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Nine Shards with choreography by Julia Cost & Katy Felsinger presents “my five thousand north stars” investigates the idea of home and the choices that shape our paths.

Also featuring Rebecca Gilbert’s After August, featuring live music and video.

Part of RAW (resident artist workshop).

“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't. ”

William Shakespeare

This production uses athletic dance, interactive video, and features a dynamic musical score by well known San Francisco producer ill.gates and Brooklyn based producer Tonikom. Seats are limited so please buy your tickets in advance!

Anna and the Annadroids

present their latest surreal dance theater work

 

Dullface

Director/Choreographer: Anna Sullivan
Dancers: Vivian Aragon, Kristin Damrow, Sophia Formosa, Jackie Goneconti Gibbons, Carlyn Pitterle, Ildiko Polony, Anna Sullivan
Music: ill.gates, Tonikom
Video: Brent Haley, Adam Parmalee
www.illgates.com
http://www.tonik.org/
www.annadroids.com

promo video link:
http://youtu.be/GkrpTqRHBbw

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Part of RAW (resident artist workshop)

June 2013

National Queer Arts Festival

 

National Queer Arts Festival – QCC stages an annual month-long multidisciplinary National Queer Arts Festival, documents significant Bay Area Queer arts events on our Website, provides fundraising and other technical assistance services to emerging culturally-specific and gender-specific Queer arts groups, and conducts “Creating Queer Community,” a program that to date has commissioned more than 60 San Francisco-based artists to create new work.Since 1998, QCC has organized an annual month-long National Queer Arts Festival. To date, these Festivals have presented more than 400 different events featuring over 1000 Queer artists.

 

Festival website HERE

I  Am A Man with DAZIE GREGO RUSTIN

Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance.

Bay Area performance artist, poet, dancer, actor and activist Dazié Rustin Grego returns to the stage to offer audiences I AM A MAN, an exploration of gender expectations and masculinity.

This new original work is Grego's protest response to the recent slaying of Jorge Steven Mercado, a Puerto Rican teenager whose killer solicited him for sex, believing him to be a female. I AM A MAN takes a unique look at masculinity from a gay male perspective.

Photo by Lynne Fried

Transparent Trap with Dynasty Handbag

Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance.
Dynasty Handbag returns to her old stomping grounds to bring you the San Francisco premier of video work Eternal Quadrangle and new live performance work, including Control Top, a mutilated reworking and vast extended remix of the 80‘s Janet Jackson classic that involves a car accident and a rigorous human piano solo. In Eternal Quadrangle Dynasty Handbag finds herself on a dating game show where she must choose between 4 contestants vying for a spot in her vast cosmic emptiness. The bachelors are: an aggressively ambitious professional golfer, a hard-luck stray dog, a disembodied brain, and, of course, the grim reaper himself. All have attractive qualities and perhaps sustainable methodologies for dealing with life, but must she choose just one? And why are these her only choices?

www.dyanstyhandbag.com

Dancing to the Radio

Meliza Bañales, Curator

A person has to admit they’ve hit bottom when they search for life’s meanings in today’s shitty pop songs. But that’s exactly what we’ve asked ten Queer artists to do! There’s always that one song on the radio that seems to say exactly how we’re feeling, no matter the guilty pleasure that it is. It’s time to come out of the closet and admit it! Join us as these leading Queer voices explore the deeper side to Brittany Spears, Katy Perry, Guns n’ Roses, Missy Elliot and all the Top 40 you can handle as we attempt to get through life, one pop song at a time. There will be radio crystal ball readings! Candy fortunes with your favorite lyrics! And of course, the radio! Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance.

Meliza Bañales is the author of Say It With Your Whole Mouth and the forthcoming Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific. Her film, Getting Off, with J. Aguilar won the Jury Award at the LA Transgender Film Festival in 2011 and she has a spoken-word album coming out on Crunks Not Dead Records.

Bitter Queen, a movement installation

Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance

Directed by Joe Landini, Donna Moore Assistant Director. Featuring Becky Robinson-Leviton, Elizabeth Cooper, Rachael Elliott, Kaitlin Parks, Marie Walburg Plouviez.

Bitter Queen is a new physical theatre work that walks the borders between contemporary dance, inter-mediated performance and installation. The viewer is immersed into a debauched cocktail party circa 1969 that quickly dissolves into byzantine labyrinth of performance that challenges the relationship between viewer and performer and the line between queer and “What the the hell is going on?”

Joe Landini is the founder of The Garage and the non-profit presenting organization, SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (Saving Art From Extinction). He has presented his work in Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Laguna Beach, Marin, Monterey, Santa Fe NM, Mexico City and London UK. He received his BA in choreography at UC Irvine and his MA in choreography at the Laban Centre. In 2012 he received the GOLDIE award for dance presentation from the SF Bay Guardian.

