Hold the Door
Date: Monday, June 15 & Tuesday, June 16 2026
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Frame Dance Studio | 2426 Bartlett St, Suite D, 77098
A zany, kooky and devastating new evening-length work by Lydia Hance, performed by the Frame Dance Ensemble.
Hold the Door is a 60-minute piece about the moments we pass through and the figures who meet us there — the friends, the strangers, the parts of ourselves who guard our thresholds. Some let us through. Some don’t. Some demand we leave something behind before we cross.
Performed in the intimacy of the Frame Dance studio, Hold the Door invites a small audience close — close enough to share the air with the dancers, close enough to feel the weight of what’s being held and what’s being let go. Costumes, set, lighting by Ashley Horn.
Mise en Scéne
Date/Time: Aug 21| 7:30, Aug 22|7:30pm, Aug 23|6pm
Location: Frame Dance Studio | 2426 Bartlett St, Suite D, 77098
Tickets: Pay What You Can
Mise en Scéne is a highly-conceived choreographic performance series in which artists are brought together to interpret tasks, environment, and sound collaboratively in real time before an audience. Over 3 performances, different artists from different pockets of the Houston dance, theater, and music community will come together to create new combinations…without ever having spoken to one another or the creators of the show.
Mise en Scéne is a culmination of over a decade of creative research by dancemakers and long-time collaborators Lydia Hance and Ashley Horn. This highly experimental work allows performers to navigate a series of tasks without prior information, guided only by physical items received in the mail in the weeks leading up to their performance and an immersive visual art installation that will continue to inform their movement and creative choices for the evening. This project redefines artistic boundaries by creating a space where spontaneity and structure coexist, fostering a unique, dynamic interaction between performers and their environment.
Mise en Scéne is generously funded in part by Dance Source Houston.
- Read the official PRESS RELEASE
- Read a recent review published in The Dance Dish, here: THE MOST NON-TRADITIONAL REVIEW
