Saving Art from Extinction
SAFEhouse for the Arts at The Garage
715 Bryant Street @ 5th Street, San Francisco • (415) 518 1517
Saving Art from Extinction |
SAFEhouse for the Arts at The Garage |
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715 Bryant Street @ 5th Street, San Francisco • (415) 518 1517 |
Archives • 2011 |
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NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL |
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Jun 3-4 ORGAN DONOR Kyra Rice and Michael Velez join forces to examine queerness, its freedoms and its trappings, as a way of getting closer to themselves, using shared resources and love as their primary means of survival. The evening will include work by guest choreographer Ronja Ver and live music by Tyler Holmes! |
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Jun 5-6 Garage All-Stars I STEAMROLLER STEAMROLLER (at left) presents Big Homo Love Explosion in response to the recent overturning of Prop 8. Set to the music of the Scissor Sisters and Matmosthis dance draws inspiration from the popular photo campaign. Choreographed by Jesse Bie. and a new solo by choreographer James Graham |
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Jun 10-11 Like This features a series of three queerly-made art moments, by some of San Francisco's most notably queer performance makers, with new works by Minna Harri, Peter Max Lawrence (at left) and Maryam Farnaz Rostami. Curated by Jesse Hewit. |
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Jun 12-13 Garage All-Stars II featuring Kevin Seaman (at right), Harvey Rabbit (at left), Dante Baylor
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June 18-19 • Garage All-Stars III
featuring new choreography by Sara Yassky (at left) "Themselves as Themselves with Themselves" a new work with Jesse Hewit (right) also Eroticize This by Tim Rubel Human Shakes |
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Jun 22-23 Getting Raw w/ Freeplay Dance Crew • Hard Core
featuring excerpts from “Third Person” and “Chet & Ella” plus new works by hip hop choreographer Josh Klipp and members of Freeplay Dance Crew. |
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June 24 SF's own Pioneer Funny Feminists • The Lesbian on the Loose, the Dutiful Dyke Daughter, the Bisexual Celibate, the Victorian Bulldyke, the Lovers in Lesbos -- see them all in one show! |
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June 29-30 This Is What I Want • curated by Jesse Hewit Within this theme, This is What I Want (and within the consideration of performing this theme) there is density, trigger, confusion, risk, trickery, lying, and the telling of some serious truths. As creator and head curator, Jesse Hewit stumbled through extensive discourse about this event; fielding complex and perhaps impossible questions about the intent and social necessity of such a project.Come see how brave and crazy and sexy we are. Come see what we want. More info: Here and Here and Here |
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June 26 Performers Under Stress in association with SAFEhouse presents Staged reading of a new play The Chef of Romagical Realism
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumnus, a portrait of Rudolf II, 1591, Skokloster Castle, Sweden. |
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June 1-2
Featuring Joy Prendergast, Evangel King, Bianca Brzezinski, Cari Delaplane (photo by Katy Platt) and Whitney Stevenson and Cuauhtémoc Peranda |
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April 29 until May 22 • Friday and Saturday and Sundays
PUS (performers under stress) present Cancer Cells • Plays and poems by Harold Pinter • Human rights abuses and stifling of dissent are problems that never seem to disappear. In light of recent events in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, as a global society, we are once again reminded that military juntas and purist ideologues look for excuses to impose rules that keep them in power without due process of law. |
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Wednesday May 18-Thursday May 19 RAW (resident artist workshop) presents The Apology Project Here Now Dance Collective (choreography by Michelle Fletcher) The Apology Project exposes the guilt, the daily human practice of experiencing shame, apology, and forgiveness. We are changing the space from a black box theater to an art gallery setting with events taking place upstairs and downstairs. On our website, HNDC offers short dance films that individually highlight an apology. |
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May 10-11 RAW (resident artist workshop) presents Moveable Feast by Project B (choreography by Tanya Bello) Three servings of the same ingredients, manipulated three different ways, Moveable Feast is nourishment for the soul and fuel for inspiration. |
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May 4-5 RAW (resident artist workshop) presents DOUBLE VISION • Jennifer Mellor Dance Project and Jamie Venci Duplexity, by DOUBLE VISION, is a contemporary dance solo inspired by the idea that a single message may be sent simultaneously in two directions. The work is a cross-country collaboration between choreographer Pauline Jennings,sound designer Sean Clute, and dancer Jennifer Mellor |
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April 16-17 & 20-21 MOVE(MEN)T4 the fourth annual men's festival of contemporary dance. April 16-17 April 20-21 |
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April 8-10 & 13-15 • FACT/SF presents Home Season 3.0 Works: Before this we weren't here (2009) • Excerpts from The Consumption Series (2010) • ...is all that an(n)a sees.09 & .10 (2008 & 2010) • Eine Kleine Kitschen, Nein? (2009) • Pretonically Oriented v.1 (2010) • WORLD PREMIERE! (2011) www.factsf.org, • www.facebook.com/factsf • www.twitter.com/factsf, www.youtube.com/factsf |
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April 1-2 and 6-7 All I Wanted to Say Directed by Silvia Girardi. A multimedia theatre piece about technology, communication and its paradox Performed by Silvia Girardi on stage and Giuliano Pirotello on screen. A collaborative creation by international artists: poet Allison DeLauer, film production house Cinematique - Milan, choreographer Folawole, video artist Seng Chen, digital artist Tim Roseborough, musician Matt Venuti. See video here silviagirardiacting.info support this project at kickstarter.com |
