Joe Goode Performance Group

Promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater

Annex

Gaga, Gaga Theory, & Improvisation Workshop

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James Graham will lead a 1-day Gaga, Gaga Theory, & Improvisation Workshop.

The day will consist of a Gaga Class, an Improvisation session, and Theory… focused on the methodology, philosophy, and in depth look at elements of Gaga. We will also include time for clarifying discussion.

We will research and follow our curiosities with guided events and exercises and learn Graham’s approaches for getting beyond our comfort zone and familiar territory as dancers…find nuance, find power, find pleasure.

4:30pm-7:00pm
Pricing: $75 full session
$65 payment by November 30

Please pay through Paypal “[email protected]” and select “paying a friend”

All are welcome…no experience necessary.

Workshop Series with Sara Shelton Mann: Week 2

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TWO SPECIAL WORKSHOP WEEKS! 

at Joe Goode Annex 
Dec 2-5 and Dec. 9-12
10am-12pm

I’ve received a special request to return back to basics. 

This is a culmination of what my work I teach now is based on. Back to basics compiles a lot of my old teachings, and trainings based on BMC as well as each individual system in the body. 

Week. 2 

weight, space, object, you – and choice
The question is what is you source?
Source of inspiration?
Source of choice?
Source of being?
Source of beginning?

We’ll move deeper into questioning and answer with more questions.

Slowly peeling away the layers like an onion detail by detail of the detail. We will uncover nuance and intricacy of spaces known and unknown.

Being in a body, in a place as a choice.

$20 single 

$75 for one week

$140 for both week

 Week discount and 2 weeks discount 

 No one turned away for lack of funds  

Contact: [email protected] 

BIG GIRLS CRY by Kim Ip, Amy Wasielewski + Hannah Wasielewski

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Amy + Hannah Wasielewski are sisters who live, heal, and dance together. We investigate our shared imprints and unwind our innocence. Maybe we are cowboys. Maybe we are good girls. We are haunted yet tender.  This work features music by some of our favorite 90s female stars and experimental sound by Sangeeth Kumar.

Kim Ip presents “A Crossroad”, an inquiry about the 11 year long conservatorship Britney Spears has been living with. Pure fandom meets intense empathy for a star who has been trapped by mental illness.

Dance Church Pop-up

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Dance Church® is an all-abilities movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 90-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout.

Dance Church® was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Classes are hosted regularly in Seattle, Portland, New York and LA, and have popped up in cities worldwide.

All levels, abilities, body types, identities and genders. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing and sweat (a lot) together—it’s the dance party you wish you had last night.

Sun, Nov 3rd, 10-11:30am
$15 cash/card at the door

Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero Presents: Sink

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Rants, dance, and chants by Keith Hennessy

Two performances only
This is the last chance to see this work in the Bay Area

Sink’s approach to current politics waivers between punk and contemplative, transformative and fucked. Loneliness, a lifejacket, a white man, a shadow dance, a sad angry song, and love, suspended.

“Sink is a clarion call for justice, the miracle of surviving, and an amazing journey that embraces a volcano of everyday emotions… with wild bursts of sentimentality and moments of savage beauty and grace.” John Wilkens, KQED

The performance is an embodied response to the current political, economic, and social shifts that have produced not only Trump and Brexit, Erdogan and Duterte, but also the massive refugee crises all over the world, the mass shootings in Christchurch, Charleston, and Gilroy, and normalization of precarity in all sectors (financial instability, impossible debt, depression, anxiety, poverty, incarceration, species extinction, climate chaos and existential fears…).

An intimate and confrontational portrait of the current era, Sink features poetic texts, contemplative dances, dark satire, plaintive chanting, re-processed nazi music, and an aerial dance.

Hennessy says, “Sink is a personal experiment… I’m feeling fragile and distracted and that’s partly structural. I’m responding to hate and terror, shame and paralysis, the will to survive competing against the urge to implode/explode. I’m reaching in new and old directions, dancing contemplatively, climbing dangerously, singing my guts out, asking too many questions at once: Is freedom a useful concept to motivate dancing? Can a performance be a spell of support for Syrian and Sudanese refugees or victims of fire, hurricane and government betrayal? Is there a non harmful role for the white and male artist? In our need to create contexts for healing, care, and trauma relief, how can I defend artistic provocation or abstract formalism?”

