Thur May 22 8:00pm, Fri. May 23 9:00pm, Sat. May 24 7:00pm
Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater (San Francisco) & Reckless Moments (China)
Speaking Chinese (world premiere)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission Street (@ Third Street)
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Presented by Epiphany Productions, Creative Futures and SFIAF.

Speaking Chinese is a dance journey inspired by Love in a Fallen City, a 1943 novella by Chinese-American writer Zhang Ailing and featuring the orchestral and chamber music of Shanghai composer Zhu Jian'er. Combining text, movement, image, and sound this interdisciplinary work leads us through Ailing's "tales of love, longing and the shifting of endlessly treacherous shoals of family life."

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Thur-Sat. May 22-31, 8:00pm
Blindsight (San Francisco) Lucy HG (Los Angeles) &
Susan Hawkins (UK/Australia)
thirty-seven isolated events (world premiere)
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street (@ Ninth Street).
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Presented by Blindsight and CounterPULSE.

thirty seven isolated events is a responsive, intermedia performance and installation created by Bay Area choreographer paige starling sorvillo, media artist Lucy HG and composers Susan Hawkins and Liz Allbee.

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Fri. May 23 7:00pm, Sat. May 24 4:00pm
AXIS Dance Company (San Francisco) and
Joe Goode (San Francisco)
the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping (Bay Area premiere)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission Street (@ Third Street)
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Presented by AXIS Dance Company.
Shared Bill With Dandelion Dance Theater.

Joe Goode's latest creation for AXIS Dance Company. Goode says of the work, "What do we see? Is the actuality of the "seen" entity ever close to what we presume it to be? Is "seeing" somehow limited? Does it imply an unnecessary separation between viewer and viewed? It has been my delight to explore these questions with my AXIS collaborators. I am indebted to them for their willingness to reveal themselves and to take this journey with me."

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Fri. May 23 7:00pm, Sat. May 24 4:00pm
Dandelion Dance Theater (San Francisco) and
Compania Y (Spain) and Jaques Poulin Denis (Canada)
Oust
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission Street (@ Third Street)
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Presented by Dandelion Dance Theater and SFIAF.
Shared Bill With AXIS Dance Company.

Oust begins with the Buddhist concept that there exists no solid lasting self and pulls from examples such as illegal immigration, refugee crises, and wars that divide countries and ethnic groups. Dandelion Dancetheater and Compañía Y will create a piece responding to this theme of displacement. Part of the performance will involve moving the audience, adding the shared element of physical displacement. Oust will be multi-lingual, incorporating text and audience instructions in English, Spanish, French, and Sign Language.

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Fri. May 23 & June 6 5:00pm & 6:00pm
Sat. May 24, Sun. June 1 & Sat. June 7 12:00pm, 1:00pm & 2:00pm
AscenDance Project (San Francisco)
Levitate (world premiere)
Union Square
TICKETS: FREE

Presented by AscenDance Project, MJM Management and SFIAF.

AscenDance Project will present Levitate, a site specific installation/dance performance at Union Square. AscenDance Project is a new company founded in January of 2006 by German born performance artist and mountaineer, Isabel von Rittberg to create work that explores the aesthetics of climbing. A vertical stage, without the use of ropes, has a beauty and grace enhanced by the effects of gravity on the dancer and his/her ability to overcome.

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Thur. May 29 7:00pm, Sat. May 31 9:30pm, Sun June 1, 4:30pm
Cristina Moura (Brazil)
like an idiot (California premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by Cultural Odyssey

A solo performance by Cristina Moura a dancer and choreographer from Brazil, like an idiot is a performance that combines a brilliant unique dance vocabulary with performance art, and theater. Utilizing otherworldly recorded music and her own idiosyncratic choreographic movement, Cristina moves about the stage as if possessed, drawing pictures in midair speaking with her hands, head, arms and body creating a mosaic of images, sounds and gestures.

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Thur. May 29 9:30pm, Sat. May 31 7:00pm, Sun June 1, 2:00pm
Kate Foley Dance Ensemble (Croatia)
Angels of Suderac (US premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by the Croatian American Cultural Center & SFIAF.
Shared Program with Scott Wells and Sonja Pregrad.

In Angels of Suderac Kate Foley mixes contemporary dance with invented archaic folkdance inspired by her investigations into the 17th century witch trial documentation on the vilenice (fairy cult healers) of Janjina, autobiographical material and her experience with American popular dance culture. Zoran Cica, ethnologist, plays the role of a narrator, highlighting new research on the psychedelic shamanism of the vilenice.

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Thur. May 29 9:30pm, Sat. May 31 7:00pm, Sun June 1, 2:00pm
Scott Wells (San Francisco) & Sonja Pregrad (Croatia)
Physics of Empathy (US premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by Scott Wells & Dancers, the Croatian American Cultural Center and SFIAF.
Shared Program with Kate Foley Dance Ensemble.

The duet for Pregrad and Wells will mix highly physical dancing along with deconstructive questions and ponderings. The questions the artists begin with are "what is the nature of watching performance?" and "why do people like what they like?"

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Fri. May 30 7:00pm, Sat. May 31 2:00pm, Sun June 1, 9:30pm
Shlomit Fundaminsky (Israel)
Skid Marks (US premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by the Israel Center and SFIAF.
Shared Bill with Dance Elixir.

Skid Marks is a story about a couple and the way they choose to live their lives. They live so close to each other; they easily unite into one person, but almost without looking. They are not able to communicate; their world is full of visions, desires, strength, fears and innocence as their only way of existence.

Funded in Part by The Consulate General of Israel for Northern California.

Fri. May 30 7:00pm, Sat. May 31 2:00pm, Sun June 1, 9:30pm
Dance Elixir (San Francisco)
Capital Life (world premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by Dance Elixir.
Shared Program with Shlomit Fundaminsky

Capital Life was researched and created by Leyya Tawil in San Francisco and Beirut and focuses on the experience of being a first generation Arab American woman and the multi-faceted identity that has shaped her life. It is the final installment of the Capital Life Triptych that Tawil has been working on since 2005.

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Fri.-Sat. May 30-31 8:15pm
lean to productions (San Francisco)
an attic an exit (Bay Area premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by lean to productions

lean to productions presents the San Francisco premiere of an attic an exit, an evening length duet by long-time collaborators Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters. With precision physicality and haunting imagery, the performers weave dance, theater, humor and horror to create a spellbinding dreamscape.

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Fri. May 30 9:30pm, Sat. May 31 4:30pm, Sun June 1, 7:00pm
Art Street Theatre (San Francisco and Germany)
Yes, Yes to Moscow (US premiere)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (@ Mission Street)
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Presented by Art Street Theatre and SFIAF.

Yes, Yes to Moscow, a choreographic-theater rendition of Chekhov's play Three Sisters, is a collaboration by artists from San Francisco and Berlin exploring contemporary questions of happiness, longing and expectation in an international world.

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Fri-Sun. June 6-8, 8:00pm
Element Dance Theater (San Francisco),
Navarrete x Kajiyama (San Francisco),
Chris Lanier and Ilya Noe (Mexico)
The Mapping Project (world premiere)
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street (@ Ninth Street).
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Presented by Element Dance Theater and Navarrete x Kajiyama

The Mapping Project is an evening of installation performance. The work explores the human penchant for creating maps of our geographies and our histories, and includes oral histories, dance, theater, sculptural stage design, and video projections. Inspired by both personal interviews and international political dynamics, The Mapping Project traces some of the strange continuities between the upheavals of the mid-20th century and the current "War on Terror," and address current debates on immigration across the highly charged US-Mexico border.

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