There’s no pigeonholing Shakira. Just try and peg her as one type of artist, she’ll then turn around, do something out of left field and blow your theory to smithereens. And we’re talking within the space of a concert. The Colombian singer-songwriter’s show Saturday night at American Airlines Center, the Dallas stop on the “Oral Fixation Tour,” touched on her many muses mostly through the sheer force of her personality.

Shakira worked for every roar of applause from the 15,775 fans in attendance. The allure of the performance was solely hers. The stage wasn’t much in the way of decor, simply four video screens hanging above and a back wall that was occasionally used to reflect images. The platform was full of musicians including a percussionist with a gong, a pianist.

Yet she commanded all the attention. Not because the vampy-quirky star is particularly statuesque or emanating bombshell sparkle. If anything, Shakira still has a pixie quality.

The positive reviews of Shakira’s sellout Oral Fixation tour continue unabated. Her latest show at the Toyta Centre In Houston, Texas was a huge success and the local media joined the lovefest with positive reviews of the gig.

The following piece was written by Joey Guerra of the Houston Chronicle:

Shakira’s gravity-defying gyrations have earned her a permanent place among today’s singing, flash-dancing sex symbols.

But during the early part of her searing set Tuesday night inside a packed Toyota Center, she was more rock goddess than bellydancing diva.

Shakira took the stage amid the strains of early hit Estoy Aqui, dressed in a midriff baring top and low-rise pants that exposed her chiseled abs. The tune’s triumphant Spanish calls of “I’m here” were all the crowd needed to reach a feverish appreciation level.

It’s called the “Oral Fixation” tour, which sounds like something about sex.

Yet Shakira’s jubilant, high-energy performance Wednesday at the TD Waterhouse Centre defied that narrow cliche. Let MTV reality shows capitalize on sex — Shakira’s charismatic stage presence is about something more.

Not that there wasn’t extensive hip rolling, rump shaking and belly dancing, but this Colombian superstar’s expressive voice and engaging facial expressions almost turned the gyrations into art.

It’s worth mentioning that Shakira is drop-dead beautiful, with a radiant smile and beguiling eyes that blow the grading curve for other celebrity hotties. With a tilted eyebrow or some other subtle movement, she softens and humanizes the sexually charged choreography.

“Can you do one thing for me?” she asked early in the show. “Can you make a woman happy? . . . I want you to have fun tonight.”

When Shakira played Miami nearly four years ago, this critic wrote that she’d never be a rock star unless she stopped trying so hard to act like one. Friday night at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, she proved she doesn’t have to try anymore.

Shakira was natural, supremely confident, comfortable in her body and with herself — and far more appealing and charismatic.

As in her last concert, the audience was loaded with women, young girls and adoring teenagers like the one who shouted, “I love you! I love you!”

From the minute she strode into the sold-out Arena, singing Estoy Aquí (I’m Here), Shakira seemed to completely enjoy herself. Her hips don’t lie — how could they? They were almost as much an instrument as her voice.

Shakira was definitely on and her hips didn’t lie at TD Banknorth Garden for her Oral Fixation 2006 World Concert Tour in Boston. The Colombian-Lebanese songstress electrified the audience on Tuesday, September 5. The highlight of the concert was her performance with Wyclef Jean, formerly of the Fugees, in her hit song of this summer, “Hips Don’t Lie.”

Shakira had an amazing array of lighting, staging and costume changes that kept the audience on its feet and guessing what was coming next the whole night. But what struck me the most wasn’t just the pizazz at the concert; rather, it was how this artist carried herself. Throughout the performance, she would share with the audience at length about the inspiration behind her songs. She seemed down-to-earth, and had none of the haughty star vibe that I have seen all too often on stage.

“We’re going to make a little arrangement,” said Colombian pop singer Shakira early in her sold-out Thursday evening show at Madison Square Garden. “I’m going to be up here singing and dancing and playing and doing all the required stuff. What I want you to do is have fun.” It seemed like a bargain, but Shakira comported herself with such vigor and joy and enthusiasm over the course of the hour-and-forty-five-minute show that it was often hard to tell just who had gotten the better part of the deal.

When people call a pop star fearless, they’re usually talking about something milder than that: a willingness to record a song full of weird noises, or to say something gently provocative in an interview, or to wear an outfit that may have looked better on the hanger.

Shakira, the half-Lebanese singer and writher from Colombia, is fearless in a more literal and more absolute sense. She faces big audiences without betraying the slightest hint of anxiety. It’s not that she doesn’t appreciate all the adulation, it’s just that she can’t imagine why it would stop. Who doesn’t love Shakira?

During her sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, Shakira seemed more invincible than ever. If she hasn’t — yet — matched Madonna’s triumphs, she also hasn’t had to deal with Madonna-sized disappointments. Instead of suffering in tabloids and onstage, the way pop stars sometimes do (or seem to), she seems to have decided that her musical career is a grand game that she’s destined to win.