Be with — with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next
Radius is a site-specific improvisational performance, influenced by and inter-relating with the natural surrounds of the urban oasis surrounding McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Pictured: Kim Ip, Clarissa Dyas, Hannah Ayasse, Julie Phelps, Krista DeNio. Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Performed by a group of experimental dancers and electronic musicians, the work aims to create a temporary zone governed by collaboration, mutability, and fluidity rather than hierarchy, power, and structure. Dancers and musicians are both responsive and generative in turn with inspiration and influence moving in both directions. The composition is collectively devised, continuously revealing emergent poetics within the stream of images, movements, and sonics. Responding to both harmony and dischord, Radius is a rehearsal of being with – with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next.
Originally arising from research instigated by Julie Phelps and Marc Kate on the relationship of dance and music to how power and intimacy are brokered in varying forms of social (dis)orders, from the club to the neo-facist nation state. The radius of this research grows as it’s moved from stage to site–further exploring the intersection of context and content.
Sat, Sept 11, 2pm-3pm PDT at The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
– SOLD OUT –
Instigated by: Julie Phelps & Marc Kate
Dancers: Ainsley Tharp, Amy Cranch, Bae Laurel, Carmina Márquez, Chloe Crotzer, Clarissa Dyas, Emily Leap, Frances Rosario, Gabriel Christian, Gerald Casel, Gizeh Muniz, Hannah Ayasse, Heidi Erickson, Jesse Hewit, Jo Kreiter, Jonah Kagan, Julie Phelps, Kim Ip, Krista DeNio, Larry Arrington, mara poliak, Margit Galanter, Maurya Kerr, Megan Lowe, Miriam Wolodarski, Monique Jenkinson, Olallie Lackler, Rosemary Hannon, Saharla Vetsch, Shamsher Virk, Paige Starling Sorvillo, IDHAZ
Musicians: Nihar, Joel St Julien, Amma Ateria, Chris Duncan, Marc Kate
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, ‘Next to You’ installation view. Photo by Henrik Kam
Currently on view at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts is Next to You (May 28 – December 4, 2021), an exhibition of photography, painting, and sculpture from the McEvoy Family Collection that celebrates the joy, vitality, and healing power of the performing arts. Next to You programming includes performances and events that explore the return of collective experiences, in partnership with several dynamic Bay Area arts organizations.
Radius is part of THE 2021 COUNTERPULSE FESTIVAL. LEARN MORE AT COUNTERPULSE.ORG/FESTIVAL2021
Banner Photo: Jesse Hewit and Hannah Ayasse; Photo by Robbie Sweeny