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May
2005 THEATER & DANCE SAN FRANCISCO’S PREMIER CIRQUE NOUVEAU TROUPE
UNVEILS NEW SHOW San Francisco’s premier cirque nouveau company, Xeno, is opening their new show, A Handful of Dust, at Xenodrome, the community arts center located at 1320 Potrero Avenue, on Friday, May 13th . Over the last nine years, the members of Xeno have been working together to create their own hybrid style of performance. This new, full length work, A Handful of Dust, once again secures Xeno’s place as one of San Francisco’s most innovative companies. The composition of the show mixes classical ballet and modern dance, an eclectic live musical score, the circus arts of acrobatics, trapeze, and aerial fabric, plus spoken word and video projections to create what can only be called “new-genre theater.” “We’ve been working with new artists on the concept of the show, developing the ideas, writing new music, shooting video, and choreographing like mad over the last few months. We’re excited about revealing the piece to the public,” says Austin Lewis, the company’s front man. In the creation of, A Handful of Dust, Xeno began with the eternal theme of the hero’s journey, asking how this age-old story relates to our lives today, to community versus individuality, and to the actualization of the Self. What came next was the transposition of characters and events into movement, music, image, and sound. Playfully balanced on the wire between narrative and abstraction, A Handful of Dust, side steps the obvious answers to life’s struggles, but through poetry and metaphor, leaves the audience asking all the right questions. For more information about Xeno and Xenodrome, please visit: www.xenodrome.com, and http://xeno.tribe.net/ or call (415) 285-9366. Spinning
Yarns Dance Collective @ ODC May 6&7 8pm Spinning Yarns Dance Collective (SYDC) and local choreographers present an evening of six short works exploring the personal, philosophical and political realm of cause-and-effect. Susan Donham, Apryl Renee, Meredith Koloski and Kelly Kemp combine forces to physically address various foundations for relationship, including anxiety, co-dependency, conflict, strength, and love. SYDC was founded in 1998 by Susan Donham and Apryl Renee (then Apryl Seech) in order to explore fundamental human themes through movement. 1:4 is the company's seventh home season. SYDC has performed in showcases throughout the Bay Area, including the Summerfest/dance festival, the VISION Series, and the Field. Apryl Renee returned to the Bay Area in 2004 after completing her MFA in dance from Arizona State University. She has studied with John Mitchell, Yacov Sharir, Douglas Rosenberg, Ellen Bromberg, Lizz Roman, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Janice Garrett, Jess Curtis, and KJ Holmes. Kemp's influences include Dance Alloy, Maureen Fleming, David Dorfman and Jennifer Tsukayama. She has performed for local artists Tim O'Donnell, Meadow Leys and Kim Epifano; she continues to share her own work through shared events such as ODC's Pilot program, DMT's seasonal showcases, Doug Baird's Performance Showcase, and Summerfest/dance. Koloski created and presented her work in Pittsburgh, PA from 1999 to 2002, including commissions from Dance Alloy, the Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Andy Warhol Museum. She completed her MFA at Arizona State University in 2004. She has worked and studied with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Ursula Payne, John Mitchell and Mary Fitzgerald. Composer:
Annick Crawford A
searing journey from intolerance to compassion takes the stage as TJT premieres
David Gow’s CHERRY DOCS. SuperBigRockStar redefines hybrid performance Jon Sims Resident Artists merge musical and dance theater for Family experiment SuperBigRockStar, a collaboration of performance artists Rebecca Lynn Graham, Sarah Starpoli, and Carrie Baum, explores families of
origin, chosen families, families we fall into: who is your family, who is mine? in It’s all Relative, the
product of their AIRspace residency at Jon
Sims Center for the Arts. Works in progress showings will be presented at
6pm on Sunday, March 13, and Sunday, April 10. The complete work
premieres Mother’s Day weekend, Friday & Saturday, May 6 & 7 at 8pm
at Jon Sims Center for the Arts and in Union Square Mother’s Day Sunday, May 8, at 2pm. Using voice, dance,
and theatricality, SuperBigRockStar explores family: connection, alienation,
heartbreak, and absurdity. Why do we
always go home for the holidays, in spite of the agony it causes? Our families
ignore partners, finagle set-ups with rich men from the country; who are these
drunks who call themselves my people? Why is it, when I go “home,” I miss my family? It’s all Relative’s multi-talented case includes percussionist
Justin Gray, baritone Kristopher Lichtanski, dancer Isabelle Sjahsam, actor/director Malinda Trimble, and activist/organizer
Steven Tritto. All performers dance, sing, and embody their
own and each other’s family members- past, present and chosen, for an
examination to which anyone can relate. Rebecca Lynn Graham and
Sarah Starpoli met at the Experimental
Performance Institute of New College of California. Both women are obsessed
with the relationship between self-knowledge and pleasure-seeking political
action, and bring play, raw physicality, and tightly knit language to their
work, integrating dance and musical theater for a sensuous, hilarious, and
deeply resonant performance experience in collaboration with musical muse Carrie Baum. INK, SWEAT & TEARS
A D.I.Y. CARTOON CONCERT AND BOOK TOUR
Three Bay Areas artists, graphic novelist and painter Eric
Drooker, semi-concious cartoonist Keith Knight, and urban
humorist Jon Longhi, take to the road for a no-holds-barred
multi-media assault on the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Each will perform a
15-minute set that combines spoken-word, and/or slides, and/or
music. Danger will be in abundance. About the artists: Eric Drooker (http://www.drooker.com)
is a frequent cover artist of the New Yorker magazine, and his wordless novels, “Flood” and “Bloodsong”,
have become urban legends. His musical
slide lecture is a unique and profoundly stimulating experience. Keith Knight (http://www.kchronicles.com)
is the creator of two weekly self-syndicated comic strips, “the K Chronicles” and “(th)ink”. His work can be seen in Salon.com, the Funny
Times, Blacknews.com, ESPN the magazine, and more. Locally, (th)ink can be
found in Faultlines. His fourth K
Chronicles collection, “the
Passion of the Keef”
(with a foreword by “Boondocks”
creator Aaron
McGruder) has just been released by Manic D Press. His slideshow performance will make you
snort like a hog. Jon Longhi (http://www.manicdpress.com)
is the counter-cultural genius behind several books, including “Flashbacks and Premonitions”, and
his latest , “Wake up and Smell the Beer”
(Manic D Press). His work is so damned
good that underground comix legend Robert Crumb drew the covers of both
books. His energetic literary
performance will leave you filthy. The cities hosting the Ink, Sweat and Tears Tour include: San Francisco, Ca (5/18), Eugene, Or. (5/19), Olympia, Wa. (5/20), Seattle Wa. (5/21), Portland, Or. (5/22), and San Jose, Ca (5/24). Each artist will have books and more for sale. Admission is $3-$5 sliding scale. Wednesday, May 18, 2005. 8PM $3-$5 @ ATA Corrie
Baumgardner, Terre Parker, & Mica Phelan
During their AIRspace residency, Corrie, Terre and Mica will create a new performance based on the Greek myth of Cassandra. They will combine the archetyped in Cassandra's myth with personal experiences of trauma and divinity. Through the synthesis of their creative processes, they will reinterpret the myth of Cassandra and invite the audience to address the ways they are silent in their own lives. Voices of Rhythm, RAWdance &
Vectors Come with Strings Attached
May 27-28 @ 8pm Jon Sims Center SF International Arts Fest
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