Sink, verb: going under, to fall or drop gradually, to displace the volume by descending
Sink, idiom: everything but the kitchen sink

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, November 1st, 2019 @8:00pm
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @7:00pm

Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero Presents: Sink

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Rants, dance, and chants by Keith Hennessy

Two performances only
This is the last chance to see this work in the Bay Area

Sink’s approach to current politics waivers between punk and contemplative, transformative and fucked. Loneliness, a lifejacket, a white man, a shadow dance, a sad angry song, and love, suspended.

“Sink is a clarion call for justice, the miracle of surviving, and an amazing journey that embraces a volcano of everyday emotions… with wild bursts of sentimentality and moments of savage beauty and grace.” John Wilkens, KQED

The performance is an embodied response to the current political, economic, and social shifts that have produced not only Trump and Brexit, Erdogan and Duterte, but also the massive refugee crises all over the world, the mass shootings in Christchurch, Charleston, and Gilroy, and normalization of precarity in all sectors (financial instability, impossible debt, depression, anxiety, poverty, incarceration, species extinction, climate chaos and existential fears…).

An intimate and confrontational portrait of the current era, Sink features poetic texts, contemplative dances, dark satire, plaintive chanting, re-processed nazi music, and an aerial dance.

Hennessy says, “Sink is a personal experiment… I’m feeling fragile and distracted and that’s partly structural. I’m responding to hate and terror, shame and paralysis, the will to survive competing against the urge to implode/explode. I’m reaching in new and old directions, dancing contemplatively, climbing dangerously, singing my guts out, asking too many questions at once: Is freedom a useful concept to motivate dancing? Can a performance be a spell of support for Syrian and Sudanese refugees or victims of fire, hurricane and government betrayal? Is there a non harmful role for the white and male artist? In our need to create contexts for healing, care, and trauma relief, how can I defend artistic provocation or abstract formalism?”

Sink, verb: going under, to fall or drop gradually, to displace the volume by descending
Sink, idiom: everything but the kitchen sink

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, November 1st, 2019 @8:00pm
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @7:00pm

POSTPONED: The Feedback Showing 2020

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Joe Goode Performance Group’s Feedback program is designed to offer an in-process response for local choreographers to have support in the development of new and experimental dance works. Five choreographers were selected for the 2019 program cohort, each receiving free rehearsal space at the Joe Goode Annex for development (among other benefits), as well as a shared feedback session with Joe Goode and JGPG Company Members. Read more about the Program here.

Presented by the Joe Goode Performance Group, The Feedback Showing is about putting pencil to paper and offering up impressions, thoughts and questions about the dance moment just experienced. Audience members will participate in the process by responding in real-time with written feedback. 5 Feedback Artists have created something deeply important to them, and The Feedback audience plays a crucial role in receiving & responding to their new works. It’s about listening to others and discovering new voices in the conversation. It’s about supporting the local dance theater community toward broad investigation and deep feeling.

We have currently paused this program’s activities in the Annex, and the rescheduling of the Showing has yet to be determined. Stay tuned!

One Show Only: date TBD. $10-25 / NOTAFLOF at the door
[Pictured: Karla Quintero, by Chani Bockwinkel]

2020 Feedback Artists

Gabriel Christian

Gabriel Christian (they/them) is an American artist bred in New York City (Wappinger Lenape land) and baking in Oakland (Chochenyo Ohlone land). For more than ten years, their work has metabolized the vernaculars within BlaQ diaspora—futurity, afrovivalism, faggotry—through high dramatics, structured improvisation, poetics, and collaborative practices; moreover, they feel the bio to be in the unfortunate lineage of value models like chattel slavery.

