Calendar of Events
February 22, 2012
Shaping SF Public Talk: Police Graft in San Francisco
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
FEB 22, WED at 7:30PM
FREE
Atherton Vice Report headline
The 1937 “Atherton Report” blew the lid off police graft and corruption in San Francisco in that era. Hank Chapot has been digging into this long lost study. Chris Agee will contribute his research on San Francisco policing and crime in the 1950s.
February 24, 2012
Oracle & Enigma
KATSURA Kan
Presented as part of CounterPULSE’s Winter Special
Photographer: Moshe Hacmon Pictured: Katsura Kan and Sharoni Stern Siegel
FEB 24-25, FRI-SAT at 8PM
Oracle and Enigma is a Butoh dance theatre work directed by Master KATSURA Kan. This work explores our human relation to earthly and cosmic elements through the movement of the “curious body.” It is a journey towards the celestial horizon to see ourselves as an Oracle. The work explores knowing and not knowing, walking and listening, prison, paradise and dreams.
Guest performance of “Spectral” by Vangeline of Vangeline Theater (NYC) to open the show.
February 27, 2012
Dance Discourse Project #12
Shifting Ground: Examining the complex terrain at the intersection of dance and aging
Pictured: Jess Curtis and collaborators; Photo: Sven Hagolani
FEB 27, MON at 7PM
FREE
Aging is an unavoidable part of life, and its effects on the body pose issues for body-based performers earlier than for many people. In the not so distant past, it seemed as if only humans aged 17 to 32 could show up on Western concert dance stages. Recent blurring of disciplinary boundaries, and aesthetic and cultural innovations embracing diversity have made more room for aging bodies in the contemporary performance space. In DDP12, moderators Mary Armentrout and Jessica Robinson Love and panelists Jess Curtis, Petra Kuppers, and Dr. Albirda Rose examine some of the causes, effects, opportunities and complications of this shift, and then open the discussion up world cafe style to include the audience in this investigation.
February 29, 2012
Shaping SF Public Talk: Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes #6
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
FEB 29, WED at 7:30PM
FREE
The sixth in the series of Rick Prelinger’s annual San Francisco history screenings, Lost Landscapes presents rare and generally unseen archival footage of a vanished San Francisco (1910s-1970s) in a feature-length program of historical intervention and carnivalesque celebration. It includes footage of San Francisco’s cemeteries just before their removal, unique drive-thru footage of the Old Produce Market (now Golden Gateway) in the late 1940s, cruising the newly-built Embarcadero Freeway, grungy back streets in North Beach, the sandswept Sunset District in the 1930s, and newly-rediscovered Cinemascope footage of Playland, the Sky Tram and San Francisco scenes, all in Kodachrome. This year Rick’s presenting a show composed of almost all-new material. This is interactive cinema: YOU are the soundtrack. Please come prepared to shout out your identifications, ask questions about what’s on the screen, and share your thoughts with fellow audience members.
March 2, 2012
Arthur in Underland: Preview Performances
Dandelion Dancetheater
Previews
MAR 2-4, FRI-SUN at 8PM
Photo: Dana Ullman Pictured: Sue Roginski, David Ryther, Patrick Cress
A bright-eyed young man longs to find meaning beyond family, friend and schools. His fascination with the charismatic and predatory leader of the rock band Power Play leads to a hunger to be admitted to the inner sanctum of the occult-infused entourage and triggers his transit through a dark landscape of dreams and metaphysics. There, he is forced to challenge his sexuality, his friendships and his very life.