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2008  •  2009

Space Garbage

A new dance-theatre work that takes the audience into the universe with Hako, the space glamour puss, and Shashi, her creature companion.

Artists website: Here

Makeup Mutiny presents
Sordid - Curated by Samantha Giron

Dance Performance: Melissa Hudson Bell & Celine V. Alwyn, Christine Cali & Sebastian Grubb,Samantha Giron / Brandon Rosenbluth / Julius Holtz , O.F.R. Dance   •   DJ set (Live PA Slut-Step): Datgirl

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents
Reply / a catalog of circles and incomplete cities
San Francisco installment #2 in the travel series "To / Reply"

Tableau Stations / Isak Immanuel , cokaseki / Yuko Kaseki, and guests

AIRspace Queer Performance series presents
Performances by Kirk Read, Philip Huang, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Dominika Bednarska, Awilda Rodriguez Lora (at left), Macklin Kowal & Jorge De Hoyos

Music by Khalil Sullivan

Feb 28   

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Bitten in the Basement

featuring Matt Langlois (at left), Tim Frick and choreographer Christine Cali.

An afternoon of acoustic music and improvisational movement in The Garage’s basement and mainstage.

Feb 26-27    •    RAW (resident artist workshop) presents   Cali & Co.

CALI & CO will perform a deconstructed remake of Trajectory, recently presented at ODC Theater by Footloose Presents' Women on the Way Festival.

CALI will also perform the highly acclaimed sat with it's newly created prequel, transVerse with collaborator Sebastian Grubb, and local talent Paul Laurey.

Feb 12-14   &  19-21  

Dance/Theater Shannon

In "It Never Gets Old", we explore how different relationships provide context to intentions of touch. 

How do males and females touch in loving and non-loving ways?  What happens when a touch becomes inappropriate? 

Artist website Here

Feb 17-18    •   RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

"Who is Mary Jane?"

Well, let's be honest, cannabis has never been a boring subject. With a diverse group of dancers, filmmaker Matt Barkin, and composer Jeff Stevenson, Here Now Dance Collective presents a multi-disciplinary production that shows the audience a broad prism of images--something much more colorful than a superficial green, marijuana-glazed surface.

Artist website: Here

Feb 15   •   The Garage presents

New Play Series     

Creative Director  Kirk Johnson
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Love Lab by Francis Chung
Shannon, a graduate research assistant in Nuclear Physics at the University of Nevada discovers an astonishing new element: Love.

Feb 10   •   The Garage and Laura Arrington present

The Squart Show

(spontaneous queer art show) making it's debut!
Join us for a Valentines themed night of fresh out the kitchen dance/performance art. Four teams will create new works.

Warning: This show may contain whatever the hell you can think of!

Artist website Here

Feb 7   •   Makeup Mutiny presents 

Get your groove on while checking out performances put on by some of the Bay Area’s hottest curators and emerging choreographers. There are lots of opportunities to network, promote your gigs, and get your party on while DJ’s play in our underground den of debauchery!  First Sunday of every month.
Theme: Amalgamation – Curated by Samantha Giron

February Performers  Dance   AHDANCO, Group A, Brianna Taylor, Samantha Giron Dance Project, Katie Faulkner 
DJ  Aire Redtree   •   Contact  Samantha Giron

Feb 5-6   •  RAW (resident artist workshop) and  Right Brain Performancelab   present

The Elephant In The Room   •   John Baumann, Jennifer Gwirtz

A new evening-length work that puts a spotlight on the oddly oversized thing that hides in plain sight and on the space it inhabits. The performances feature captivating movement, verbal and vocals. 

Photo by Steven Gelberg

Feb 2-3   •   raw & uncut choreography showcase

Mary Anna Lachman, Rozelle Polido and BodiGram (at left)

• Lachman presents a new work titled “two-faced”,

• Polido presents “breathing blue in shades of three, two, and one: tomorrow” and

• BodiGram present For “The Love of the Game.”

Jan 26-27   •   RAW (resident artist workshop) present

Jen Meek   •   Sleeping Palms

A meditation on slowing down, learning to listen and examining the concept of making less instead of more. Choreographer Jennifer Meek is a certified yoga teacher and believes in the importance of well being and artistic expression.