Workshop with Vahan Kerovpyan
From Rhythms to Rhythm
Tuesday May 26
Festival Central, Building A
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Workshop
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Conversation and Dinner
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Documentary Film
Grandma’s Tattoos
Workshop Cost: $100 including dinner
Hosted by Aram Kerovpyan &
Murat Iclinalca
Starting from the rhythm that is already within us, our steps, our heartbeat and our ears, we will be questioning the basis of our perception, our ability to coordinate our body parts and the role of the mind within this process, by entering simple rhythmical patterns in various ways.
Confronting our current habits, musical sensitivity and the rational understanding of rhythms, we aim to strengthen our consciousness and ability to wander freely in the world of rhythm.
Vahan Kerovpyan is a Paris/Porto-based musician, percussionist and pianist. For several years he followed courses of dehol and zarb (Armenian and Persian percussion instruments). During his university years, he studied history and Armenian studies, in Paris. He is a member of Akn since 2001, a member of Kotchnak since 2003, and a member of the Medz Bazar collective, formed in Paris in 2012, which performs the traditional music of the Middle East. He has played in rock, reggae and soul bands. He is also a member of the theatre collective L’Enjeu a des Ailes, based in Paris. He is a member of Péniche Anako association, the educational association Mgnig, and the association Land and Culture Organisation, which works for the preservation and development of Armenian cultural heritage.
Workshop with Przemysław Błaszczak
Forgetting the Body
Monday May 25
Festival Central, Building A
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Workshop
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Conversation and Dinner
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Documentary Film
The Witness Trilogy:
Voices from the Lake
Workshop Cost: $100
Hosted by Przemysław Błaszczak
Social norms, conventions, etiquette and rules create an environment that shapes our physicality and relation to the body – that is, our “body view”. The way we walk, run, dance, touch ourselves and each other is culturally determined but so deeply ingrained that we readily identify with it and say “this is the way I am”. We don’t remember or seem not to remember that from birth we are exposed to intense training that never really ends, and our behaviour is a way of conforming to the prevailing norms.
The aim of the workshop is to make us forget the body as we know it, and make us listen to it in the here and now, in relation to ourselves, the surrounding space, our partners and group. By focusing on solo and partner training we discover new modes of perception, communication and improvisation that brings together, in a creative process, co-action, co-creation and co-existence.
ARTIST BIOS
Przemysław Błaszczak - an actor; he has been associated with the Grotowski Institute since 1995. He studied philosophy at the Wrocław University. From 1996 to 1999 he worked with Song of the Goat Theatre, where he performed in Dithyramb. In 2002–2003 he created a solo performance, Ecce Homo. Since 2004, he has been an actor with Teatr ZAR; he performs in Gospels of Childhood. The Triptych and in Armine, Sister performance. Starting from 2012 he collaborates with Theodoros Terzopoulos and performs in Heiner Müller’s Mauser directed by the Greek director. Since 2005, he has studied the Japanese martial art of aikido under sensei Piotr Masztalerz (5th Dan). In 2011 he studied under Juba Nour Shihan (6th Dan) in Baja California, Mexico. He is currently training to become an aikido teacher. In 2005 he was in Japan, invited by Toshi Tsushitori, practicing shintaido, a Japanese system that integrates voice and body through training based on traditional Japanese karate.
he has been associated with the Grotowski Institute since 1995. He studied philosophy at the Wrocław University. From 1996 to 1999 he worked with Song of the Goat Theatre, where he performed in Dithyramb. In 2002–2003 he created a solo performance, Ecce Homo. Since 2004, he has been an actor with Teatr ZAR, he performs in Gospels of Childhood. The Triptych and in Armine, Sister performance. Starting from 2012 he collaborates with Theodoros Terzopoulos and performs in Heiner Müller’s Mauser directed by the Greek director. Since 2005, he has studied the Japanese martial art of aikido under sensei Piotr Masztalerz (5th Dan). In 2011 he studied under Juba Nour Shihan (6th Dan) in Baja California, Mexico. He is currently training to become an aikido teacher. In 2005 he was in Japan, invited by Toshi Tsushitori, practicing shintaido, a Japanese system that integrates voice and body through training based on traditional Japanese karate.
