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.
What are the 20 best foods to eat for breakfast? Some of these may surprise you. Read the article from Health.com to get more details. Some of these had my brow furrowing skeptically….
Oatmeal
Greek yogurt
Wheat germ
Grapefruit
Bananas (I thought we were off of these)
Eggs
Almond butter
Watermelon
Flaxseed
Blueberries
Strawberries
Coffee (yay!)
Tea
Cantaloupe
Kiwi
Orange juice (what?! Didn’t we JUST hear about all the sugar in this?)
Cranberry juice (I’m imagining in small doses, but boy do I love this)
I have recently rediscovered the crock pot meal (after a wonderful reminder from #FrameMom.) So both Monday and Tuesday, I’ve made different slow cooker dishes, and tonight I will try a third. Will you join me?
Monday, I made orange glazed turkey meatballs. The recipe calls for regular, beef meatballs, but I wanted to try something a little lower in fat and still high in protein. The recipe I used is here. They were pretty delicious, better than I thought. I do think they are best for a buffet or appetizer.
Tuesday, I made a taco pulled chicken salad. It called for taco shells or tostadas, but I broke up a few blue corn chips and put it on a bed of lettuce and made it a taco salad. This was VERY good and I would recommend it. I also made my own seasonings instead of buying the packets. Made me feel a little bit healthier. I am always a fan of knowing what exactly is in my food. (control freak?)
Tonight, I plan to make Sesame Chicken and serve it over spinach. I’ll be following this recipe. Join me? Ingredients: chicken breasts, salt and pepper, honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, olive oil, minced garlic, red pepper flakes, cornstarch, sesame seeds.
I love me some Almond butter! I even think it surpasses peanut butter and I have been known to be a big fan of pb.
It is too bad that Almond butter can be anywhere from $6-16 at the store. YIKES!! Good news is you can make your own for a fraction of the cost! Just add different flavorings such as coconut, vanilla, and chocolate, and it takes very little effort to put together.
Today we are going to make Coconut Vanilla Almond Butter!!
Gather these 5 ingredients and you are on your way!
2.5 cups of Raw Almonds, unsalted
2 Tablespoons of Coconut Oil
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Tablespoons of Chia Seeds
Step 1: Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Step 2: Place a single layer of almonds on baking sheet and roast for 15-20 minutes, stirring once.
Step 3: Let the almonds cool and then place in food processor
Step 4: Add remaining ingredients and process until smooth. This can take a few minutes so don’t get discouraged. You will also need to stop it every so often and scrape down the sides. This is where a Vita Mix, or super-duper powerful blender comes in handy. That baby can whip up those almonds in a about 2 minutes.
Step 5: Store your delicious, homemade almond butter in a glass jar and keep in the fridge. You are going to want to spread this on everything, toast, pancakes, apples, or perhaps just by the spoonful.
Enjoy and happy blending!
Be Well!
Jill Tarpey Wentworth 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.
We have the exciting opportunity tomorrow MORNING, December 2, to do an online fundraising campaign where your donations are eligible to be matched dollar for dollar! Set your alarms.
The catch is, there are limited funds coming from the match, so we must donate EARLY– right at 9am CST– on December 2nd to get the full match. The match happens as soon as you donate.
You give $50, Frame Dance receives $100.
If you’re not so into the slumber party, I suggest setting an alarm, and then going to Power2Give.
We are turning 5 this year, so we made a video in celebration of our first five years, featuring a few of the Little Framers!
Warm thanks from Frame Dance. We need you to keep making art in Houston and beyond.
Lydia and the Framers
We are starting a Multi Gen dance class. All ages! We start in January, so let us know if you’re interested in enrolling or have any questions! You will have the opportunity to perform with Frame Dance in the Spring. Thursdays from 3:30-4:30.
20 whole blanched almonds OR 20 pieces banana chips
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. In bowl, using electric mixer, beat butter until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar. Beat until mixture is no longer “scratchy” sounding against bowl.
4. Beat in egg, vanilla and salt.
5. In separate bowl, mix together flour and baking powder (tip for measuring flour: stir flour, spoon into measuring cup, then level).
6. Gradually beat flour mixture into butter mixture.
7. Switch to working in flour mixture with hands when dough gets too stiff to beat.
8. Knead into smooth dough. Roll into 3/4-inch thick “ropes”. Break ropes into 3-inch sections. Pat one end smooth. Dip tip of other end of each piece into milk then red sugar.
9. Place on lined baking sheet. Pressing in sides of rope to prevent flattening, insert almond or piece of banana chip into rounded end. Repeat process to make 20 fingers.
10. Bake on middle rack of oven 17 minutes, or until dough is lightly golden.
Personal and professional stories of rejection (and sometimes triumph!) — from schools, companies, performances, relationships etc. Walk us through the story and how you came through it.
If you’d like to contribute, please send us your writings or ideas. Unfortunately, we cannot publish everything. If you don’t have a rejection story (lucky you!) but are interested in our blog and the columns we run regularly, please let us know. Those topics include:
-MFA and grad school experiences
-health and wellness advice for dancers and non-dancers
-interviews with dancers, dance teachers, and choreographers
How much is my career worth? How much is my art work worth? When is it ok for me to ask for expect compensation for my services?
These are questions that I struggle with almost daily. And I’m willing to wager my small salary that many of you struggle with these same, or similar, questions at various points in your artistic career. Why is that? What is the cause for this dilemma? And when did it become O.K. to divert our attention from addressing these questions by saying, “Oh, you do it because you love it”?
Before I go any further, I want to say that I feel very, very fortunate for my current situation and for those experiences and situations that have led me to where I am. I realize that few opportunities to do what I do exist, and to get paid to do those things is sometimes unreal. And I love what I do. But I don’t ever recall this to be a reason that we not pay someone for their work. Returning to our questions above, the reasons could by many: too little funding, it’s a great experience, I don’t have a budget, and many others that we could compile over a few glasses of wine I’m sure. And while these all might be true and very valid, I would like to throw one (or two, depending on how you look at it) more in the mix that I find often unacknowledged: you and me.
That’s right. We are sometimes the cause of our own problems, especially in this situation. I say this because we, as performers and makers and teachers, perpetuate this problem of not paying artists when we participate in this cycle. We do it because we have no other option. We do it because we want to be involved in this love affair at whatever the cost. We do it because we know that if we don’t, someone else will…and for free. We do it because we want that, that right there, on our CV. You know, so when we decide that we’re marketable or valuable we’ll have more artistic weight to throw around. And that’s the magic button- we decide.
What are the 20 best foods to eat for breakfast? Some of these may surprise you. Read the article from Health.com to get more details. Some of these had my brow furrowing skeptically….
Bananas (I thought we were off of these)
