It was the first ever performance in the US for Carte Blanche. The company was the finishing act in both of the evening shows they participated in at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston.
The Houston Chronicle wrote the following about Carte Blanche's Friday night performance: "The Norwegian contemporary troupe Carte Blanche brought heavy testosterone with Hofesh Schechter's Uprising -- a dance influenced by the choreographer's time with Ohad Naharin at Israel's Batsheva Dance Company. The pulsating music, also by Schechter, juiced up the environment for seven men (Yaniv Cohen, Jon Fahlstrøm, Ole Meland, Shlomo Ruimi, Christopher Petersen, Radil Thomas and Vedbjørn Sundby) who danced with buoyant tension."