When
Where
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
53rd Season: Foolish Fires
Show Times & Dates:
Thursday, 10/8/26 @ 7:30pm
Friday, 10/9/26 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 10/10/26 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 10/11/26 @ 3pm
Thursday, 10/15/26 @ 7:30pm
Friday, 10/16/26 @ 7:30pm
Run Time: 60 minutes w/intermission | No concessions
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC) launches its 53rd season with the world premiere of Foolish Fires, a new work created by Margaret Jenkins in collaboration with the dancers, poet Michael Palmer, visual designer Alexander V. Nichols, and costume designer Mary Domenico.
Foolish Fires takes its title from the will-o’-the-wisp—those mysterious lights said to lure travelers from familiar paths into the unknown. The evening comprises two new works that explore opposing forces: shadow and light, certainty and ambiguity, attraction and resistance. Emerging from a shared conceptual thread, each work inhabits a distinct relationship to the same mystery.
Neither benevolent nor malevolent, the phenomenon depends upon the traveler. Foolish Fires invites audiences into an unfolding landscape where movement, light, language, and sound ignite briefly like sparks before disappearing again at the edge of perception.
Presented in the intimate setting of the Joe Goode Annex, audiences will experience the work in close proximity to the performers, immersed within a visual environment created specifically for the space.
“Ms. Jenkins’ movement is fresh, unduplicated and unimaginable on other bodies… you won’t see them on any other dancers, anywhere else. Such individuality. The through-line among the dancers is a flawless center of gravity and nuanced control.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Collaborators: (bios available at mjdc.org)
Choreographic Direction: Margaret Jenkins
Choreographic & Rehearsal Assistant: Kelly Del Rosario
MJDC Dancer/Collaborators: Allegra Bautista, Raven Bautista, Carro Czechowska, Kelly Del Rosario, Claire Fisher-Mendez, Anna Greenberg, Jonathan Kim, Lainie Pennington, Lu Price
Poet: Michael Palmer
Visual Design: Alexander V. Nichols
Costume Design: Mary Domenico
Image Description: Dancer Kelly Del Rosario leans backwards while holding onto an arm that extends off the edge of the frame, as though someone is holding them up. They are looking behind them and down, at a large expanse of vibrant red.