Wandering Ensemble (Dandelion Dancetheater)
(USA)
Lost & Found
(2025, World Premiere)
Date(s) & Time(s): Wed Apr 30 & Wed May 7, 8:00pm
Duration: 70 minutes ( Intermission )
Venue: El Rio
Location: 3158 Mission St. SF, CA 94110
Ticket Information
Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
For the best deals, see multiple shows with a discount Festival Pass.
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The Wandering Ensemble and Lost & Found are supported in part by the CSU East Bay Department of Theatre and Dance, the Dandelion Seeds, and an anonymous foundation.
Artist Information
Director & Choreographer: Eric Kupers
Collaborators/Performers: Karin Adams, Bea Aguirre, Jorge Almaraz, Jillian Anspaugh, Alex Barbour, Heather Barrie, Bonnie Baskin, Megan Briceno, Ina Gonzalez-Valenzuela, Jasmine Guerrero, Corissa “Reese” Johnson, Caity Karabensch, Anna Landaur, Raven Malouf-Renning, Amy Marie, Victoria Mannah, Lindsey Perry, Ferdinand Ramos, Anne-Lise Reusswig, Michael Rowley, Haonan Zhu, and more.
The Sabah Ensemble: Bonnie Baskin, Karen Chin, and Sharon Page Ritchie
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Production Details
Lost & FoundLost & Found is chapter 5 of the Wandering Ensemble’s Wandering in the Wilderness project, created collaboratively by Dandelion Dancetheater and the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble. The larger project will take 40 years to create, with new performance experiments each year along the way. Lost & Found explores multiple perspectives on the many losses of the last five years as well as emerging futures arising out of the wreckage of old systems, institutions, beliefs, and habits. Inclusive Dance, Music, Theatre, Ritual, Storytelling, and Spectacle weave an immersive performance ceremony guiding participants and witnesses towards vibrant aliveness.
The Wandering Ensemble
The Wandering Ensemble sprouted in the wake of the COVID Pandemic to experiment with inclusive, creative, and sustainable ways of collaborating that responded directly to the massive changes rippling through our world. Directed by Eric Kupers, the ensemble is a fusion of Dandelion Dancetheater and the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble. Committed to honoring the complexities of creating work by and for people of all abilities/disabilities, shapes, sizes, cultures, ancestries, body identities, neuro-types, art forms, modes of perception, and walks of life, they collaborate year-round, welcoming new members online or in person.
The Sabah Ensemble
The Sabah Ensemble was founded in 1973 by Jamie “Sabah” Miller (1942-1999), who taught belly dance as a performing art. The group's work draws on techniques of improvisation from theater and music; ritual and spiritual practice; community engagement; as well as traditional belly dance, modern dance, yoga and ideokinesis. The Ensemble has performed in a variety of concert, festival and community settings.
Artist Biographies
Eric Ray Kupers
Eric Kupers’ work lives at the intersections of inclusive dance, music, storytelling, community ritual, activism, and spiritual practice. He is a grateful visitor on the lands of the Yrgin/Chochenyo/Ohlone & Pomo peoples and his ancestors are Ashkenazi Jews that came to Turtle Island in the early 1900’s from Eastern Europe. He is also of the Walks-Between people, including Queer folks, Artists, Outsiders, Mystics, and Divergent people across time. A Professor at CSUEB and co-director of Dandelion Dancetheater, he creates with Dandelion, Bandelion, Mandolion, the CSUEB IIE, Ultrasonic Current, the Wandering Ensemble, and a diverse, intersecting web of artists.
