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Location: Hopestone Dance Company

I can’t help but hang out with the super cool dancers of Hopestone Dance Company! They let me rehearse with them last season, so I had to tell everyone about their upcoming performance. On January 15, 2016, Hope Stone Dance returns to the stage with great joy to premiere Friday Flowers, a work based on choreographer Jane Weiner’s experiences as a struggling New York City dancer as well as readings from Steven Buchmann’s book “The Reason for Flowers.” Flowers and the fruits they often become have fed, sustained and inspired us throughout history. Friday Flowers explores this, as well as the affirming message “I am worth it,” in seven vignettes.

Along with HSD dancers, guest artists will be Melody Mennite Walsh (Houston Ballet, Principal) and actors Troy Schulze (Catastrophic Theatre) and Amy Garner Buchanan (Main Street Theater, Stark Naked Theatre, Texas Repertory Theatre, Young Audiences of Houston). Details for this one-night-only work are as follows:
Friday Flowers
January 15, 2016 @ 8:00pm
Margaret Alkek Williams Dance Lab
The Houston Ballet Center for Dance
601 Preston St, Houston, TX 77002
Tickets: pay-what-you-want
To purchase, visit www.hopestoneinc.org

Hope Stone Dance stages compelling and accessible new works that challenge, entertain, and educate audiences with performances that are powerful and profoundly human. With their vision of “Art for All,” they are excited to share the power of dance and art this season with new audiences.

“Friday Flowers” is generously funded by Ginger Blanton, Cathy and Randy Crath, Jana and Richard Fant, Sidney Faust, Houston Arts Alliance, Ginni and Richard Mithoff, Shelly and Marty Power, Lise and Jim Price, Texas Commission on the Arts, and Phoebe and Bobby Tudor.

Photos by Simon Gentry
Styling by Beth Muecke
Model: Beth Muecke

Dancers: Hopestone Dance Company