Events & Activities
Opening Night Pre & Post Performance Reception
Following your opening night performance experience, come to Festival Central for DJs drinks and conversations about the show you have just seen.
Festival Central Artist Lounge
Dance to music spun by the DJs from Washburn Studios, meet some of the people whose performances you have seen, compare notes and opinions with other audience members, have a glass of wine and a bite to eat.
Bearing Witness – Artist Curators Tour
Surveillance in the Drone Age is a comprehensive look at the wide reach and capabilities of technologies that trap us under a complex umbrella...
Forgetting the Body – Workshop with Przemysław Błaszczak
Social norms, conventions, etiquette and rules create an environment that shapes our physicality and relation to the body – that is, our “body view”.
From Rhythms to Rhythm - Workshop with Vahan Kerovpyan
The main purpose of the workshop is to start from the rhythm that is already within us, our steps, our heartbeat and our ears....
Old Roots, New Leaves – Workshop with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat
The workshop will teach Persian singing technique, focusing on a vocal ornamentation technique called tahrir, which can be used in songs...
Bearing Witness – Artist Reception
Surveillance in the Drone Age is a comprehensive look at the wide reach and capabilities of technologies that trap us under a complex umbrella...
How to Sell Out Arts Events – Brown Paper Tickets Workshop
Surveillance in the Drone Age is a comprehensive look at the wide reach and capabilities of technologies that trap us under a complex umbrella...
Edward Snowden Revelations and the Public Right ro Know
The San Francisco Arts Festival 2015 is proud to present The Edward Snowden Revelations and the Public Right to Know, a public program in conjunction with the exhibition Bearing Witness: Surveillance in the Drone Age.
Documentary Film
The Witness Trilogy: Voices from the Lake
Documentary directed by J. Michael Hagopian, USA 2000, 87'
Twenty five years in research and production, this first feature-length documentary film on the Armenian Genocide focuses on the day-to-day tragedy unfolding in Kharpert-Mezreh, one among 4000 towns and villages of the former Ottoman empire in 1915, where monumental forces were unleashed to annihilate Armenians.
Grandma’s Tattoos
Documentary directed by Suzanne Khardalian, Sweden 2011; 58’
With English subtitles
Filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian travels to Armenia, Lebanon, Syria and Sweden to investigate the secret of her grandmother’s face tattoos. In the process she unveils the story of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War.
Singing in Exile
Documentary directed by Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro, Belgium 2015, 72’
With English subtitles
In order to pass on an their ancestral and endangered heritage, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, an Armenian couple from the diaspora with Jarosław Fret and international troupe of actors from Teatr ZAR, Wrocław travel on a journey to the places where this art was born, to Anatolia. On the way, their questions revive the wealth of a wiped-out culture, and singing becomes a language of creation and sharing, a breath of life.
Igor Josifov – Wit-ness on Film
Wit-ness documents a long durational performance art piece that includes new burned paper works and an installation that represents the violent confrontation between identity and vulnerability. All of this is tied together by a narrative that addresses the idea of surveying and being surveyed, both by another person/character and the audience viewing the performance and film.
Christine Bonansea
(USA)
Asteria 1
(2015, World Premiere)
Fri. June 05 9:30pm
Sat. June 06 7:00pm
Sun. June 07 5:30pm
Firehouse
Tickets: $10-$15 General Admission
Presented by Christine Bonansea (duration 35 minutes)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
These performances were made possible by a grant from the Phyllis C, Wattis Foundation.
Asteria 1 is part of a new choreographic series of 11 solo dances for women inspired by the 11 body lives of the mythical Greek figure Asteria. The project investigates aspects of temporality and transformation of the body in space. Based on the concept of "eternal recurrence" that is central to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Bonansea created an iterative process using the idea that with infinite time and a finite number of events, they will recur again and again infinitely. The work presented at SFIAF is the first proposition of The 11 Possibilities of Asteria.
