Thur. - Sat. May 20-22. 8:00pm
DEREVO (Russia)
Harlekin (2009, U.S. Premiere)
Cowell Theatre, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
$25 Reserved Seating, $20 in advance. Series Discounts Available.
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Presented by SFIAF

One day, when I was crossing customs, in the form field "Occupation" I wrote "Harlequin." The customs officer asked me what it meant. I answered: "this is what I have been doing for many years in the theatre."

"You should write 'Actor,'" he said. I apologized. He smiled. Going away from his desk I could feel his glare on my back. And I suddenly realized that I was walking differently. Lighter, snappier . . . as if I was 300 years younger.

(Anton Adasinsky, artistic director, DEREVO)

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Saturday May 29 7:00pm.
Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero (U.S.A.)
Almost Nothing, Almost Everything
Southside Theatre, Building D, Fort Mason Center
$25 General Admission, $20 in advance. Series Discounts Available.
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Shared bill with Company Prototype Status
Presented by Keith Hennessy and SFIAF

Keith Hennessy comes to SFIAF to improvise: to invent a performance from almost nothing, accessing almost everything. Curious about histories of moving bodies and bodily movement, Hennessy's improvisations are a dynamic mash-up of Judson, body art, stand up, Ridiculous, Modern, lecture, and ritual (where Ridiculous means, among other things, subversive camp, and ritual is about how a group of people experience magic and/or death together). He might go off on a political rant, he might take questions from the audience, and he'll probably change costumes and be naked. Hennessy's all-improv concerts are rarely presented in the Bay Area but have been recently featured and praised in New York at Dance Theatre Workshop, in Mexico at the Prisma Foru, and in Germany at Ponderosa.

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