VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Dance Performance: Points and Coordinates, Thursday, September 16 at 6:30pm. In conjunction with the exhibition Dance with Camera.

Houston choreographer and dance filmmaker Lydia Polhemus Hance and Rosie Trump, Artistic Director of Rosie Trump/With or Without Dance and Assistant Director of the Rice University dance program, present the evening's performance.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Lydia Polhemus Hance is the founder and director of Frame Dance Productions. Outside of Houston, her choreography has been performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and throughout the United States, including New York, San Francisco, and Virginia, where Hance is a guest choreographer for Lexington's Halestone Dance and Roanoke Ballet Theater. Hance has performed the works of Steve Rooks, former principal of the Graham Dance Company, Hope Boykin and Freddie Moore of Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Caleb Mitchell of Houston Ballet, among others. Lydia is currently a member of Suchu Dance and Dancepatheatre. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in English Literature from Southern Methodist University.

Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, performer, educator and the Artistic Director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance. With a hybrid artistic practice, Trump's work navigates the creative fusion between dance and media. Recently, her work was presented by the Big Range Dance Festival Houston, Fieldwork, Project 21 at Cal State San Bernardino, by Anatomy Riot in Los Angeles, CA, and at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. Originally from Pittsburgh, Trump graduated from Slippery Rock University Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Dance. Trump received an MFA in Experimental Dance Choreography from UC Riverside in 2007. She has taught dance at Seton Hill University and Mt. San Jacinto College. Currently, she is the Assistant Director of the Rice University dance program and the Artistic Director of the Rice University Dance Theater.

Pictured above:  Rosie Trump, The Big Empty. Photo: Louie Saletan.