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The Garage artspace 975 howard street @ 6th street san francisco look for the red door 415 885 4006 |
Archives for SAFEhouse |
SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (Saving Arts From Extinction), is a non-profit arts presenting organization that specializes in incubating new performing art through residencies, workshops and performance. |
Tickets: $10 - $20, Brown Paper Tickets |
Part of the National Queer Arts Festival June 26-28, 2008 THE TWILIGHT VIXEN REVUE and SF BOYLESQUE Q-baret Spectacular The Twilight Vixen Revue and SF Boylesque are pleased to present 3 evenings of smashing double-header shows featuring the talents of San Francisco’s all queer showgirls, the Twilight Vixen Revue and the tantalizing all-male cast of SF Boylesque showcasing classic burlesque, decadent cabaret and contemporary vaudeville in a one act taste of a larger show to come. |
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A SAFEhouse AIRspace Program at The Garage artspace June 20-22, 2008 SWEET DELIVERANCE Sweet Deliverance traces the evolution of Vixen Noir’s sexuality from sensual toddler to teen years wrought with erotic fantasies; boys with big cocks and coming out as a lesbian. Her drug-induced twenties were replete with low self-esteem, bad choices, the elusive orgasm and her never-ending search for sexual freedom on a higher plane. |
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Tickets: $10-$20, Sliding Scale Brown Paper Tickets, Info/res. 415 885-4006 (Vixen Noir Photo by karen marisa) |
(Sunny Drake Photo by Alia) part of AIRspace (queer performance residency program) |
June 18-19, 2008 SUNNY DRAKE with guest choreographer Jesse Hewit . Have you ever wondered if what you think you want is what you really want? Or just what you’ve been taught to want? In these two one-person-shows, in collaboration with visual artists and musicians, Australian performer Sunny Drake explores love, heartbreak, gender and the manufacturing of emotions. Sunny seamlessly weaves story-telling, theatre and creative movement with layers of sound and visuals. Sunny embeds intimate and exposing autobiographical stories in broader political contexts, creating performance that is socially relevant and resonates with many different people’s experiences. Drake will be presenting two new pieces, "Other-wise" and "Gender-queer seeking... " Guest choreographer Jesse Hewit presents "Wall Ball" Sunny Drake is a human critter who weaves story telling, theatre and creative movement with layers of sound and visuals. Sunny embeds personal experiences and stories in broader political and social contexts to create bold, raw and challenging performance. Explorations include body image, gender, sexuality, concrete, sexual assault, identity, confessions, fear and professionalism. Sunny has performed in many places around Australia, the USA and Canada including in theatres, festivals, living-rooms, backyards, forests, streets, basements, work places, conferences and deserts. Sunny’s solo works include Umbilical and I Should Have Turned the Mattress Over too. Sunny was born on stolen Indigenous land in Australia (Jaggera-Turrabul land, Brisbane). |
part of AIRspace (queer performance residency program)
Jul 30-31 FUGUE STATE
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An evening of staged readings from Fugue State, Wickie Stamps’ New Gothic crime novel-in-progress. Fugue’s sketchy characters—a queer girl out for revenge, her troubled sister, a “defrocked” psychiatrist and his incarcerated brother, and more—will read from their journals, prison files and psychiatric records. |
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RAW (resident artists' workshop) at The Garage artspace presents Two Heads Taller June 2-3, 2008 (Mon-Tue) @ 8pm Two Heads Taller (Naomi Chamblin and Hanna Satterlee) will be premiering their work, Running Uphill Backwards. By trusting memories of their own habits, the work indicates the power of fear and its counterpart, reliance. The performance offers a dreamlike sequence of movement, imagery and sound, questioning that which attracts us to what we fear most, and the switch that makes us turn the other way to run.
