Dec 20 & 21, 2008

RAW presents choreographer Laura Bernasconi   

Moving Studies

Moving Studies is an informal performance event by Amsterdam-based dance artist and emerging choreographer, LAURA BERNASCONI. With her professional background in western classical dance and classical Indian dance, the evening promises to investigate and synthesize both dance idioms creating dance that crosses and blends the cultural divide between East and West.

Dec 13 & 14, 2008

AIRspace presents a Queer Performance Showcase

Sadie Lune   •   Sherilyn Connelly

Artists bios Here

Nov 5 & 19, 2008

RAW (resident artists’ workshop) presents

Katie Rubin & Alicia Dattner

Two of the Bay Area’s premier solo performers present an evening of comedy and thought provoking theatre.

Nov 16 (Sun) 2008

Featuring choreography by

Laura Bernsconi & Enrico Labayen

Oct 23 & 24  2008

The Garage presents
Dr. Kristov's House of Fun and Horror

RAW (resident artists' workshop) presentsa special pre-Halloween extravaganza for grown-ups only.

On their way to play an out-of-the-way show The Voodoo Orphan's tour van breaks down; but wait, there's a house with a light on over there! Too bad for them it houses the twisted sideshow fiends of Dr. Kristov.

When Grand Guignol mashes up with American sideshow Dr. Kristov's House of Fun and Horror is the one of a kind result. Bring your sense of humor and your strong constitution.

Artist website Here

Denia Dance    Oct 22 , 2008,  Dec 7, 2008

Join us for the gallery opening of "Movement: a collaboration into the manner and way of moving," fine art photographs by Gregory Bartning and the dancers of Denia Dance. Also performing that evening are Denia Dance and Denia Dance workshop participants.

• The dancers will perform excerpts of "Journey," a piece exploring what it means to be connected and why we feel so alone in our fast-paced, American lifestyle.

• Refreshments will be served at the artist's reception after the performance.

Artists website Here 

Oct 11 2008    @  7:00pm

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.

INVINCIBLE

A short work-in-progress
preview of a new dance piece by

Marisa Mariscotti

Featuring Alexandra Bradshaw, Brianna Taylor, Katrina Morin, and Kerri Myers

Also showing new work by
Brianna Taylor and Kerri Myers

Sept 27 & 28  2008

@ 8:00pm 

RAW presents
new choreography by
Charles Gushue

Oct 4 & 5 2008  @ 8pm

raw & uncut

choreography showcase

featuring choreographers Aura Fischbeck & Clair Duplantier, Kelly Bowker, Suzanne Foster, GUT DANCE, Gretchen Garnett and Lenora Lee

The Garage and the Queer Cultural Center present a 90 minute rollicking performance spectacular with some of the Bay Area's most provocative queer performance artists

Open Season    

A Queer Performance Spectacular

Each show featured a rotating roster of spoken-word, music, drag, cabaret, experimental theatre and contemporary dance. Performers included 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 Lynne Breedlove, Meliza Bañales, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor, film by Lemcke, and authors Michelle Tea and Horehound Stillpoint

Ran from September 3 to 14, 2008 as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

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   Sharon Mashihi, Jaimie Venci, Susan Kanga & Observational Science - new experimental dance theater

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

Aug 21-22  New choreography by Denia Dance, Jorge De Hoyos & Tunuviel Luv, Pearl Marill

Aug 23-24   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

Tickets: $10 - $20, Brown Paper Tickets   -   More info about the performance at Press and at www.andrewwass.com

Michael Michalske

Tickets: $10 - $20, Brown Paper Tickets

Part of the National Queer Arts Festival
An AIRspace presentation

June 26-28, 2008

THE TWILIGHT VIXEN REVUE and

SF BOYLESQUE

Q-baret Spectacular

The Twilight Vixen Revue and SF Boylesque are pleased to present 3 evenings of smashing double-header shows featuring the talents of San Francisco’s all queer showgirls, the Twilight Vixen Revue and the tantalizing all-male cast of SF Boylesque showcasing classic burlesque, decadent cabaret and contemporary vaudeville in a one act taste of a larger show to come.

A SAFEhouse AIRspace Program at The Garage artspace

June 20-22, 2008

SWEET DELIVERANCE
Veronica Combs aka Vixen Noir

Sweet Deliverance traces the evolution of Vixen Noir’s sexuality from sensual toddler to teen years wrought with erotic fantasies; boys with big cocks and coming out as a lesbian.  Her drug-induced twenties were replete with low self-esteem, bad choices, the elusive orgasm and her never-ending search for sexual freedom on a higher plane. 
In a funny, edgy, sexy and raucous one-woman show, Vixen gets down and dirty with her grandmother, Sweet, as she sets out to prove that her smutty ways were passed down through her matriarchal bloodline.  Vixen believes, “I came out of my mother’s womb sexually charged!”  Sweet Deliverance employs a fierce mix of storytelling, poetry, monologues, songs, burlesque and contemporary dance, punctuated by excerpts from Vixen’s interviews with Sweet, culminating in an explosive, mind-bending, toes-curling climax that just might make you look at your own sexuality in a whole different light!

