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Tag Archives: contemporary
Surprise Attack: FACT/SF’s Home Season 3.0
Surprise Attack: FACT/SF’s Home Season 3.0 The Garage, San Francisco, April 8-10 & 13-15, 2011 Brave is the person who sits in the front row at a FACT/SF show. One has to be prepared for unsettling touched-by-a-stranger encounters, like when dancer … Continue reading
Youth Uprising: ODC Dance Jam’s Home Season
Enthusiastic and dedicated young artists ensure a vibrant horizon for dance, and ODC Dance Jam is doing its part to develop teen talent at the highest level. See what the future holds at the contemporary troupe’s fourth home-season show, Make … Continue reading
AXIS: Physically Integrated Dance Summer Intensive
Oakland’s AXIS Dance Company consistently produces some of the most interesting, beautiful and singular dance going, and the company’s annual summer intensive is a chance to spread your wings through physically integrated dance. The official announcement: Physically Integrated Dance Summer … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary, east bay, integrated, modern
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Ready to Fly: ODC School and Theater Present Pilot 57
Normally, when multiple chorographers decide to coproduce a show, it’s because they like each other, or feel a creative synergy, or have harmonious work styles. Their artistic or logistical strengths and weaknesses being complementary, they shoulder different responsibilities to bring … Continue reading
AXIS and inkBoat Redefine Dance
ODD integrates dancers in wheelchairs and on foot.What’s in a name? AXIS, the name of Oakland’s renowned physically integrated contemporary dance company, plays on the turning axes of wheels and on accessibility; before it formed in 1987, world-class opportunities for … Continue reading
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Sailing Away: Joanna Haigood choreographs San Francisco history
In Dance, October 2010 Flooded with Gold Rush lucre and teeming with the adventurers who hunted for it, San Francisco in the 1850s was a rootin’-tootin’, quick-shootin’, prostitutin’ Wild West boomtown. Halloween in the Castro has nothing on the Barbary … Continue reading
Posted in Dancers Group, Events, In Dance magazine, Interesting Stuff, Interviews
Tagged Bay Area, choreographers, contemporary, modern
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Center Stage
East Bay Express Fall Arts Preview, September 1, 2010 A stellar East Bay dance season is waiting in the wings. Along with venues that draw dance talent from around the globe, the East Bay boasts world-class choreographers and dancers (who … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, contemporary, east bay, East Bay Express, modern
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Bridging Borders: Nina Haft & Co. in the Middle East
In Dance, July 2010 Nina Haft visited the Middle East in 2007 to experience the culture and see firsthand how people there use dance to address the immense challenges in their lives, from restricted travel to conflicts that last for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, choreographers, contemporary, east bay, interviews
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AXIS Dance Open Rehearsal & Silent Auction
Sneak a peek at AXIS Dance Company’s latest work, “ODD,” choreographed by Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat and performed with guest dancers from inkBoat, at the company’s August 26 open rehearsal and fund-raising reception. Meet the artists and bid on an array of good stuff like jewelry, … Continue reading
Post:Ballet “Concert One”
Cowell Theatre, San Francisco, Saturday, July 17, 2010 Few choreographers can create plotless contemporary dance that engages the audience with movement and music alone; all too often, dancing for its own sake devolves into moody self-indulgence. More unusual is a … Continue reading
