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Power Shift presents Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with Sam Wentz

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HMD’s 2020 Bridge Project Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community

Power Shift presents Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with Sam Wentz

“What can I love? a country, an arm, a doll, a new brand? We scratch our hearts with the patience of a farmer in a glittering landscape.”

– JSR

“Encaje” is a piece about hypocrisy, and it is inspired by the body of work of writer Anaïs Nin. Working with two concepts, the “diary” and the “radio”.  Judith Sánchez Ruíz recaptures the snapshot contents of an archive of her own days approaching dance like a „diary of movement.” with reinvents the untold, the undisclosed presence of disorder and vulnerability. The “radio” concept lets the body jump from one state to another as if someone turned the dial on an old radio trying to find a new frequency, thereby provoking a clash of opposing facts within one life, one body. 

“PURPLE is”  Duet Tribute to Trisha Brown with Judith Sánchez Ruíz and Sam Wentz. Judith Sánchez Ruíz has been inviting former members of the TBDC since 2018 to tribute the memory of the once called “Pillar of Postmodern Dance”, choreographer, performer Trisha Brown who passed away March of 2017; to create an improvisational duet in honor of her work and legacy. It was first performed with Lace Gries, Jodi Melnick, and Laurel Henkins in NYC and LA. Sánchez Ruíz, this time takes the opportunity to invite Sam Wentz. Sánchez Ruíz and Wentz were both parts of TBDC in different periods of the company, and on this occasion, they will perform for the first time together. Under their memories and inspiration, both artists will collide past, present, and future with their further research as artists in a performance of 30 minutes with live music. For Sanchez Ruiz, the imprint of Trisha Brown’s work, served as a reset of a new perception of movement and structural choreography, using Improvisation as a primary tool of creation. I have never stopped learning from it. 

This performance is presented by HMD’s 2020 Bridge Project “Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community.” For the full Festival program, visit: hopemohr.org/powershift.

Virtual Festival: GUSH

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GUSH

the Joe Goode Annex Festival
May 26-31, 2020

Joe Goode Performance Group’s first-ever festival at the Annex is now adapting its goal for artistic dialogue & proximity — into a scaled-back, virtual platform — to occur during its originally scheduled time. GUSH aims to honor and uplift the ongoing work of dance-making (and now, during a pandemic), in its messiness, resilience, and persistence.

Access virtual streaming of: classes, interactive short works for feedback, and talks with artists. GUSH features Joe Goode Performance Group, GERALDCASELDANCE, and NAKA Dance Theater — as they experiment with shared creative prompts and explore what their virtual artistic practices look like.

 “All the artists in this festival exude a depth of passion and commitment to an idea — in whatever mode of performance they take on. As we prepare to present work that is wholly and unapologetically itself, we have a lot to gush over.” —Joe Goode

Close together. Process-curious. Plentiful.

SCHEDULE OF VIRTUAL EVENTS

Tuesday, May 26, 10-11am: Movement for Humans Class with Joe Goode
An all-levels gentle movement class, taught by Joe Goode on Zoom – $0-20 Sliding scale

Tuesday, May 26, 7-9pm: GUSH Opening Night Peach Party with GG & Nicole
A remote dance party – themed after the fuzzy, gushing, juicy peach. Invitation: wear peach-colored attire!

Wednesday, May 27, 1-2pm: NAKA Dance Theater in Conversation with Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas
This conversation will be in Spanish with English interpretation. A virtual conversation with Rosa-Linda Fregoso and members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas—as part of NAKA Dance Theater’s BUSCARTE Project

Wednesday, May 27, 6-7pm: Feature Artist Practice – NAKA Dance Theater’s BUSCARTE
José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama will present excerpts of BUSCARTE (Searching for You), a performance that contemplates the forensic anthropology findings in the case of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College who were forcibly disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico in 2014.

Thursday, May 28, 4-6pm: Dancing Around Race with Gerald Casel
Gerald Casel will be joined by Rebecca Chaleff, Sammay Dizon, Kimani Fowlin, David Herrera, Yayoi Kambara, Kate Mattingly, Raissa Simpson, and Tria Blu Wakpa to hold space for this unique gathering during GUSH, paying particular attention to how systemic racial inequity is playing out during this pandemic. Moderated by Bhumi Patel, we will be asking how and where we go from here as well as sharing thoughts on imagining an alternative future that is equitable and just.

