June/July 2006

 

 

Translations: dancing the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality

Fri-Sun, June 9 – 11, 8pm $15-20 @ Counter PULSE

 

Asian American Dance Performances presents: Chinawind Dance & Art, danah bella, Christopher K. Morgan/Muse: Innovative Dance Theater, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Nguyen Dance Company, Twincest, and Vispo Dance. Presented in association with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Queer Cultural Center, & CounterPULSE. Make reservations NOW! for this new dance festival hybrid!

CounterPULSE is located just west of the corner of 9th Street and Mission, at 1310 Mission Street (north side of Mission Street).

 

 

 

DANCE ELIXIR presents MEDIA

WHEN:
June 2-11 2006; Friday & Saturday 8pm, Sunday 7pm

WHERE:
Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street at Mission, San Francisco
(Across the street from 24th Street BART)

COST:
$15 advance
$18 door
$10 students (w/id)
Free for Seniors
For reservations: 415-273-4633

Tickets in advance at BrownPaperTickets.com

 

The first evening length work in our CAPITAL LIFE TRIPTYCH

For their 2006 home season, choreographer Leyya Tawil, music collaborator Topher Keyes, and Dance Elixir's 19 performers confront the omnipresent world of today's information culture in a new work entitled MEDIA. Grounded in the power, weight, and speed of the human body, Leyya Tawil's choreography has a charged, earthy quality that balances the distant, technological feel of MEDIA's theme.

 

 

 

 

Zari Le'on Dance Theater
Belly of the Beat

WHEN:
June 16 and 17, 2006

WHERE:
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street at Mission, San Francisco
(Across the street from 24th Street BART)

TICKETS:
$15-20 sliding scale

RESERVATIONS:
415-273-4633

 

Zari Le'on Dance Theater proudly presents, "Belly of the Beat", a tour-de-force dance theater performance with an original Hip Hop score by Joshua Klipp and Gospel House by the Reverend DJ Leslie Abraham. Belly of the Beat highlights the music, movement and passion of the human condition by journeying into the seven spiritual senses.

After the performance, there will be a reception featuring Elise Marie Collins, author of "Chakra Tonics" blending fresh tonics and elixirs, and The Rev DJ Leslie Abraham will be on the wheels of steel spinning soulful house with a twist of Gospel.

We look forward to meeting you after the show!

 

 

Shareen el Safy
The Spirit of Egyptian Dance
with the Georges Lammam Ensemble

WHEN:
July 22-23 2006

WHERE:
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street at Mission, San Francisco
(Across the street from 24th Street BART)

MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER:
Phone 415-826-4441 for more information

or to register, print out and mail in
The Spirit of Egyptian Dance Workshop (PDF)

June 1 preregistration price special extended until June 15

 

Exploring the Oriental Form

Two special days of instruction, performance and cultural exploration with master teacher Shareen el Safy and the live music of the Georges Lammam Ensemble

These inspiring workshops will explore modern Egyptian technique, choreography and musical interpretation including oriental, beledi, and improvisational movement, using the classical Egyptian compositions Gana el Hawa and Daret el Ayam. The musicians of the Georges Lammam Ensemble will join the class in the final sections of each day's workshop to create an opportunity for students to practice to live music in class. Concepts in musical composition, Arabic music theory, and orchestration will be discussed and demonstrated. Class notes will be provided and instructional videos and music will be available. Shareen will discuss the development of modern Oriental technique during the "golden age" of Egyptian dance, as well as the philosophy and mechanics of movement and the relationship of music, dance and personal expression.

There will two inspiring evenings of dance featuring Shareen el Safy and other dance artists performing to the live Arabic music of the Georges Lammam Ensemble.

All events will be held at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St. at Mission, San Francisco.

For registration, schedule and pricing, please click here (PDF).

June 1 preregistration price special extended until June 15

 

 

Terry Baum's
BAUM FOR PEACE

@The Marsh
June 29, 2006 8pm
through
July 22, 2006 8pm

 

The Marsh presents Terry Baum's "Baum for Peace." Terry Baum, slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright, ran as the Green candidate for Congress in 2004 in San Francisco.  A peace candidate opposing the formidable Nancy Pelosi, Baum faced impossible odds.

Accompanied by Scrumbly Koldewyn on the piano, Baum uses farce, song and self-mockery to tell the tale of her pursuit of democracy.  Lauded as "the lesbian Woody Allen" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Terry Baum has toured the world as a solo performer.

 

 

AfroCrusade presents Voodoo Cabaret

 

July 28 & 29 @ 8pm (Wednesday & Thursday)

Shotwell Studios 3252 Nineteenth St San Francisco

$10-$20  Reservation (415) 289 2000

www ftloose org  www ticketweb com or TIX Booth @ Union Square

info 415 885 4006

part of SPF2 (second annual summer performance festival)

Featuring Gisela Tangui's Tales of the & African Powers and Steve Haas's R Rated Vincente Vira Lata Puppet Show

World arts meets American Vaudville as AfroCrusade presents a program featuring a Brazilian puppet show, Afro-Haitian dance-theatre, butoh, belly dance and incredible Afro-Cuban drumming.

Curator Giseal Tangui presents a ritualistic, shamanistic theatrical musical experience that fuses together African Roots Rhythm with Western sounds ranging from hip-hop to opera to reggae and many points in between. Dance, improvisational theatre, costume and spoken word are intertwined together with the music to bring to the audience an authentic creative expression.

