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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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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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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