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LOCAL HEROES/ BIG PICTURE @ ODC

ODC Theater Festival 2: LOCAL HEROES/ BIG PICTURE 
San Francisco's New Traditionalists host big visuals from Minneapolis and Philadelphia June 26-28; July 17-26
ODC Theater Festival 2 looks at artists of the arriving generation, those visionaries who are leading the way to new expressions of our regional identity. Turning for inspiration to both the cultural and aesthetic lineages of our region, we have collected six artists, each representative of a different community or creative tradition. From elegant ballet to fiery Haitian dance, sensual Indian Odissi to upright modern, we will be exploring the diverse threads of our cultural composition.

FESTIVAL 2: WEEKEND 1
Thurs-Sat, June 26-28 at 7:30pm and 8:15pm
SCUBA
Karen Sherman: Tiny Town
Kate Watson-Wallace: House
Click here for a documentary on the work of Kate Watson-Wallace.
Hosted by Ben Levy, Jose Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama.
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Kate Watson-Wallace will be teaching a site-based performance workshop at the ODC Dance Commons on Friday, June 27, 12-2pm. To register call: 415-863-9830  x 220. Click here for more information.

FESTIVAL 2: WEEKEND 2
Thursday-Saturday, July 17-19, at 8pm
LOCAL HEROES
Yannis Adoniou: Less-Sylphides. Click here for you-tube footage.
Manuelito Biag: Ballast PREMIERE. Click here for you-tube footage.
Alex Ketley: Monument PREMIERE. Click here for you-tube footage of Ketley's work.
Click here for more information.

FESTIVAL 2: WEEKEND 3
Thursday-Saturday, July 24-26, at 8pm
NEW TRADITIONALISTS
Hearan Chung - KOREA: The Call to Invocation
Colette Eloi - HAITI: Kaleidoscope. Click here for you-tube footage.
Vishnu Tattva Das - INDIA: Entering Vrindavan
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Tickets:
$25 At the Door: $20 In Advance: $18 Seniors/Students/Children 12 & Under
*SPECIAL COMMUNITY PRICING (see below)
Tickets online
ODC Box Office: 415.863.9834
(2-5 pm Wed-Sat)

Pictured: Karen Sherman. Photo by Cameron Wittig.

      

RASTER-NOTON / LISTEN/VISION @ The Art Institute.

May 14, 2008: 7pm-midnight
San Francisco Art Institute

Raster-Noton: Archiv Für Ton Und Nichtton is a platform, a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. After surviving the storm that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German sound manipulators Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender pooled their resources as Raster-Noton and jacked into international art currents. Their minimalist electronic CDs and sound objects have sent power surges through a global grid connecting like-minded artists from Coil’s ElpH to Tokyo’s Ryoji Ikeda.

THE PROGRAM 
The program will consist of four live performances:

Signal:
Robotron (mp3)
Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai):
Unitxt
Olaf Bender:
D.O.A.T. (Death of a Typographer) (mp3)
Frank Bretschneider:
Rhythm

LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. Volume and Overlap.org have partnered to commission new and unreleased sound and video works from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. LISTEN/VISION will also host live performances and multichannel sound installations.

The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presents a very special evening with live performances by the three principal members of the German arts platform Raster-Noton: Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender. Each artist will perform individually, and collectively as Signal. These artists are considered by many to be some of the most important and influential individuals working within the field of experimental electronic audiovisual performance today.

Raster-Noton:

Carsten Nicolai

Carsten Nicolai is an artist who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. For several years now he has also experimented with sound under the pseudonym Noto to create his own code of signs, acoustic and visual symbols. As Alva Noto he leads those experiments into the field of electronic music.
Among others, Nicolai already performed as Alva Noto at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at Kunsthaus Graz and at Tate Modern in London. Additionally he has projects with diverse artists such as Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Mika Vainio or Thomas Knak (opto); recently he toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto through Europe, Australia and Asia.

Olaf Bender     

Germany-based Olaf Bender is one of three founders of the Raster-Noton imprint. Beside the  management of Raster-Noton, Olaf Bender is responsible for the graphic  design and public appearance of the label and its products. He often records under such aliases as Byetone and Lumen for solo projects, and together with Komet and Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) forms the laptop microsound trio Signal. His output is extremely sparse, with his sole full-length contributions being a disc in the prize-winning 20' to 2000 series and 2003's Feld, released on Raster-affiliated label Binemusic.