ARTIST BIOS
Christine Bonansea is a multi disciplinary performer artist and choreographer who studied in choreographic dance centers in France with Regine Chopinot, Mathilde Monnier and Catherine Diverres. She’s been performing with numbers of companies internationally. Her work covers a broad artistic field, featured an integrated and participatory process carried out in collaboration with artists. Resident artist in international art programs and commissioned by festival art organizations in Europe, USA and Japan. She’s supported by Theater Bay area CASH Grant, the Zellerbach Family foundation, the American Dance Abroad, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Lightning Designer Grant.
Theatre (listed alphabetically)
Áine Ryan - Kitty in the Lane
Kitty in the Lane received much critical attention at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2014 and is the debut play by Irish playwright and actor Áine Ryan.
Ariel Luckey - Amnesia
Amnesia tells the story of a young man who retraces his family’s migration from a small village in Eastern Europe through New York and Los Angeles to the borderlands of Arizona.
Bob Ernst - towards\away
Our hero is a stranger in a strange land. He finds himself running for his life in an alien landscape being pursued by something he can’t quite make out.
Carte Blanche - Femme Fatale
Award winning company Carte Blanche hits the road with Femme Fatale, inspired by the recent scandal involving the French president and actress Julie Gayet.
Compagnie Artara - Le Chagrin des Ogres
Le Chagrin des Ogres portrays a day unlike any other during which two teenagers will lose their share of childhood.
devorah major and Brian Freeman - Classic Black
Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, Classic Black tells the true stories of 19th century African-Americans in pre-Civil War San Francisco.
Eth Noh Tec - Red Altar
Celebrating the contributions of three generations of Chinese immigrants who start the fishing industry in Monterey Bay.
Inferno Theatre - Quantum Love
Quantum Love focuses on desire as a constant matrix driving the action as each shared breath, word, and touch draws each character toward the others.
Right Brain Performancelab - The Elephant in the Room (Excerpt)
The Elephant in the Room features a large pachyderm-like entity who invisibly inhabits the stage, intriguing & confounding a cast of performers who dance, clown and sing their efforts to define it.
Teatr ZAR - Armine, Sister
Armine, Sister refers to the history of the Armenian people in Anatolia and their near-extermination at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dance (listed alphabetically)
ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco - Spirit of Brazil '15
Presented by a talented, intergenerational cast of musical, dance, and martial artists, Spirit of Brazil ‘15 explores movement and music native to Brazil...
Abhinaya Dance Company - Exquisite Love
The Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose was founded by its Artistic Director Mythili Kumar in 1980, to present innovative and professional quality ...
Alyce Finwall Dance Theater - RUNE
Alyce Finwall Dance Theater will be presenting a new dance/theater work for the San Francisco International Arts Festival at Fort Mason...
ABD Productions with Mezoamerika - ANDARES
ANDARES is a multidisciplinary performance work created in collaboration with Salvadoran artist-activists grappling with the legacies of a brutal civil war.
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL with special guest Park Nahoon Dance
In You ARE HERE, choreographer Christine Cali and musician Matt Langlois ask the question: "How do we make sense of these bodies gifted to us and the disappearing nature of our existence?"...
Christine Bonansea - Asteria 1 (World Premiere)
Christine Germain & Dancers produces original works of physical theatre specializing in exposing and exploring human rights inequities...
Christine Germain and Dancers - Remembering Again
Christine Germain & Dancers produces original works of physical theatre specializing in exposing and exploring human rights inequities...
Congo Square West Kinship Society - A Night of Tribute in Dance: Blanche Brown
An inaugural night of tribute in dance honoring Bay Area Arts Pioneers whose works represent historical cultural gateways. Now in its 10th year...
Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company - Gawky & Awkward, On the Wall
The Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company is a professional contemporary dance company based in Cork, which performs work that includes both disabled...
Davalos Dance Company - OH THE MOON!
Through movement, image and spoken word, Oh the MOON! contemplates our lunar neighbor and its many universal and cultural associations...
Debbie Goodwin Dance Company with Seth Asarnow y Su Sexteto Tipico - Me Llamo Tango
Me Llamo Tango explores the soul of tango, not simply a lover’s tryst, but a venerable embrace of cultural solidarity and self-expression...
