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.
speaking of Rice… COME SEE me dance in the Rice Dance Theatre Spring Show Organic Motion! Rumor has it that Frame Director, Lydia Hance, will be there Saturday night!
I’m still obsessed with these two, featured them a couple of months ago for Links We Like but I have to do it again. Another fabulous duet featuring Emily Shock and Matt Luck! I should be embarrassed to admit this but I actually stalked Emma’s twitter.
Lydia here again. Thought I’d update you on the Soiree and on Quiver.
I am so excited for the Soiree. Who doesn’t love some socializing, lite bites, and some awesome art? Well, I do. The guest list is growing, thank you to all who have bought tickets early. It calms me a little knowing we will have a great crowd. Houston is notorious for last-minute ticket purchases– you know who you are. And the truth is, I do it too! But as the artist and event planner, I want to thank you early purchasers. (We love walk-ups too– everybody’s welcome.) The more the merrier.
The film is…almost…done. So. Very. Close. And I’ve been watching it with Mark Hirsch’s music and it’s developed this lovely eerie quality. Grounded yet suspended. Ethereal yet fleshy. Ashley Horn’s costumes are bold and beautiful. I’m excited to tie it up and show it to you. I think you’ll like it. I hope you’ll love it.
Get your tickets here, we want to see you! And we do have a maximum occupancy of 120, so don’t be left out.
For this Links We Like Friday we’re going to be pretty self-involved and focus on one link we LOVE (plus I’ve been in vacation mode due to my Easter Recess, so my web surfing has been ironically minimized…):
Here are some fun dance links to help kick start your weekend on the right foot!
It’s Dance anywhere day! So find a space and get movin’! Let us know how you found an opportunity to dance today! Participation can be as casual as stopping to spin, shake, or bust a spontaneous move. Just sign in on the website to update your location. Do a little dance TODAY, and upload a photo/video to be considered for their upcoming tenth anniversary photo book.
Take time to destress after this long week with these 8 easy tension-busters, dance is last but not least!
Interesting article from the Contact Quarterly on teaching Contact Improvisation in a Brooklyn High School.
In keeping with my Justin Timberlake obsession, check out this Jezebel article on JT’s hair politics.
True to its social nature, Frame Dance hosts a soiree, with the premiere of dance film Quiver, a reception, and silent auction. Choreographed and directed by Lydia Hance, the film features the talented Jacquelyne Boe, Laura Gutierrez, Alex Soares, and Brit Wallis. Quiver explores the space between intimacy and loneliness and was inspired by the words of Houston-based poet, Loueva Smith:
“There is a reckless love-wobble in your hips; a solemn temple-dance convulsion in the blades of your shoulders. What is in your hands opens at the hollow bow of your collar bone and bares your neck to submission.”
The piece features music by composer Mark Hirsch and a physical focus on the anatomy of the collarbones and shoulder blades. Come hungry and ready to participate in a fabulous silent auction with items from St. Arnold’s Brewery, Mildred’s Umbrella, Eat Well nutrition counseling, Rice Glasscock School for Continuing Education, Body Envy Houston, spray paint artist Erick Sandlin, Trinity & Co., Davey Tree and more.
Frame Dance Productions is a fresh and energetic presence on the dance scene in Houston engaging audiences with dance in meaningful ways through creating innovative and vulnerable works for the screen and stage.
Tickets: www.framedance.org/boxoffice
$25 General or $75 VIP comes with two tickets to Frame Dance’s spring show Ecouter on June 28-29 at Spring Street Studios.
If you are unable to join us, but would still like to make a donation, there is a place to donate on the boxoffice. Just click the link above.
Happy Thursday. We are almost there. Power through, people. Did you notice our wonderful Frame Dance Soiree logo? First a shout out to Framer Jacquelyne Jay Boe whom you see performing with Frame Dance all the frickin time. She’s such a talented dancer, but she also does graphic design and I’m so pleased that she made our Soiree logo. I can hear you thinking, “what soiree?” Well, let me tell you. You know those photos we have on our facebook page and on the blog with the Framers in those long blue skirts (made by Framer Ashley Horn)? We are premiering that film on April 9. But we’re making it a party. We like it like like that.
We will have a silent auction, drinks, games…(no, no games.) No planned games anyway.
What is also super exciting is that composer Mark Hirsch is creating the score for the film. If you follow us, you know that we’re fans of new music and local composers. So you’ll get a treat with his music and our film coming together to make Quiver. I’m editing now. Oh you caught me, I am procrastinating now. I edit best with quick brain breaks. I like to consider it perspective, coming back into the work with fresh eyes. I heard that chuckle. Hey– don’t judge my artistic process.
