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VERGE proudly welcomes choreographer Miguel Gutierrez to The Garage

HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE (2010)
Miguel Gutierrez 
with guests   • Jorge De Hoyos July 8   • Jesse Hewit July 9     • Laura Arrington July 10

VERGE presents
The Minna Harri Experience

Enter into the strangely familiar world of funky dolls who each have their own aims. Let the Ballerina tend to your hunger, and help the Spider Woman weave her webs. A terrifying and hilarious experience will unfold.

The six performers of Rare Earth have devised a new drama in physical poetry, bringing sixteenth-century form into a scorched future. More info here.

Rare Earth is inspired by the very real e-waste landfills and dumps at Guiyu (China), Accra (Ghana), and elsewhere. To learn more about e-waste, toxic trades, and what you can do to help, visit the Basel Action Network (BAN) at ban.org.

Written by Matthew Milo Sergi   •   Directed by Randy Symank   •   Choreographed by Ara Glenn-Johanson

with Dashiell Hillman, Erin Maxon, Dominique Nigro, Christine Samson, Matthew Milo Sergi and Lauri Smith.

July 24

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

AVID (photo)

and MeND Dance Theater Company

July 27 - 28        raw & uncut presents

new choreography by Patric Cashman, Perceptions Dance, Brianna Taylor, Kerri Myers, Cesar Munhoz and Angela Mazziotta (at left).

The Garage's choreography showcase returns with its summer edition!

July 30       The Garage welcomes

Leela  •  one of SF's most dynamic and intelligent improv companies

As we reflect on our lives, we recount pivotal moments of time. Moments which forever impact our psyches, choices, and relationships. Through the intentional use of moment-to-moment improvised scenes, dance/movement, and sound, the artists seek to reflect, transform, and draw lines of connectivity. Leela is committed to unearthing this experience, in all its layers, and revealing that which is to be celebrated, healed, and transformed. Leela brings an edgy, post-modern artistry to the Bay Area Improv scene.

August 4

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Aug 11, 12, 18, 19

Robillard Theatreworks

A new dance-theatre work based on Jean Paul Sartre’s Age of Reason and inspired by retro Italian cinema and featuring choreography by Sarah Moss.

August 25

Gray Performs  Excerpts from Self-ish and BURST

August 26

Harvey Rabbit & Eve Briere

     Donna Moore, Direction

     David Moore, Sets and Props                                        MooreTheatreSF.com

September 14 & 15

Evangel King presents the premiere of   Bare Bones Crow

a shape-shifting performance featuring choreographer/dancer, Evangel King in collaboration with Brenda Hutchinson (composer) and Gillian Garro (artist).

September 9, 10 and 16, 17

SAFEhouse presents

An international underground entertainment hit   •   The California premiere

3 Guys in Drag Selling Their Stuff

By Edward Crosby Wells

Directed by Wm. Diedrick Razo

Sept 21-22

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

new contemporary choreography

Jamie Venci (photo), Alison Williams, Sarah Fiske

   Sept 23 @ 6 to 8pm at Mint Plaza  •  FREE

   Sept 27 @ 8pm  •  FREE

  Play info HERE

Sept 28-29   •   Evangeline Crittenden presents   Chrysalis

Evangeline Crittenden is a writer, actress, comedienne, songstress and producer currently based in Berkeley. She co-founded the three-woman supertroupe Tricycle Theater in New York and performs her original music at various venues on both coasts. She revels in works that tickle you until you cry, or sadden you until you laugh.      PHOTO BY JAY BALANZA

Sep 30-Oct 1

detour dance

(photo) presents Imitations of Intimacy, a new duet that follows an odd couple who defies normal behavior and exhibits the inherent absurdities and poetics of relationships.

SoShe Dance Collective

presents two new works by choreographers Kerri Myers and Nicole Phillips.

