Joe Goode Performance Group

Writing from the Body – A day-long retreat with Joe Goode

November 5, 2024 By

Writing from the Body

A day-long retreat with Joe Goode

Event Details:

Saturday December 7th

Time: 10-3pm

Cost: $175

Location: Joe Goode Annex

“In an unfeeling world, to feel something, indeed to craft something out of “felt” materials could be an act of redemption” ~ Joe Goode

Please join us for a retreat with Joe Goode. Participants will be guided through gentle movement and embodied writing practices designed to reacquaint the mind with the intuitive, sensitive, perceptive body.

Joe Goode’s signature creative process cultivates source material that emerges from the simple truth of bodily sensation. Participants are invited into the lush territory of embodied action, to bring the “felt experience” into language. We will move alone and together, not to discover choreographic techniques (although this can be a happy byproduct) but to learn how differently we perceive the world when we listen to our bodies.

There is no dance or performance background necessary. Just bring your curiosity and something to write on.

Workshop will include:

Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of simple mobility
Writing from the Body- facilitated writing sessions that draw on what the body knows
Metta practice- generate empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action
The power of Making- after generating textual and physical material, we will then place them together to create a kind of altar, a place of recognition of the life we are experiencing in this present moment.

I trust you, body. To guide me. To help me through difficult times, as you have always done. ~ Joe Goode

Joe Goode

Artistic Director/Choreographer

Joe Goode is a choreographer, writer, and director widely known as an innovator in the field of dance for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and the United States Artists Glover Fellowship in 2008. In 2006 Goode directed the opera Transformations for the San Francisco Opera Center. His play Body Familiar, commissioned by the Magic Theatre in 2003, was met with critical acclaim.

The Joe Goode Performance Group, formed in 1986, tours regularly throughout the U.S., and has toured internationally to Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Goode is known as a master teacher; his summer workshops in “felt performance” attract participants from around the world, and the company’s teaching residencies on tour are hugely popular. He is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.

Goode’s performance-installation works have been commissioned by the Fowler Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, Krannert Art Museum, the Capp Street Project, the M.H. de Young Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His dance theater work has been commissioned by Pennsylvania Ballet, Zenon Dance Company, AXIS Dance Company and Dance Alloy Theater among others. Goode and his work have been recognized by numerous awards for excellence including the American Council on the Arts, the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie), and Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (Izzies).

Belonging to the Body – GUSH 2024 Workshop with Joe Goode

August 26, 2024 By

Belonging to the Body a GUSH 2024 Workshop with Joe Goode

In this workshop we will take time to activate embodied sensation and hone our powers of empathy towards ourselves and each other.

There is no dance or performance background necessary. Just bring your curiosity and something to write on.

Details:

Saturday October 12th

@ The Joe Goode Annex

10:00am – 1pm

$75 per person

Workshop will include:

Movement for Humans- exploring the healing pleasure of simple mobility
Metta practice- generate empathy through movement, voice, touch, and collaborative action

“To feel something in an unfeeling world is an act of redemption” ~ Joe Goode

LASOS | REYES Dance

July 7, 2022 By

LASOS, Spanish word for ties, is a new work of film and live performance exploring the links between childhood trauma and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture and traditions.

Conceived and directed by Jocelyn Reyes, LASOS mines the artist’s personal story of recovery from debilitating pain. Like many first-generation Latin Americans living in the U.S., Reyes received a loving but severe upbringing in which corporal punishment was commonplace. After moving to San Francisco in 2017, she began to develop signs of fibromyalgia, a condition which eventually overwhelmed her central nervous system leaving her bedridden for months. LASOS explores the journey Reyes made in the year that followed, uncovering the hidden ties between her childhood experience of abuse and her present-day affliction. With LASOS, Reyes aims to give hope that it’s possible to break the cycle of suffering just as it’s possible to break the cycle of violence.

Thursday, September 29 | 8pm

Friday, September 30 | 8pm
(7:15pm – pre-show discussion with pain psychologist Valerie Wei-Yee Jackson)

Saturday, October 1 | 8pm
(with post-show reception)

In the creation of LASOS, Reyes will be collaborating with movement artists Jess Bozzo, Caitlin Hicks, Maya Mohsin and Brooke Terry, music composers Emmet Webster, Michael Webster and Wolf Woodcock, lighting designer Grisel Torres and costume designer Monique Prieto.

