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
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$25.00 at door
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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
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