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Jan 11-12

you and me

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raw & uncut presents

Fraternal Adventures by Becca Rozelle (left), a new group work by Backwoods Dance Project, (featuring choreography by Sarah Woods) and a new solo by
Diana Broker.

Jan 18-19

Love in a Box featuring new choreography by Nicole Bridgens and Rogelio Lopez (photo), featuring contemporary choreography, dance-theatre and world dance.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop).

Jan 20-21

PerceptionsWest is a new, bi-coastal contemporary dance company presenting the multimedia duet, The Furthest Distance Between Two Points from directors, Molly Fletcher Lynch (SF) and Melissa Gendreau (NY) and Table Talk, a new group work by Lynch.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Jan 24-25

Evangel King  

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Feb 1-2

Kinetic Makeover is a dance solo created and performed by Milka Djordjevich (photo). Kinetic Makeover generates perpetual motion for Djordjevich in order to transform, shapeshift and groove.

Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos in collaboration with Kevin O'Connor (Canada), Emily Leap and Raoul Freitas Vale Germano (Holland) present a new dance-study-in-progress exploring the themes of Departure and Arrival.

Feb 3-4

AIRspace presents

Macklin Kowal's Divine Light
Divine Light is an ensemble-based piece, tackling themes of tyranny and cruelty, social order, and the body's relationship to systems of power. Engaging with questions of pretense and pretend as they pertain to social hierarchy, the work unravels in a world that is as much built on references to the court of Versailles as it is situated in a grotty shit-hole. Kinetic movement explodes from moments of prolonged stillness, in energetic jolts that neither defy nor affirm station, rank, or charge

Liz Tenuto's The Ocean Between Us (at left)
The Ocean Between Us is a dance piece surrounding developmentally based patterns of human movement and behavior. Submerged in a manufactured and hot environment, the dance dives into desire, self consciousness and submission. The piece oscillates between distinct historical visions of the medium of dance (traditional, popular, classical and experimental) to summon where the body ends and where the environment begins.

Feb 7-8

Chrysalis returns to The Garage!

The show is a multidisciplinary exploration at the crossroads of grief and growing up. Through storytelling, movement, puppetry and chocolate cake, writer and performer Evangeline Crittenden makes her way towards optimism in the face of loss.

part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Feb 10-11

Project Thrust’s Urge, by Malinda LaVelle, explores different psychological states in heterosexual relationships and uses food as an associative metaphor to investigate the entanglement of hunger, desire, and lust.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Supported by the SF Conservatory of Dance.

Feb 14-15

Human Creature presents all new works featuring original music, costumes, and special guest performers. This dark and edgy dance theatre experience utilizes elements of counterbalance partnering, physical comedy and an eclectic range of disparate dance styles.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Feb 17-18

project.b.‘s Sol y Sombra by Tanya Bello (left), is a series of vignettes and interludes exploring the individual’s ability to effect change on societal and cultural levels. 

Alyce Finwall Dance Theater presents Angel, a tour de force performance piece for two dancers. Angel is an exploration into the unspoken and often taboo world of girls’ and women’s sexuality and desires.

Both events are part of RAW (resident artist workshop).

Feb 21-22

Gray Performs and RAW (resident artist workshop) present

BURST!

BURST is a high-energy one-woman show about madness, modern life, and the timeless quest for wholeness. Working as one of the youngest San Francisco brand namers at the height of the dot com boom, Gray's fate is altered by a Bipolar diagnosis, followed by an tragic familial loss. She finds herself looking for answers in place 7000 miles away: Vietnam. Sparkling with wit and insight, BURST takes its audience on an 80-minute roller coaster ride through the highs and lows of bipolar, loss and life.

Feb 24-25   

Christine Bonansea presents No Exit (left), which articulates a complex and codependent triangular relationship. Three beings confined within a room, tormenting each other and revealing tension and manipulation of their spaces.

Minna Harri Experience Set presents Dead/Alive is about dealing with mortality. It’s going to be ugly: pain and loss. In the end everybody will die. What’s not to love?

Both events are part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Feb 28-29

Box City by Collage Theater

which dives down the rabbit hole to explore the world of homelessness.  Accompanied by the haunting trumpet of Aaron Priskorn and choreography by Sarah Fiske.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

March 2-3

Alice Superbrain - The Twin Section

A multidisciplinary performance, Written and directed by Andrea Lanza
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s adventures, With Silvia Girardi + Daiane Lopes da Silva, Project and director assistant Alice Bescape, Photo by Weidong Yang, Video by Mateo Verde w/ LEAF, Script contribution by Maurizio Temporin

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

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March 6-7

The Garage All-Stars featuring new queer performance and contemporary dance with Deceptively Strong Dance Project's Vindicated Violence, Anna Nowicka (Germany), Dominika Bednarska and Kai West.