Tickets: $10-$20, Sliding Scale

Brown Paper Tickets, Info/res. 415 885-4006

(Vixen Noir Photo by karen marisa)

(Sunny Drake Photo by Alia)

part of AIRspace (queer performance residency program)
and the National Queer Arts Festival

June 18-19, 2008

SUNNY DRAKE

with guest choreographer Jesse Hewit

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Have you ever wondered if what you think you want is what you really want? Or just what you’ve been taught to want? In these two one-person-shows, in collaboration with visual artists and musicians, Australian performer Sunny Drake explores love, heartbreak, gender and the manufacturing of emotions. Sunny seamlessly weaves story-telling, theatre and creative movement with layers of sound and visuals. Sunny embeds intimate and exposing autobiographical stories in broader political contexts, creating performance that is socially relevant and resonates with many different people’s experiences.

Drake will be presenting two new pieces, "Other-wise" and "Gender-queer seeking... "

Guest choreographer Jesse Hewit presents "Wall Ball"

Sunny Drake is a human critter who weaves story telling, theatre and creative movement with layers of sound and visuals. Sunny embeds personal experiences and stories in broader political and social contexts to create bold, raw and challenging performance. Explorations include body image, gender, sexuality, concrete, sexual assault, identity, confessions, fear and professionalism. Sunny has performed in many places around Australia, the USA and Canada including in theatres, festivals, living-rooms, backyards, forests, streets, basements, work places, conferences and deserts. Sunny’s solo works include Umbilical and I Should Have Turned the Mattress Over too. Sunny was born on stolen Indigenous land in Australia (Jaggera-Turrabul land, Brisbane).

part of AIRspace (queer performance residency program)

Jun 15-16, 2008

Jul 30-31

FUGUE STATE
by WICKIE STAMPS

Wickie Stamps is a widely published writer and emerging screenwriter whose work has appeared in The Advocate, OutWeek, Gay Community News, Pucker Up and over a dozen short-story collections. Prior editor of the notorious hardcore gay-boy sex mag Drummer as well as Socialist Review a left-wing journal, Wickie is the lead writer of the award-winning short film Foucault Who?,  Co-partner of Heads Will Roll Productions www.headswillroll.net, a rag-tag media biz, Wickie’s current obsessions —showcased on HWR’s Head Wound podcast—include crime, horror, and esoteric spiritual research and practices. Find Wickie's latest written ravings can be found at Heads Will Roll Productions blog. Also check out her work on wild rocker sitcom Rock Court at rockcourt.net and her creative co-conspiratorial coaching biz Monstre Sacré www.monstresacre.net.

RAW (resident artists' workshop) at The Garage artspace presents

Two Heads Taller
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June 2-3, 2008  (Mon-Tue) @ 8pm
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Two Heads Taller (Naomi Chamblin and Hanna Satterlee) will be premiering their work, Running Uphill Backwards. By trusting memories of their own habits, the work indicates the power of fear and its counterpart, reliance. The performance offers a dreamlike sequence of movement, imagery and sound, questioning that which attracts us to what we fear most, and the switch that makes us turn the other way to run.

At The Garage artspace

June 1, 2008  (Sun) @ 8pm 

(above) Katarina Eriksson

RAW (resident artists’ workshop) presents

choreographers

Katarina Eriksson and Caroline Simon

Eugenia & Frank
- a dance portrait

Choreography & Dance: Katarina Eriksson
Music: Niklas Ryden, et.al.

For a couple of years, Katarina  has been haunted by a character--writer/doctor Eugenia Frank.  She has explored the story of Ms Frank  through dance improvisation, creative writing, and clowning.  The result is a piece that ranges from Bollywood Dancing to Performance Art.  Ingredients:  A typewriter, big specs and spoken words.  Odd moments and curious movements....and a divorce.

"I do all my thinking on Friday mornings.  It is good to have it done with before the weekend, when the rain arrives."  E.F

a piece

solo dance-performance by caroline simon

a piece is a piece

with a lot of fantasy, humor, impressive situations and surpirising twists.

a piece leaves room for the audience to create and see its own images.

daily routine or performance mode?

…a little piece of life on stage….

This provocative one-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 movement, 23 Elephants creates an environment rife with physical comedy and throbbing innuendo.

