Jul 1-2   •   AIR presents Aura Fischbeck and Friends

featuring new work by Aura Fischbeck, Sara Pfiefle (Long Beach, CA), and S.F. based choreographers Gretchen Garnett, Leigh Riley/ The Riley Project, Sam Stone, and Brianna Taylor.

Jun 14-15   •   One Bad Year with Meliza Banales

n 2008, a marriage ended, a nephew was murdered, and a job was lost-- and that was only the first eight weeks of the year for Meliza Baales. You'd think it would be a banner time to just throw in the towel, but how can you do that when there's so much meditating and hoola-hooping to do? "One Bad Year" is the story after the story. Using multi-media, dance, bubbles, balloons, science, Xicano-Buddhism, fashion, and astrology the show follows the three selves of Banales -- her inner child, Lil' Missy, her inner-chola, Mari, and Meliza herself-- through their year-long journey of forgiveness, re-invention, and really, really good hair. What we see are not the makings for a stellar tragedy, but rather the ingredients for healing and making it to the other side, relatively unscathed. Written and performed as part of the AIRspace Residency Program for the '08-'09 season.

June 5-28

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Jun 3-10   •   Garage All-Stars Part I & II

June 3 - featuring choreography by Laura Arrington (at left) and new performance by Philip Huang. June 10 featuring clown performance by Calypso, solo performance by Sherilyn Connelly and new queer theatre by the Queer Girl Theater Project.

May 29-30   •   raw & uncut  performance showcase

Featuring new performance and music by G. Randall Wright, solo performance by Susan Kanga and new choreography by Here Now Dance Collective (at left), Jennifer Meek, and U Dance Collective (Saturday only)

May 17   •   The Absence of Sequential Thought   •   Produced by Non Fiction.

Smart Conceptual Art" that will "make [you] want to gouge your eyes out"

3 new works featuring performances by Adam Venker, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalyrmple-Wass, Rosemary Hannon & Shelley Senter, sound/video by Jerry Smith.

May 14-15   •   Christina Miglino presents  DIRT

This dance/theatre montage created and performed by Christina Miglino explores perceptions of faith through the intangible and what we hold as real, searches for what inspires us to continue on, and grapples with our need to control. A young woman has confined herself to a closet where mysterious characters appear and strange things begin to happen. An experimental work saturated with raw intimacy, provocative imagery, and a subtle awkwardness that ignites a curiosity within.

May 9-10   •   Shah and Blah Productions present
Anatomy of a Cloud   •   A dance-theatre performance illuminating the corridors of a mind in the midst of Alzheimer's Disease.

If our sense of self is comprised of a life's succession of memories, who are we and how do we locate ourselves as these constellations shift and disappear? This evening length work explores the poignancy and intricacy of these questions through a unique fusion of contemporary dance, physical theatre, text, video, and original music composition. Co-Directed by Sarah Day and Daniel Bear Davis. Original music from composer Ilan Heer and musician Jesse Autumn.

May 7-8   •   raw & uncut  performance showcase

featuring new theatre by Victoria Wolfe, choreography by Heidi Landgraf, solo performance by Jamie Cotton and a short film by Tina D'Elia

May 4-5 & 11-12   •   RAW (resident artists workshop) presents The Unspeakable Act

23 Elephants presents a hilariously twisted fairytale you won’t be telling your children anytime soon.

Inspired by an ancient Japanese fairytale, The Unspeakable 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 80’s music 23 Elephants has created a show rife with physical comedy and throbbing with innuendo.

May 1-2   •   Performers Under Stress presents  CUSP, performance on the verge

CUSP is a new performing arts workshop featuring performances by Alex Curtis, Shanique Scott, Pamela Davis, Melenie Flynn and an excerpt of Failure To Communicate by Val Faschman

Failure to Communicate is based on a true experience, examines the U.S. education and social service systems through the eyes of a new teacher working in the inner city with disabled, emotionally disturbed and behavior disordered teens/young adults. The larger-than-life characters and situations require heightened physicality and stylistic range from kitchen-sink to Brechtian, contemporary absurdity, and chilling surrealism. Gray sees herself reflected in her students and asks, what is broken here? Who are the real leaders?

