Artists

15 Mar, 2023

Stephanie Bastos

2023-03-24T11:27:03-07:00By |

Photo by Cliff Roles Stephanie Bastos Daughter of Bernadette Chaves Nunes and Aluizio Ribeiro Bastos, started her performance career as a child with the Miami Ballet and later, with the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble in Miami, Fl as an “Is adorable”. After receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts, she has been performing and teaching Modern and Contemporary Dance throughout the United States, Germany and Brazil, after losing her leg in a car

15 Mar, 2023

Zoë Klein

2023-03-24T11:27:07-07:00By |

Zoë has toured 28 countries over 6 continents striving to inspire audiences through seemingly impossible athletic movement and personal expression. Ten years co-directing Paradizo Dance brought: NBA NY Knicks halftime shows, International Salsa Congresses, 1st place titles in national cabaret competitions, So You Think You Can Dance, and Top Finalist on America’s Got Talent 2009. Zoë is a Circus Center professional acrobatics training program graduate of Master Lu Yi and has performed for Circus Bella, Sweet Can, and Bindlestiff Family

15 Mar, 2023

dana e. fitchett

2023-03-24T11:26:49-07:00By |

L to R: Devon Fitchett, Dana Fitchett, Photo by Jorge Galvez dana e. fitchett is a multidisciplinary artist and radical mixed-race Black woman who uses her relationship to music, visual art, and movement as a sandbox for exploration of identity and issues of justice, and for seeking healing from racism and capitalism through the reimagination of possibilities. Trained in classical ballet from a young age, dana later explored a vast range of movement styles, including tap, modern, hip-hop,

15 Mar, 2023

Charya Burt

2023-03-24T11:26:46-07:00By |

Charya Burt — Winter 2014 Artist in Residence About Charya Burt Charya Burt is a master teacher, dancer, and choreographer based in Northern California. Her training began in 1982 under the direction of the foremost dance masters of Cambodia. Charya has performed throughout the USA, including the Kennedy Center and 13 times as a featured performer at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A recipient of the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Individual Performance, Charya has been awarded

15 Mar, 2023

Krista DeNio / Moving Ground (KD/MG)

2023-03-24T11:26:57-07:00By |

Krista DeNio — Winter 2014 Artist in Residence About Krista DeNio Krista DeNio is a choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator, committed to developing new forms of performance work, and evolving interdisciplinary thinking and creation between the fields of dance and theater. She collaborates with many artists across disciplines to create collaborative, interdisciplinary performance productions. From original solo theater works, to ensemble dance-theater, community-derived, interview-based theater projects, structured improvisations, and site-specific performance, she is invested in the form that best serves

15 Mar, 2023

Monique Jenkinson

2023-03-24T11:26:58-07:00By |

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

15 Mar, 2023

richien (Rowena Richie & Jennifer Chien)

2023-03-24T11:27:02-07:00By |

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

15 Mar, 2023

Jesse Hewit / Strong Behavior

2023-03-24T11:26:54-07:00By |

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

15 Mar, 2023

Dandelion Dancetheater

2023-03-24T11:26:50-07:00By |

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,

15 Mar, 2023

Kegan Marling

2023-03-24T11:26:55-07:00By |

Kegan Marling 2011 Artist in Residence Kegan Marling is a performer, artist and arts-administrator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kegan has been performing for the past 20 years with artists including Scott Wells, Della Davidson, Lea Anderson, Nigel Charnock and Jane Schnorrenberg. Marling was the co-director of the Renaud-Wilson Dance Festival and has served on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, Dance/USA's national task force on Emerging Leaders, the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals Group, and has

15 Mar, 2023

FACT/SF

2023-03-24T11:26:50-07:00By |

FACT/SF Pretonically Oriented v.3 SEP 8-11, 2011 Pretonically Oriented v.3 proposes the creation of a dance work as a metaphor for the creation of identity. Formative experiences, statements of self, the rehearsal process, and performances are all juxtaposed to have a deeper look at what things are and how they came to be that way. POv.3 continues the development of the POv Project and System, which began at ODC’s Pilot 57 in September 2010. Material is sourced from each performer

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