Originally presented in the 2002 New York Fringe Festival, NYTheatre.com hailed it as “the most notably engrossing theatrical opening in recent memory.”

SAFEhouse presents a new annual festival that highlights the unique contributions of men in the field of Bay Area contemporary dance. This year’s festival is provocative combination of veteran choreographers (Scott Wells and Eric Kupers from Dandelion Dance Theater), trans-men (Joshua Klipp from Freeplay Dance Crew) and a full slate of emerging choreographers. move(men)t features two programs and promises to become an important new addition to the Bay Area’s cultural landscape.

Program A – April 17-18 Thu-Fri
Sheldon Smith, Joshua Klipp  (Freeplay Dance Crew), Adam Venker, Shannon Preto and a dance film by Rajendra Serber.

Program B – April 19-20 Sat-Sun
Andrew Wass, Travis Rowland, Scott Wells, Shannon Preto, Charles Gushue and a new film by Eric Kupers.

Curated by Shannon Preto.

Photo of Dance Theater/Shannon by Breton Tyner- Bryan

THE YES MANIFESTO

by Shannon Preto

Yes to Dancing-Yes to accepting-Yes to affirming-Yes to listening-Yes to apologizing-Yes to saying NO to dinner at Hooters-Yes to accepting changing power structures-Yes to NOT telling everyone your thoughts-Yes to changing the war in our words-Yes to following a woman’s lead-Yes to reporting predators-Yes to choosing a vasectomy-Yes to f/Feminism-Yes to LGBTQ-Yes to DINKs-Yes to fleeing, not fighting-Yes to “talking about it”-Yes to foreplay-Yes to softness-Yes to cuddling-Yes to crying-Yes to engulfing-Yes to just enough-Yes to choosing a low wage income -Yes to accepting others getting a high wage income-Yes to having dinner ready when SHE gets home-Yes to watching soap operas, especially SciFi ones-Yes to taking your time making love-Yes to asking directions-Yes to changing diapers-Yes to interacting platonically-Yes to having friends without privileges-Yes to watching football & choreographing in the same day-Yes to being a friend without wanting sex-Yes to humility-Yes to chores-Yes to smallness-Yes to poetry -Yes to foreplay-Yes to not having an orgasm-Yes to loving one person-Yes to marching behind women-Yes to marching behind minorities -Yes to marching behind oppressed voice-Yes to knowing you shouldn’t march at all-Yes to thinking before acting-Yes to hugging-Yes to stopping on “No”-Yes to being a dancer-Yes to watching men thoughtfully navigate society as choreographers

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Now that you're done with the flu, the cold, and the flu again, come enjoy the visual feats of DOUBLE VISION.

Co-Artistic Directors Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute are premiering the tumultuous dance piece Thicket and the audio-visual work Thicket on Fire, respectively. Additional mind-bending, original works by DOUBLE VISION dance, music and video collaborators will add to the festivities

www.double-vision.biz/garage.html

There will also be a post-show reception with music and video installations Friday night.

Collaborators include:

Dorsey Dunn, Dave Holton, Elisabeth Kohnke, Jennifer Mellor, Rachel Oliver, Bill Wolter, and Nicole Zvarik.

DOUBLE VISION creates contemporary performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture.

The result is a body of work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.

DANCE
  

RAW
(resident artists’ workshop)

presents

Fri & Sun
April 11 & 13, 2008
@ 8pm

The Garage
@ 975 Howard St.

Tickets $10-$20
Info (415) 885 4006

DOUBLE VISION will be celebrating its fourth year with performances in San Francisco and abroad. Following RAW will be DOUBLE VISIONS’s annual home season, featuring four nights of dance and music premieres in April 2008. DOUBLE VISION will launch an ambitious tour of the United States in the fall of 2008.

Strange Fact Dance Company has developed a new evening-length worked titled LandEscape which was developed by Rowena

Richie with Katarina Eriksson and Ernie Lafky. The performances also feature musicians Ben Juodvalkis and Rory Keefe, sculpture by Terry Cunniff and visual design by Sarah Smith.

Through dance, sound, original songs, text and a scenic installation, LandEscape explores the question: how are humans perceived through the eyes of other species including plants and animals (and to some degree children)? LandEscape is inspired by topics
ranging from from Michael Pollan's point of view, to wood in the news, to a collection of things found in the ground.

Rowena Richie is a dancer, director, composer, on-and-off actor and teacher, and full-time wife and mother. Strange Fact Dance Company is her newest baby. She is also the co-founder of Boathouse & Co. Performance. Rowena has performed with Kraft and Purver, the ESP Project and Strangefruit Theater Ensemble.