Joe Goode Performance Group

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

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Pop-up School

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Pop-up School

Classes are informed by somatic practices (Klein Technique, Irene Dowd, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Alexander Technique, yoga) including my work around equity/race and identity. We will devote a few sessions to improvisation/composition, restorative/releasing/healing modalities, as well as a process space for dancers and choreographers-of-color. There will be rotating accompanists providing live sound support. Stay tuned for a more detailed schedule.

Friday, May 17, 10-12pm
Tuesday, May 21, 10-12pm
Thursday, May 23, 10-12pm
Friday, May 24, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 4, 10-12pm
Thursday, June 6, 10-12pm
Friday, June 7, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 11, 2-4pm
Thursday, June 13, 10-12pm
Friday, June 14, 10-12pm
Suggested price: $15/class (NOTAFLOF)
*This is made possible with generous support from Joe Goode Annex.

Pop-up School

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Pop-up School

Classes are informed by somatic practices (Klein Technique, Irene Dowd, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Alexander Technique, yoga) including my work around equity/race and identity. We will devote a few sessions to improvisation/composition, restorative/releasing/healing modalities, as well as a process space for dancers and choreographers-of-color. There will be rotating accompanists providing live sound support. Stay tuned for a more detailed schedule.

Thursday, May 16, 2-4pm
Friday, May 17, 10-12pm
Tuesday, May 21, 10-12pm
Thursday, May 23, 10-12pm
Friday, May 24, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 4, 10-12pm
Thursday, June 6, 10-12pm
Friday, June 7, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 11, 2-4pm
Thursday, June 13, 10-12pm
Friday, June 14, 10-12pm
Suggested price: $15/class (NOTAFLOF)
*This is made possible with generous support from Joe Goode Annex.

The City Waves: Tuesday Waves

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Tuesday Waves is an open 5Rhythms class, hosted by The City Waves. Everyone is welcomed.

“As we ride the waves of life, we share the spirited mix, eclectic nature of our culture, community and co-existence. The City Waves passionately brings out the potent medicine of this moving meditation with clarity, power and grace. Waves all around us, waves from inside us, waves from dancing together. Waves that inspire our body to move, whether on familiar and unfamiliar rhythms and beats to discover, challenge, mesmerize, explore and appreciate more of who we are. We find the truth through the body, as the beats changes. There is no need to have any particular physical background or to consider ourselves dancers or not. We keep moving with the music and the dance will come to us. We dance until the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Please respect the tribe’s intention and integrity by arriving on time. Please enter through the black gate at corner of Alabama St and 17th. If gate is locked, please ring the bell, we will buzz you in. Then enter the first door on your right.”
More information: thecitywaves.com

Tuesdays
7-8:30pm
Latest entry 7:15pm (Door is closed)
To Register, email [email protected] (drop-ins no longer accepted)
The City Waves™ Class Card is valid for this class

Greek Feet

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Greek Dance Class hosted by Greek Feet.

“Grab your mandili, white handkerchief, and step into a world of Greek dance at Joe Goode Annex. Explore the spirit of Greece through the music and dance of several regions. This vibrant dance community welcomes everyone, beginner to advanced. We will offer a class designed for the beginner from 7-7:30. We encourage students from this class to stay for the next class starting at 7:30 pm. The first hour is dedicated to instruction and the second hour is practice of previously learned dances requested by students. Each month we emphasize a different region of Greece.”

More information: greekfeet.com

Mondays
Beginner class at 7pm
Regular class 7:30-9:30pm
Cost is $20 per month or $10 per drop-in session – pay at the door

Pop-up School

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Pop-up School

Classes are informed by somatic practices (Klein Technique, Irene Dowd, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Alexander Technique, yoga) including my work around equity/race and identity. We will devote a few sessions to improvisation/composition, restorative/releasing/healing modalities, as well as a process space for dancers and choreographers-of-color. There will be rotating accompanists providing live sound support. Stay tuned for a more detailed schedule.

Tuesday, May 14, 10-12pm
Thursday, May 16, 2-4pm
Friday, May 17, 10-12pm
Tuesday, May 21, 10-12pm
Thursday, May 23, 10-12pm
Friday, May 24, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 4, 10-12pm
Thursday, June 6, 10-12pm
Friday, June 7, 10-12pm
Tuesday, June 11, 2-4pm
Thursday, June 13, 10-12pm
Friday, June 14, 10-12pm
Suggested price: $15/class (NOTAFLOF)
*This is made possible with generous support from Joe Goode Annex.

Movement for Humans – special benefit class

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An all-levels class with Joe Goode, followed by coffee,
conversation & pastries — to benefit JGPG.

