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Houston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc.

Houston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc.
2808 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
Houston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc.
Midtown
2808 Caroline St
Dennis St
Houston, Texas 77004

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In 1995, as a former performer, company manager, and dance center director of the Delia Stewart Dance Company and Center, Michelle Smith (founder and current METdance Executive Director) transitioned the retiring Delia Stewart organization into a new and vibrant one focused on providing the Houston public with a place to study dance and a growing professional dance company that inspired audiences with its raw energy and emotionality. Thus, the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company and Center (HMDC) were formed. Then located in Houston’s historic museum district, the center provided passionate dance instruction to thousands of students of all ages and experiences with dance, while the professional company began amassing a sparkling catalogue of diverse and exciting repertory works. From its grassroots origins as a community-based dance school and performance group, the organization has grown into a world class performing arts institution. 

In 2012, former HMDC managing director and long-time performer Marlana Doyle was welcomed by the organization as the newly appointed Artistic Director. Building upon HMDC’s core value of diversity, Doyle has curated a critically acclaimed body of repertory for the company and continued to expand and develop the organization’s educational and community outreach programs, all while striving for the highest levels of artistry and professionalism. In 2013, the organization moved into its new state-of-the-art Midtown Houston home and rebranded as the METdance Company and Center. METdance furthers its mission each season through the expansion of the center’s class offerings, the company’s ever-growing performance season (including multiple free performances throughout Houston), development of the MET too youth company, and the broadening of its educational and community outreach programming. 

METdance is a multi-functional dance organization that excels at entertaining and captivating audiences, instilling a passion and excitement for dance in its students, training the talented youth of Houston and preparing them for careers in dance performance, and inspiring children through the art of dance.

The METdance professional company strives to educate, entertain, and inspire its audiences through a diverse curation of repertory that spans a full range of emotion, content, and collaboration. Based in Houston, TX, USA, METdance performs throughout the United States and provides Houston viewers with a chance to see a vast body of repertory by some of the country’s most prominent contemporary dance artists. METdance’s passionate performers and choreographers come from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and instill the company’s work with a complete spectrum of emotionality and physicality.  

The METdance Center offers both children’s and adult programs where anyone can enjoy the artistic and physical benefits of dance in a vast range of genres and modalities regardless of age or experience level. The METdance center currently serves over 1,000 students per week while providing a much needed home/space for many other local arts organizations.

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