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APRIL2005 THEATER & DANCE Cuba
Caribe with Dance Mission Theater presents: This festival promotes the rich and diverse traditions of the Afro-Caribbean
diaspora as reflected in music, dance, theater, social concerns, and religion.
These traditions, also rooted in other Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados and Guadalupe, have been carefully
supported and fostered in Cuba, especially dance. This festival shares the rich
Cuban culture with the Bay Area community and explores how Cuban art and
culture is being shaped by local Cuban artists who bring their unique
perspectives as expatriates to their work. April 8-10, 2005. Li Chiao-Ping Dance Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds
@ ODC With a focus on
those tenuous, yet powerful moments when things happen, when we
"become," Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds is a collection of
post-modern dance works that uses dramatic physicality to push the edges of the
emotional interior. LCPD is dedicated to offering programs of passionate and
athletic works, with striking visual design and the music of contemporary
composers. This concert features beautiful, elegant solos as well as witty,
highly kinetic group pieces. Fri & Sat, April 15-16 @ 8pm Deborah Slater Dance Theater @ ODC Furniture Pieces
Celebrating Studio 210's 25th
year of continuous operation, Art Of The Matter curates 'Furniture Dances,' an
evening of music, dances and text created on or about furniture, featuring
artists ranging from young to old, from well-known to new. Thurs- Sat, April 28- 30 @ 8pm The Old Man and the Sea by Yugen Theatre of Yugen
has a long history of creating theatrical adaptations from literary texts and
continues it's signature experimental work based in a discipline of the classic
Japanese theater forms - Noh and Kyogen. In September of
1952 the whole of The Old Man and the Sea appeared in Life magazine, selling
over 5 million copies almost instantly. The next week Scribners rolled out the
first hardcover edition of 50,000 copies and they too sold out quickly. The
book was a huge success both critically and commercially and though Hemingway
had known great success before, he had yet to receive any major literary
prizes. The Old Man and the Sea changed that, winning the Pulitzer Prize for
fiction in 1953 and on October 28, 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for literature. The Old Man and
the Sea tells of an impoverished old man, his love for a young man who also
loves him, and his trials in bringing in a big fish. We are introduced to the
old fisherman Santiago, who has not caught a fish in 84 days, and his young
fishing partner Manolin. We follow Santiago through the next five days as he is
literally dragged far out into the waters north of Cuba by a great marlin.
After three days of battling the great fish, and going far beyond the limits of
himself, Santiago defeats the marlin only to later have it be destroyed by the
numerous sharks who attack it on his way back to Havana. Hemingway's basic
acknowledgement of the human soul's will to live, to endure and to defy comes
across strongly in this short simple novel. Santiago loses the fish, and yet
this loss is, indirectly, affirmative. The Company will
utilize the intense, restrained and stylized acting style specific to the
Japanese Noh tradition to capture the "hard-boiled" nature of
Hemingway's original text. The cast includes Theatre of Yugen's Joint Artistic
Directors: Lluis Valls and Libby Zilber. Bay Area puppeteer Max will bring to
the production not only her unique skills as a puppeteer but also will be
working with glass installation artist Kana Tanaka in creating the look of the
set. Kana is originally from Japan and has an extensive background in the
creation of glass art. This will be her first collaboration with Theatre of
Yugen. At
NOHspace April 28 - May 21, 2005 Beautiful
Child How do you love someone who falls outside our
moral code? BEAUTIFUL CHILD presents Harry and Nan, a couple whose marriage has
become a comfortable battleground of witty barbs and infidelity. Everything
they think they know, however, is called into question when their son, Issac,
an art teacher and painter comes for lunch and asks if he can stay. The world's
no longer a safe place for him, as his secrets are about to become public. He
has fallen in love, and has been having an affair, with one of his students, a
boy named Brian. Harry and Nan search for clues, desperate to make sense of
this horror, alternatively looking for exoneration and punishment for what must
be their fault. They want to help their son, who was as Harry ruefully recalls,
a beautiful child. They want to love him. But How? And what is their
responsibility to the world and to the children in Isaac's future? Magically,
this tragedy brings Harry and Nan closer together as they arrive at a decision
that's terribly painful and magically restorative. Theater Rhinoceros 2926 16th St SF Cast: Donald Currie (Harry),
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