Another pic today from another phenomenal photographer, Lindsey Sarah.  Check out her website here.

Photo by Lorie Garcia of Studio4d4.  Image of Framing Bodies: LOVE ME premiering Oct. 14, 15 at Spacetaker.

photo by Lorie Garcia of Studio4d4 of Framing Bodies: LOVE ME, our new film premiering Oct. 14 and 15 at Spacetaker.

I owe you two today.  Photos are by Lorie Garcia of Studio4d4.   

We made our goal of 50 cupcakes, but we would still love any gift or donation to keep us moving and grooving. www.framedance.org/boxoffice

In the coming months I will be writing here about the rehearsal process we just finished in creating Framing Bodies: LOVE ME a brand new dance film. There’s a lot to tell about this project, so I will be updating you regularly. The cast is blogging, and I have some spectacular photos to share. I’ll give you one picture per day. Click on the image to make it larger. It will be a sloooooow release, and I hope you enjoy seeing the process of this summer’s Frame Film. To get you started here are two photos by Lorie Garcia, the phenomenal Frame photographer. Her company is Studio4d4.

Premiere is October 14 and 15, 2011 at Spacetaker at Winter Street Studios.

$3.75. We need you. Our goal is to reach 50 people who give $3.75. By the end of the week. So far this week, we are at two. www.framedance.org/boxoffice. Let’s make it happen.

Dear Readers,
For our birthday we are hosting a virtual birthday party, and we want you to come. We need your help. At www.framedance.org/boxoffice you can help us out by purchasing any of the following: a cupcake, a costume, a month of web hosting, a projection screen, the programs for our next show… and several other things. Some are really small, like $3.75 and they go all the way up to $220. If all the Framers out there purchased a cupcake, we would be able to make art this next year. I know it’s easy to think that because $3.75 is so small, it won’t matter if you don’t give. But it makes a huge difference. Trust me. That’s all you have to do to ensure more pretty films. Be a part of Frame Dance Productions. We want you!

Lydia Hance

Thanks for your enthusiasm this past year, dear Framers. To support our future, please go to www.framedance.org/boxoffice and make a contribution –virtual gift–to ensure our capacity to continue to make art. Always available HD and 24/7 and framedance.org. We thank you, and we do this to enrich your lives. What an honor, indeed.

This week we screen Satin Stitch and perform an excerpt of Mortar, Sylphs Wrote in Big Range Dance Festival. Friday and Saturday at 8pm at Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex. Nancy Wozny wrote this great piece on the program.

All music we dance to in the festival is by Micah Clark and the photography above is by Lorie Garcie, studio 4d4. We have the best collaborators.

The last daytime rehearsal before the show…nights and dress rehearsals from this point on.  I have some things to rework, some details to fix and then it’s running and solidifying timing from here on out.  We are projecting the entire piece from blu ray.  Choreography is set to both music and silence in this work, and it’s easy to tell where you are in a piece of music…but it is not easy in performance to know where you are in silence.  So I’m waiting to finalize the film until the silence sections become consistent.  They are built into the entire bluray file, I do not plan to stop and start the film mid performance.  I can’t stand when the menu comes up–even just that little pause sign in the corner of the screen.  So I am challenging myself and the dancers to be consistent in the timing of the silence sections.

That does bring up an interesting concept for me: how we feel and measure time in rehearsal always feels different than in live performance.  Adrenaline, additional distractions, costumes, lights all add to the experience which for me distracts from some grounding elements like time.  But those are also the things that make the performance special and unique and thrilling.

Don’t forget to reserve tickets…seating is limited.  Saturday and Sunday, Hope Center, 7:30 pm.  $5.