SAFEhouse • Saving Art From Extinction
715 Bryant Street @ 5th Street, San Francisco • (415) 518 1517 • Look for the red door!
SAFEhouse • Saving Art From Extinction |
715 Bryant Street @ 5th Street, San Francisco • (415) 518 1517 • Look for the red door! |
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The Garage is the kind of tiny, funky, out-of-the-way theater we all thought wouldn't be able to survive the dealings of cutthroat real estate moguls... fortunately SAFEhouse, failed to buy into the pessimism... The Garage presents edgy new work that should satisfy any aficionado wanting to take the pulse of the city. Bay Guardian |
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July |
| Jul 10-11@ 8pm $10-20 • | |
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Alma Esperanza Cunningham Dance |
| July 12-13 @ 8pm $10-20 • | |
RAW (resident artist workshop) and Unum Dance present a new work that examines the world, characters and relationships that are created during children's playtime and questions if adulthood has stripped us of wonder, fantasy, and play. Diana Broker (Artistic Director) has performed in the Bay Area with numerous companies and created Unum Dance in 2011. Her work has been presented at Levy Dance's salon series and at the Garage's residency program.
photo by lynne fried |
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| July 16-23 @ 8pm (Tuesdays) | |
| RAW presents Jovelyn Richards | |
| July 17-18 @ 8pm $10-20 | |
RAW (resident artist workshop) presents Becky Bearse |
+ Bianca Mendoza |
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| July 19-20 & 24-25 | |
| Footloose present new music and comedy | |
| July 26-27 @ 8pm | |
| CONDER/dance from Arizona, featuring new choreography by Ashleigh Leite | |
August |
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Aug 2-3 Samantha Giron Dance Project
Aug 14-17 Footloose Presents returns to The Garage, featuring guest curator Mary Alice Fry
Aug 21-22 RAW present Chin Chin Hsu, Daiane Lopes da Silva and Marina Fukushima It Happens To Be Here.
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Aug 21-22 RAW present Chin Chin Hsu, Daiane Lopes da Silva Marina Fukushima Olivia Ting |
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summer performance festival @ ODC Theater
ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, SF CA
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AUG 14 & 17 WED 9PM & SAT 7PM BODIGRAM AUG 14 & 16 AUG 15 & 18 AUG 15 & 18 AUG 16-17 AUG 17-18 |
Aug 28-29 @ 8pm $10-20 |
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Minding the Gap by Yayoi Kambara part of RAW (resident artist workshop)
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'Minding the Gap' artist statement by Yayoi Kambara: "As a parent I am frightened by the growing bifurcation in our society and saddened that the American ideal of equal opportunity is becoming a tertiary concern. A disturbing study showed the that children of more affluent and less affluent are raised in starkly different ways and have different opportunities. Decades ago college educated parents and high school graduated parents invested in roughly the same amount of time and resources in raising their children. Recently affluent parents have invested much more into their children's future and less affluent parents have not. I'm interested in making a piece about the divisions in our culture and the ultimate failure this will lead to in our society." Yayoi Kambara was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in the Bay Area and Surrey, England. She earned a BA in East Asian studies from Lawrence University and a BFA in dance performance from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. She has worked with many Bay Area Dance Companies including STEAMROLLER DANCE COMPANY, Jo Krieters Flyaway Prodcutions and Scott Wells. She has also been a dancer with ODC since 2003 under the artistic direction of Brenda Way and KT Nelson. Her work has been produced at ODC through the Pilot Program and shown at the RAW Concept Series. This is her first residency at the Garage. |
September , October, November, December |
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Sept 11-12 David Schleifflers and Claire Calalo group dance expanding on themes of solitude and isolation.
