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Nancy Houssels' Dance Evolution

Start where Nancy Houssels spoke to Desert Companion for our August feature, “ We just had to ask.” Then rewind some three decades to when she helped found the dance company that would eventually become Nevada Ballet Theater. And keep going – back to the early '60s, when she was a dancer herself in the Folies Bergere, where she met her husband, Kell Houssels. And then go just a little further, to when she was Nancy Claire, part of the dance duo Szony and Claire that performed around the world. Now, you’ve arrived at the moment when she performed on “The Hollywood Palace”:  

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Desert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she was promoted to senior writer and producer, working for both DC and KNPR's State of Nevada. She produced KNPR’s first podcast, the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning Native Nevada, in 2020. The following year, she returned her focus full-time to Desert Companion, becoming Deputy Editor, which meant she was next in line to take over when longtime editor Andrew Kiraly left in July 2022. In 2024, Interim CEO Favian Perez promoted Heidi to managing editor, charged with integrating the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsroom operations.