A Thought-Leader In Family & Children’s Dance Classes | Houston, TX
Frame Dance is a thought leader in dance education, inspiring the next generation of movers, makers, and world changers by offering dance classes for adults & children, multi-generational ensembles, professional performances, networking events, and film festivals. We are nestled between West U and the Museum District.
We believe in developing the whole dancer, teaching critical life skills such as creative thinking, leadership, collaboration, and resilience through our artful and playful dance curriculum at our studio and in partner schools.
Our adult modern dance classes are designed to offer you the joy and magic that’s possible when you create space in your life to move, to grow, and to share in the creative process with a like-hearted community.
For more than ten years, Frame Dance has brought radically inclusive and deeply personal contemporary dance to Houston. Led by Founder and Creative Director Lydia Hance, whom Dance Magazine calls “the city’s reigning guru of dance in public places,” the professional company is made up of six acclaimed co-creators committed to collaboration. Frame Dance has created over 50 unique site-specific performances and nine dances for the camera screened in festivals all over the United States and Europe. With an unrelenting drive to make dance in relationship to environment, Frame Dance has created dance works for and with METRO, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Houston Parks Board, Plant It Forward Farms, CORE Dance, Rice University, Houston Ballet, 14 Pews, Aurora Picture Show, and the Contemporary Arts Museum. Frame Dance’s productions were described by Arts + Culture Texas Editor-in-Chief Nancy Wozny as “some of the most compelling and entertaining work in Houston.” Creative Director Lydia Hance is a champion of living composers and is dedicated to work exclusively with new music.
With yet another holiday right around the corner, I thought it would be appropriate to add a little sweet fun into the recipe mix. I made this for our church small group and they were such a hit!
I am warning you, they are not “healthy”. They most definitely fall under the 20% rule. Eat healthy 80% of the time and leave room for the 20% to be the occasional treat. This mindful approach to eating, allows you to ditch the dieting, eat with pleasure, and without guilt.
So here is what you need for these tasty treats:
1 Package of Chocolate Oreos
6 oz of Cream cheese
8 oz of Bittersweet chocolate
Seasonal sprinkles (Optional)
Here is what you do:
In a food processor, combine the chocolate Oreos and cream cheese. Process until smooth. You might need to scrap down the sides a couple of times, you want it to be a pretty smooth cookie paste.
Form into small balls and place on a lined baking sheet.
Place in the freeze for 30 minutes.
Melt chocolate in the microwave or use a double broiler.
Remove cookie balls from the freeze and drop into melted chocolate. Coat well.
Roll into sprinkles. Place back onto cookie sheet.
Freeze for another hour or until firm.
Store in an air tight container for up to two weeks.
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Jill Tarpey is leading us Wednesday by Wednesday into making better food choices and being more healthful. Tune in every Wednesday to get some great recipes and advice from someone who really knows health. In an effort to fuel her passion to serve as well has enhance the lives of others through their nutritional choices, she started Eat Well SA(San Antonio). Her vision is to educate you on how to incorporate a healthy array of foods into your life. Eat Well is not a diet, nor does it embrace any one specific dietary agenda. She also offers customized programs that are educational and teach you the tools you need to maintain healthy, well balanced eating for your busy lives.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. I only wish I could have done more.
Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He first took the stage as a toddler in his parents vaudeville act at 17 months old. He made his first film appearance in 1926. The following year, he played the lead character in the first Mickey McGuire short film. It was in this popular film series that he took the stage name Mickey Rooney. Rooney reached new heights in 1937 with A Family Affair, the film that introduced the country to Andy Hardy, the popular all-American teenager. This beloved character appeared in nearly 20 films and helped make Rooney the top star at the box office in 1939, 1940 and 1941. Rooney also proved himself an excellent dramatic actor as a delinquent in Boys Town starring Spencer Tracy. In 1938, he was awarded a Juvenile Academy Award.
Teaming up with Judy Garland, Rooney also appeared in a string of musicals, including Babes in Arms (1939) the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar in a leading role, Strike up the Band (1940), Babes on Broadway (1941), and Girl Crazy (1943). He and Garland immediately became best of friends. “We weren’t just a team, we were magic,” Rooney once said. During that time he also appeared with Elizabeth Taylor in the now classic National Velvet (1944). Rooney joined the service that same year, where he helped to entertain the troops and worked on the American Armed Forces Network. He returned to Hollywood after 21 months in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946), did a remake of a Robert Taylor film, The Crowd Roars called Killer McCoy (1947) and portrayed composer Lorenz Hart in Words and Music (1948). He also appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Rooney played Hepburn’s Japanese neighbor, Mr. Yunioshi. A sign of the times, Rooney played the part for comic relief which he later regretted feeling the role was offensive. He once again showed his incredible range in the dramatic role of a boxing trainer with Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962). In the late 1960s and 1970s Rooney showed audiences and critics alike why he was one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars. He gave an impressive performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 filmThe Black Stallion (1979), which brought him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. He also turned to the stage in 1979 in Sugar Babies with Ann Miller, and was nominated for a Tony Award. During that time he also portrayed the Wizard in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which also had a successful run nationally.