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At The Garage artspace June 1, 2008 (Sun) @ 8pm (above) Katarina Eriksson |
RAW (resident artists’ workshop) presents choreographers Katarina Eriksson and Caroline Simon Eugenia & Frank Choreography & Dance: Katarina Eriksson For a couple of years, Katarina has been haunted by a character--writer/doctor Eugenia Frank. She has explored the story of Ms Frank through dance improvisation, creative writing, and clowning. The result is a piece that ranges from Bollywood Dancing to Performance Art. Ingredients: A typewriter, big specs and spoken words. Odd moments and curious movements....and a divorce. "I do all my thinking on Friday mornings. It is good to have it done with before the weekend, when the rain arrives." E.F |
a piece solo dance-performance by caroline simon a piece is a piece with a lot of fantasy, humor, impressive situations and surpirising twists. a piece leaves room for the audience to create and see its own images. daily routine or performance mode? …a little piece of life on stage…. |
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This provocative one-act follows an empress on her journey of sexual discovery with an unlikely lover: a hermit-monk turned demonic sex stud. Through the use of improvisation, dance and movement, 23 Elephants creates an environment rife with physical comedy and throbbing innuendo. Originally presented in the 2002 New York Fringe Festival, NYTheatre.com hailed it as “the most notably engrossing theatrical opening in recent memory.” |
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Silver danced in Europe, Israel and New York City for over 10 years, most notably with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Israel), Alexandra Beller Dances, Sean Curran, Li Chiao Ping Dance, Kevin Wynn (NYC). Her choreography has been shown at DanceSpace (NYC), Pentacle (NYC) Taos Dance Festival (NM) and Jacob's Pillow (MA). LiYana is a recent transplant to San Francisco and is also a relationship counselor, teacher and writer.
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Read a review in the Bay Guardian of Aura Fischbeck's recent performance at The Garage - click here. |
SAFEhouse presents a new annual festival that highlights the unique contributions of men in the field of Bay Area contemporary dance. This year’s festival is provocative combination of veteran choreographers (Scott Wells and Eric Kupers from Dandelion Dance Theater), trans-men (Joshua Klipp from Freeplay Dance Crew) and a full slate of emerging choreographers. move(men)t features two programs and promises to become an important new addition to the Bay Area’s cultural landscape. Program A – April 17-18 Thu-Fri Program B – April 19-20 Sat-Sun Curated by Shannon Preto. | |||
Photo of Dance Theater/Shannon by Breton Tyner- Bryan |
THE YES MANIFESTO by Shannon Preto
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Front page preview of move(men)t! |
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Now that you're done with the flu, the cold, and the flu again, come enjoy the visual feats of DOUBLE VISION. Co-Artistic Directors Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute are premiering the tumultuous dance piece Thicket and the audio-visual work Thicket on Fire, respectively. Additional mind-bending, original works by DOUBLE VISION dance, music and video collaborators will add to the festivities www.double-vision.biz/garage.html There will also be a post-show reception with music and video installations Friday night.
Dorsey Dunn, Dave Holton, Elisabeth Kohnke, Jennifer Mellor, Rachel Oliver, Bill Wolter, and Nicole Zvarik. DOUBLE VISION creates contemporary performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result is a body of work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving. |
DANCE RAW presents
Fri & Sun The Garage Tickets $10-$20 |
Under the direction of Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings, the San Francisco-based company has distinguished itself both regionally and nationally. Founded in December, 2003, DOUBLE VISION's first collaboration was Involution 2, a cross-country, New York City/San Francisco event held at 23 Windows in Brooklyn, NY. Since then, the group has presented work over 50 times to over 10,000 attendees. Most recently, DOUBLE VISION produced full-evening shows at Dance Mission Theater, N4th Theater, CounterPULSE and CELLspace. The group also co-directed and performed in the San Francisco Fringe Festival, in ODC Theatre's Pilot series and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Disembodied Head, an interactive dance and animation work, has been featured at CounterPULSE, the Mills College Signal Flow Festival, WORKS/San Jose, KQED’s SPARK!, and has been filmed for television's Meaning of the 21st Century, a national PBS broadcast.
DOUBLE VISION will be celebrating its fourth year with performances in San Francisco and abroad. Following RAW will be DOUBLE VISIONS’s annual home season, featuring four nights of dance and music premieres in April 2008. DOUBLE VISION will launch an ambitious tour of the United States in the fall of 2008. |
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Strange Fact Dance Company has developed a new evening-length worked titled LandEscape which was developed by Rowena Richie with Katarina Eriksson and Ernie Lafky. The performances also feature musicians Ben Juodvalkis and Rory Keefe, sculpture by Terry Cunniff and visual design by Sarah Smith. Through dance, sound, original songs, text and a scenic installation, LandEscape explores the question: how are humans perceived through the eyes of other species including plants and animals (and to some degree children)? LandEscape is inspired by topics Rowena Richie is a dancer, director, composer, on-and-off actor and teacher, and full-time wife and mother. Strange Fact Dance Company is her newest baby. She is also the co-founder of Boathouse & Co. Performance. Rowena has performed with Kraft and Purver, the ESP Project and Strangefruit Theater Ensemble. |