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April 3 God Bless My: music incarnate the piles of dirt were therefore not graves but the living work of earthworms tossing and churning the soil a special one-night performance withhana lee erdman and alison lorenzen part of AIRspace, a residency program for queer performance |
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March 30-31 Alyce Finwall Dance Theater collaborates with composer/ programmer Carson Whitley on Evenfall, an evening-length piece for eight women. Evenfall journeys through a dreamlike and ever-changing world of explosive movement, where intimate emotions and surreal landscapes come to life. afdancetheater.org |
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March 25-26
Garage All-Stars presents a series of new queer performance works developed in The Garage’s AIRspace program. Featuring choreographer Timothy Rubel Human Shakes' “Eroticize This” and new works by Kevin Seaman and Harvey Rabbit (photo). |
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March 23-24 RAW presents requisitedance requisitedance presents their first full evening of works, crafting a series of short stories exploring transformation, desire, and finding self identity using humor, wit, and fluid technique. Founded in 2010 by Jenna Monroe, Michaela Shoberg, and Travis Rowland, requisitedance is a dance collective fueled by performing artists. |
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March 18-19 RAW (resident artist workshop) presents new contemporary dance Tessa Wills is a a choreographer and live artist. Her current concerns in practice are around wounds, punctures, liminality and the movement organizational principles of birds. Mihyun Lee “This is my self-discovery and the first study of ‘Between confession and relationship’ series. I see the beginning of my path to self-discovery as an examination of the connection between confession and relationships." Catherine Debon “This physical theater piece evokes the story of my Spanish communist grandfather resisting the Nazis and questions if hope lies buried even as madness forever repeats itself.” catherinedebon.com Suzanne Foster & Melanie MacKerel present a new choreographic collaboration. photo by elazarharel.com |
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March 16-17 For the Love of the Game: A spoof on the trials and tribulations of dating. Be aggressive and be obsessive, that is choreographers Julia Graham and Blair Bodie, a.k.a BodiGram, concept of how to approach the dating game. For the past two years these two up and coming choreographers have been working on a dance theatre piece investigating the ridiculous correlations between dating, sports, and performance |
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March 11-12 Do Stuff With Things An Object Manipulation Performance curated by Ian Smith You heard it: Do stuff with things. Simple things. mostly balls and sticks. maybe a couple of circles. |
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March 4-5 *cari’s tiny circus* (photo) presents choreographer Cari Delaplane’s Gastronomy (photo) a new work inspired by the everyday topic of gastronomy. Props, gestures, and concepts related to consumption are abstracted andthem create a fascinatingly familiar performance. theatre director Cristian Ellauri presents Se va. An original piece of theatre about 3 characters involvement in sex trafficking. This work in progress features evocative dialogue, poetry/rap, and flamenco dance. Part of RAW (resident artist workshop). blessitup.com |
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Feb 25-26 • The Garage presents
"Here's the deal. I've got more ideas than I know what to do with -- in the notebooks! The backup is reaching a critical stage. So I am throwing those notebooks open in search of early stage brilliance. I'll even pass around my notebooks so you can pick any indecipherable scribble that you want, and have me riff on it there on the spot. And... whatever happens happens. It'll be fun. Don't you think?" |
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Feb 23-24 • RAW (resident artist workshop) presents A Mix Tape For Ophelia The Collage Theater Presents A Mix Tape For Ophelia, A dance/theater collage combining Shakespeare, modern music, a contemporary sensibility and a queer twist to explore the adolescent experience. A Mix Tape For Ophelia has been developed in at The Garage as part of the Resident Artist Workshop (RAW). |
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Feb 18-19 • RAW (resident artist workshop) presents Deep Root Dance Collective invites you to Force Intent, an evening of collective works by Jeanne Disney, Bonner Odell, lola a. katie, and Nicole Zvarik. Explore our social landscape and its societal impacts with mermaids, terrorists, anchormen and vaginae. |
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Feb 11-12 RAW presents new choreography by punkkiCo I am collaborating with beautiful dancers Jennifer Meek, Paul Laurey, Emma Stewart, Mihyun Lee and Brendan Behan. punkkiCo’s own Claire Pasquier has again created wonderful work of art costumes for all of these three choreographies. We are also collaborating with Light Designer Christian Mejia, with whom I have had pleasure to work with since 2008. An excerpt from Polar Night: |
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Feb 9-10 new choreography by Christine Suarez (LA), Suzanne Foster, Shae Collett and new video by Paul Laurey |
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Feb 4-5 RAW (resident artist workshop) and Thomas John present The Lady on the Wall |
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FEB 2-3
RAW (resident artist workshop) presents
Malleable Dance Theater |
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PRODUCED BY Mary Alice Fry |
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January 26 RAW (resident artist workshop) presents Jenni Bregman RAW presents Intimate City, a contemporary dance performance that enters the crowded or small spaces of urban life to look at something that can be simultaneously ubiquitous and elusive: Intimacy in the City. A glimpse of how we share our minds, hearts and personal space with lovers, friends and strangers. |
photo by Sarah Deragon |
AIRspace presents Josh Klipp AIRspace presents Chet & Ella: music and dance celebrating the voices of Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald. Featuring the voice and movement by jazz singer and choreographer Joshua Klipp and performances by Freeplay Dance Crew, Sarah Bush Dance Project, Funk4Soul, and Dylan Martin. |
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JAN 7-8 The Amazing Gherkin & Mistress Betty |
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