LASOS is generously supported by the Joe Goode Performance Group Co-Production Program, the CA$H Grant from Dancers’ Group and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

COVID PROTOCOLS:

The Annex requires audiences to be masked at all times. No concessions will be available.
Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test dated within 72 hours of the event are required. Children under 5 may attend without proof of vaccination or a negative test.
Fully vaccinated performers may be unmasked on stage. Our COVID policies are based on scientific knowledge, the current local conditions of the pandemic, and our ethos of accessibility and community care.

Please contact [email protected] if you have questions or concerns.

ACCESSIBILITY

Joe Goode Annex is a wheelchair accessible theater (ramp to front entrance, no internal stairs) with wheelchair seating available for up to six power or manual wheelchairs. Theater seats are movable and have no armrests. Wheelchairs can be seated next to each other and next to theater seats. The Annex has two single-stall all-gender restrooms that are accessible for power and manual wheelchairs.

Please contact [email protected] if you will be using ADA seating or need any additional accommodations.

Time of Change: Show with ASL Interpretation

August 18, 2021 By

Sep 9: Show with ASL Interpretation

This show includes American Sign Language Interpretation. $0-48 Sliding Scale. Contact [email protected] for ticket access!

Time of Change features live speaking, singing, and a pre-recorded audio tour for which live ASL interpretation and written transcripts will be provided. Audiences will be traversing just under 0.5 miles within a 2.5 block of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. This show’s live performance does require audiences to cross 4 intersections (with stop signs on a ‘Slow Street’ and street lights) with the audience group of 20. Three ushers and 1 production staff will be supporting patrons.

JGPG staff are available to assist with reserving tickets, either via email or calling 415-561-6565 to leave a message with your name, phone number, and times to call you back!

Time of Change COVID safety:

ALL PERFORMANCES ARE:

MOSTLY OUTDOORS (only 1 section inside a large, open church space)

SMALL AUDIENCES (20-60)

SOCIAL DISTANCING OBSERVED

VACCINES REQUIRED (for indoor portions)

MASKS ON (for all, all the time)

The safety of our audiences, cast, and crew are our top priority.

See the world premiere of Time of Change created by the Artistic team, co-directors: Joe Goode/Joe Goode Performance Group, Melecio Estrella and OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch + Gabriele Christian). This is an in-person show that will guide small audience groups through the streets of the Haight-Ashbury to witness several pop-up moments of movement, music, monologue and more.

Tickets: Advance registration required.
15 Artist Tickets @ $20
35 General Admission @ $48
Saturday shows will include a VIP experience for 5 people @ $125

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

This ensures audiences and JGPG staff can be accommodated with COVID safety protocols, access needs, and clear communication about show logistics. Please plan ahead and reserve your ticket early!

Time of Change will weave and examine the utopian ideals and failures of the hippie era – as they relate to our current revolution. The project will uplift real peoples’ histories, examine the whiteness of the hippie movement, and explore what intersectional liberation means.

JGPG is presenting this project with SF Heritage (in the Doolan-Larson Residence at Haight x Ashbury), to celebrate their 50th Anniversary (and JGPG’s 35th). Read more about Time of Change here.

Where: Outdoor and indoor locations in the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood
(Our show has several different walking routes that will be randomly assigned to each party of ticket-holders. Some cover a longer distance (8+ blocks) others are somewhat shorter (5-7 blocks). Please indicate in the ‘Comments’ section [when checking out on your ticket order] if your party has a preference on route distance and if anyone in your party has access needs. We will be following up with the email you provide before your show time with several reminders, details and opportunities to ask questions. Please reach out via email if you have any concerns or questions: [email protected])

Contact us at [email protected] for access support (cost or otherwise) to this event.

Photo by RJ Muna
[image description: Highly colorized portrait on a bright blue background, with a yellow and pink toned figure holding a bouquet of flowers in front of their chest. A diagonal splash of red, cyan and yellow flower blossoms are tossed mid-air in front of the figure.]

Time of Change

August 13, 2021 By

ALL PERFORMANCES ARE:
MOSTLY OUTDOORS (only one section inside a large, open church space)
SMALL AUDIENCES (20-60)
VACCINES REQUIRED (for all audience 12+)
MASKS ON (all the time)

The safety of our audiences, cast, and crew are our to priority.