Thursday, May 28, 6-6:30pm: Feature Artist Practice – Queer Realities with Joe Goode Performance Group
Joe and dancers tell mini-stories of queerness by revisiting JGPG repertoire from their home spaces. Featuring performances by Melecio Estrella, Damara Ganley, Joe Goode, Molly Katzman, and Patricia West.

Friday, May 29: 4-5pm: Feature Artist Practice –Not About Race Dance with GERALDCASELDANCE
GCD will discuss the process of making Not About Race Dance,  a collaborative choreographic response to the unmarked predominance of whiteness in US postmodern dance. The work cites Neil Greenberg’s Not About AIDS Dance to connect the silence around the AIDS epidemic with the unacknowledged racial politics of postmodern dance.

Friday, May 29, 7-8:30pm: The Case of the 43 Disappeared Students of Ayotzinapa: A virtual conversation with Omar Garcia
This virtual conversation will be in Spanish with English interpretation. As part of NAKA Dance Theater’s BUSCARTE Project and in association with EastSide Arts Alliance, NAKA dialogues with Omar Garcia, a survivor of the student massacre of September 26, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.

Saturday, May 30, 6-7pm: Breaking Bread – Shared Artist Happy Hour
Join Joe, Gerald, and NAKA Dance Theater’s Debby, and José for an evening of conversation, remote glasses of wine, and their short responses to one another’s prompts- over a Zoom call.

Sunday, May 31, 3-4:30pm: Virtual Open House
Celebrating artists in our wider Annex community, 8 local dance-makers will share short works-in-progress in an afternoon of virtual interaction, drop in anytime! Borrowing from JGPG’s program of dialogue and learning, The Feedback, viewers will be invited to respond to a question from each artist via Zoom chat. Featuring Gabriel Christian, Sierra Don, Jhia Jackson, Nicole Maimon, Nathaniel Moore, Jocelyn Reyes, randy reyes, Molly Rose-Williams, Amy/Hannah Wasielewski and Alyssandra Wu

GUSH is made possible with support from San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bernard Osher Foundation, Koret Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the generosity of many individuals. JGPG is further supported by Bill Graham Foundation, Caerus Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and SV2.

GUSH: Virtual Open House

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Celebrating artists in our wider Annex community, local dance-makers will share short works-in-progress in an afternoon of virtual interaction. Drop in anytime! Borrowing from JGPG’s program of dialogue and learning, The Feedback, viewers will be invited to respond to a question from each artist via Google Doc or Zoom chat. Featuring Gabriel Christian, Sierra Don, Jhia Jackson, Nicole Maimon, Nathaniel Moore, Jocelyn Reyes, randy reyes, Molly Rose-Williams, Amy/Hannah Wasielewski and Alyssandra Wu

May 31, 3-4:30pm

LINK TO JOIN VIA ZOOM

Meeting ID: 854 7537 0072

PW: 279279

POSTPONED: LASOS

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This event is cancelled. Since the rapid progression of COVID-19, the City of San Francisco is recommending canceling “non-essential public gatherings” of over 50 people. We may be able to reschedule, but given the current uncertainty, we aren’t in a position to know when.

REYES Dance and Joe Goode Annex present LASOS

REYES Dance presents LASOS, a new contemporary dance performance, offering a hopeful insider’s perspective on family relationships haunted by generations of poverty, abuse, and drama. Accompanied by flying piñatas, Mexican-Salvadoran love songs, and imaginary friends, dancers will explore the limits of resilience, toeing the line between longing for care and longing to escape too-forceful love.

Performers: Jessica Bozzo, Sawako Gannon, Pauline Mosley, Frankie Lee Peterson, Alejandra Preciado
Choreography: Jocelyn Reyes

CANCELLED: HMD Annual Benefit Performance for Artist Pay

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This event is cancelled. Since the rapid progression of COVID-19, the City of San Francisco is recommending canceling “non-essential public gatherings” of over 50 people. We may be able to reschedule, but given the current uncertainty, we aren’t in a position to know when.

Join HMD for its Annual Benefit Performance for Artist Pay. Arrive at 7:30PM for pre-show drinks followed by the world premiere of “Ode (to forgotten bodies),” new dance by Hope Mohr, co-created with Belinda He, Jane Selna, Natalya Shoaf, and Karla Quintero, and in collaboration with sculptor Danae Mattes. Celebrate the company’s commitment to artmaking and community building at a catered post-show reception featuring delicious food by chef Steven Levine and beverages courtesy of Honig Winery.

