Vitacca Ballet Premieres Work by Internationally Renowned Choreographer Micaela Taylor

HOUSTON, TX -- Vitacca Ballet Artistic Director + Founder Kelly Ann Vitacca is pleased to announce a World Premiere by internationally renowned choreographer Micaela Taylor. Taylor named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2019 and graced the cover of Dance Magazine in April 2020 shares her artistic voice within her first ever Houston commission. Taylor is largely known for her own dance genre called Expand Practice. LA Dance Chronicle (November 2021) describes “Taylor's choreography encompasses the freedom of hip-hop, the theatricality of musical theater and the technique of modern jazz. She is unique in her style, innovative, endlessly inventive, and technically superb.” Recently Taylor has been commissioned to choreograph for Carlos Acosta’s Acosta Danza, London’s Rambert Dance Company, BalletBC, BODYTRAFFIC and an upcoming commission for The Paris Opera.

FEM4 performances November 1 + 3 A bit taboo and wildly relevant, Vitacca Ballet’s FEM4 features three world premieres by unique, women choreographer voices leading breakthroughs in the international dance industry, including Micaela Taylor, Cherice Barton, Beth Twigs, and Tina Kay Bohnstedt.

Bohnstedt’s remount of audience favorite, In An Apartment, rounds out the evening. All four works were created on Vitacca Ballet and developed locally in the Montrose/River Oaks area Studios.

Artistic Director Kelly Ann Vitacca shares, “I am interested in bringing these profound works by women creators from across the United States to Houston. FEM4 further supports Vitacca Ballet’s mission to present fresh and approachable works. With FEM4 we are eager to grow our repertoire with a broad perspective, continue to add a twist to the ever-evolving ballet artform, and share these brilliant, women-made world premieres with Houston and beyond.”

As part of Vitacca Ballet’s annual Curtain & Cocktails event, the first 100 tickets sold for the Friday, November 1 performance will include the opportunity to attend a postperformance mixer on stage to meet the artists.

Micaela Taylor Biography
Micaela Taylor is a dancer, choreographer, and the Artistic Director, Founder, of the TL Collective. Trained in hip-hop and ballet, she has created her own dance genre called Expand Practice, exuding emotion from the core and creating varied physical shapes and textures as expressions of one’s authentic self. Her quirky style of exaggerated facial expressions, gesture, and athletic theatricality sets her work apart. Taylor created her own technique and is building The TL Collective all from the ground up. She received the Inaugural Springboard EMERGE Choreographic Award, was named in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2019, and graced the cover of Dance Magazine in April 2020, Most recently she was awarded San Francisco’s Audience choice Award for “Best Solo Artist," 2022. A millennial herself, Taylor is a role model and influencer to aspiring BIPOC artists and is creating groundbreaking work that introduces commercial styles to concert dance. Taylor’s work has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Broad Stage, Ford Amphitheatre, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and more. Alongside the
launch of her company, Taylor has been commissioned to choreograph and teach by Rambert Dance Company, The Getty Museum, BODYTRAFFIC, Springboard Danse Montreal/Gibney Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, B12 Festival Berlin, Carlos Acosta’s Acosta Danza. She has just been named Resident Choreographer of BODYTRAFFIC and upcoming commissions include Ballet BC, Venice Biennale, and more. She has also recently been commissioned by The Paris Opera.