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.
There are SO many amazing TED talks about the power of dance and the arts, I definitely encourage you to blow off your afternoon meetings and watch TED talks for a while!
In case you don’t have time today though, here’s a fun slideshow with some amazing photos of dancers among us that you can skim through real fast and get back to whatever “important” stuff you’re doing today 😛
It’s like a little bit of a homecoming. Back twice in two days. It’s like I’m a blogger or something. Now, don’t get sick of me.
Here are your links you’ll like on this Friday. We made it to Friday!
Are your theater tickets the last thing you think of in an emergency? Well, maybe you’re not alone. This story urges New Yorkers to remember the arts in the hurricane recovery, and get out and support those artists as soon as possible. Houstonians are particularly sympathetic to the challenges that the New Yorkers are facing. I remember when Hurricane Ike came to Houston, I was supposed to dance Steve Rooks’ Prophets on the big, beautiful Miller Stage.
Lydia Hance in Steve Rooks’ “Prophets.”
Result: CANCELLED.
It’s the live theater that we’re really encouraging, because apparently, Sandy increased the viewers on Dancing with the Stars.
Assessing the damage to NYC’s artist studios and galleries.
Hey Framers! Raquel here, the new Company Rep! While we continue to search for our next composer, here are a couple of fun music links for today.
8-Tracks – If you haven’t used this awesome online radio, try it out! It lets you choose playlists based on whatever mood you’re in, or genre you feel like
This one I just “Stumbled Upon,” and thought it was pretty cool and entertaining. Make some music!!
Musicovery – Another website that makes playlists for you based on your mood. There’s an app for it too!
Curated this week by Rosie Trump, who founded the 3rd Coast Festival (and a lot more, see her bio at the end of this post). This one is all about dance in film. Lucky us on this fine Friday!!
I spend a lot of time thinking about dance on film, so for this week’s Links We Like, I thought I would share a few of my favorite “unexpected” dance moments from film. While not much can top West Side Story and All That Jazz in my choreographic eyes, there is something so amazing about a surprise moment where nothing but dance could do in an otherwise dramatic film.
1. The Madison scene from Bande à part(Band of Outsiders) the 1964 film by Jean-Luc Godard. This classic will put Mad Men to shame and when the music cuts out—just brilliant!
2. The Twist scene from Pulp Fiction the 1994 film by Quentin Tarantino. This scene was directly inspired by Godard’s Bande à part. Overrated? Probably, but the sexual tension conveyed in the scene is ridiculous.
3. The Wedding scene from The Deer Hunter the 1978 film Michael Cimino. This is what every wedding I attended before the age 25 looked like.
*Bonus: a few moments of Christopher Walken dancing at the end of the clip.
4. Pina Bausch in Talk to Her (Hable con ella) the 2002 by film Pedro Almodóvar. Before the 3D tour de force, Pina, there was Talk to Her. I have to share two clips from this film the first is so great because you see Pina Bausch herself performing Café Müller. The second clip is of the company.
Rosie Trump is on the Board of Directors for Frame Dance as well as a dance choreographer, filmmaker, performer, educator and the artistic director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice in dance and video media. Trump’s work stems from an interest in representations of femininity, domesticity, identity and intimacy. Her films have been presented by Dance Camera West, Dance New Amsterdam, Motion Captured and Anatomy Riot. She is the founder and curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. www.rosietrump.org
Our first “Link We Like” is actually ironic. It’s a link we don’t like. But at the same, it’s just too great not to share. I thought foot binding was antiquated. Special music and tutorial on computers (mobile website doesn’t do it justice.) The more you watch, the more nauseating it is.
Loving this by Dancing Branflakes: she journeys through finding joy and acceptance with her body. An always-relevent topic with dancers.
Get up on your leg! (what the @#$% does that mean, because apparently it doesn’t mean puffing up your chest and jetting out your chin) by Dance Intercepts