Why Artist Pay?

Artists are leaving the Bay Area at alarming rates. In the face of this trend, HMD is pushing back with unique programs that support a network of artists and a commitment to artist pay unparalleled in the field. Artist pay makes up over 60 percent of our annual budget. Help us make it possible for artists to stay and thrive in the Bay Area.

If you are unable to attend the benefit but would like to make a contribution in support of HMD’s multidisciplinary programming, visit: www.hopemohr.org/donate

HMD is a non-profit organization and thus your gift is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. HMD’s Federal Tax ID Number is 42-1764426.

Visual Development and Costume Design by Dana Kawano
Image by Robbie Sweeny

CANCELLED RMK Around the Bay (March)

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This event is cancelled. Since the rapid progression of COVID-19, the City of San Francisco is recommending canceling “non-essential public gatherings” of over 50 people. We may be able to reschedule, but given the current uncertainty, we aren’t in a position to know when.

RMK Around the Bay

For its 25th season, beginning in January 2020, Robert Moses’ Kin is holding Pop-Up Performances every month around the Bay Area. Each of these shows will feature one Bay Area premiere (re-stagings of previous commissions from Alvin Ailey, Philadanco, Cincinnati Ballet, etc.) plus other audience favorites.

This March rendition of RMK Around the Bay is accompanied by a workshop for advanced/professional dancers. It will take place on March 29th from 10am till 1pm at the Joe Goode Annex and costs $30 to attend. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email [email protected] and include your resume.

 

SHOW TIMES:
Sunday, March 29, 2020 – 3:00pm

CANCELLED: Ode (to forgotten bodies)

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This event is cancelled. Since the rapid progression of COVID-19, the City of San Francisco is recommending canceling “non-essential public gatherings” of over 50 people. We may be able to reschedule, but given the current uncertainty, we aren’t in a position to know when.

Ode (to forgotten bodies)

“The serious problems in life are never fully solved, but some states can be resolved rhythmically.”  –Theodore Roethke

How do we shift ancient patterns of relationship?
How can we recover our freest selves?

Ode (to forgotten bodies), a new dance by Hope Mohr co-created with performers Belinda He, Jane Selna, Natalya Shoaf and Karla Quintero, and in collaboration with sculptor Danae Mattes, explores rhythm as a mode of listening and a portal to freedom. Sculptor Danae Mattes’ installation “River Passage” will hang in the space, conjuring an immersive environment for movement and sound.  

Visual Development and Costume Design by Dana Kawano
Image courtesy of Danae Mattes, all rights reserved

Dance Lovers 9

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James Graham Dance Theatre presents

Dance Lovers 9

DANCE LOVERS is an annual favorite!
This performance event is held in San Francisco on Valentine’s Day Weekend.
James Graham Dance Theatre produces and curates DANCE LOVERS inviting couples to present duets in various styles/genres with diverse pairings of friends, lovers, and family members.
Duets by:
Talli Jackson & KJ Dahlaw
Babatunji & Adji Cissoko
Chinchin Hsu & YiTing (Gama) Hsu
Kim Epifano & Antoine Hunter
Lila’Angelique & Thoth
Kelly Del Rosario & Alex Carrington
James Graham & Erik Lee

Show Dates:

Thursday, February 13th 2020, 8pm

Friday, February 14th 2020, 8pm

Saturday, February 15th 2020, 8pm

RMK Around the Bay

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RMK Around the Bay

For its 25th season, beginning in January 2020, Robert Moses’ Kin is holding Pop-Up Performances every month around the Bay Area. Each of these shows will feature one Bay Area premiere (re-stagings of previous commissions from Alvin Ailey, Philadanco, Cincinnati Ballet, etc.) plus other audience favorites.

This January rendition of RMK Around the Bay is accompanied by a workshop for advanced/professional dancers. It will take place on January 31st from 10am till 2pm at the Joe Goode Annex and costs $30 to attend. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email [email protected] and include your resume.

 

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, January 31, 2020 – 7:30pm

 

 

Click here: for the March showing of RMK Around the Bay

In an unfeeling world, to feel something, indeed to craft something is an act of redemption.

- Joe Goode