Celebrating Queer Dance @NQAF 2003
LAVA from New York! FRESH MEAT, Dominique Zeltzman, JOE GOODE and others!
(May 1, 2003 -- San Francisco) Produced each year during Pride month by the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc), the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF) celebrates and promotes the work of local, national and international queer artists, and is dedicated to encompassing the queer community's full diversity and artistry. This year, dance aficionados can witness Sarah East Johnson's LAVA straight (or gaily?) from New York with their new show HIGH TIDE, about Love, Velocity and Abstract Art. These six incredibly strong women have flown and danced through the air to critical acclaim by the New York Times, Ms. Magazine and Newsweek! Sit down at our dinner table for a healthy portion of FRESH MEAT, with homo hip hop, steamy tango, tranny glam rock and transgender gospel! Or if you are on the mends, share in an evening of sewing and installation, dance, and aerial trapeze, with Dominique Zeltzman and her humorous ad-DRESS of suicide and fantasy. And donÕt miss JOE GOODE PERFORMANCE GROUP in the world premier of Folk, the highly anticipated sequel to their highly acclaimed Mythic, Montana. These artists push the boundaries past dance, harnessing the potency of the physical form to examine and explore the notions of gender, sex, and culture, in what promises to be some of the most provocative performances staged this year.
NQAF 2003 kicks off with the THE Q BALL on Saturday, May 31st, at The SF LGBT Community Center @ 6pm (1800 Market Street @ Octavia) with FREE food and drink, performances, music, and more! NQAF 2003 festivities continue through June 29th in various venues throughout San Francisco.
For complete schedule of events, reservations and more information, please visit the festival website at www.queerculturalcenter.org. Tickets can be purchased in advance starting May 1st, online at www.queerculturalcenter.org, by phone at (415) 3340-Qcc, by email at Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org, or in person at the venues one hour prior to event.
TORN PAPER TEARS EASY & OUI DE DEUX - A Shared Evening of Dance, Trapeze, Theater and Mixed Media Performance Art by Dominique Zeltzman & Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen
Thursday-Saturday, June 5th-7th 8:00pm
SomArts Theater, 934 Brannan St @ 8th, SF
Tickets: $12 advance; $15 at the door
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc; Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org; www.queerculturalcenter.org
Torn Paper Tears Easy is mixed genre show by Dominique Zeltzman, combining dance, narrative, video, aerial trapeze, sewing and installation, to humorously address suicide, isolation and fantasy. Oui de Deux - The world of artistic duos becomes disturbing and new with a series of three duets. Adult contemporary singers, movement specialists and comediennes are on the menu for deux, interspersed with the sincere and beautiful musical stylings of Katy Davidson. Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen share a comic take on the earnest teaming of artists, bringing to the stage two of their most popular duos - Carole Murphy and Mitzi Fitzsimmons, comediennes at the blunt forefront of Estrogen Comedy, and Sharol and Barol Claussen, movement specialists ousted from an angry dance community. The opening duo is a never-seen-before surprise, sure to please those with sensitive ears.
FRESH MEAT 2003 - A Trans and Queer Cabaret Extravaganza
Friday-Sunday, June 20th-22nd 8:00pm
ODC Theater, 3153 17th St @ Shotwell, SF
Tickets: $12 in advance; $15 at the door
ODC Theater Info & Box (415) 863-9834
The runaway hit of the 2002 National Queer Arts Festival returns with another outstanding cabaret multidisciplinary and multimedia extravaganza! Fresh Meat 2003 brings together the Bay Area's hottest transgendered and queer performers, offering audiences a smorgasbord of homo hip hop, cutting-edge modern dance, all-girl breakdance, steamy tango, femme/butch spoken word, tranny glam rock, and the worldÕs first transgendered gospel choir. Fresh Meat artists include: Marcus Rene Van, Veronica Combs, Sean Dorsey, Shawna Virago and The Deadly Nightshade Family, Jose Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama, Sisterz of the Underground, STEAMROLLER Dance Company, Angelo Hannah, Tina D'Elia, Michelle Ito, Jaycub Perez, JenRO, and the Transcendence Gospel Choir. Critics have called Fresh Meat "the next generation of cultural innovators" (Critical Dance), and "history in the making" (Bay Area Reporter). Co-presented by Fresh Meat Productions and ODC Theater. Fresh Meat 2003 and Shawna Virago are recipients of QccÕs Creating Queer Community grant.