When: Sep 1-19, 2021. Wednesdays-Sundays: 7:30pm
Sep 1: Pay-What-You-Can Preview $10-48
Sep 9: Show with ASL Interpretation
Sep 12: Show with Haptic Access Tour + Audio Description* for blind/low vision audiences

JGPG staff are available to assist with reserving tickets. Please call 415-561-6565 to leave a message with your name, phone number, and times to call you back! *Audio Description by Gravity Access Services

Tickets now on sale

Tickets: Advance registration required.
15 Artist Tickets @ $20
35 General Admission @ $48
Saturday shows will include a VIP experience for 5 people @ $125

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

JGPG is presenting this project with SF Heritage (in the Doolan-Larson Residence at Haight x Ashbury), to celebrate their 50th Anniversary (and JGPG’s 35th). Read more about Time of Change here.

Tickets now on sale

Contact us at [email protected] for access support (cost or otherwise) to this event.

Time of Change: Show with Audio Description

August 13, 2021 By

Sep 12: Show with Haptic Access Tour + Audio Description* for blind/low vision audiences

This show includes Live Audio Description and a Haptic Access Tour by Stephanie Hewett of Gravity Access Services for visually impaired audience members. Haptic Access Tour begins at 6:30pm on Sunday, Sep 12. JGPG staff are available to assist with reserving tickets. Please call 415-561-6565 to leave a message with your name, phone number, and times to call you back!

Please note: audiences will be traversing just under 0.5 miles within a 2.5 block of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. This show’s live performance does require audiences to cross 4 intersections (with stop signs (2) on a ‘Slow Street’ and street lights (2)) with the audience group of 20. Three ushers and 1 production staff will be supporting patrons. Folks using our Audio Description services are encouraged to bring a companion or friend for support navigating the show, at no cost. Please make note on your ticket order, or when you’re reserving via phone: 415-561-6565.

You may also reserve the ‘Tour with Audio Description‘ ticket here on our website, if you wish. If you need more support with pricing, give us a call at 415-561-6565 or email [email protected].

For blind and visually impaired audience members, Joe Goode Performance Group partners with Gravity Access Services to offer live audio description and a haptic access tour. Audio description is a live audio track spoken by a professional audio describer to audience members with visual impairments through a wireless headset system. It provides clear and engaging descriptions of the meaningful visual details of a performance. Haptic access tours (20-30 minutes) are a live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.

For more information, to book a spot in a Haptic Access Tour or to reserve a headset please call: 415-561-6565

Tickets: Advance registration required.
15 Artist Tickets @ $20
35 General Admission @ $48
Saturday shows will include a VIP experience for 5 people @ $125

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

JGPG is presenting this project with SF Heritage (in the Doolan-Larson Residence at Haight x Ashbury), to celebrate their 50th Anniversary (and JGPG’s 35th). Read more about Time of Change here.

Contact us at [email protected] for access support (cost or otherwise) to this event.

Time of Change – Pay-What-You-Can Preview

August 12, 2021 By

See the world premiere of Time of Change created by the Artistic team, co-directors: Joe Goode/Joe Goode Performance Group, Melecio Estrella and OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch + Gabriel Christian). This is an in-person show that will guide small audience groups through the streets of the Haight-Ashbury to witness several pop-up moments of movement, music, monologue and more.

JGPG is presenting this project with SF Heritage (in the Doolan-Larson Residence at Haight x Ashbury), to celebrate their 50th Anniversary (and JGPG’s 35th). Time of Change is emerging as a collaborative process, with neighborhood meetings, co-creation, and community agency. Read more about Time of Change here.

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE the show.

Advance registration required.
This ensures audiences and JGPG staff can be accommodated with COVID safety protocols, access needs, and clear communication about show logistics. Please plan ahead and reserve your ticket early!

Sep 1-12, 2021. Wednesdays-Sundays: 7:30pm
Sep 9: Show with ASL Interpretation
Sep 12: Show with Haptic Access tour (6:30pm) + Audio Description for blink/low vision audiences

Tickets:
Pay-what-you-can Preview $10-38 Sliding Scale
15 Artist Tickets @ $20
35 General Admission @ $48
Saturday shows will include a VIP experience for 5 people @ $125

Tickets now on sale

Creators’ Circle Donors will get special early ticket access starting June 17.
JGPG Donors will receive access June 25.

