Dance Source Houston Celebrates 10 Years

For Immediate Release

Contact: Stephanie Todd Wong,
Executive Director, Dance Source Houston
Email: stephanie@dancesourcehouston.org
Phone: 713.224.DANC (3262)
www.dancesourcehouston.org

 

Dance Source Houston Celebrates 10 Years with a birthday bash and the debut of Truck Dances

HOUSTON, TX, September 30, 2014.   Ten years ago, a group of artists and art-lovers had a wonderful idea: “Let’s create a hub for the dance community that will serve as a connection between companies and artists, and as a central advocate for contemporary dance in Houston.”  With that goal in mind, Dance Source Houston was born.  Beginning with straightforward and necessary services such as the Dance Card, a printed dance calendar found in playbills across the city, Dance Source has grown, now managing The Barn – Dance Source Performing Arts Space, providing performance opportunities and offering a large variety of marketing and support services geared toward helping the Houston dance community thrive. Christina Giannelli, Dance Source Houston’s Founder and Board Chair, is “extremely pleased and a bit astonished to find ourselves at this Anniversary. In it’s first ten years Dance Source has developed into a stable organization with creative and visionary leadership.  For a long time it was Houston’s virtual home for dance, with the addition of The Barn it is now able to offer a whole new collection of programs to support and encourage Contemporary Dance in Houston.  How sweet is that!’

Dance Source kicks-off the anniversary celebration on November 6, 2014 from 7-9pm, with a unique fundraising event at Dance Source Houston’s facility, The Barn. The celebration will feature music, food, drink, and the debut of Truck Dances.  Lydia Hance, Artistic Director of Frame Dance Productions has been commissioned to create a new work using two box trucks as her stage.  The new piece will debut at the November 6 event and will launch the use of trucks as a mobile stage that can take artists directly to dance audiences throughout the city.

For Ms. Hance, the choreographic challenge presents an amazing opportunity, “When I heard about the Truck Dances piece I couldn’t sit still.  It makes perfect sense to have dance in a box truck.  Four musicians, three dancers, two trucks. I love the limits of the space, and the intrinsic suggestions of movement and confinement.  The shape of the truck is a frame for the eye, and the challenge for me is: how do these two trucks relate to each other, and how can the walls connect, not separate, the dancers?”

Ticket Information:  Dance Source Houston’s Anniversary Celebration will take place on Thursday, November 6 from 7-9pm at The Barn, 2201 Preston St, Houston, TX 77003.  Tickets are $100 advance purchase; $125 at the door.  Limited number of tickets available. To purchase tickets visit dancesourcehouston.secure.force.com/ticket/.  For more information, call 713.224.3262 or visit www.dancesourcehouston.org.

About Dance Source Houston
Dance Source Houston is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to creating audiences and appreciation for contemporary dance in Houston and beyond. Dance Source Houston publishes The Dance Card – Houston dance event listings and The Dance DiSH online magazine.  Dance Source also manages The Barn – Dance Source Performing Arts Space, a 7200 square foot facility housing 2 large dance studios and a 120-seat black box theatre dedicated to supporting Houston’s dance community.  These activities are supported in part by a grant from The City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Inc., The Heimbinder Family Foundation and the Nightingale Code Foundation.   www.dancesourcehouston.org

About Frame Dance Productions
Frame Dance Productions is a fresh and energetic presence on the dance scene in Houston.  Frame Dance Productions’ mission is to engage audiences with dance in meaningful ways through creating innovative and vulnerable works for the screen and stage.  Over the past three years, you may have seen the Framers dance at the Contemporary Art Museum, Miller Outdoor Theater, Jones Plaza, the Pennzoil Place building, the Photobooth on Montrose, the Port Boliver ferry, Big Range Dance Festival, art galleries, and on screens in film festivals all over Houston, Virginia and Berlin.  Framedance.org

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