Frame Dance in the Photobooth
Performances/ScreeningsI hope you all had a joyous Christmas. I love this time between Christmas and New Years. For some reason it feels like bonus time.
We are so excited about our upcoming series at the Photobooth on Montrose. Here’s what’s happening:
One Friday a month in January, February, March and April Frame Dance Productions will perform an all-new dance performance/installation at the Photobooth. Each one will be several steps closer to the final product to be performed at our big show in May, but each one will be its own, unique, independent piece. We’re all about the “event” feel at our shows. Social, fun, light. Typically we don’t produce shows where you’re chained to your chairs sitting in a dark room. We merge the gallery feel with the live performance product (and of course film as well!).
In addition to the Friday night show each month this Winter, we are opening our very first rehearsal of the season to you. It is at the Photobooth on Montrose, and you can come glance through the giant windows, or come inside and join us and see how we begin the artistic process. We have an open rehearsal policy almost always, but this is the first time we’ve really encouraged Frame Fans to see where it actually starts. January 6, 6-8pm at the Photobooth on Montrose (at Montrose and Westheimer in Houston).
The Photobooth on Montrose is renowned photographer, Simon Gentry’s studio with a twist. It’s a photo-studio and fabulous event space all in one. Super fab.
Questions? Leave ’em below. And remember– we WANT to see you there.
Links We Like Friday
Links We LikeThe beautiful commonality between artists and engineers.
Art in schools is building stronger citizens.
We’re trying something new. We’re inviting YOU to our first rehearsal of the season. See where it all begins. We’re all about exposing the process, and usually that means showing you our work before it’s done, but also when we’ve had a running start. See where it actually begins, and see it where we’ll be performing it, at the Photobooth on Montrose.
Links We like Friday
Links We LikeHere we go:
Shameless plug: Vote for Frame for Dance Advantage‘s Blog Contest 2011.
Loving this concept. I think we’ll make one of these next year. I never bought an advent calendar this year, anyway.
How the dancers are saying goodbye to Merce.
Yvonne Rainer manifesto, love reading this. But sometimes I like a little sparkle. Sometimes.
We Love Dance Advantage!
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Frame loves Dance Advantage, the fabulous blog by Nichelle Strzepek found at www.danceadvantage.net. Many a time, our “links we like friday” come from articles I’ve read on Dance Advantage. They are hosting the 2nd Annual Top Dance Blog Contest. To vote for us, just comment below! Each comment helps us in this contest. Comment away!
Thanks for your support!
We’re back!
UncategorizedPhoto shoot today for our monthly performance installations at the Photobooth on Montrose that begin in January! I’ll keep you updated on twitter and facebook today with some behind-the-scenes shots.
Christmas-time dancing
UncategorizedI am always curious about what dancers are doing during the Christmas season. Shocking to some audiences, there’s a lot more that goes on besides the Nutcracker. Pageants, operas like Amahl and the Night Visitors, gigs as wintery mythical creatures at fancy dinner parties… the list goes on and on. What are some of the craziest gigs you’ve gotten as a dancer during this holiday season?
Links We Like Friday
Links We LikeCongrats to Suchu Dance on a great review– can’t wait to see this show.
We at Frame love dance photography. Here’s the jackpot for ballet photography. The Ballerina Project.
Those of you who went to the Graham School or SMU with me might have special feelings about this one. Check out Martha Graham Dance Company’s video competition. I can hardly stand it. I’m pleading as I write this: someone please enter!
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The thing about being a Frame Dancer in a dance film is that you’re a huge part of the process until it’s editing time. Then I take over. So I am always curious what the dancers feel and think both going into the premiere, and after they’ve seen the finished product. And there’s this funny time between when I’ve finished editing and the premiere when I’m dying to talk to the dancers about it, but I try as much as I can to hold off and let the film do the talking. It’s a unique experience for me as the director and for the dancers.
I’m doing a series here on what the Framing Bodies dancers thought of the film after they saw it. They all wrote about what the experience was like during the the making of LOVE ME, but we haven’t heard from them yet about what they thought and felt seeing themselves, seeing each other, and seeing the entire picture revealed.
Stay tuned!
–Lydia