"We were becoming children of the red clay ... slowly drowning our neighbors...those who lived through the war but couldn't survive the peace" - Baindu Conté-Coomber's Children of the Red Clay. Children of the Red Clay is a powerful and beautiful dance theater that emerges from the battles faced in in the raw dissection of the “shared humanity” we try to escape. This work emerges from personal stories of identity or survival, of displacement and abandonment, of love and isolation. Do not miss this darkly elating work set to original music and text. http://jaara.org Sept 18-19 Peter Max Lawrence Sept 20-21 Marinov Dance (Los Angeles) & Cecilia Culverhouse
Sept 27-28 Anna and the Annadroids
Oct 3-28 Footloose Productions and Back Alley Theater return to The Garage, featuring new contemporary theatre written by Jeff Bedillion and produced by Mary Alice Fry Nov 1-2 RAW presents Louis Acquisto / Caitlin Hafer. (at right) "I wanted a perfect ending. So I started the story in the middle and stopped before I got to the beginning. This is a dance of endings." Caitlin Hafer Nov 6-21 (Wed-Thu) Tina D’Elia presents The Rita Hayworth of this Generation Nov 8-9 Amy Lewis & Sonsherée Giles Nov 15-16 Julia Hollas & Mantra Plonsey
Dec 4-5 Footloose presents Hope Mohr Dance
Dec 6-7 & 11-12 Bodigram and Number 9
Dec 20-21 Anna and the Annadroids
Nov 22-23 Garage All-Stars, a solo performative work by the artist, drag queen Tessa Fleming/ Missy Lightweight. #whitegirlproblems is beautifully vulnerable and fucking irreverent while exploring the themes of nakedness, eating disorders, and other things only white women deal with. (at right) |
Sept 13-14 Jaara Dance Project
Nov 1-2 RAW presents Caitlin Hafer
Nov 22-23 Tessa Fleming |
Nov 15-16 @ 8pm $10-20 |
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| Julia Hollas & Mantra Plonsey | Floor and Ceiling (working title) is the first direct artistic collaboration between writer/director Mantra Plonsey and dancer Julia Hollas. The two artists have known and liked each other since 2007. Feeling an affinity between their working styles and artistic values, yet coming from vastly different methodologies and backgrounds, Mantra and Julia are creating Floor and Ceiling as a "third mind" of collaboration, what exists only in the open space between two viewpoints. The new work will incorporate semi-autobiographical writings from both artists' lives looking at our psychological reasons for both desiring and hiding from challenge and notoriety.
Director and writer Mantra Plonsey is the author and co-director of the dance theater piece Arthur in Underland: an Atmospheric Mystery, which premiered in 2012, and its sequel, The Inner Room, to be directed and produced by Eric Kupers in 2013. She embarks this year upon her 7th season with Dandelion Dancetheater as performer, composer and writer. She was an early soloist and chorus member in Kitka Balkan Women's Chorus. Past endeavors include several creative collaborations with multimedia performance art pioneer George Coates, and independent film roles for Rob Nilsson. Dancer Julia Hollas currently performs with Alyce Finwall Dance Theater, Dandelion Dancetheater, and Project Thrust. Julia grew up in New Mexico, where she trained with Moving People Dance Theatre, the Santa Fe Dance Foundation (School of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet), and Dance Arts Los Alamos. While earning her degree in Mass Communications at the University of Utah, Julia also studied with the Ballet Department and Department of Modern Dance. Julia moved to San Francisco in 2006 to train with the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, directed by Summer Lee Rhatigan. |
| Dec 13-14 @ 8pm $10-20 Buy tickets here | |
| Lisa Townsend Co. creates experimental contemporary dance that draws on raw physicality, intimate gesture, and a theatrical sensibility. Exploring the aesthetic and dynamics found in film noir Cherchez la femme(look for the woman) is a kinetic high contrast dream whose protagonist seduces her audience through the identities and words of women characters in film noir. A story unfolds dreamlike and abstract, creating complexity and obfuscated narrative through the mosaic of movement monologues, fractured dialogue, live music and song. Uncovering the clarity of character through stories about desire, manipulation, choice & consequences, isolation and the past; Cherchez la femme(look for the woman): no matter what the problem a woman is at the heart of it. |
photographer: Piro Patton |
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