one year and more

Coming to The Garage: Sept 3-13 , the SF Fringe Festival

Open Season, 51 and Counting, Identity Crisis

July 11-12 The Top of the Structure is Not Empty, 2 Evenings of Contemporary Dance

July 17-18  New choreography by U Dance Electra and Ishika Seth, also featured PJ Johnson, Suzanne Beahrs

July 19  Cabaret, partying and BBQ celebrating Joe’s birthday. The performance will feature cabaret superstar Veronica Klaus and a special performance by the House of Garza

July 26-27 An evening of new choreography by Daina Block, Kerri Myers, Brianna Taylor and Julie Wolfrum.

July 30-31 Wickie Stamps’ Fugue State

Aug 1-2   An evening of new dance by Push Dance Company, also featuring choreographers Laura Arrington and Ara Glenn-Johnson

Aug 8  An evening of new dance by the students and teachers from Shoebox Dance Studio

Aug 9-10 Nitya Venkateswaran and Deepa Subramaniam will present an evening of South Indian Classical Dance.

Aug 14-15   SPF3 presents Sharon Mashihi, Jaimie Venci, Susan Kanga & Observational Science - new experimental dance theater

Aug 20  (Wed)  New one-woman performances by Alicia Dattner (The Punchline), Barbara Michaels (The Doormen) and Katie Rubin (Indecision Collision)

Aug 21-22 (Thu-Fri) new choreography by Denia Dance, Jorge De Hoyos & Tunuviel Luv, Pearl Marill

Aug 23-24 (Sat-Sun) VaBang! Dance Company featuring choreography by Jessie Feller and Julia Sabangan and GUT DANCE with choreography by Giavanna Enriquez

Aug 9-24 A new video installation by Daniel Konhauser on performance nights 7-8pm

Alicia Dattner, "Eat, Pray, Laugh"

Eat, Pray, Laugh is the story of one woman's journey through India, Thailand, and Cambodia in search of God, Truth, and Air Conditioning.  Alicia takes on the Indian Mustache Epidemic, French yoga teachers, "Spiritual Materialists" and New Age seekers, the sideways head nod, chicken tikka masala, meditation and "monkey mind," Annoying American Tourists, expatriates living in India, Bollywood and water buffalo, the nature of reality and fabric of time and space, being a stowaway on the Indian Railway, eating with your hands, and pooping in holes.

Artist bios here

Tickets: $10 - $20

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Katie Rubin, "Indecision Collision"

As Indecision Collision's protagonist, Katie, continues to walk her spiritual path, we meet several characters (10 all told) whom Katie has either dated, asked for advice about dating, or decided to avoid the dating topic with entirely.  What makes this piece as potent and relateable is both the narrating voice's poetic quality and the writer/performer's ability to move seemlessly back and forth between a wide array of characters.  She plays a neurotic, Jewish CEO (her father), a saccarine Yogi with a sex addiction problem, an aggressive Landmark Workshop Leader, a disempowered midwestern housewife, a supercharged, raw food and juicing junky of a jewish mom of three, an angel/healer/spiritualist, a controlling therapist, a real Buddhist, and several others.  The dating struggle, she finds, is truly a search for self.  Can she stand in her full power and vulnerability?  Or will she shrink from it and sell herself short?  Or will it be a bit of both?  Come see.  It'll be fun indeed.

Barbara Michaels, "The Doormen"

Lovers and others change our lives, opening doors for us that we may ultimately walk through alone... Sometimes that door bangs your butt across the threshold. Sometimes you shake the handle hard, but it's locked tight, or so it seems. Sometimes you dive through with glee only to crumble with longing on the other side. Sometimes you're looking for someone who will both open the door and walk through it with you. And all these moments, the searing and the cheering, are precious, shared, and finally appreciated. The Doormen, as presented here, is an excerpt of a longer show being developed under the wing of the San Francisco Circus Center Clown Conservatory. Look for a daytime walking tour version of The Doormen at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe.

More info: BarbaraInCharacter.com

SPF3 presents

Denia Dance, Jorge De Hoyos & Tunuviel Luv, Pearl Marill

Artist bios here

Tickets: $10-$20

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Photo: Denia Dance

VaBang! Dance Company,   www.vabang.org/archives/category/events,  Tickets $10 - $20,    BrownPaperTickets

A new video installation

by Daniel Konhauser

“Endless Landscape” is an image filled maze, a sequence of sights and sounds in a narrow corridor that the audience will pass through, which examines the ways in which modes of transportation affect our perception of our environment, our relationship to it, and the stories we construct as we travel through it.