Rooney appeared in four television series’: The Mickey Rooney Show (1954-1955), a comedy sit-com in 1964 with Sammee Tong called Mickey, One of the Boys in 1982 with Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane, and the Adventures of the Black Stallion from 1990-1993. In 1981, Rooney won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of a mentally challenged man in Bill. The critical acclaim continued to flow for the veteran performer, with Rooney receiving an honorary Academy Award “in recognition of his 60 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances”. More recently he has appeared in such films asNight at the Museum (2006)with Ben Stiller. In 2011, Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in The Muppets and appeared in an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories, recounting how, during a down period in his career, his deceased father appeared to him one night, telling him not to give up on his career. He claimed that the experience bolstered his resolve and soon afterwards his career experienced a resurgence. In 2014, Rooney returned to film scenes to reprise his role as “Gus” in Night at the Museum 3. It is currently unknown whether he completed his scenes and whether his death will affect the film’s production. Mickey Rooney died April 6, 2014, at the age of 93.
Mickey Rooney Jitterbugs With A Woman Twice His Height
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Yankee Doodle Boy from Babes of Broadway
Fun Facts about Mr. Mickey Rooney
Mickey’s son Teddy Rooney appeared with him in Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958), portraying – who else? – Andy Hardy Jr.
At age nineteen became the first teenager to be Oscar-nominated in a leading role for Babes in Arms (1939).
During World War II he served 22 months in the U.S. Army, five of them with the Third Army of Gen. George S. Patton. Rooney attained the rank of Sergeant, and won a Bronze Star, among other decorations.
With the death of James Stewart on July 2, 1997, he is the last surviving entertainer of the forty-six caricatured in Hollywood Steps Out (1941).
Monday is no longer as blah with awesome insights into holding a Master of Fine Arts!
Here is another installment by MFA student, Angela Falcone. Enjoy!
What is a “notochord”?
A former Kilgore College Rangerette and friend of mine, Carla Rudiger, came to our somatics class at Texas Woman’s University to introduce us to Body Mind Centering. This ninety-minute introductory workshop changed the way I think, feel, and know my body. Carla’s first request (before meeting) was to read “The Place of Space” (Interview with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen on the Embryological Embodiment of Space) by Nancy Stark Smith and Andrea Olsen. Below is my reflection on the process of the class.
My experience with the Body Mind Centering class revealed how much I do not know about my own body. One of the most basic principles of Body Mind Centering is this idea of “support precedes movement.” With that, the class was structured into four sections: reading about the embryonic process (Smith and Olsen article), visualizing the embryonic process (from sperm to egg) on a sheet of paper, watching Carla’s embodiment of skeletal structures of the spine on a Pilates ball, and, finally, trying the embodiment ourselves. In the skeletal structure, she revealed three layers of the spine: the notochord, the intermediateplates, and the lateralplates. The notochord is the innermost part of the spine. In more anatomical terms, the notochord is “a flexible rod-like structure that forms the main support of the body, from which the spinal column develops” (The Free Dictionary by Farflax). As Carla began rolling on the Pilates ball, she placed her attention and focus on her notochord through visualization. During this somatic practice, her movement shifted ever so slightly. When Carla began to involve the other spinal structures (the intermediate and lateral plates), I could also see Carla’s movement becoming fuller and richer. I wanted so badly to embody this quality.
This vulnerable demonstration opened my eyes to the importance of my own support system. Her embodiment of the movement began with her deepest form of support, her spine and even more specifically her notochord. Unlike most of my fellow classmates, I, personally, became less familiar with my connection the deeper we brought our attention to the notochord. (Perhaps this unfamiliarity stems from my training and upbringing, which lacks somatic practice in general.) What I find ironic is the notochord layer is the most basic, deepest level of your body, but I quickly discovered that I am unable to embody this layer at this point in my life. As Carla began taking us through more exercises, I found a lessened connection to my body. Which, frankly, scared me. I began to tear up in class as I questioned my own support system, which then made me question my movement patterns. I finally asked myself…have I been “faking it” my whole life? If we choose to bring our attention and focus to our innermost layer of being, I believe our dancing can reflect that intellectual and physical connection.