Hosted by Peter Danger.

Part of AIRspace (queer performance workshop)

March 14-15

Here Now Dance Collective presents Burst Now
Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

March 9-10 & 16-17

Aura Fischbeck Dance

The Riley Project

Gretchen Garnett Dance

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

March 21-22

Jenni Bregman presents Context, a new dance piece inspired by the writing of  Oliver Sacks that explores what it might be like to navigate the stimulating physical world with impaired senses. Featuring a live electronic score by Sunshine Jones. Also, Intimate City, (first presented by RAW in 2010), is about how we interact in the small or crowded spaces of urban life, from elevators to bedrooms.

With Sadie Carhart, Marco Chavez, Sharon Gallagher, Hillary Hoffman, Gina Levesque, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, Shawna Seth, Alberto Vajrabukka, Meredith Wilensky, Jenni Bregman

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

Photo by Matt Haber

March 28-29

raw & uncut presents

new contemporary dance by

Angela Mazziotta, Julia Cost, requisitedance, Frederick Gaudette, Baindu Conté-Coomber

and Opal Street Dance Improvisation Theater (wed only)

6-7 April @ 8pm

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Friday, April 20

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Saturday, April 21 @ 8pm

That’s What She Said! is a variety show full of awesome women. This
show features musicians, poets, comedians and more! The evening
promises to be a genre bending, free-for-all, fun loving, good time.

This Edition of That’s What She Said! will feature; the musical
stylings of Entirely Talia, the hilarity of stand up comedian Caitlin
Gill, the rants, raves, and poetic obsessions of Tatyana Brown, the
life observations, wit and storytelling of Amy Dentata! and more!

COMING UP: more TWSS for the National Queer Arts fest on June 26
and a special summer edition on July 19.

Sunday, April 22

Molissa Fenley and Friends

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An evening of contemporary dance curated by Molissa Fenley. Featuring works by Mills College alumni: Molissa Fenley, Ashley Johnson, Peiling Kao, Jose Navarrette, Jochelle Perena, and Rebecca Wilson. Part of Bay Area Dance Week.

Sunday, April 22

HomeWERK @ The Garage

The WERK Collective presents a lecture/demonstration moderated by

Christy Bolingbroke, Executive Director at the ODC Theater, focusing on the creation of new work and breaking down the ways in which each artist approaches her choreography.

The WERK Collective is a new collective of Garage resident artists that have banded together to create new models for presenting contemporary dance. The artists will be featured this summer in The Garage's SPF5 (fifth annual summer performance festival) @ The ODC Theater. The collective features the work of Christine Bonansea, Tanya Bello, Minna Harri, Malinda LaVelle, Michelle Fletcher, and Alyce Finwall.

Part of Bay Area Dance Week

Sunday, April 22 & May 6 & 13

15 Minutes Comedy Improv

15 minutes is a hard-hitting Bay Area long-form improv group that “goes

there with class.” With over 40 collective years of improvisational experience these guys break the rules, play dirty, and never do the same show twice. The current cast includes: Rob Miles, Dan Burt, Steve Seidler, Chrystna Lairamoore, and Michael Michalske. “This troupe is phenomenal –Blue Blanket Improv”

April 26, 27

Steve Seabrook: Better Than You,  Written and performed by Kurt Bodden

Master motivator Steve Seabrook takes the audience to a safe, nurturing place of empowerment where they can look inside their hearts to examine why they're vaguely disappointing.

Special guest: Dhaya Lakshminarayanan - accomplished comedian, storyteller, and proud nerd.

Wed-Thu May 2-3

Right Brain Performancelab uses live vocal experimentation and movement, sound and image, blending performance art, musical theater and cabaret. They exist in that strange, shifting area of in-between where the deep and the funny coexist together.

This piece is a love letter to the force that grounds people and all the other beings and objects that share the world. Gravity brings rain to the earth. It’s the force with which we negotiate in order to stand on two legs and is the ultimate metaphor for the slow descent to the earth at the end of life. It is both unseen and unavoidable, the invisible, imminent element that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

May 4-5

raw & uncut presents

D.R.U.N.K.S, a new excerpt from BodiGram, plus new works by The Anata Project and Alma Esperanza Cunningham. Featuring new works developed in RAW (resident artist workshop).

May 8-9

Gray Performs & The Garage present

Self-ish

A one-woman-show show about identity, superheroes, and the virtues of self-centeredness.

Self-ish is about Superhero X, a superhero who is born without an identity and goes to Earth in search of one. The show uses a mix of improvisation, audience participation and off-stage interviews to influence an ever-changing script with tones both savvy and innocent.