Frank Bretschneider

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider‘s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.

After the fall of the wall, he and Olaf Bender founded the record label Rastermusic which finally merged with Carsten Nicolai‘s Noton to form Raster-Noton in 1999. He has performed at music and new media festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cut & Splice, Mutek, Offf, Sonar, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, Ultima, etc. In addition to his solo work he has collaborated with artists such as with Taylor Deupree, Olafur Eliasson, Steve Roden, and Ralph Steinbrüchel.

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May 14, 2008: 7pm-midnight
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

Tickets are $15 for the general public, free for SFAI Students (limit one per student).
Tickets will be sold the night of the performance at the venue, advance tickets may be purchased online.
This program is generously sponsored by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.

FOR THE RECORD: Dancers Debate the Body Politic, April - May 2008

LEDOH, 2003, PH: Kathryn Balasingham

Burmese-American performance artist Ledoh's Color Me America and choreographer and aerialist Jo Kreiter's Lies You Can Dance To share a double bill opening weekend; legendary dance artist, unparalleled performer and Guggenheim Fellow Sara Shelton Mann follows with the debut of only-now-completed trilogy Inspirare in second weekend; former Joe Goode dancer turned New Yorker and rising international choreographer Miguel Gutierrez completes festival by performing Retrospective Exhibitionist /Difficult Bodies, his first San Francisco performance in 8 years with his group, The Powerful People.

Thurs - Sat, April 24-26:
Lies you Can Dance To and Color Me America
Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions & Ledoh

Thurs - Sat, May 1-3:
Inspirare
Sara Shelton Mann

Thurs - Sat, May 8-10:
Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies
Miguel Gutierrez

All Performances at 8pm,
Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida St., San Francisco
Free Post-show reception with the Artists follow each performance

Lies You Can Dance To is co-presented with The Marsh Theater and is a commission of the ODC Theater Directors Fund and supported by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Lies concerns itself with the experience of living in a time of national deception. Using custom props and ephemera that include a shredded copy of The New York Times, a whistle, a scale of justice that fits on your finger tip, Lies asks the question: what is the impact of all these repeated untruths? More information at: http://www.flyawayproductions.com/

Performance and Butoh artist Ledoh was forced to flee Burma at the hands of a military dictatorship. Hence he is no stranger to the cumulative effect of constant low-grade threats and the small-scale manipulation used to sustain a certain kind of political advantage. His personal knowledge of both violent oppression and what it means to carry around an archetype of America and freedom 24/7, along with his mastery as a performance artist come to play in Color Me America. Ledoh has been featured on KQED's SPARK. More information at: http://www.saltfarm.org/ 

Much of what inspires the work of Guggenheim Fellow, Sara Shelton Mann, is topical, political and environmental. Created in collaboration with David Szlasa and Calvin LL Jones, Inspirare is made up of three movements: Telios/Telios, which premiered at ODC Theater in December 06; Inspirare, which premiered at Artaud in Spring 07; RedGoldSky will make its debut during For The Record. This will be the first time all three movements have been performed sequentially.
More information at: http://www.sarasheltonmann.org/
Maria, 2008 (from Sara Shelton Mann's Inspirare): PH: Benjy Young

Former Bay Area-en, Joe Goode dancer, and rising international choreographer Miguel Gutierrez returns to San Francisco to present Retrospective Exhibitionist/Difficult Bodies. In Retrospective, Miguel examines the need of performers to project their own expectations while simultaneously subjecting themselves to the expectations of others (the audience). More information at: http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/

Miguel Gutierrez, 2008 PH: Alex Escalante

Tickets:
$20.00 in advance
$25.00 at door
$18 Seniors/Students/Children 12 & Under
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All Performances at 8pm,
Free Post show reception with the Artists follow each performance
Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110

WEIMAR NY @ SFMOMA

Justin Bond emceed Weimar NY at SFMOMA Feb 13 and 14, 2008

New York-based Dax brought his wildly entertaining, politically pointed, and always sold-out theatrical cabaret "Weimar New York" to San Francisco for its West Coast premiere. Juxtaposing the aesthetics and music of Weimar-era Berlin with those of the contemporary downtown performance scene in New York, the show spotlighted the uneasy parallels between Germany then and the United States now. This presentation brings together performers from a variety of backgrounds — including classically trained singers and musicians, performance artists, and burlesque acts — from both coasts.  VIEW HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EVENT HERE

Novice Theory opened and framed the night with two piercing solos.