annual celebration, brings together Dallas’ leaders, philanthropists, and arts enthusiasts for an unforgettable evening of cocktails, fine dining, VIP experiences, a full performance of the Tony-winning new musical The Great Gatsby and a prohibition after-party.

Proceeds from the Gala support Broadway Dallas Education: On Stage, In Classrooms and Throughout the Community, which provides access to the arts for more than 60,000 students and families annually across North Texas.

“The Addy Foundation is committed to providing exposure to the arts, leading to understanding and acceptance of varying ideas, perspectives, and cultures,” Ben Leal, president of The Addy Foundation said in the release. “By participating with Broadway Dallas, we are ensuring that exposure to the arts is reaching thousands of people in our community we serve together.”

Click here for tickets and more information.

Eastfield Dance Presents the Inaugural Dallas College Faculty Dance Concert

The Eastfield Dance Department and Eastfield Dance Company present the inaugural Dallas College Faculty Dance Concert in the Eastfield Performance Hall (F Building). Performances will be held on Oct. 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. with free admission.

The Dallas College Faculty Dance Concert features work by full-time Dance faculty members Roberto Alvarez, Jr., Anna Marie Ewert-Pittman, Dr. Danielle Georgiou, Tessa Salomone, and Gina Sawyer, full-time Visual Art faculty member Eric Thayer, and the Chair of Performing Arts Dr. Scott Venters. Guest artists include De La Rosa Dance Co., 6 o’Clock Dance Theatre, and the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group.

Works presented will include:

Danielle Georgiou Dance Group: Golden Apparition, which combines contemporary dance, theatrical design and over-sized objects to create a momentary mythos.

Anna Marie Ewert-Pittman (Brookhaven Dance): As and When, explores the duality of body and mind, control and release and light and dark through movement and gesture.

A new collaborative piece featuring Dr. Scott Venters (Chair of Performing Arts) on drums and performances by dance faculty members Dr. Danielle Georgiou, Anna Marie Ewert-Pittman, Alicia Orji, Roberto Alvarez, Jr., and Tessa Salomne, will explore the concept of resistance.

Tessa Salomone (Richland Dance): On Limerence and Liminality explores the making of a conscious decision to push aside romantic feelings for the sake of continuing a platonic friendship.

Gina Sawyer (Richland Dance) and local performer Lexis Greer: Chapter Nine, examines the vulnerability in the humanness that we all collectively share.

Roberto Alvarez, Jr. (Eastfield Dance) will present a duet that explores the struggle of integrating the masculine and feminine identities as taught to us by society and the performers’ upbringing.

6 o’Clock Dance Theatre will present the work Guardians.

Eric Thayer (Eastfield Visual Arts) pictured, and guest artist De La Rosa Dance Co. will each present new works.

–Rich Lopez

Stage Notes: Eastfield to host first Dallas College dance concert; Broadway Dallas announces gala

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