HIGH TIDE - LAVA's Love, Velocity and Abstract Art
Thursday-Friday, June 26th-27th 8:00pm; Saturday, June 28th 10:00pm; Sunday, June 29th 7:00pm
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St @ Mission, SF
Tickets: $17 in advance/$20 at the door; $10 Youth under 12
Dance Mission Theater Info & Box (415) 273-4633 or www.dancemission.com
FROM NEW YORK! High Tide is a new show by LAVA about love, velocity, and abstract art. Inspired by Niagara Falls, saturated colors, and the importance of conflict resolution, it features graphically designed acrobatics, intimate partnering, singing, talking and dancing, all live on stage. The six strong women of LAVA will fly through the air into each others' arms, and gracefully fall apart. Video and visual projections of elemental seduction (sand, water, lava) by visual artist Nancy Brooks Brody provide set, setting and patterns. Sound design by Jody Elff translates the sounds of bodies tumbling into sonic landscapes, and music by The Butchies, Beck and muzak infuse the performance with explosive nuances. High Tide premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York in May, 2003. Conceived and Directed by Sarah East Johnson, performed by Natalie Agee, Molly Chanoff, Diana Greiner, Sarah East Johnson and Rebecca Stronger. Co-presented with the Dance Brigade.
FOLK - (World Premier) & TRANSPARENT BODY (2002)
Thursday-Sunday, June 19th-22nd 8:00pm; Thursday-Sunday, June 26th-29th 8:00 pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St @ Third, SF
Tickets: $20, $28, $35
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater Info & Box (415) 978-ARTS or www.yerbabuenaarts.org
JGPG's 2003 season will feature the world premiere of Folk, the second installment in a trilogy of work that began in 2002 with their acclaimed Mythic, Montana, a large-scale work that explored that which is between contemporary life and ancestral existence, as told in Greek mythology. Folk continues the profound examination of the American West, where ordinary people often have extraordinary spirits and stories. The program also features Transparent Body, a cabaret-influenced work, both shocking and endearing, that features Goode himself in tour-de-force dual roles as a young man seeking self and community, and his red-necked, beer-chugging and foul-mouthed father.
NQAF's producing entity, the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc), is a multiracial community building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco's queer arts community. Qcc's programs promote the careers of LGBT artists, and serve queer and non-queer audiences alike. Supporters of NQAF 2003 include the California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery,Horizons Foundation, Open Meadows Foundation, Astraea Foundation, Bayview Opera House, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, SomArts, Hispanics in Philanthropy, SF Weekly and the Zellerbach Family Fund.
For More Information Contact:
Vivien Dai, ArtAxcess Productions (510) 290-3388
CALENDAR LISTINGS
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Who: National Queer Arts Festival 2003
When: Saturday, May 31st 6:00pm-12:00am
What: THE Q BALL!
NQAF 2003 Opening Night GAY-la!
Where: The SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market @ Octavia Street
Tickets: Donations of $5 to $50,000 gladly accepted in support of Queer anti-war groups!
Info & Box: (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
Who: National Queer Arts Festival 2003
When: Thursday - Saturday, June 5th - 7th 8:00pm
What: Torn Paper Tears Easy & Oui de Deux
A Shared Evening of Dance, Trapeze, Theater and Mixed Media Performance Art by Dominique Zeltzman & Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen
Where: SomArts Theater, 934 Brannan Street @ 8th Street
Tickets: $12 advance; $15 at the door
More Info: Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
For complete schedule of events, reservations and more information, please visit the festival website at www.queerculturalcenter.org. Tickets can be purchased in advance starting May 1st, online at www.queerculturalcenter.org, by phone at (415) 3340-Qcc, by email at Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org, or in person at the venues one hour prior to event.
Who: National Queer Arts Festival 2003
When: Friday-Sunday, June 20th -22nd 8:00pm
What: Fresh Meat 2003
A Trans and Queer Cabaret Extravaganza
Where: ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street @ Shotwell
Tickets: $12 in advance; $15 at the door
More Info: ODC Theater Info & Box (415) 863-9834
Who: National Queer Arts Festival 2003
When: Thursday - Friday, June 26th & 27th 8:00pm
Saturday, June 28th 10:00pm
Sunday, June 29th 7:00pm
What: High Tide
LAVA's Love, Velocity and Abstract Art
Where: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street @ Mission Street
Tickets: $17 in advance/$20 at the door; $10 Youth under 12
More Info: Dance Mission Theater Info & Box (415) 273-4633 or
Who: National Queer Arts Festival 2003
When: Thursday-Sunday, June 19th - 22nd 8:00pm
Thursday-Sunday, June 26th- 29th 8:00pm
What: Folk (World Premiere) and Transparent Body (2002)
Joe Goode Performance Group's 2003 Home Season in San Francisco
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 Howard Street @ Third
Tickets: $20, $28, $35
More Info: YBCA Info & Box (415) 978-ARTS (2787) or www.yerbabuenaarts.org
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