The HIVE: Residency with Choreographer Rebecca French

For Immediate Release
Contact: Mollie Haven Miller
Email: mollie@dancesourcehouston.org
Phone: 713.224.DANC (3262)
www.dancesourcehouston.org

 

The HIVE: Residency with Choreographer Rebecca French

The second season of Dance Source Houston (DSH) and Houston Ballet’s collaborative program, the HIVE, opens with a new, mini-residency style format featuring local choreographer Rebecca French. Through the program French will receive studio space in Houston Ballet’s Center for Dance to lead a movement workshop open to the public and rehearse for an upcoming project.

“I’m very honored to have been chosen to create choreography at the beautiful Houston Ballet studios, and I’m thrilled to be given the opportunity to work with new dancers that want to participate in my artistic process,” said Rebecca.

French, a contemporary dance artist, will lead a 3-hour choreography lab session open to dancers 18 and older on Sunday, September 9 from 1-4pm. During the session dancers will be led through a warm-up, learn a movement phrase, create their own movement from text developed in the workshop, partner with other dancers to joining phrases, and share the resulting choreography with the group. Registration is open at dancesourcehouston.org/hive and both dancers and audience may attend to be a part of the process.

Rebecca’s upcoming work will take place at the Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at Rice University. Through movement, live music, costuming and video effects, French will explore how biology, technology and spirituality intersect.

 

About Rebecca:

Rebecca French is a contemporary dance choreographer based in Houston, TX. Her dance creations have been presented by the Cullen Theater, JCC’s ChoreographersX6, CounterCurrent Festival, Miller Outdoor Theater, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, New Orleans and Houston Fringe Festivals, Dance Houston, Italy’s Trieste Film Festival, CORE Dance, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and Rice University. She was named one of Houston’s 100 Creatives and a Top 10 Choreographer by the Houston Press.

Rebecca co-founded FrenetiCore Dance in 2003 with composer/filmmaker Robert Thoth. In addition to building Frenetic Theater, a performance and visual arts venue in Houston’s East End, she founded the Houston Fringe Festival, an annual performance festival in Houston.

Recent work includes the Station Museum of Contemporary Art’s Performance Series, where she curated two nights of dance and poetry in collaboration with the poet Ayokunle Falomo, performed in front of Andres Serrano’s Torture exhibit. Rebecca’s next work will take place at the Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at Rice University. Through movement, live music, costuming and video effects, French will explore how biology, technology and spirituality intersect.