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"The Garage is the kind of tiny, funky, out-of-the-way theater we all thought wouldn't be able to survive the dealings of cutthroat real estate moguls...fortunately SAFEhouse, failed to buy into the pessimism...The Garage presents edgy new work that should satisfy any aficionado wanting to take the pulse of the city."      Bay Guardian
 
 
  Fall / Winter 2010    
 
 
 

Sept 10-11   •   8pm      

$10-$20   •   Buy Tickets Here

RAW presents

Paul Laurey

Christine Bonansea

 

Featuring Laurey's Pull, Push and Things that Matter with Sonsheree Giles and Christine Cali and Bonasea's "the matter of things" with Rosemary Hannon, Jorge Rodolfo de Hoyos, Kira Kirsh, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart.

Christine Bonasea photographer Andrew Bulger

 
 
 


Sept 15-16   •   8pm     

$10-$20   •   Buy Tickets Here

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Laura Blakely

Cason MacBride

Melissa Hudson-Bell

Doopa Contraposta is a new work by Cason MacBride, using Art Modeling (posing nude for sculpting/ drawing classes) as the motif for movement and narrative. It celebrates the human figure in classical form, while finding humor in the process of creating classical art. "EGGS," BreadnButter/Melissa Hudson Bell's recent choreographic venture is a dance theater collaboration between choreographers Melissa Hudson Bell, Celine V. Alwyn and Hannah Schwadron. Exploring the history, symbolism and materiality of eggs of all kinds, this trio move together through heartfelt and fantastical musings. Simultaneously awkward and beautiful, "EGGS" invites close consideration of the parts of ourselves, and our diets, that are often overlooked. Plus a new solo by Laura Blakely.

 
 
 

Sept 18   •   8pm   

$10-$20   •   Buy Tickets Here

 
RAW and Avy K Productions present

The Book is an audio-visual-kinetic multidimensional book by Erika Tsimbrovsky (choreographer/dancer), Vadim Puyandaev (visual artist), Grundik Kasyansky (sound artist/musician) and Izmail (Israel) Galin (visual artist).

In The Book we allow our personal stories to enter the performance space. The book is a diary. It is a kaleidoscope of sketches, snippets of thoughts, debris of feelings, shadows of memories, echoes of sounds that we once heard.

Artists website:   Here

 
 
  Sep 22-23   •   8pm    •   $10-$20   •   Buy Tickets Here  
  PunkkiCo Alyce Finwall Dance Theater  
 


Photo of Alyce Finwall by Bill Phelps

 
 

punkkiCo presents Waltzing to nothingness, which will have an apocalyptic feeling, "The Garage has a slightly claustrophobic atmosphere in it and I want to use that as a starting point to the choreography. I want to make the movement to flow or rather to explode over the space like water when dropped to boiling oil. I want to create images of the exploding; disturbing energy that I feel is going on in the world. I move these images into the black box performance space and stretch the movement ideas until the dance work reaches what I imagine will be a catharsis of nothingness. The feeling I wish to create is of the people who are trapped in to this black space for the reason they have nothing to do with." Music to this choreography will be composed by Sylvi Alli. Choreography by Raisa Punkki with Paul Laurey, Mihyun Lee, Jennifer Meek, Danny Nguyen and Emma Stewart. Music by Sylvi Alli. Costume Design by Claire Pasquier.

Forever Eve presented by Alyce Finwall Dance Theater collaborates with composer Carson Whitley. And investigates femininity, beauty, identity, cooperation and antagonism through raw movement, improvisation and theater, a surreal and ever-changing world of explosive movement and emotions comes to life. Featuring Julia Hollas, Emmaly Wiederholt, Joy Prendergast, Peiling Kao, Kaitlin Parks and Malinda Lavelle.

 
 
 

Jennifer Mellor

Sept 24-25   •   8pm     •   $10-$20   •   Buy Tickets Here

RAW (resident artist workshop) presents

Zack Bernstein, Miriam Wolodarski,

Jennifer Mellor, Jeni Bregman

• Jenni Bregman presents Intimate City, an exploration of how we interact in the small and crowded spaces of urban life and how close proximity changes our ideas about intimacy.

• Jennifer Mellor presents Libretto, which explores identity through the juxtaposition and interactions of four dancers moving through space, stillness, and tight footwork with a soundscape of swelling cello by Jessica Ivry and dramatic poetic imagery by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, with Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor, Jamie Venci, and Jennifer Wang.

• Zack Bernstein presents International Private Behavior, a dance juggling piece that addresses the conventions and expectations of spectacle. This work exposes the quotidian beauty of success and failure: a dropped ball, a clean line, pedestrian solitude.

Say something, Lavinia! (or, Things Come Wrapped in Plastic) by Miriam Wolodarski. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. A tongue, two hands. Tiny horrors wrapped in plastic. The bag reads: Thank you. Have a nice day.

 
 
Dec 1-2, Wed-Thu    •   8pm    •   Tickets $10-$20   •   Buy HERE

SPF5 presents

2 Nights of New Performance

and Contemporary Dance
Whitney Stevenson

Collage Theater

Angela Mazziotta (photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit  Phil Buck 

Oct 29-Nov 13   •   Fri-Sat  •   8pm + Sunday matinee    •   Buy tickets  SOON
 

The Garage's resident theatre company presents a new work written by company member Val Faschman

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Autistic kids forced into high school classes with gang bangers, and the teachers who try to channel the chaos into education.This physical theatre piece, through multiple viewpoints, unlocks the inner visions of the inhabitants of a high school of Developmentally and Behaviorally Disabled kids and their teachers.

pustheatre.org

 

 

 
 
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