An exclusive artistic experience and fundraiser for Joe Goode Performance Group.

Your hosts, Amy Luckey & Bobbie Fisch (Joe Goode Performance Group Board Members!) invite you to spend the morning at the Annex for  Movement for Humans, an all-levels movement class, taught by Joe Goode. An expert-led class experience that focuses on mind-body connection, easeful movement, and breath — in a safe and supportive environment. No experience required!

To RSVP, email [email protected]

Sunday, March 31, 10a-12p
Requested Donation: $35 to benefit JGPG
( Makes you part of our Goode Friends Family! )

Can’t make it? Send us a contribution from afar!

vortex work-in-progress

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This is the beginning stages of development:
29/Vortex

Considering the future from a child’s perspective let’s open some records and invite dreams and other realities into a conversational dance. Time jumping as we bump up against each other’s time frames. This is a 3day improvisational exploration of child/adult dreaming asking the question, how much of my original essence is here and where is my heart located? Is this planet where I intended to land?
Round 2.

Friday, March 29 at 8PM
Suggested Donation $15-30 collected at the door
Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Moving Alchemy: March Class Series

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Solo Neutral Follow, Spacial Gap+Interim Space, The Theory of Objects, and Rhythm, Space, and Time Quadrants. Will always include chi cultivation, puzzles and scramble, technical improvisation including solo and contact. Each week, we focus on a different thing (mini-intensive). Registration/ more info: [email protected]

Mondays-Thursdays, March 4-28, 2019
10AM-12PM
$20 drop-in or $60/week
$220 for the whole series

Photo by Robbie Sweeny

FRESH Festival Practices: Weekend 4 – BODY*LANGUAGE

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Weekend 4 PRACTICES:
José Navarrete + Marvin K. White
BODY*LANGUAGE: Live Dance Creative Writing Workshop
January 26-27, 12:30-5:30pm

BODY*LANGUAGE is a live collaborative practice/experiment for writers to learn to respond to movement and dance, and for dancers and choreographers to respond to writing & text in real-time. Facilitated by Marvin K. White and José Navarrete  (with special guest dancers and choreographers).

As culture makers and culture keepers, whose work span many disciplines, José Navarrete and Marvin K. White are creating a “third space” where dancers and writers can come together to discover new written language and new body language to bring into their work. In these times of shrinking resources and shrinking spaces to dream and create, the imperative is to collaborate and innovate new spaces, that are safe from speculators and capitalism. These workshops by design, disrupt notions of performance and writing, by allowing space for participants to “break it down”, to write and dance in real-time, what they are experiencing. We hope the rapid response time of the workshop will allow the writers to remember in more detail, and hold in closer inquiry, what is happening in the dance. The dancers also benefit from hearing the writers respond to their work, and not having to read about the audience response in a review, if ever.  

Marvin K. White, MDiv, is currently the Artivist in Residence and part of the Arts Program Team at the Oakland Peace Center. He was the Public Theologian in Residence (’17-’18) at First Church Berkeley and a recent Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “Equity” Fellow (’16-’17). He is the author of four collections of poetry: Our Name Be Witness; Status; and the two Lammy-nominated collections last rights and nothin’ ugly fly. He is articulating a vision of social, prophetic and creative justice through his work as a poet, artist, teacher, collaborator, preacher, cake baker, and Facebook Statustician.

José Navarrete is a native of México City where he was first exposed to theater and dance, choreographing and performing in parks, hospitals, and children’s parties as a clown and dancer. He studied dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in México, and has a B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and M.F.A in Dance from Mills College.  José is the recipient of a CHIME Across Borders fellowship with Ralph Lemon. Navarrete has taught dance and performance to youth and adults in Mexico, and in the San Francisco Bay Area at Berkeley High School, Marin Academy, Cal State East Bay, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has recently been named a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellow and will be traveling to Tohoku, Japan in 2018. José currently curates and produces the Live Arts in Resistance (LAIR) initiative at Eastside Arts Alliance, which provides residencies and performing opportunities for artists of color in East Oakland.

January 26-27, 12:30-5:30pm

1 Practices Workshop – $125 | 4 Practices for $450 | 8 for $800 | 12 for $1100 | 13 for $1150
Pricing for 1 Day Weekend Workshops: $65

REGISTER FOR FRESH PRACTICES
Learn more about the full FRESH Festival here.
View all FRESH events (Performances + Practices) at the Annex

Photo courtesy of Jose Navarrete / Marvin White by Fox Nakai

All of my work is a voice for people who are vulnerable, or outside of the mainstream—so all the programming we do here will reflect that.

- Joe Goode
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