Good morning,
I have some very exciting news. I’m talked about Fieldwork in this blog before. It’s the artist work group that I facilitate in Houston. We meet once a week or every other week, depending on the session and show works in progress for peer feedback. Anyway, we have a showcase coming up on Nov. 7 at 7pm for $7 at Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex AND………..

We will be performing Points and Coordinates, the piece that premiered at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. We did a work in progress showing at Spacetaker in August as well. Read a few posts back and you’ll find all the fun info and stories about those performances, as well as some pretty spectacular photographs.

So….if you missed it or if you would like to see it again, see you at the showcase!

Can’t wait to explore this work again.

Hello Readers,
I’ve been MIA for a couple of weeks. I’ve been taking a brief hiatus from blogging because we’re on a brief hiatus from rehearsing. We had a very busy September with the Contemporary Arts Museum and Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance and Rice Dance Film Festival. October is a breather. I’m storing up, planning, dreaming, writing so that when we kick off our residency in January it will be full and fruitful. I am so excited. I’ve started gathering texts and ideas and talking with the dancers about possibilities. The show will be called “Mortar, Sylphs Wrote.” Any guesses on why?

I haven’t felt very present lately. I’ve been planning for almost three projects past the residency and show in March. It’s been a very floating, non-specific experience planning and writing proposals for my next projects. But there is a time for everything. In September I could hardly think about the next day as each day was so full with preparations and performances. Now I’ve shifted into the other half of the experience, the amorphous planning. I love both.

BUT! Exciting news! There may be another chance for you to see Points and Coordinates coming up soon. I will let you know as soon as I know anything definite. Cheers!

Here are some of the photographs taken when we performed Points and Coordinates at the Contemporary Arts Museum. You can click on the images to make them larger. More to come! Photography by Lena Silva.

“Lydia Polhemus Hance and Lorie Garcia’s “Crease” for Frame Dance Productions was a nice way to engage viewers who might have seen the “Dance With Camera” exhibit currently on at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Filled with crisp imagery and lush partnering, it is clearly a trio with the camera and could fit easily into the CAMH show.”

Just to remind you, Lorie Garcia was our collaborator who took all the stunning still photography that we have of “Crease.” We use several of her images in the film.

Here’s the full article.

What a wonderful weekend! We had two very successful shows at the Miller Outdoor Theater where we screened “Crease” in Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance. There were full crowds in the theater as well as on the hill both nights. It started to rain on Saturday night, and the crowd rushed down from the hill to gather under the covered theater seating. The rain created a nice cool breeze…ahhh, art, outdoors, lighting, and a cool (Houston) breeze. I was so happy to finally screen “Crease” in its highest HD quality. Gorgeous BluRay; Gorgeous HD projector and a thrilling 40 feet tall. Just thrilling. Happy weekend. Happy Monday.

I am one thankful choreographer today for all of the support. Thank you specifically to Nancy Wozny and Fiona Mallin-Robinson for writing about Frame Dance Productions. Here are the articles:

In Culturemap by Nancy Wozny
In Examiner by Fiona Mallin-Robinson

Here’s a little snap shot that you will see in motion tomorrow and Saturday nights at 8pm.

Check out this great article about the Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance featuring your very favorite artsy-tech dance company. Thanks, Nancy Wozny, for the great writing and for perpetuating dance in Houston.

Yahoo!

“It was like the most perfect world we created for ourselves, and I didn’t want to leave it. It had an end. We left it. But the beautifully devouring feeling in that world could have lasted forever without ever becoming dull to me.”
–Frame dancer Kristen Frankiewicz on dancing Points and Coordinates last Thursday at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Houstonians, you can find them at the Hope Center, Barnevelder, Dance Source Houston Tables…

If you live outside of the area, and would like one, email, tweet or leave a comment below!

Here’s our September schedule at a glace—mark your calendars!

Sept. 16 6:30 pm we perform Points and Coordinates at the CAM (note the time is no longer 7pm)

Sept. 17 7pm we screen Crease at the Rice University Dance Film Festival

Sept. 24-25 we screen Crease at Miller Outdoor Theater in Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance

More events in October and then picking up again in January… we’re rolling!