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.
This week is Frame’s first week of the season! We’re off! We start work in the studio on Points and Coordinates to be performed Sept. 16 at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. I thought it might be nice to look back on the past 3 months (the first 3 months!) of Frame Dance Productions. All pictures for “Crease” were photographed by the magnificent Lorie Garcia
Lydia Hance and Alex Soares filming for CreaseAshley Horn in rehearsal for CreaseOlder than the Mountains, a new evening-lenth performance by Halestone where Lydia Hance performed during her residency in Lexington, VAAmber Whiddon filming for CreaseCAM–where we’ll be performing Points and Coordinates on Sept. 16
Goshen Pass–Lexington, VA (residency)Lydia Hance, Nichelle Strzepek, Alex Soares and Ashley Horn filming for CreasePanther Falls–home of the notorious (and blogged) bathing suit incident (part of Lexington VA, residency)
We found out Crease will be screened at Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance–Sept. 24-25Ashley Horn and Nichelle Strzepek filming CreaseNewspaper article about Lydia Hance in residency for the upcoming (now!) season for FrameThe beginning of the process of Points and Coordinates (Sept. 16 at the CAM)origami photographed by Lorie Garcia for potential Crease promotionAmber Whiddong filming for CreaseLydia Hance and Alex Soares filming for Crease–also the image for the new business cardsAmber Whiddon filming for CreaseAlex Soares, DancerAshley Horn, DancerKristen Frankiewicz, DancerNichelle Strzepek, DancerAmber Whiddon, DancerLydia Hance, Director
