“Home…lt’s not where you think it is” Performances June 6 & 7
June 6, 2025, @ 7:00 pm - June 7, 2025, @ 9:00 pm HST
“Home...lt's not where you think it is”
An evening of dance exploring home
Produced by Elizabeth Lentz-Hill
In collaboration with the Still & Moving Center
Performances June 6 & 7, 2025
7:00 pm Lobby opens
7:30-9:00 pm Performance
Tickets: $12 general admission with a sliding scale option up to $100 to contribute more towards supporting the performance and production!
Where is your home?
Is it a place? A feeling? A community? A memory etched in your body? Home can bring comfort, joy, reflection — and raise questions. Come explore what “home” truly means, through movement, story, and togetherness.
Feel your imagination, memories, and sense of belonging come to life throughout this immersive evening of dance. “Home… It’s Not Where You Think It Is” celebrates every version of home.
Your experience begins the moment you arrive. Wander through interactive lobby displays where you can send a postcard “home”, draw your version of it, enjoy homemade cookies, or pin your birthplace on a map. Then step up into the Barefoot Ballroom, a warm, welcoming space with a beautiful, sprung mango wood floor.
Here you’ll be invited into our capsule of creativity, connection, and contemporary dance by professional as well as community dancers. The dance The Home of My Heart welcomes you. My Mighty Small Kinesphere serves as a love letter to smallness from someone who loves big. Other dances delight us. Who knows? Maybe we’ll find Home together!
Conceived by Elizabeth Lentz-Hill in collaboration with Still & Moving Center, and brought to the stage by Lentz-Hill, Georgia Ortega, professional dancers, community dancers, as well as community members like you.
Elizabeth Lentz-Hill
Elizabeth’s students love the joy, humor and freedom of expression in her classes. Her classes inspire students to think about dance and life in new, exciting ways.
Elizabeth grew up in Hawaiʻi and is happy to be home, dancing in the place she loves, after more than twenty years of experience performing, teaching, choreographing and promoting dance. She has toured France, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. with Tennessee Dance Theatre, Chicago Moving Company, Lucky Plush Productions, and Breakbone DanceCo., and performed works by Bill T. Jones, Doug Elkins, Twyla Tharp, and Charles Weidman.
Prior to returning to Hawaiʻi in 2018, Elizabeth co-founded two dance companies and two regional dance festivals on the continent, one to promote modern dance in Chicago and one for 7-12th grade dancers and their dance educators in Mississippi. She served as an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), where she taught ballet, modern, dance education, anatomy, choreography, and dance theory classes. While at USM, Elizabeth worked to bridge the Dance and Theatre Departments, including co-creating a full-length devised theatre work with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and serving as Interim Chair for both departments. She holds a BA in Religion with a concentration in Women’s Studies from Carleton College, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington.
“Ms. Lentz-Hill has effervescence, an inner glow, and an absolute belief in what she is presenting in the studio. There is an indefinable type of energy that leaps from her to her students. These qualities projected not only from Ms. Lentz-Hill but also from the students in the residency as they worked with her. The dancers left her sessions with knowledge of a dynamic energy, knowing they had something of value to contribute to the community around them so much greater than an ability to be a technically sound dancer. To paraphrase a student in the residency – working with Ms. Lentz-Hill was not just a lesson in technique, it was a lesson in life! “ – Mid-Pacific Institute
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