by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
The Magic Theater collaborating with playwright and performer Brian Freeman on the development of Here and There, exploring gay rights and AIDS activism in South Africa. Based on Freeman’s research in South Africa and London, Here and There tells the...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
The Jewish Music Festival collaborating with composer and performer Dan Cantrell, Kitka’s eight female vocalists; Yiddish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, song writer, and cultural historian Michael Alpert; and Balkan-Romani multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
The Paul Dresher Ensemble and composer Paul Dresher collaborating with mechanical theater artist Matt Heckert, percussionist Steven Schick, and the Paul Dresher Ensemble to create large-scale musical instruments that function as the set and sound-generating sources...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
Dimensions Dance Theater Composer and choreographer Deborah Vaughn collaborating with Anthony Brown to create Cross Currents, exploring migration stories of African Americans to and within the Bay Area and the empowering effect that music and dance have had on those...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
Dancers’ Group collaborating with choreographer Jo Kreiter and her company Flyaway Productions to develop and present The Live Billboard Project, combining aerial choreography with a customized, large-scale billboard to examine the effect of women’s images...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
CounterPULSE collaborating with Jess Curtis and his company Gravity and with dancers with and without disabilities to create, Under the Radar, a study in the physical limitations and abilities of a range of very different performers, using the vocabularies of...