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.
In today’s image, Kristen Frankiewicz, Alex Soares, and Jacquelyne Boe, all members of Frame Dance Productions, dance in Lydia Hance’s new line of dance films called Framing Bodies. These films invite people from the Houston community into the process of creating the film. This one, entitled LOVE ME, will premiere on Oct. 14 and 15 at Spacetaker. The cast is 13 movers telling their stories of isolation and love through movement and text. Simply put, we’re telling Houston’s stories.
In the coming weeks, we will be posting blog entrees written by the cast to give you a further glimpse into the process. We have been posting photos of one of the film shoots daily by photographers Lorie Garcia of Studio 4d4 and Lindsey Sarah of www.lsarah.com.
We’re updating this blog daily…sometimes multiple times a day. So check back often. And see you at Spacetaker on Oct. 14 and 15.
Lydia Hance
Lydia Hance is a recipient of the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant, a grant from the Puffin Foundation and Rice University Dance Program Space Grant.