COMING SOON
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Date: June 21, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Esplanade
See dynamic site-specific dance theater utilizing the beauty of the Gardens’ urban environment, created by one of the Bay Area’s most exciting dance companies and featuring students from Oceanna High School, Spin Drift Dance Center and Deborah Slater Dance Theater; set designer Helen Chellin and sound score by Thom Blum.
In the words of set designer Helen Chellin:
- A place to re-connect to the natural world, an urban oasis, a place of refuge from the density of the downtown area, a place to step out of fast paced urban life
- A place to think, to dream, sort out sounds
- A place to look into contemplation pools and think about protecting ourselves and the whole ecosystem of which we are a part. Our place in this. Perfect for the summer solstice day.
Westwave Summer Dance Festival 2008
Date: August 20 and August 22, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
3 people, some props, 5 minutes and red hair. A movement study. A vanishing color. How much can happen?
Performance Techniques Workshop
Date: Fall 2008
Time: Evenings
Location: San Francisco Dance Center
This workshop will include activities that involve making movement from text and text from movement. Students will explore utilizing stories to discover physical characters and formalize informal gesture. In addition to experimenting with the role of the voice in dance theater, a strong focus will be placed on building an awareness for ensemble work and developing a shared vocabulary within a group.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Date: Oct 8 – Nov 12, 2008
Time: Wednesdays 12:15 – 2:15
Location: SF State Downtown Campus
As an introduction to Dance in the Bay Area, we will learn a basic vocabulary, a breakdown of similarities and differences between forms and different ways of examining what is presented, (for example - story line v. technique v. formal structure). Videos will be shown to illustrate different styles such as Modern, Contact Improvisation, Ballet, World Dance and Dance Theater. Guest choreographers will speak about their specific forms, their backgrounds and their process. We will attend one or more live performances and discuss the choices that were made as we perceive them.
Joyce SOHO
Date: March 9-15, 2009
Location: New York City
The Desire Line – ‘Relationship’ is word that can shatter into a million meanings or morph into a different form simply by its ‘relationship’ to something else: Relations –familial; relations – sexual; in relation to – context; relationships - conceptual, intimate, or equivalent. This idea, this series of possibilities, in combination with the landscape architecture term ‘desire line’ – the path people take as opposed to the path that’s been created - describe the way that we, the company, encountered the Feltus paintings. Alan Feltus is an American painter who has lived in Assisi, Italy for over 20 years. His work inspired this piece and became a several year dialogue, both literally between he and I, and figuratively, between the paintings and the dancers. The paintings are cool, quiet, suggesting a moment in time when something has just happened or is about to happen. The dances are hot, loud, intense responses exploring what that moment might be. The paintings are our relationships; the responses are our ‘desire line’.