FrenetiCore is devoted to exploring the frontier spaces where separate approaches to creativity meet in new and interesting ways.  Our performances combine music, dance, filmmaking, and digital design in a manner that explores modes of interaction among these diverse strategies of expression.  We nurture artists whose true potential lies beyond the confines of a single medium and showcase these talents for the enrichment and enjoyment of the public.  We mount performances that will allow collaboration with local artists and facilitate growth and development in new directions.  FrenetiCore also maintains a studio facility dedicated to performance and education.

Rebekah French

Artistic Director 

Rebekah French has been dancing and choreographing since 1995, where she began her ballet and modern dance studies at the University of Houston.  She joined Richard Hubscher's Easy Credit Theater in 1998 and performed for two years under the direction of the former Houston Ballet dancer.  After meeting composer and filmmaker Robert Thoth in 2000, Rebecca became interested in the idea of multi-media dance.  The two formed FrenetiCore in 2000 and began performing original dance/film in small venues in the Houston area.  After incorporating as a non-profit organization in 2003, FrenetiCore established a company of dancers and began mounting larger performances.  Rebecca's approach to choreography is based on her study of theater and numerous dance disciplines--including modern dance, ballet, jazz, folk (African, Middle Eastern), ballroom, tap, hip-hop, and gymnastics.  She is most influenced by the work of Pilobolus, DV8 Physical Theater, and Paul Taylor.

Rebecca has received numerous grants as an individual artist as well as for FrenetiCore.  In both 2004 and 2008, she was awarded an individual artist grant for choreography from the Houston Arts Alliance through the city of Houston.

Robert Thoth

Artistic Director

Robert Johnson began making film for use by VJs in 2000, but was soon drawn to more narrative uses of film.  He  co-founded FrenetiCore, a multi-media dance theater company, in 2003 with the aim of creating film that both showcased dance and furthered the plot development of dance shows.   He has made film for two evening length shows, “America Loves War” (2003) and “The Sacred Harp” (2004), before beginning to experiment with highly effected dance for film.  FrenetiCore’s 2005 production of “1984” included his first filmed dance that was manipulated with special effects.   He has heightened the level of sophistication with the effects he uses as well as adding the dimension of on location filmed dances for “Deviations” (2005), “bedlam” (2006), “Outside” (2007), and “Exile” (2007).  He has filmed dance in an abandoned federal building,  a house gutted by fire, an industrial warehouse, the Galleria, Wal-Mart, a recycling plant that had been closed since the 1970’s, and on the beach, among other locations.