All things considered, I am completely intrigued by this Body Mind Centering approach and want to take it a step further. My future ambition is to begin taking classes this summer at Dallas Yoga Center to develop my own practice so that I may inform other dancers about this approach to embodiment. I truly believe educators can begin at the core of the body (literally) to develop a more somatic approach for young dancers as well. Let’s all jump on the bandwagon and preach finding the notochord!
For more information about Body Mind Centering, check out the website at www.bodymindcentering.com.
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Angela Falcone, a Houston native, graduated from Friendswood High School in 2007. She was a member of the drill team, the Friendswood Wranglerettes, where she held the title of Grand Marshal. After graduating, she followed her dream and tried out for the Kilgore College Rangerettes. She had the honor of being chosen as the Freshmen Sergeant and Swingster her freshman year, and received the greatest honor of being chosen as Captain her sophomore year. Following graduation from Kilgore College with an Associate in Fine Arts, she was accepted to the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds a B.F.A. in Dance. Angela currently attends Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas where she is pursuing her M.F.A. in Dance. She is specifically interested in shifting the paradigm of high school drill team by reinvigorating the choreographic process and bringing a somatic awareness to high school dancers’ bodies.
Friday, we opened tickets to the public for our next event called Dinner / Dance 19and they are already selling. This is a farm to table dinner by chef David Leftwich. Yes, that’s right. Hungry yet?
culinary, multi- course, local, fresh, and awesome
I have personally had his food and it is INCREDIBLE. Think local, fresh vegetables where the flavors, textures and aromas of the food are so pure and vibrant you wonder why you don’t eat vegetables for every snack and meal. Oh yeah, cause David isn’t making all my meals. I promise, this will be a treat.
The dance will take place throughout the evening, popping up amidst some rising character tensions. A little dance, a little drama, and a lot of taste. It’s a look at how we dine socially, how we serve food, how we cook food, and how we grow food. You’ll see dance movements from all of these steps from the farm to the table, plus a little tango tension, percussion interruptions, and of course, pretty dancing. It’s a fun foodie, dancey evening you won’t want to miss.
Tickets are limited as it is a seated dinner, so please get them now!
Join us this Saturday Night at Synn Ultra lounge for BESO. Houston’s upscale latin party. With its welcoming ambiance, Moving Music, & Plenty of Eye candy BESO Saturdays at Synn Ultra Lounge display elegance, class, and style amongst all the rest.
Price: Free!!!
Discover Houston Tours: Rice Village Chocolate Safari
April 05, 2014 – May 24, 2014 (Every Saturday) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
2365A Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77007
Walk along Rice Boulevard on Saturdays, visiting yummy and unique chocolate shops and restaurants on the way. Meet new friends and learn about the history of chocolate.
Price: $30
Discover Dance 2014
April 06, 2014 from 1:00-7:00pm
Discovery Green
Dance Houston presents Discover Dance. Sunday, April 6, 2014, 1:00pm – 7:00pm at Discovery Green. Get ready for an international and interactive dance festival like never before – and it’s free! Discover Dance is taking over Discovery Green for a 6-hr dance extravaganza. Houstonians of all ages can enjoy performances from more than 50 multi-cultural dance groups including Bollywood, African, Chinese, Swing Dance, Ballet, Tap, Tango, and much more. But don’t just sit there! Get up and move a new style – no special shoes or training needed! 10-minute mini lessons will be offered at the top of every hour. Courtney Perna from KHOU’s “Great Day Houston” will emcee on the main stage. This event is for everyone who loves dance.
Price: Free!!!
exhibITALIA 2014
April 06, 2014 (Every Sunday) Sat. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
George R. Brown Convention Center
More than 50 Italian vendors will bring their “made in Italy” fashions & accessories, food & wine, design & technology, culture & tourism to Houston. For many, this is their first venture into Houston. Entertainment, fashion shows, cooking demonstrations, kids area.
Price: $12
First Saturday Art Crawl
April 05, 2014 – January 03, 2015 (Recurring monthly on the 1st Saturday) from 4:00PM – 7:00PM
Houston Socialites Club
Alongside its world-class museums, Houston boasts a flourishing community of art galleries that ranks amongst the most dynamic art markets in the country. The media shown on Houston gallery walls run the gamut, style spans the range, and the works reflect the city’s internationalism.
On the first Saturday each month, join HSC for a fun, social art crawl around Houston, followed by dinner/drinks. Each month will feature a different art cluster/neighborhood, and includes these old favorites: Gallery Row, Montrose, Rice, Upper Kirby, Heights, to name a few.