Apr 16-17   •   RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Jen Gwirtz (at left) and Kyle Griffiths Band & Pump Dance

Resident artists at The Garage present new works in contemporary dance, performance and theatre.

Jen Gwirtz presents Passage/Apis with music by Dave Rodgers and Brian Eno. Jennifer's work is informed by conceptual art and technology. She mixes the personal and the metaphorical with physical, vocal and verbal vocabularies to find the intersections between physical and mental systems. For example, a printed record of brain waves is encoded manually into music or movement, then sung or danced.

move(men)t returns for the second year at The Garage and continues to present some of the best male contemporary choreographers in the Bay Area.

This years program features both veteran and emerging artists in a showcase of athletic and testosterone driven choreography.

Featuring Mark Foehringer (at left), Folawole, Sebastian Grubb, Kyle Griffiths Band, Jason Torres Hancock, Kegan Marling, FACT/SF and the San Francisco Moving Men. Curated by Shannon Preto.

San Francisco Moving Men make their debut in a new work titled "Coda" by choreographer Joe Landini. SFMM first season will be at The Garage June 5-28 at The Garage, as part of the National Queer Arts Festival.

The Pride and Prejudice Project is an unconventional look at a family ripping through the money, marriage and class ties that bind. Fusing original text, movement, and music to create a world where past and present become one.

Artist website: kolabs.org

Mar 21   •   AIRspace Queer Performance Showcase

LIZ BOUBION (at Left)   •   NICO DACUMOS   •   SHERILYN CONNELLY   •   CALYPSO   •   QUEER GIRL THEATRE PROJECT   •   SADIE LUNE

Mar 11-12   •   RAW (resident artist workshop) presents   The Courage Group

(Excerpts from) "Dirty Girl": A metaphor for the journey people take to grow into their sexuality and legitimize their awakenings. The process of developing awareness of the sexual body often begins with a sense of shame, but as our true feelings and self-awareness contribute to the process, this development becomes not “dirty” but heightened and beautiful. One dancer’s sexual evolution becomes central to the piece and she emerges cleansed and whole. The intent is that the viewer will come away from “Dirty Girl” with their own reflections on discarding shame and finding self-acceptance and that the simultaneously intimate and cathartic nature of the piece will tap into a universal, and timeless, search for personal authenticity and awareness.

Mar 4-5   •   RAW (resident artist workshop)

Featuring Susan Kanga, Ishika Seth (at left) and Karishma

Feb 25-26   •   raw & uncut   •   dance

Shaunna Vella, Lenora Lee, Automatic Art, Tara Fagan & Sebastian Grubb (at left), Katie Anderson, Michelle Fletcher and Minna Harri

Feb 7-8   •  RAW (resident artists' workshop) presents   •   Push Dance Company & Group A

RAW (resident artists' workshop) presents two of the Bay Area's most innovative, emerging dance companies premiering new choreography developed in The Garage's residency program.

Push Dance Company (at left) presents “Mixed Messages,” a showing of excerpts of an energetic display of emotional unity and disconnected following individuals of mixed race by Push Dance Co.

group A was established by alyssa lee in 2003 as a new media dance company committed to placing dance in close contact with other art forms.

Feb 5-6   •   RAW (resident artists' workshop) presents   Moving toward Meaning 

an evening of new choreography by Felice Ana Denia and her emerging San Francisco contemporary dance company, Denia Dance. The works spring from a variety of inspirations and center around the desire to connect with ourselves and one another in a quickly changing world.

The works to be performed have been developed during Denia Dance's residency at The Garage. Guest Artist Kirsten Boyne will appear with Christina Chellette and Felice Ana Denia in a live music and dance collaboration with Japanese flute player Robert Rodriguez and percussionist Mumuka.

Jan 9-10   •   RAW (resident artists' workshop) presents   Fou Fou Ha!

San Francisco's premier vaudville performance troupe celebrates the culmination of their two year residency at The Garage with two nights of performance, featuring innovative choreography, fantastical dancing and colorful costumes