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Lisa Townsend Company indifference MAR 22-25, THU-SUN Empathy defines humanity.  Drawing inspiration from the French Existentialist novel L’Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus, indifference explores empathy, and lack there of, in society as it loosely follows the story’s protagonist Meursault, whose humanity is expressed in the unbearable heat of the day. The scorching sun penetrates his body, consuming his rational mind, and in a single moment he squeezes the trigger at close range, terminating another’s life. Examining the absurd psychological cul-de-sac that

Monique Jenkinson (AKA Fauxnique) Artist Fellow at the de Young (FEB 15, 2012 - DEC 31, 2012) Photographer: Daniel Kokin; Pictured: Monique Jenkinson (AKA Fauxnique) As a de Young Museum 2012 Irvine Fellow, Monique Jenkinson will engage with the museum’s permanent collection and current exhibitions, specifically the textile/fashion collection. She will create performances specifically for the de Young site, branch into video work, and in a September museum studio residency, make a piece to premiere at CounterPULSE in

Cornelius MASTERWORK MAR 22-25, THU-SUN MASTERWORK is the most important performance of our generation and time, created and directed by one of the most important performers/artists of our generation and time — Cornelius. With insightful vision and razor-sharp skill, Cornelius moulds his cast into a form that can only be described as "godlike". Undercutting, subtextual, subtle and enormous, MASTERWORK is aptly named. This piece tells the audience "You are the audience. You will sit. You will be silent. And you

richien (Rowena Richie & Jennifer Chien) Twindependent MAR 21-30, THU-SAT at 8PM FREE pre-show workshops with richien MAR 23 & 30, SAT from 4-6PM* Post-show dance-back with Miriam Wolodarski MAR 22 & 29, FRI Inspired by both the scientific and metaphorical implications of twinship, Twindependent is a new dance theater piece incorporating live music and interactive video projection. What does it mean to be a pair? To be similar, the same, to be different? Twindependent looks for answers through movement-based

Miriam Wolodarski / Sense Object Of Limb and Language MAR 21-30, THU-SAT at 8PM FREE pre-show workshops with richien MAR 23 & 30, SAT from 4-6PM Post-show dance-back with Miriam Wolodarski MAR 22 & 29, FRI** “Verbal false limb: an expression that is artificially inflated to be longer and more important-sounding than it actually is.” This performance description will fail; our hearts are at the tips of our tongues. We read the papers, parsing the sanitization and distancing of tragedy, the rationalization

Jesse Hewit / Strong Behavior Summer 2010 Artist in Residence Jesse Hewit is a San Francisco and Brooklyn based artist and performer. He holds a BFA from NYU/Tisch/Experimental Theater Wing [Read More...] Performing Thursday-Sunday, August 5-8, 8pm "Tell Them That You Saw Me" "Tell Them That You Saw Me" is a dance theater work that visually and kinetically considers the high art of performing feminine subjectivities within contemporary narratives. As a movement and sculpture-based adaptation of the two canonical play

Laura Arrington Summer 2010 Artist in Residence Laura Arrington's work has been shown as part of the Women on the Way Festival, The Lab’s 25th Anniversary, The National Queer Arts Festival, as part of Keith Hennessy's benefit "Sustain" [Read more...] Performing Thursday-Sunday, August 5-8, 8pm “Hot Wings“ Laura Arrington's "Hot Wings" a dance that's probably feminist, examines artifice and authenticity in representations of sex, gender, and violence. Set in a cardboard castle, the dance theater piece follows a cast of

Amara Tabor-Smith/Deep Waters Dance Theater Artist in Residence Performances THU-SUN, NOV 15-18, 2012 at 8PM Food Symposium SUN, NOV 18  Our Daily Bread Inspired by a family gumbo tradition, Our Daily Bread is a performance experience that honors individual food legacies and engages all of the senses. This collaboration between Amara Tabor-Smith’s Deep Waters Dance Theater, director Ellen Sebastian Chang and visual artist Laura Diamondstone delves into the folklore and stories surrounding our food traditions to examine how these traditions

Dandelion Dancetheater Winter 2011 Artist in Residence Dandelion Dancetheater is situated at the crossroads of dance, theater, community activism, healing, and new performance forms. Our work is built from a fascination with artistic experimentation, vulnerability, and risk-taking and a simultaneous commitment to the creation of high-quality, radically accessible art. We view the exploration of the endless possibilities of the human body as a potent means for personal and collective growth and share this exploration with diverse populations through performance, teaching,

In addition to making her own work with Dance and a Half, Liz Tenuto choreographs for theater, nightlife and works collaboratively with artists from other mediums. She is the first recipient of FACT/SF’s JuMP Commission and is currently Artist-In-Residence at CounterPulse. Liz teaches dance technique with the ODC Teen Program. Liz is offering a new wellness workshop for professionals that teaches how to be embodied in the workplace. More info about the workshop at: http://www.danceandahalf.com/wellness/.   Collaborating Artists Atosa Babaoff (performer) received