Deborah Slater Dance Theatre - LINE OF BEAUTY
The intimate, shared experience reinforces our primal need for connection – told not through technology but through interaction...
Detour Dance - Beckon
Beckon unravels the complex territory between our bodies, our voices and our desires, portraying the divergent experiences of catcalling and cruising....
The Foundry - Poem
Poem is episodic, and looks at a number of different ways that movement can achieve a sense of visual traction...
Gretchen Garnett and Dancers - A Dedication
A Dedication looks into loss and how people deal with death. The piece begins from the point of isolation...
Grupo de Rompe y Raja - Tribute to Victoria Santa Cruz
Since the revival period in Peru, many artists have re-created and evolved African rhythmic and dance forms that have become the folkloric music...
HORSE Dance Theatre - 2 Men
The logo of HORSE is a Chinese character made of three horses, indicating the strong motivation, explosive energy...
inkBoat - Ritual 8-27: market
Ritual 8-27: market is part of a larger project entitled 95 Rituals, a series of performances by inkBoat, directed by Shinichi Iova-Koga...
Katerina Wong - 36 Questions
36 Questions explores the concepts of intimacy, vulnerability, tolerance and human connection through the lens of scientific procedure...
ka.nei.see | collective - Cookie Cutter
ka·nei·see | collective presents a collection of short world-premiere dances as well as excerpts from its recent sold-out production Cookie Cutter...
Kiandanda Dance Theater - Taboo and Heroes
Taboo and Heroes explores the situation of the wars that struck the Republic of Congo in the late 1990’s in a multimedia performance...
Ledoh - INCOGNITO
Ledoh is the Artistic Director of Salt Farm, a Butoh-based collective united in its mission to explore its diverse cultural roots...
Loco Bloco - Bay to Bahia
Bay to Bahia re-connects audiences to past, present and future visions of community expression and resistance rooted in the “Bloco Afro” philosophy...
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater - reveries & elegies Volume TWO
reveries and elegies is an on-going series of works interrogating the nature of site specificity and the act of performance itself...
Olga Kosterina - Dilemma Part One
Olga Kosterina combines physical theatre with contemporary dance, acrobatics, pantomime and circus...
project agora - Threshold, Suspended…
Threshold, Suspended… is a dance that physicalizes liminal states. “Liminality” implies floating, transition, and the “in-between.”...
PunkkiCo - Untitled I
Untitled I will feature six dancers that embody the company’s athletic, theatrical and sensual movement style...
Tim Rubel Human Shakes - Menace
Menace is a negotiation between self-control and self-indulgence. It is a landscape of visceral reality, where whimsical intuition is favored...
tinypistol - beast
beast seeks to dismantle the tyranny of beauty by exalting the status of the "ugly" and revealing the grotesqueness of conventional expectations...
ka.nei.see | collective
(USA)
Excerpts from Cookie Cutter (2015) and Other Works
Fri. June 5 9:00pm
Sat. June 6 4:30pm
Sun. June 7 8:00pm
Fleet Room
Tickets: $20-$25 General Admission
Shared bill with Katerina Wong and Detour Dance
Presented by ka.nei.see | collective (duration 75 minutes)
ka·nei·see | collective presents a collection of short world-premiere dances as well as excerpts from its recent sold-out production Cookie Cutter. These vignettes coalesce dichotomies in space, manufactured moments, childhood laughs, rawness, and freedom within boundaries to express familial love, recycled ideas, and unapologetic beauty.
ka·nei·see | collective is a Bay Area performing arts ensemble directed by Tanya Chianese, creating vitalizing and accessible contemporary dance that promotes finding humor, appreciation, compassion, awareness, and celebration in life. The company has been presented at various theaters including Dance Mission Theater, ODC Theater, Shawl-Anderson Dance Theater, The Garage, Joe Goode Annex, and Yerba Buena Gardens. The company's sold-out, two-weekend production Cookie Cutter was the Cover Story of the SF Chronicle's 96 Hours, one of SF Arts' Top Ten dance picks for January 2015, previewed by Rita Felciano in the East Bay Monthly, and received rave reviews.
