Dance review: Choreographers' work shines in 'Synergy'

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: At even a cur­sory glance, Tex­ture Con­tem­po­rary Bal­let had an ob­vi­ous “Syn­ergy” in its first pro­gram at the Kelly Stray­horn Theater. As these young danc­ers con­tin­ued to feed each other cre­atively, the group, now in its third year, was push­ing its way up the ar­tis­tic lad­der. That lad­der linked con­cepts that trav­eled be­tween bal­lets by res­i­dent cho­re­og­ra­phers Alan Obu­zor, Kel­sey Bart­man and Al­ex­an­dra Tiso — the idea of iso­la­tion ver­sus com­mu­nity, a fall­ing dancer, cho­re­og­ra­phy that had the feel­ing of pis­tons in its ver­ti­cal use of lev­els.