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2008  •  2009

Baruch Porras-Hernandez

May 27-29
Queer Cultural Center & The Garage's AIRspace program presents
sunny drake The US premier of the new version of Other-wise
A gutsy convention-defying gender-euphoric one-person show weaving theatre, magical animation, movement, comedy & multimedia.

June 4-26
The San Francisco Moving Men present Dancing @ The Garage
Athletic dancing, sexy boys and exciting choreography caused audiences and critics to rave last year, “Sexually and emotionally charged … well conceived…daring contemporary dance” Bay Times. “… engaging… danced heroically… …intimacy was beautiful to see.” Bay Area Reporter.
Guests: Christine Cali & Co.

June 6-7 • The Garage All-Stars 1
Featuring Labayen Dance/SF, FACT/SF, Mannakin Theater & Dance, Macklin Kowal and Jorge De Hoyos
Labayen Dance/SF premiers Carmina Burana: Revisited/Rebuked and Labayen’s provocative solo, Two Barres, A Man and the Plague. Artist website Here FACT/SF presents new works that challenge assumptions and offer voracious dancing. Artist website Here Mannakin Theater and Dance presents One Man, the story of sexual disorientation told from four perspectives. Plus new work by Macklin Kowal and Jorge De Hoyos.

June 9
QCC and API Cultural Center present OLO - One Love Oceania's Sisters Rising
A performance of trailblazing queer women of Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian descent who explore the intersections among womanhood, queerness, family and Pacific Islander diasporic activism. Curated by Jean Melesaine & Tiffany RN Lacsado • Info Here

June 10 NAQF
Crackpot Crones: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm & Laughing Out Loud
Terry Baum and Carolyn Myers, The Greatest Crones on Earth, present an Evening of Sketch Comedy and Improv! Artist website: Here

June 13-14 • The Garage All-Stars 2
An evening of queer women choreographers, featuring Awilda Rodriguez Lora’s Mamá Awilda: El Duet, new work by Anne Bluethenthal that distills dance and spoken word, using breath as a metaphor and celebrating the common woman, Columbia Chasing by dance ceres (website Here) and new works by Shaunna Vella and Heidi Landgraf.

June 15
Hilary Goldberg’s recLAmation is a feature-length experimental documentary/narrative film shot on Super 8 in which capitalism in contemporary Los Angeles is overthrown, and queer superheroes navigate a possible future. recLAmation illuminates historic connections between private and public systems of oppression, and explores how worldview shifts caused by personal trauma rendered the capitalist paradigm nonsense. Info Here

June 16 & 17
Third Person (When the) LGB (fucks the) T (and how to make love instead)
Transgender artist Joshua Klipp gets deep in Third Person, an in-your-face, engaging, multi-media look at how the LGB treats and has treated the “T” throughout history. Starting with the Compton Cafeteria and Stonewall Riots to the modern day gay rights movement, it calls out the ways the LGBT community claims unity but creates barriers to inclusion of transpeople – to the detriment of our entire community’s civil rights efforts. Info Here

June 17 • The Garage All-Stars and the SF Moving Men @ Supperclub, 657 Harrison
benefitting the Queer Cultural Center. We’re teaming up with Art Attack for a special evening with something for everyone and a lot of bang for your buck. Just $5 gets you an all-night pre-Pride party that features the best of NQAF.

June 20-21 • The Garage All-Stars 3
The future of performance art becomes clear with Philip Huang’s NyQuil and Xtube. There will be knife-fights, zombies and breastfeeding. Prepare to be offended. Reasons to Stay on the Ground by Baruch Porras-Hernandez questions what keeps our heads in the clouds and what keeps us “grounded”.

June 23-24 • The Garage All-Stars 4
presents My Body Love Story by queer disabled femme Dominika Bednarska, plus Nia Witherspoon’s The Messiah Complex; about a young butch navigating the complex world of gender, race and reconciling one’s history and Trashina Cann’s On Stand, a story about multiple identities, blame and survival.

June 30-July 1
AIRsapce presents This Is What I Want
curated by Jesse Hewit • Relentlessly sexual new works by Bay Area dance and performance artists with Keith Hennessy, Anna "Bannanz" Whitehead, Em Gift, Evan Johnson, Hana Erdman, Jess Curtis, Johanna Buchignani, Julie Phelps, Kegan Marling, Macklin Kowal, Maryam Rostami, Mary Ann Brooks, sorvillo / blindsight, Ryan Crowder, Sara Kraft and Shawnrey Notto.

Read the article aboout  "This is What I Want" in The San Francisco Chronicle, July 1.   Here

dance ceres

FACT/SF

sunny drake

Tina D’Elia

This is What I Want

May 18

Local choreographers Christine Cali, Andi Clegg, Shaunna Vella, Kate Elswit, Malinda LaVelle, Hanna Satterlee, Amber Sloan (with Andi Clegg) and featuring guest choreographer Josh Beamish (Canada)

May 11   •   RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Love Myths an original musical that explores the chaos and epiphanies of dysfunctional archetypes falling in and out of love.    Written and directed by
Cecilia Palmtag in musical collaboration with Paul Baird, Randy Freemier, Llano Blue, and other lovely souls.

breathe;ing blue in shades of three, two, and one: tomorrow
is a dance theatre piece that displays writer and choreographer Rozelle Polido’s bewilderment at a predicament.

Dance Ceres presents work-in-progess entitled, Columbia Chasing, studying the defining differences between the flow of a river and the fluidity of the individual, revealing the stab of shock and the spark of surprise are one in the same action; immediate state of disbelief renders us motionless.

Artists website Here

VERGEfest

March 17-21

The Garage presents a new festival featuring contemporary dance, improvisation and performance.
. VERGEfest   •   features workshop performances of new works

march 18   •   Thur folawole / cali & co (at left)/ paul laurey + workshop performances

march 19   •  Fri vitali kononov & rosemary hannon / divisidero research company / workshop performances & paige starling sorvillo / blindsight in collaboration w/ Evelyn Ficarra

march 20   •  Sat rejendra serber / andrew ward & sebastian grubb / christine cali & melecio estrella & a new workshop score designed by sara shelton mann

march 21   •  Sun christine bonansea / rejendra serber + workshop performances

New Play

March 14   •   The Garage New Play Series   •   Kirk Johnson, Creative Director

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.

"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.

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

New Play

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.