Sept 3-13

Open Season, 51 and Counting, Identity Crisis

Open Season - A Queer Performance Showcase

WEDNESDAY 3 8:30 PM
THURSDAY 4 8:30 PM
FRIDAY 5 8:30 PM
SATURDAY 6 5:00 PM
SUNDAY 7 8:30PM
WEDNESDAY 10 8:30 PM
SATURDAY 13 8:30 PM
SUNDAY 14 8:30 PM

The Garage (SF Magazine's Best of the Bay) and the Queer Cultural Center present a 90 minute rollicking performance showcase with some of the Bay Area's most provocative queer performance artists. Each show will feature a rotating roster of spoken-word, music, drag, cabaret, experimental theatre and contemporary dance. Performers include gender-queer performance artist Sunny Drake, burlesque dancers the Twilight Vixens, Veronica Combs (aka Vixen Noir), excerpts from Wickie Stamps' gothic drama Fugue State and spoken-word performers Meliza Bañales, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor.

THURSDAY 4 7:00 PM
FRIDAY 5 at 7:00 PM
SATURDAY 6 7:00 PM
SATURDAY 6 8:30 PM
THURSDAY 11 7:00 PM
FRIDAY 12 7:00 PM
SATURDAY 13 5:30 PM
SATURDAY 13 7:00 PM

Everyone's had a few jobs--Mary Ann's had 51! She wrote this original one woman musical comedy to come to terms with this fact. Mary Ann plays herself, wearing the many masks it takes to smoke that job interview; master myriad menus, quit, and then start all over! She narrates her own failures, meltdowns, and comebacks with chutzpah and comic timing. Mary Ann's alter ego, Mabo Jones (pronounced MAH-boh) pushes Mabo front and center, stealing Mary Ann's show with her musical flair. She sings, dances and interacts with the audience. These two face off in a hilarious death scene climax. Mabo wants passion, love and to be worshipped. Mary Ann wants to pay the bills. Come and see who wins!

Fresh from this year's Women on the Way Festival presented by Footloose, "51 & Counting" was chosen by artistic director Mary Alice Fry for its potential to fulfill the company's mission: Move Mary Ann from her day job and into a professional, theatrical career.

Mary Ann Boyd spent 2005-2007 in "Menopause the Musical" at Seattle's ACT Theatre, playing both the Earth Mother or Power Woman roles. She finally got her Equity card! Other roles over the years in Seattle include, Ronette in "Little Shop of Horrors;" Nancy Reagan in the original musical "Loose Canons;" Mrs. White in a musical based on the game Clue; Joanne in "Godspell;" Isobel in "Pirates of Penzance;" and Mickie the cop in "The Female Odd Couple;" She also wrote and performed sketch comedy with Chicagoland's "Gag Reflex," and was a founding member of San Francisco's own all- female acapela group "Screaming Divas" from 1990-1996.

"51 & Counting" was incubated in a solo performance workshop and then hatched as part of 2002's Mae West Fest in Seattle. Mary Ann's alter ego in the show Mabo Jones (pronounced MAW-boh), first stepped on stage as an emcee, and has been invited back for four of Mary Ann's solo shows. Mabo's work with Mary Ann, though painful, continues to inform where "51 & Counting" is going.

SATURDAY 6 2:30 PM
SUNDAY 7 7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 10 7:00 PM
THURSDAY 11 8:30 PM
FRIDAY 12 8:30 PM
SATURDAY 13 2:30 PM

Friend, teacher, mother, son, artist, homemaker, convict, consumer which is you, and which is your accepted role in society? Identity Crisis is a twisted yet charming duet between the 2 choreographers/dancers/obsessive freaks/teahcers/lovers/friends who stole the SF Fringe's Best Dance Show in 2007.

"It's always great fun to see a group poke fun at the inspiration that feeds it...inFluxdance did just that in the highly-entertaining piece Identity Crisis....They are fun, skilled and never, no never, take themselves too seriously."-Montreal Gazette 2008

The Garage has a sprung dance floor with mirrors and is available for
performances, workshops and classes.

joe landini (The Garage artspace / director)

michael michalske (The Garage artspace / technical director)

the raw & uncut performance series
The Garage’s ongoing performance showcase series featuring multi-media, contemporary dance, spoken-word,

experimental theatre and performance art.

RAW (resident artists' workshop)
a 12 week residency program offering approximately 4-6 hours of free rehearsal space that culminates in a
two night performance. performance, artists of all disciplines are encouraged to apply.

SPF (summer performance festival)
is The Garage’s annual performance festival, featuring both veteran and emerging artists.

SPF is in its third year and in 2008 the festival will feature three months performance

that reflects the broad spectrum of contemporary performance in the Bay Area.

AIRspace
a 12 week residency program for bay area queer performance artists.

please contact joe landini 415 885 4006 for more details.