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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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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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Keith Hennessy

Keith Hennessy is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer. He lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, public actions and alchemy/shamanism as tools for investigating political realities.

Hennessy directs CIRCO ZERO, a contemporary circus, in intimate spectacles for stage and street. He was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard (98-02). His work is featured in several books and documentaries, including How To Make Dances in an Epidemic (David Gere, Univ of Wisconsin: 2004), Gay Ideas (Richard Mohr, Beacon: 1992), and Dancers in Exile (RAPT Productions, 2000). Hennessy is a co-founder of 848 Community Space/CounterPULSE a thriving performance and culture space in San Francisco.

Recent awards include Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship in Dance (2005) and SF Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay for Circo Zero. Recent commissions include Les Subsistances, Lyon (Homeless USA, 2005), Les Laboratoires, Paris (American Tweaker, 2006), FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance), Centre Chorégraphique National, Belfort (Sol niger, 2007), and Lower Left Performance Co, San Diego (Gather, 2005). Keith's 2005-07 teaching includes JFK University, UC Davis, University of San Francisco, improvisation festivals in Budapest, Seattle, Stolzenhagen (Germany), Moab, the Aerial Dance Festival (Boulder), plus grass-roots workshops in Arcata, Chicago, Toronto, Victoria BC, Madison, and Earthdance (Northampton MA).