This event is free. Houston Socialites Club (HSC) is a members-based social and events club for singles and couples over 30. Members enjoy a variety of social events each month, from art events to group dinners, recreational sports to game night potlucks, wine tasting to unique events, all designed to bring people together for friendship, fun while discovering Houston.
Price: Free!!!
Friends in Low Places • Spike Johnson
February 28, 2014 – April 12, 2014 (Recurring daily)
Friends in Low Places is a photographic project documenting the lives of a group of U.S. veterans who exist beneath Houston’s Downtown in a series of caves, tunnels and alcoves that line the bayou and nestle under the highways. The percentage of veterans in the homeless community is double the representation of veterans in normal society. Around 300,000 veterans sleep rough every night in the United States, around 1 million will have been homeless at some point in 2012. Wrestling with psychological problems, arrest warrants, and an inability to integrate into civilian society, they group together for companionship, seeking solace in a hidden existence. Together they build shelters from scraps of tarpaulin, or scuttle through holes in concrete bridges into the caves beyond. They share the burden of addiction, self-medicating the pain of old injuries, or drowning memories in a blur of alcohol or crack cocaine.
The time of year has finally come, picnics, parties, family gatherings and pool parties are filling up the calendar, and if you are like me, you like to make something yummy to share with your friends and family.
Strawberry Pretzel Frozen Dessert!
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Cups of crushed pretzels
4 1/2 Tablespoons of sugar
3/4 Cup of melted butter
2 Egg whites
10 oz of Whipping cream
1/2 Cup sugar
2 Tablespoons of lemon juice
2 Cups of sliced strawberries, blended for a few seconds until they are crushed/smashed
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 and spray a 8 x 8 pan with non-stick cooking spray
In a food processor, process pretzels until they are crushed.
Add melted butter and sugar to crushed pretzels and stir until well combined.
Pour into greased pan and press down to make a crust.
Bake for 25 minutes, remove and let cool completely.
In a medium bowl, whip sugar and egg whites until stiff.
Add the whipping cream and beat on medium until soft peaks form.
Gently stir in lemon juice and crushed strawberries until well combined.
Spread the mixture over the cooled crust and place in freezer for 3-6 hours.
Remove from freezer about 10 minutes before serving and top with fresh sliced strawberries.
Confessions of an MFA: Day 3 – Thriller, Breakdowns, and Gingerbread Lattes
I read once that it takes the average person four months before they feel at home after moving into a new house or apartment. I remember thinking how long that seemed. I’ve always been someone who, once the boxes are unpacked, I feel like I am at home. Perhaps it’s my lack of sentiment, or perhaps it’s my obsession with unpacking just overwhelms any other feelings I might have, but even in this last move, crossing over state lines, the house felt like ours right away. Now, the city, that was a different story, but at least at the house, I felt like I was at home.
This past week was one of those weeks – the kind where, by Thursday, you get home from your day and just sit down in the middle of the hallway because the couch is just too far away. Between my car breaking down on the freeway and my students practically vibrating from all of the Halloween candy, it felt like nothing could go right. Yet, each night I got home, I felt great. In fact, I felt better than I’ve felt since getting to Denver.
Of course, this made me feel stressed out. Completely counterintuitive, I know – I was so baffled as to why I was feeling great when I was in the middle of the week that wouldn’t end that I felt like, of course, I had to be missing something. What was wrong with me? Was I a masochist? Am I just completely motivated by stress? Had I finally crossed over to the other side of crazy? And then it struck me – it all felt so normal. For the first time since moving, I felt normal.
Now, I think we can all agree that dancer normal is just not the same as other people’s normal. Our sense of a typical day is just different than others. Our weeks are filled with surprises: walking into your performance space to find it’s actually a circular stage ; giving a lecture about how we go to the bathroom before dance class only to have one of your students wet his or her pants halfway through barre; having a costume tear moments before going onstage and desperately hunting for safety pins, tape, glue, anything that will hold the seam together. Our days are unpredictable, and I have come to rely on those surprises as my norm.
What I realized this week is that it’s not adjusting to my new schedule that has made me so uneasy the past few months. Rather, it’s been my lack of confidence that I can handle all of the surprises that come along in my week. But this past week, I had answers. I knew my local mechanic where I could send my car. I knew that I had the freedom to give up on trying to teach my classes on Halloween and just put on Thriller. I even knew which coffee shop I could go to for a pick-me-up gingerbread latte. And having those answers made me feel normal again – that I was having a typical week once again.