Tanya Chianese has performed with Garrett + Moulton Productions, Paufve | Dance, Blind Tiger Society, Rogelio Lopez & Dancers, dNaga, Kristin Damrow & Company, Sarah Bush Dance Project, Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, and Media City Ballet, among others. She teaches movement at primarily Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (SADC), Ace Dance Academy, and Berkeley Ballet Theater. Tanya was awarded a 2014 Artist-in-Residence at SADC, where she debuted ka·nei·see | collective. She has worked as an administrator for Oklahoma City Ballet, Epiphany Productions, Blind Tiger Society, and dance anywhere, and she holds a B.F.A. in Modern Dance and B.A. in Art History from the University of Oklahoma.
Mallory Markham grew up dancing in Jackson, Mississippi, before completing her BFA in Ballet Performance at the University of Oklahoma. Post graduation, Ms. Markham danced professionally for Tim Veach in his contemporary ballet company, Columbus Dance Theatre, in Columbus, Ohio. From there she moved West and has settled in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has most notably danced for Bianca Cabrera’s Blind Tiger Society for the past three years. She has also been featured in works by Sarah Bush, Kristin Damrow, and Garrett + Moulton Production’s latest work, The Luminous Edge.
A Bay Area native, Rebecca Morris received her early training from Berkeley Ballet Theater. She holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts and is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor. Recently, she has danced with Garrett + Moulton Productions, Blind Tiger Society, and Cali & Co. Additionally, she teaches dance at Berkeley City Ballet and Pilates at Yogaworks in San Francisco.
Emma Salmon was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she performed professionally with James Sewell Ballet and Minnesota Dance Theater. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Dance at the University of Minnesota in 2010 and attended the American Dance Festival on scholarship for multiple years. In 2011, Emma became a certified yoga instructor and later that year moved to San Francisco. She has had the pleasure of working with Bay Area choreographers including Bianca Cabrera, Todd Eckert, Christy Funsch, Lisa Fagan, and Laura Bernasconi.
Ali Weeks, a Midwesterner at heart, grew up in the Chicago area and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). While at UW, she was granted scholarships to study and perform in Taipei, Taiwan, and Salvador, Brazil. Since moving to the Bay Area, she has earned Pilates certifications through BASI and the PMA, and now teaches at two private studios in San Francisco. Ali has the pleasure of dancing with Bianca Cabrera’s Blind Tiger Society and Kristin Damrow & Company in addition to ka·nei·see | collective.
Áine Ryan
(Republic of Ireland,
U.S. Debut)
Kitty in the Lane
(U.S. Premiere)
Thur. May 21 8:30pm
Fri. May 22 9:30pm
Sat. May 23 5:00pm
Sun. May 24 5:30pm
Fri. May 29 9:30pm
Sat. May 30 3:00pm
Sun. May 31 8:00pm
Fri. June 5 9:30pm
Sat June 6 4:00pm
Sun. June 7 8:00pm
Southside Theater
Tickets: $20-$25 General Admission
Presented by SFIAF (duration 75 minutes)
Writer and Performer – Áine Ryan
Technical Design and Stage Management – Emily Matthews, Gemma Miller
Music Arrangement – Cáit Ryan, Ella Stapleton , recording by Eoin Ryan
Media – Dominick Kosicki
Photography – Tomek Bogut and Jeremy Abrahams
Producer – Keith Monaghan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
These performances of Kitty in the Lane were made possible in part by the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Ireland in San Francisco through the Department of Foreign Affairs: Cultural Relations with Other Countries Programme.
A poignant drama that examines the physical and emotional loneliness of a young female farmer who feels tied to the family land in rural Ireland. Kitty in the Lane received much critical attention at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2014 and is the debut play by Irish playwright and actor Áine Ryan.
'It is rare to find a writer and performer whose gifts work together in such wonderful intensity and imagination...anticipate something that will leave you haunted. Five stars' Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe 2014
Studio Perform was formed as a company to facilitate production of Kitty in the Lane, the debut play by Áine Ryan. Kitty in the Lane played various venues and festivals around Ireland before enjoying a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2014, and will continue touring in 2015. Studio Perform is committed to showcasing theatre by unlocking the landscape of contemporary rural Ireland from Ryan's perspective.