Photo by Lynne Fried

Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance.

GUEST ARTISTS
JUNE 16 – Kat Marie Yoas (spoken-word)
JUNE 20 – Erik Wagner (contemporary dance)

This evening of dance by Shaunna Vella, Rogelio Lopez, Elizebeth Randall and Andrew Merrell exposes the complex layers of identity, gender expression, and vulnerability through risk taking physicality and emotional subjectivity. We are seeking our truths as lovers, friends, strangers, soulmates, enemies, scene stealers and exhausted, relentless moving bodies. We will unravel through isolation, relationship, and community as we find realities and dreams that rarely hit the surface. We say yes to everything.

www.katfuckinyoas.blogspot.com

Love, Humiliation & Karaoke by Enzo Lombard

Directed by W. Kamau Bell. Enzo really does not want to end up cut into little pieces and deposited on the side of the highway. Yet he’s risking just that by driving 600 miles to meet SanDiegoDavid, a complete stranger he met online. Enzo’s not looking for love, he’s just way behind on an assignment for his Berkeley psychic class. Even though “David” could very well be a serial murderer, to Enzo he’s still safe. Safe because David is a non-contender for dating, having three out of five of Enzo's rigid non-negotiables. To be safer still, Enzo’s meeting him at a Del Taco parking lot. But when he arrives at their meeting place, the guy’s car is left parked across the entryway making it impossible for anyone to get in or out. David’s psycho potential has just gone through the roof. Who does that? What has Enzo gotten himself into? This is humiliating, and even worse, TOTALLY UN-PSYCHIC.

www.enzolombard.com

Sunday @ The Garage.

New open mic in SOMA. Music, comedy, spoken-word, solo performance and burlesque.

Contact us if you want to perform.

suzilladances

artist website:
http://suzilvonschtupt.weebly.com

San Francisco musical comedy cabaret sensation Tom Orr pays tribute to one of contemporary pop music's best and most underrated song writers, former Wham! front man and international superstar George Michael.

Orr is joined by The Tom Shaw Trio, after making his debut with them at The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko in 2012. For this show, the trio becomes a quartet with Tom Shaw on piano, Roberta Drake, drums, Paul Eastburn, guitar & bass, and Audrey Jackson, brass & woodwinds. Opening Night, June 25h, also coincides with George Michael's 50th birthday in the week leading up to Gay Pride.

Crackpot Crones Inc. Presents

HICK: A Love Story

Written by Terry Baum and Pat Bond. Performed by Terry Baum, Directed by Bobbi Ausubel

Part of The Garage AIRspace residency program for queer performance.

Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR’s wife, wrote 2336 letters to Lorena Hickok. Their correspondence began in 1933 when they fell in love and ended only with ER’s death in 1962. This story was uncovered in 1978, when biographer Doris Faber opened 18 boxes willed to the FDR Library by Lorena Hickok. These letters make clear that Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok had had a passionate lesbian relationship. Hick was a famous journalist when she met ER. But as time went on, she subordinated her career and even her happiness to this relationship. Meanwhile, Eleanor, radical and outspoken, became a force for good – with less and less time for Hick. Pioneer lesbian playwright Terry Baum, in a play by herself and Pat Bond, brings Hick to life as Hick struggles to love and support the greatest American woman of the Twentieth Century.

photo by Lynne Fried

www.crackpotcrones.com   •   www.facebook.com/crackpotcrones

SoShe returns

to The Garage with a collage of new work centered on health, humor, and feminism. Kerri Myers will revisit her satirical expose on pills, Nicole Phillips will develop a special new relationship with President Barak Obama, and Brianna Taylor will explore dimensions of the triumphs and tragedies of the modern woman.

Along with works by other local artists, SoShe will inspire, share, and reconnect with our beloved community.

SoShe's Performance Collective collaborates, nurtures, and promotes artists in the creation and presentation of new performance works. Since our founding in 2008, we have presented 3 full-length evening shows, performed in several festivals including Women on the Way and Dancing in the Park, and presented over a dozen different performing artists, both local and national.

When performers need photos...

•  Are you a member of RAW? Do you need great looking photos for marketing, and promotion?
•  Our in house photographer, Lynne Fried is currently offering FREE photo shoots at The Garage for groups in Residency.
•  This includes her time and talent, posting on her website in a secure folder, submitting to INDance, photo used by Joe to make your postcard and your photo hung on "The Gallery Wall" at The Garage to help promote your upcoming show!
•  Files and prints are available for purchase at a Reasonable Price!
•  Please contact Lynne at 650 270 7822 for further information or to schedule an appointment.

P. S: All performers are welcome to contact Lynne!
www.bayareadancephotography.com