It’s this confidence that I’ve been missing in my new home. Having to use a map to find the nearest Target, I felt like a visitor, and visitors don’t have answers to solve the everyday problems that arise in a new place. But, when I woke up Friday morning of this crazy week, I felt comfortable. I felt like I was at home. I looked at the calendar this morning and realized we have been living in our new city for exactly four months and two days. I guess that study had some merit after all.
Mary Grimes is a dancer, choreographer, writer, teacher, and working artist living in the Bay Area. Since receiving her MFA in Performance and Choreography from Mills College, she has started working as a dance writer and critique, writing for such magazines as Dance and Dance Studio Life. She has had to opportunity to work with accomplished choreographers including Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Molissa Fenley, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Her choreographer has been presented nationally. In the future, Mary hopes to continue her work as a dance writer and is excited to see where this path will take her.
dance anywhere® is a simultaneous worldwide public art performance and we want YOU to join us on March 28th!
For the 10th year of dance anywhere!
Where will you be?
At work? Taking a lunch break? In class? Running an errand? In line at the bank? The library? The grocery store? Walking the dog in the park?… Perfect! Your participation doesn’t need to be an event you plan months in advance! … Tap your foot, do a little jig, bob your head… You have our permission. And you will be joined by thousands around the world. Get together with your friends, family, colleagues or strangers on the street – wherever you will be – and have some fun!
Price: FREE!!! (Unless you’re in line for something)
Willkommen Y’All!!
March 28, 29 and 30
Tomball, TX near 201 S. Elm St., Main St. (FM 2920) and Market St
You do not have to be German to enjoy this festival.
It is a Music/Street festival celebrating German and ethnic heritage with 5 stages of live music entertainment “happy music for happy people”, special contest, ethnic and festival food, beer, wine, 175 street vendors, all kinds of German souvenirs and clothing, arts crafts, antiques, Heritage Center, carnival, pony ride, petting zoo, strolling music makers, street performers, and much more.
Price: Admission, parking and shuttle are FREE!
All You Can Bowl
March 25, 2014 – September 02, 2014 (Every Tuesday) from 8-midnight
925 Bunker Hill, Houston, TX 77024
BowlMor is featuring another great promotion Tuesday through Thursday. All You Can Bowl $17.00 per person, including shoes. Join us each week, for a strikingly different experience.
Price: $17.00
Asia Society Presents! River of Light, An Original HGOco Opera
March 29, 2014 at 7:30 pm an additional performance Sunday, March 30, 2 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Having moved from India, Meera loves her new husband, her high-powered job, and the Houston lifestyle—until the birth of her daughter makes her long to recreate authentic Diwali traditions at home. Music by Jack Perla. Libretto by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Price: $15
Bayou City Art Festival
March 28, 2014 – March 30, 2014 from 10am-6pm
Memorial Park – Memorial Drive at S. Picnic Lane
6501 1/2 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77007
It doesn’t matter what your art style is, you are sure to find something you like at The Annual Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park. This fine, juried art festival transforms the 1.1 – mile trail of the park into a one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery.
Fine juried art by 300 artists representing 17 media formats, including clay (decorative and functional), digital (not photography), drawing/pastel, fiber/textiles, furniture (functional), glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media 2-D, mixed media 3-D, painting (acrylic or oil), painting (watercolor), photography (digital or computer manipulated), photography (traditional), printmaking and sculpture (3-D).
In addition to the extensive selection of art, representing 18 different forms of artistic media, festival goers can also enjoy international food and wine, the Green Mountain Energy Creative Zone offering interactive art activities, daily outdoor performances and more. The Festival celebrates the vitality and diversity of Houston and enriches the city’s arts environment and reputation. Over the past 40 years, the Bayou City Art Festivals have raised more than $2.6 million for local nonprofit organizations.
Price: $15
Blue Box Theater Live Smooth Music Thursday’s
Every Thursday from 6p.m. – 11p.m.
Blue Box Theater
2020 Leeland, Houston, TX 77003
Every Thursday, head to Blue Box Theater for live smooth jazz band and complimentary wine tasting. Happy hour is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., with the first drink on the house. Located conveniently in the EaDo District near downtown Houston and just two minutes distance from the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Jill Tarpey is leading us Wednesday by Wednesday into making better food choices and being more healthful. Tune in every Wednesday to get some great recipes and advice from someone who really knows health. In an effort to fuel her passion to serve as well has enhance the lives of others through their nutritional choices, she started Eat Well SA(San Antonio). Her vision is to educate you on how to incorporate a healthy array of foods into your life. Eat Well is not a diet, nor does it embrace any one specific dietary agenda. She also offers customized programs that are educational and teach you the tools you need to maintain healthy, well balanced eating for your busy lives.