Karla Quintero

Karla Quintero is dancer and dance-maker originally from New York City, currently living in Oakland. Most recently she has performed in works by Gerald Casel, Aura Fischbeck, Catherine Galasso (NYC), and Hope Mohr, including dancing in the Opera “Das Wunder der Heliane,” which debuted this summer at Bard’s SummerScape Festival. In 2017, she received an Isadora Duncan Award for her performance in Jo Kreiter’s “Grace and Delia are Gone.” Locally, Karla’s choreography has received support from the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Clorox Foundation, and from artistic residencies at the Garage (SF), Shawl Anderson Dance Center (Oakland) & the Temescal Arts Center (Oakland). She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance and a BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College. | karlajohannaquintero.tumblr.com

Katie Wong

Katerina (Katie) Wong is a Co-Artistic Director of RAWdance. Since graduating from Princeton University and moving west, she’s had the pleasure of performing with RAWdance, Printz Dance Project, Concept o4, Bellwether Dance Project, and the SF Symphony, among others. Katie’s work has been commissioned by PUSH Dance Company, FACT/SF, Cutting Ball Theater, California Academy of Sciences, and ACLU of Northern California. In 2017, she was the first dance artist to tour nationally with Pop-Up Magazine, which culminated in a performance at Lincoln Center. Her choreography has been presented locally at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Z Space, ODC Theater, CounterPulse, Fort Mason, Piano Fight, Yerba Buena Gardens, and more. She is currently participating in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training program and Women of Color in the Arts’ (WOCA) Leadership through Mentorship program. katerinawong.com / rawdance.org 

Molly Rose-Williams

Molly Rose-Williams is a mover, dance-maker, educator, writer, and community arts organizer. She has presented her work throughout the Bay Area, Vermont, and Maine, and internationally in Mexico and Belgium. She is the co-founder and producer of Show & Tell, a quarterly multi-disciplinary performance salon, and regularly facilitates “Creation Labs”, an on-going project for community research of the creative process. She teaches acrobatics, cooking, and science, and also writes about dance. See more at www.mollyrosewilliams.com

Nathaniel Moore

Nathaniel is a performance artist grounded in movement and in meetings. Their work always in in relation to their identity , white cis male, and all the identities entities forces which go into the creation of their identity. In between, in the meeting point, is a dance, potential, challenge, or embrace, or a word mouthed, taken into the gut, a light, and.

CANCELLED – Dance for Parkinson’s Class

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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.

As for other activities coming up for Joe Goode Performance Group and at the Joe Goode Annex? We are monitoring the situation closely and aligning our response with recommendations from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. We will be in touch as soon as possible as we know more, and we are available to answer any questions or concerns that you may have. Call (415-561-6565) or email ([email protected]).

As an affiliate program of Dance for PD, Joe Goode Performance Group teaches a Dance for Parkinson’s class at the Joe Goode Annex. Our classes are based on the innovative Dance for PD program designed by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. Using this method, professional dancers draw on their unique expertise to help people with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers engage sight, sound, touch, thought, and imagination to bring control to their movements. Dancing in chairs, at a barre, or standing, experienced teaching artists will lead participants in an enjoyable blend of modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, and social dancing. While strengthening, balancing, and moving in rhythm to live music, people with PD also experience the power of dance and music to sharpen attention, inspire, and empower.

Sundays, 12:00-1:15pm
Suggested donation: $15

Registration:
By phone: (415) 285-7377
Or email: [email protected]

This class is presented by the PDSF Network and Joe Goode Performance Group. Read more about the program here.

Dance for Parkinson’s Class

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As an affiliate program of Dance for PD, Joe Goode Performance Group teaches a Dance for Parkinson’s class at the Joe Goode Annex. Our classes are based on the innovative Dance for PD program designed by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group. Using this method, professional dancers draw on their unique expertise to help people with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers engage sight, sound, touch, thought, and imagination to bring control to their movements. Dancing in chairs, at a barre, or standing, experienced teaching artists will lead participants in an enjoyable blend of modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, and social dancing. While strengthening, balancing, and moving in rhythm to live music, people with PD also experience the power of dance and music to sharpen attention, inspire, and empower.

Sundays, 12:00-1:15pm
Suggested donation: $15

Registration:
By phone: (415) 285-7377
Or email: [email protected]

This class is presented by the PDSF Network and Joe Goode Performance Group. Read more about the program here.

The body is a political territory, every gesture, every posture is a statement of who this person is in this moment of action or this very public moment of being seen.

- Joe Goode
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