Lydia Hance is a choreographer, filmmaker, collaborator, and educator. Lydia Hance is the Founder and Artistic Director of Frame Dance Productions, a contemporary dance company making collaborative works for the screen and stage.
Imagine Marc Chagall is coming to your house to paint his next masterpiece. I’m sure you’d want to provide him the best paint, pulsating colors, and the perfect setup for his canvas. What an honor to enable the master to create the very best work. This is also how Uptown Dance Company approaches its relationships […]
Lori Yuill Presents Site-Site Specific Work, The Story of a Space Here’s a fact that you’ll want to put in your back pocket: Houston rates first among the nation’s 10 most populous cities in total acreage of parkland. I love a good Houston boasting point. Tranquillity Park in downtown Houston, however, goes woefully underutilized […]
Clara, sugar plums, and the rest of the Land of Sweets have the monopoly on winter holiday ballets, so when I heard about FrenetiCore Dance’s new version of The Snow Queen, I was all ears. I’ve been sugared out for years. The narrative ballet opened December 4 at Frenetic Theater and runs through December 12, […]
Dana Nicolay’s True Story Dances by Lydia Hance If variety is the spice of life, then Beyond! by Nicolay Dance Works, performed on March 6 and 7, 2015 at The Barn, was muy calliente. Artistic Director Dana Nicolay has had an impressive performance career, dancing with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Contemporary Dancers Canada, and Houston […]
Festivals are perfect for dance newbies—there’s generous variety, and you get to sample dance in small doses. It’s rare that parkour, ballet folkorico, classical Indian dance, and edgy contemporary can share a program, and those are only a handful of the styles presented by Dance Houston on February 21 at The Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater. […]
Belly Dance 2.0 Dance From the Heart’s Empowerment Gathering By Lydia Hance If you were to ask me what it’s like to watch a woman descend into the splits with three foot swords balanced on her head, I could tell you. It’s impressive. I found out because Dance from the Heart celebrated their 10th Anniversary […]
This year’s Dance Gallery Festival felt like going through a break-up, complete with bitterness, anger, fear, and the sweet memories that you must contextualize among the darkness. I was left wondering who had the power and, more importantly, how do you get it? Brute force, coercion, rewards, fear… power takes effect in various forms. […]
It just feels good when theater seats are full with students wrestling and curious about what modern dance means. This was the case at The Barn for Karen Stokes Dance’s opening night student preview of their program Dance, Film, and Conversation. In the post-show conversation, they sat with their notebooks insistent they understand exactly what […]
Air Dancing VauLT Hosts its 2nd Annual Festival of Aerial Arts Imagine muscular, dare-devil dancers tumbling from vaulted ceilings and catching themselves in floor-length panels of silky fabric. They swing and spiral and climb as if gravity is just a little weaker for them. It’s part circus, part post-modern dance with enough spectacle to engage […]
SonKiss’d Dance Theater billed its show Go as an “experience” because of the company’s commitment to sharing their Christian faith above their own performance. SonKiss’d Dance Theater presented Go, a hybrid of contemporary and hip hop dance, spoken word poetry, live painting, and original music, on March 28-29 and April 4-5. The message was empowering, […]
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