Oct 5-6

new dance from  A.V.I.D. & MeND dance theater

Oct 7-8

RAW presents new choreography by

joy prendergast & opal street dance improvisation theater (photo)

Oct 12-13

Baruch's Big Gay Poetry Show

featuring the legendary spoken word veteran

Regie Cabico with performances by Baruch Porras-Hernandez! Wonder Dave! and Terry Taplin!

Local event maker, performance poet Baruch Porras-Hernandez brings the legendary Regie Cabico back to San Francisco! Former Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion, 3 time National Poetry Slam Finalist with 2 Seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam under his belt and work in over 30 anthologies Mr. Cabico is a ground breaking poet tour de force. The first out gay slam poet to pave the way for the rest of us Regie Cabico will rock your world, he has been hailed the "Lady Gaga of spoken word."

Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez, who will also perform as well as performance from local spoken word artists Wonder Dave and Terry Taplin plus a musical guest, it will be a high energy night of poetry celebrating the gay men that rock in the world of spoken word.

Oct 19-20

That’s What She Said

is a variety show full of awesome women. This show features musicians, improvisers, poets, comedians and more!

The evening promises to be a genre bending, free-for-all, fun loving, good time showcasing great work by great performers for the delight of our audience. Co-hosted by the hilarious Caitlin Gill (photo) and Wonder Dave.

October 14, 16, 21, 22, 23     Back Alley Theater Company & RAW Present

The Understudies by Jeff Bedillion        A Flirtation With Genet's The Maids

written by Jeff Bedillion        directed by Jeff Bedillion and Katharine Otis

Starring   Katharine Otis, Jeff Bedillion, Jennifer Lucas, Michael Petri "Tilly", and Salvadore Mattos

Nov 2-3   •  RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble (left) creates experimental contemporary dance with a strong Asian influence. CCDE works with the mediums of movement, music, and visual art to create stirring performance/meditations. They present evocative and finely-crafted dances that highlight the impermanence of life, interconnection with technology and nature, and the suffering, joy and wonder that is our shared existence.

Perceptions West present Table Talk, where everyone at the table has their say. Simply joining in on the conversation or off on a tangent, this conversation of movement unfolds, morphs and expands, without ever feeling out of the loop. The dancers of Perceptions West explore and pick apart the intricacies of group dynamics and the ever changing, yet delicate art form of communication through conversation. 

Katharine Hawthorne (at left) presents Lumen / Lux, which explores light in motion, light as movement, and the physical boundaries between us.

Ronja Ver presents Faith is a work in progress and is fifth in a series of studies on the poetics of pain. Ver says "I see the final piece to be more in the form of a ritual, a cleansing or purging, a question in a spiral form."

Nov 17

The Garage All-Stars presents an evening of queer performance with

Labayen Dance/SF with Victor Talledos, Jaidah Terry & Leda Pennell

Kevin Seaman (photo), Milka Djordjevich, Lola N Danger,

Kirk Read

Oct 28 through November 20

Performers Under Stress

in association with SAFEhouse present

Relentless inexplicable passions…

How To Love
by Megan Cohen
(a playwright to watch)
directed by Scott Baker

Inspired by Plato’s Symposium.

Dec 7 @ both 7pm & 9pm

Dec 8 @ 7pm only

Special Post-Show Fundraiser Dec 8

raw & uncut and the WERK collective present:

Christine Bonansea

Tanya Bello's project.b.

the Minna Harri Experience Set

Malinda LaVelle's Project Thrust

Michelle Fletcher's Here Now Dance Collective

Alyce Finwall Dance Theater

part of a new mentorship project designed to bring together San Francisco choreographers to create a model for presenting work in larger theaters upon completion of RAW (resident artist workshop).

Dec 14-15

RAW presents

Ben Evans (photo)

Macklin Kowal

Abby Crain

Dec 16-17 Preshow

Megan Nicely & Kate Elswit present

The Animation Project

$15 brownpapertickets.com / $10 with can of food for food bank

part of RAW   (resident artist workshop)