Contact us at [email protected] for access support (cost or otherwise) to this event.

Daddy Matters: Movement-Based Storytelling Series

June 9, 2021 By

Dates: Tuesdays, 4-6pm pst, July 27th, and August 17th

This class series, informed by the Daddy Matters (www.joegoode.org/event/daddy-matters) work created by Richard and Jhia Jackson, is a supported exploration of three different choreographic elements of dance: story, music, and movement. Classes can be taken as a single drop-in or as a progressive series: each class will build on the previous and each element can also be explored independently. Much like the Daddy Matters work, this series is open to all who want to move or be moved, and can be taken independently or with family, friends, or colleagues.

Participants will engage in an in-depth exploration of the elements of story, music, and movement to expand and deepen their presence with themselves, their class partner, and others. Throughout the series, the creative prompts will allow for everyone to share and move at their own comfort level, encouraging an ongoing exploration of our ability to make intentional, respected choices. As the class series progresses, the prompts will draw more and more from movement as the primary art form, facilitating opportunities to work together in crafting and sharing the inspirations that come from our explorations. This will result in the opportunity for in-class sharing, as well as contributing to the living archive on the Daddy Matters webpage (www.jhiajackson.com/daddy-matters). For more specifics on the content of each standalone class, please visit the Daddy Matters webpage or the individual class registration pages.

This series is developed and led by Richard Jackson, Jhia Jackson, Damara Vita Ganley, and Patricia West.

Registration is open! Click here to RSVP.

For a living archive of this project & info on past sessions, please visit www.jhiajackson.com/daddy-matters

Dear reader,

You are invited to join Jhia, Damara, Patricia, and myself in the second session of our Daddy Matters virtual class series, Music, on Tuesday, July 27th, from 4pm – 6pm pst.

In this class, we will be exploring the music of your life and your relationships. Music is a means to communicate emotions. In determining the playlist for Daddy Matters, I thought about the music I listen to, how that music made me feel, and the impact it had on others. The music has to sound good and I wanted some good old fashioned feet tapping, finger tapping music – music where the song is halfway over before you realize you were already moving along with it. Music is the glue that brings together the story and movement, it brings together all of the elements necessary to create a work of art.

Music comes in many different shapes, formats, and styles. Recently, I watched a dance performance without music and I found myself creating music in my mind. Even when we think there is no music, music is still present. We invite you to join us – on your own or with someone special – to explore what it means to view your life as art and what happens when we explore the music in our lives.

~RICHARD

Richard Jackson, Jr. (he/him) is a New Jersey native and an avid music lover who is guilty of influencing and nurturing his daughter, Jhia Jackson’s, love of music and dance. Using his extensive library of over 1,500 of record albums (vinyl) and attending live performances, it afforded him an opportunity to connect today’s music with its roots in yesterday’s artists. He is a graduate of Howard University, with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and Pepperdine University, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Richard, who has been living with Parkinson’s for over 20 years, has no formal dance training or credits beyond what has been absorbed by attending over 20 years of Jhia’s dance and cheer performances.

Jhia Louise Jackson (she/they) is an artist, academic, and activist who regularly engages in interdisciplinary projects. She has worked with artists such as Alexandra Pirici, Joya Powell/Movement of the People Dance Company, Raissa Simpson/Push Dance Company, RAWdance, Cally Spooner, Kim Epifano/Epiphany Dance Theater, and dNaga Dance. As the founder of j.habitus and a current doctoral student in Sociology at UCSF, she creates visceral explorations and presentations of topics drawn from her academic and activist work. She earned her BA in Dance, Sociology, and Ethics from Loyola Marymount University in LA and her MS in Bioethics from Columbia University. She is the founder of Emerging Black Bay Artists, an online community supporting the professional development of early and mid-career Black artists in the Bay Area. Visit www.jhiajackson.com to learn more about her work.

