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November 2011
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| Nov. 1, 8:00 pm |
Stanford
Lively Arts
Merce Cunningham Dance Company The final Bay Area performance before the Company disbands on December 31, 2011. |
Memorial
Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto
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| Nov. 3-5, 8:00 pm |
MARGARET
JENKINS DANCE COMPANY
Light Moves (World Premiere) Uses the natural cycles of light as the organizing principle that informs and inspires the arc of the piece. The moving and “living” video environment within which the dance takes place is based in Kremer’s painting and pioneering video work. |
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| Nov. 3 & 10, 6:00–8:00 pm |
Rodin
and the Dancing Body
Open Rehearsal In conjunction with the exhibition Rodin and America, Muriel Maffre, former principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and lecturer in the Dance Division of the Stanford Drama Department, teaches a fall course that explores the intersection between Rodin and dance. Rodin's friendship with local dance artist Isadora Duncan is the starting point for this exhibit, during which students move through the museum's auditorium with their dancing bodies, providing a unique perspective on a significant aspect of Rodin's work. Dance artist and LINES Contemporary Ballet Director Alonzo King joins Maffre and her students for a series of open rehearsals. |
Roble
Gym, Stanford University
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| Nov.
4, 7:00 pm Complimentary Pre-Show Reception - 5:30pm |
ODC/Dance
unplugged
Expose. Explore. Engage. Get a behind-the-scenes look at KT Nelson's work-in-progress set to premiere at Dance Downtown next March. Cut Out Guy features the five men of ODC and music by Ben Frost. KT will shed light on the choreographic process, showing how an idea turns into a movement phrase, and then see the dancers perform in an intimate, stripped down setting. |
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| Nov. 10-12, 7:00 pm, |
Joe
Goode Performance Group
Human Kind: Out of the Blue Runs for a limited time, with a special afterparty on Saturday night to benefit their new home. |
Joe
Goode Annex, San Francisco
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| Nov. 11-12, 8:00 PM |
Wayne
McGregor/Random Dance
Entity A blend of bodies, lgihts, technology and film set to music by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins. |
Novellus
Theater, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts, San Francisco
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| Nov.
11-12, 8:00 pm Nov. 13, 7:00 pm |
ODC
Theater
BRING ON THE LUMIÈRE! Choreographed and Directed by: Catherine Galasso Featuring: Christine Bonansea and Marina Fukushima ODC Theater Resident Artist Catherine Galasso debuts her latest piece, Bring on the Lumière!, an evocative dance-theater-light installation inspired by the lives and work of the Lumière Brothers, French founders of cinema. |
ODC
Theater, San Francisco
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| Nov. 15, 6:00-9:00 pm |
An
Evening of Cocktails and Couture
Wilkes Bashford Holiday Fashion Preview to Benefit Ballet San Jose School A preview of men’s and women’s holiday & resort fashions sponsored by Gentry Magazine. |
Wilkes
Bashford, Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto
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| Nov. 17 - Nov. 20 |
Liss
Fain Dance
The False and True Are One with Prologue, Art is Not in Some Far-Off Place Interweaves Liss Fain’s choreography with Lydia Davis’s witty, descriptive short stories. Inside the luminous set and immersive sound environment, Liss Fain Dance creates a world of shifting relationships and perceptions. Stand next to the dancers and walk through the set as the performance unfolds. the audience—walking, standing, shifting—creates the final layer of intimacy and unpredictability. |
Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
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| Nov.
17 6:30pm Reception; 7:30pm Performance and Ceremony |
Flyaway
Productions
The 10 Women Campaign 2011 Who is Tending the City? Flyaway Productions and 10 prominent members of the Bay Area Dance Community honor urban activists who effect change in our classrooms, media, bike lanes and our neighborhoods. Come enjoy food, wine, political conversation, inspiration, dance and a bonus auction of Flyaway's signature photographs. |
ODC
Theater, San Francisco
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Nov. 18, 8:00 pm |
Cal
Performances
Trey McIntyre Project In Dreams (McIntyre/Roy Orbison) Oh, Inverted World 5:00 p.m. LOBBY TALK: Choreographer Trey McIntyre talks with Bay Area writer, choreographer and teacher Kathryn Roszak in the Zellerbach Hall Lobby Mezzaine. Free and open to the public, tickets must be purchased for entrance to the associated concert. |
Zellerbach
Hall, UC Berkeley
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| Nov. 18, 12:30 pm |
BORDERS
LIVE!
A free lunch-time showing of the choreographic investigations of the 2011 CHIME Across Borders artists during their mentorship year with media and movement artist Ralph Lemon. With Ralph Lemon, Margaret Jenkins, Catherine Galasso, Shinichi Iova-Koga, José Navarrete and the dancer-collaborators of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. |
Margaret
Jenkins Dance Lab, San Francisco
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| Nov
18, 1:00pm & 8:00pm Nov 19, 8:00pm |
Mills
College Repertory Dance Company
State of Change Yukie Fujimoto, MRDC Artistic Director, premieres a new trio called "...and then there were Three", that observes alliance, exchange, kinship, and siblings. Sonya Delwaide's Les Cloches: Versions 1 & 2 Molissa Fenley's Credo in Us Doug Varone's The Bench Quartet |
Mills
College - Lisser Theater, Oakland
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| Nov. 20, 3:00 pm |
Mark
Foehringer Dance Project|SF
Nutcracker Storytelling With costumed dancers performing excerpts from “Mark Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets,” choreographed and directed by Mark Foehringer. |
San
Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
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| Nov. 25-Dec. 11 |
ODC
Dance
The Velveteen Rabbit 25th anniversary production of Margery William's heart-warming tale of love, loyalty and hope. Created by ODC Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson. |
Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
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| Nov. 26-Dec. 23 |
Mark
Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets
Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF presents its third annual holiday production of Mark Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets (formerly called Nutcracker at Zeum), a unique version of the classic ballet Nutcracker with a contemporary twist. Featuring the return of former ODC dancer Brian Fisher as Drosselmeyer. |
CHILDREN’S
CREATIVITY MUSEUM (formerly known as Zeum), San Francisco
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| Nov. 30, 7:00 pm |
Screening
of
Pina Bausch’s film PINA A 3D-documentary about the work of Pina Bausch and Pina's dancers, the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, performing on stage and in the city of Wupperta. PINA was awarded the German Filmprize for the Best Documentary" in 2011 and is the official Oscar entry 2012 of Germany for "Best Foreign Language Film." Followed by a discussion with several dancers from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Admission is free but reservations are required. |
Shattuck
Cinemas, Berkeley
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| Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, 8:00 pm |
Printz
Dance Project
HOVER SPACE Choreographed by Stacey Printz, a single themed evening length show investigates what takes place in the rich, chaotic, risky, intimate, in-between spaces of life. |
Z
Space at Theater Artaud, San Francisco
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