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Fletcher and Reichert have collaborated for more than 12 years on edgy performances that blur the boundary between art and life. Other projects by Fletcher and Reichert include Paparazzi Photographs, in which the artists hired a paparazzo to follow them for a day; Proceedings, a short video work that tracks the artists' obsession with the murder trial of Scott Peterson; Selling Yourself and Not Your Art, which involved hiring a Dale Carnegie instructor to coach artists on the business etiquette of marketing their wares; and Death & Taxes, Inc., a corporation run by an independent board that assumed fiduciary responsibility over the artists' lives for an entire year.

March 12-13, Fri-Sat   •   8pm 

$10-$20   •   Buy tickets Here


RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

"Performance Art in Front

of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining"

by Fletcher & Reichert

Nearly 25 years after performance artist Ana Mendieta plunged to her death from her husband Carl Andre’s 34th floor New York City apartment, two Bay Area conceptual artists are breathing new life into the sordid art-world drama. 
 
Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, known for their tabloid-style approach to making art, wrote and are now producing a theatrical portrait based on their interpretation of what the last argument between Andre and Mendieta might have been.  Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining (a title borrowed from a line in the script) stars veteran actors Carla Pauli and Phillipe Coquet.

Artists website: www.life-art.org

 

Neon Graveyard a collaborative work by Francis Chung, Brittany Kelly, and Kirk Johnson.


Join chain-smoking, nickel-dropping Mama Slots and her cast of bizarre, wild and wonderful characters as we go beyond the neon to discover the people who call Clark County home.

March 14,   Sun    •   8pm 

 

The Garage New Play Series

Kirk Johnson, Creative Director

 

The series Two fantastic new works by up and coming theatre artists from the Bay Area, and an exciting collaboration with an award-winning playwright from Carnegie-Mellon University, this series of bare bones staged readings will culminate in a full workshop production of Vegas Stories in May 2010.

 

Readings Mon. Feb. 15, Sun. March 14, and Thurs. April 1 at 8pm.


Workshop Performances Sun-Mon May 16-17 at 8pm

 
Folawole Christine Cali Sebastian Grubb

March 14-21

Workshop info

Here

VERGEfest @ TheGarage

The Garage presents a new festival featuring contemporary dance, improvisation and performance.

March 17-21, Wed-Sun   •   8pm  


VERGEfest features workshop performances of new works.

wed 17 march • 8pm - paul laurey, christine cali

thu 18 march • 8pm - folawole

fri 19 march • 8pm - sebastian grubb, Nita Litle, vitali kononov & rosemary hannon

sun 21 march • 8pm - paige starling sorvillo / blindsight

For more program description and Ticket ordering info, CLICK Here

 

Audition   •   Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm

SF Moving Men is auditioning dancers for Dancing @ The Garage, June 4-26 in the National Queer Arts Festival. Dancers will be paid for rehearsals and performances. Christine Cali & Co is auditioning dancers for an on-going Tuesday morning research group that will be focusing on practice-to-performance.   •   More info Here

 

with Kerri Myers,

Natalee Greene,

Nicole Phillips

and Brianna Taylor

March 25-26,

Fri-Sat

8pm   

$10-$20

Buy tickets Here


RAW presents

SoShe Dance Collective


artists website Here

In "To Your Health!" Kerri Myers presents a dance about Pills: prescription, over-the-counter,  vitamins, minerals, herbs, supplements- and all the bodily woes that lead to our hyper-consumption of those magic little tablets. Using the physical body and true testimonials, Kerri explores the world of pills- buying, selling, consuming and experiencing, asking "How do we find a true healthy balance in a world ruled by the quick fix?"

Brianna Taylor presents “Nothing is Ever Lost…” is an interdisciplinary performance piece exploring decisions around child bearing and motherhood in contemporary American society.  Combining modern and West African dance as movement inspirations, along with spoken word and song, a ritual performance piece will take place to serve as a healing event for women grappling with the decision of whether or not to have children.  Questions are raised about abortion vs. the desire to have children, along with the desire to move forward with a career as an independent woman of our time.  What is lost along with the decision to have a child?  What is lost along with the decision to terminate a pregnancy?  And what of the fears of not being able to bear children at a later time, or of being a single mother trying to pursue her dreams?  Some of these questions are answered through movement, story and song.  Some are left unanswered, to be determined in the minds and hearts of the audience.

Nicole Phillips presents "Fatherload: Part I", a dance art premiere features Phillips singing to her estranged father, while pasting pictures of him and flower petals to her body. She builds a bridge between the visible and the invisible, the touched and untouched.

 
 
MOVE(MEN)T3    
 

June 4-26

SF Moving Men & Christine Cali & Co

More info   Here

 
 

Zellerbach

 Family Foundation

joe landini, director

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The Garage has a sprung dance floor with mirrors and is available for performances, workshops and classes.