 

 

"Clasico!"  @ ODC

--An evening featuring new dances in the Spanish classical, neo-classical and folkloric branch of Spanish dance, with guest dancers Stephanie Neira and Carole Acuna.  A rare treat for lovers of dance, especially Spanish dance, and of course flamenco! Also appearing are Caminos Flamencos regulars Yaelisa, artistic director/dancer; Jason McGuire, Roberto Zamora, singer/dancer and Marina Elana, dancer.

The romance, the bravado and the fire of Spain come to ODC Theater each month with "Cafe Flamenco", the Bay Area's longest running flamenco series.  Featuring the award-winning Caminos Flamencos, one of the premiere flamenco dance companies in the U.S., lead by choreographer/dancer Yaelisa and the "extraordinary" [SF Bay Guardian] guitarist Jason McGuire "El Rubio," "Cafe Flamenco" is a total experience for the spectator:  world-class artistry, in a romantic, cafe-style setting, accompanied by tapas, wine and even roses on your table!  Spain comes to San Francisco and ODC Theater each month, featuring some of the finest flamenco artists today.

PERFORMANCE:
Sunday, June 18 @ 7pm TICKETS: $20 Front Row Tables $15 Second Row Tables $12 General
ODC Box Office:
415.863.9834 (2-5 pm Wed-Sat)
3153 17th St @ Shotwell Street, SF

photo by Andy Mogg

 

La Casa del Libro
proudly presents:

Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon

by  Les Blank  Friday, June 9  at7 pm
Director and cinematographer Les Blank will be present at the screening!

CHULAS FRONTERAS
Reviewed by Robert Christgau and Carola Dibbell

For almost 20 years, Les Blank has scoured modern America for the remnants of a simpler, happier, richer life. A life that usually centers around such indigenous music as blues, zydeco and norteño. His lyric documentaries honor the origins and settings that beget such music in what has evolved into a personal visual language: skies and rivers and roads and fields and pastures; tools and wildflowers; well-worked hands and well-earned faces; and, above all, food--the festive, greasy, smoking, aromatic indelicacies of America's regional cuisines. His work is a national treasure and is worth a look almost without exception.

In   A Well Spent Life all of Blank's visual and philosophical trademarks combine with a protagonist who can make a case for them: then 75-year-old Mance Lipscomb, lifelong husband and farmer and recently rediscovered singer and guitarist. Two odd tales of marriage, one involving 50 years of separate dinners and another a lost leg--add a twist to Lipscomb's praise of domestic tranquility without making it seem false, and his seamed face adds its own ripple to the placid pastoral surface. We're glimpsing the inside of a man, not the outside of a symbol.

Best of all of these programs is Del Mero Corazon, apparently constructed from Chulas Fronteras outtakes, in which Blank acknowledges, for once, the contradictions of contemporary simplicity. Associative yet acutely shaped, this is a movie in which the cantina way of life is at once celebrated and found wanting. Here homes are broken up, and not just by migrant work--sometimes even by the music itself. There's more ugliness and sexuality than innocence and nobility of the faces, and the gorgeous two-dimensionality of the hot pastel backgrounds urbanizes Blank's tone. A yearning lovesong belted over a UFW mural at the finale has more political power than all the slogans in Chulas Fronteras.

Blank's work is so warm, human-scale and casual that it's ideal for home viewing, especially as an opener for one of those mouth-watering meals he always makes you crave.

La Casa del Libro
973 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
ph/fax 415-285 1399
www.librerialacasadellibro.com
Friday, June 9   at 7 pm

 

SPF2 presents the Printz Dance Project (PDP)

14-16 June 2006 @ 7:30 pm (Wednesday-Friday)  @ Shotwell Studios

 Featuring new choreography by Stacey Printz, Randee Paufve and Amara Tabor-Smith. SPF2 (second annual summer performance festival) presents its inaugural program for 2006. SPF2 will be a three month festival featuring seven groups of artists performing new works, see below for a list of performances.

PDP presents an intimate, casual evening of dance and works-in-progress featuring some of the Bay Area’s most exciting and innovative dance makers. Artistic Director Stacey Printz, presents a new work titled Finding The Morning, a meditation on a journey punctuated by emergency, injury and recovery. The new piece investigates fear, frustration and anger as they evolve into optimism, gratitude and an unflinching confrontation with the future, focusing on the process of re-defining oneself in the wake of a new physical reality. Widely recognized choreographer Randee Paufve presents Ghost, a duet with sound design by Heather Heise. Amara Tabor-Smith is a local choreographer that has gained national attention working with the Urban Bush Women. Her new work is titled Enduring Process and explores the issues of facing youth in our society, focusing on the rising rate of youth incarceration.

$5-$20  (415) 289 2000 (Reservations)     Shotwell Studios 3252 – 19^th St. SF

 photo by Lois Greenfield

SPF2 (second annual summer performance festival)

 

4, 11, 18 & 25                June                 Lynn Ruth Miller in Farewell To The Tooth Fairy

  

28 & 29                         June                 AfroCrusade presents Voodoo Cabaret

                       

5, 12, 19 & 26                July                  JUMP Theatre presents The Springboard Project

 

21 & 22                         July                  AfroCrusade presents Voodoo Cabaret

                                   

28 & 29                         July                  Paulina Borsook presents NWN

                                                            An Evening of Literature, Art and Performance

 

2, 9, 16 & 30                 August              Katie Ketchum in The Mary Magdalene Story

                                   

4-6, 10-13 & 17-20         August              PUS presents The Farmington Armada

 

30 & 31                         August              Dance Theatre Shannon

 

25 & 26                         August              Pappas & Dancers