The Sunflower Ball
Saturday, September 26, 2026
The Sunflower Ball!
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Houston MET Dance
6p: Honors Reception* and Cocktails
7p: Performances, Lite Bites, Silent Auction, and Raffle
9p - 12a: DANCE PARTY
Honors Reception* to commemorate HMD’s Director of Programming jhon r. stronks’ 20 years of Artistry and Service to Houston Met Dance and the Greater Houston Dance Ecosystem.
The Sunflower Ball serves as the annual fundraiser to benefit Houston Met Dance’s mission, vision and programming.
Sliding scale tickets are on sale now! Support HMD at the level you can and come celebrate with us all night long!
Pollinator $100 - Pollinators include bees, birds, bats, butterflies, moths, and beetles—they move pollen between flowers, enabling plants to produce seeds and fruit.
Blossom $75 - Blossoms are the adult stage of the flower focused on reproduction through pollination, often relying on insects, wind, or water to transfer pollen.
Bud $50 - Buds are the early, protective stages of the flower, setting the stage for reproduction.
Germinator $35 -Germinators facilitate the conditions under which, the seed absorbs water, the shell splits, and roots grow downward, while a shoot pushes upward, using stored energy
Seed $25 - Seeds contain the genetic information for a new plant and is often stored in the ground, waiting for the right conditions to grow.
jhon r. stronks
Over the past two decades Houston Met Dance’s Director of Programming jhon r. stronks has been diligently tending the garden that cultivates the blossoms that make the ever evolving bouquet that is Houston Met Dance.
Houston Met Dance is Honored to celebrate jhon as a Queer Artist whose independent choreographies and Collaborations that have made a lasting impact on Houston’s Choreographic Landscape, as a Dance Teacher whose Jazz and Modern Dance classes ignite joy and engage confidence in dancers of all ages, and as an Arts Administrator whose behind the scenes efforts have fostered some of Houston’s most supportive dance focused programs.
Join us on Saturday, September 26 as we celebrate twenty years of jhon r. stronks’ artistry and service to Houston Met Dance and the greater Houston Dance Ecosystem. Art supporters, artists, and friends will gather for a night of live performances, food, drinks and DANCING!!!