ARTIST BIOS
Áine Ryan
Áine holds a BA in Theatre and Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has completed E20 Writers School with the BBC, a programme for emerging scriptwriters, and attended playwriting courses with Fishamble and The Royal Court. Aswell as playing the title role in Kitty in the Lane, other recent theatre credits include Sive in the Irish premiere of Desolate Heaven by Ailís Ní Ríain , directed by Tony McCleane Fay at the Everyman Theatre, Cork. Also, May in Angel Dust and Dallas by Paul Maher, directed by Amy Hill , a touring comedy production.
Emily Matthews
Emily has served as Sound & Lighting Designer/Technician on Kitty in the Lane since the shows conception in 2013. She has served as lighting technician on other productions at the Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick and Cork School of Music. As an actor Emily's credits include Nina in A Dream Play with National Youth Theatre at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin and Melaine in Going Places at Draiocht Theatre. She also works as a drama facilitator and workshop coordinator.
Mary Armentrout
Dance Theater
(USA and U.K.)
reveries & elegies Volume TWO
(U.S. Premiere)
Thur. June 4 8:00pm
Sun. June 7 8:00pm
Firehouse
Tickets: $20-$25 General Admission
Presented by Mary Armentrout Dance Theater (duration 90 minutes)
Reveries and elegies Volume TWO production credits:
Choreography and Performance: Mary Armentrout
Sound Design: Evelyn Ficarra
Video Design: Mary Armentrout and Ian Winters
Scenic Design: Mary Armentrout and Ian Winters
Light Design: Ian Winters
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
These performances of reveries and elegies Volume TWO were supported in part by a generous grant from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
reveries and elegies Volume TWO opens the next chapter in MADT’s long term site specific dance theater installation about change, dislocation, and the ungraspableness of the present. reveries and elegies is an on-going series of works interrogating the nature of site specificity and the act of performance itself. Volume TWO explores the conflation of fleetingness and loss, intention and presence, repetition and performance, and history and autobiography, within the context of the human mark upon the environment. reveries and elegies Volume TWO will be created in collaboration with composer Evelyn Ficarra and videographer Ian Winters.
COMPANY HISTORY:
The Mary Armentrout Dance Theater (MADT) exists to support the genre defying works of Mary Armentrout and her collaborators. Founded in 2000, the company is a fluid blend of dancers, actors, and sound and media artists. MADT installs work in both conventional and site-specific venues, and has been presented at numerous venues all over the San Francisco Bay Area, including ODC Theater, The LAB, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as well as in less proscenium-oriented spaces including a bathroom, the beach, and a car. MADT has also been presented across the US and the UK, Europe, and China.
ARTIST BIOS
Mary Armentrout
Mary Armentrout is a San Francisco Bay Area based experimental choreographer, performance artist, and videographer, and the director of the Mary Armentrout Dance Theater (MADT). She calls her genre-mixing works performance installations, and two of her recent site-specific works have been nominated for Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and is a Feldenkrais Practitioner. She also is the organizer of the Dance Discourse Project, an on-going series of artist-curated discussions of the Bay Area dance scene, a co-curater of The Milk Bar in Oakland, and teaches on-going technique and composition classes in the East Bay. www.maryarmentroutdancetheater.com
Evelyn Ficarra
Evelyn Ficarra is a composer and sound artist. Her music has been heard in concert halls, theaters, music festivals, film festivals, on television and in radio broadcasts in the UK, Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East. Throughout her career she has enjoyed collaborative work with choreographers, directors, filmmakers, and visual artists. She studied at the University of Sussex and UC Berkeley, and is currently a Lecturer in Music Theatre at the University of Sussex, where she is Assistant Director of the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre. www.evelynficarra.net
Ian Winters
Ian Winters is a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer, video artist, and performer working at the intersection of architectural form, frozen image, and time-based media in solo work and collaborations with composers, directors, and choreographers, to create open-ended environments through performance, photographic/video/film media, and sonic environments. Winters trained in photography, film and performance at SMFA-Boston and Tufts University. His work has been seen throughout the US and the UK, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. He also co-curates the Milkbar in Oakland. www.ianwinters.com