Damara Vita Ganley (she/they) is committed to art making practices that inspire connection, collaboration and correspondence with the heart. They have been a part of the JGPG community as student, artist and education co-coordinator since 2008.
Working with Jhia and Richard in Daddy Matter’s has brought her into a deeper creative journey with her own family and has deepened her commitment and understanding of relationship as the orienting compass for everything at all times. The inspired care that she sees Jhia and Richard offer one another and others is like a recipe – something to follow and reference as a way to nourish and celebrate our complex lives and relationships.

Patricia West (she/her) is an educator and performing artist. She aims to create and support spaces that foster self-expression and collaboration. Patricia is grateful to have continued to work artistically with and serve people across varied diverse communities all over the Bay Area and beyond. Patricia is currently one of the Education Coordinators for JGPG and has been a company member since 2006. Jhia and Richard’s work has inspired Patricia with ways to creatively tend to her relationships with those she loves, both living and deceased. Patricia shares Daddy Matters’ value in the ways music, movement, story and presence are integral in order to deepen our understanding of ourselves and are threads that uniquely weave us with one another.

photo by Amal Bisharat from RAWdance’s Concept Series 23 (2018)

Daddy Matters with Jhia + Richard Jackson

April 2, 2021 By

Joe Goode Performance Group and the JGPG Dance for Parkinson’s Program presented Daddy Matters on May 22, 2021— an ongoing father-daughter duet co-created & performed by Jhia Jackson and Richard Jackson. Daddy Matters has structured improvisation, audience direction, and a blend of Black contemporary music styles to engage with themes of race, family, and Parkinson’s Disease. The work is generated from an interview with Grandma Tiger, creating an intergenerational experience that evolves over time as the family shifts and the work’s intended audience does as well.

For this culminating event, we invited families, artists, healthcare practitioners, and those living with Parkinson’s Disease or similar neurological conditions to join us in creating a space for reflection on the role of family relationships in promoting human flourishing.

NEXT: stay tuned for more details on Jhia & Richard’s class series! Registration for families (chosen or otherwise) will open soon!

For a living archive of this project, please visit jhiajackson.com/daddy-matters

Jhia’s website page will be updated with video from the event, information on our subsequent class series, and more resources drawn from the virtual experience.

Tickets were on a sliding scale, which means we provided three different levels of ticket prices, all with the same level of access, in order to support the accessibility of this event. Level names reflect themes present in the work, reminding you that your presence is already a contribution.

Richard Jackson, Jr. is a New Jersey native and an avid music lover who is guilty of influencing and nurturing his daughter, Jhia Jackson’s, love of music and dance. Using his extensive library of over 1,500 of record albums (vinyl) and attending live performances, it afforded him an opportunity to connect today’s music with its roots in yesterday’s artists. He is a graduate of Howard University, with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and Pepperdine University, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Richard, who has been living with Parkinson’s for over 20 years, has no formal dance training or credits beyond what has been absorbed by attending over 20 years of Jhia’s dance and cheer performances.

Jhia Louise Jackson is an artist, academic, and activist who regularly engages in interdisciplinary projects. She has worked with artists such as Alexandra Pirici, Joya Powell/Movement of the People Dance Company, Raissa Simpson/Push Dance Company, RAWdance, Cally Spooner, Kim Epifano/Epiphany Dance Theater, and dNaga Dance. As the founder of j.habitus and a current doctoral student in Sociology at UCSF, she creates visceral explorations and presentations of topics drawn from her academic and activist work. She earned her BA in Dance, Sociology, and Ethics from Loyola Marymount University in LA and her MS in Bioethics from Columbia University. She is the founder of Emerging Black Bay Artists, an online community supporting the professional development of early and mid-career Black artists in the Bay Area. Visit www.jhiajackson.com to learn more about her work.

photo by Amal Bisharat from RAWdance’s Concept Series 23 (2018)

Joe Goode Performance Group

Writing from the Body

A day-long retreat with Joe Goode

Sep 9: Show with ASL Interpretation

Time of Change COVID safety:

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

Sep 12: Show with Haptic Access Tour + Audio Description* for blind/low vision audiences

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE each show.

SALES END AT 5:00pm the day BEFORE the show.

Dates: Tuesdays, 4-6pm pst, July 27th, and August 17th

Registration is open! Click here to RSVP.

For a living archive of this project & info on past sessions, please visit www.jhiajackson.com/daddy-matters

For a living archive of this project, please visit jhiajackson.com/daddy-matters

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