by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is collaborating with Kitka, a vocal arts ensemble that is dedicated to music rooted in Eastern European women’s vocal traditions, to create Iron Shoes, a contemporary neo-feminist folk opera combining singing, movement, text, humor,...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Choreographer and inkBoat director Shinichi Iova-Koga and Dancers’ Group will create a site-specific dance performance to honor iconic Bay Area choreographer Anna Halprin. To premiere when Ms. Halprin turns 95 years old, Object, object, object, object, object, object,...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Playwright and director Sean San Jose is collaborating with The Cutting Ball Theater on Superheroes, a story of the crack-cocaine epidemic in 1980s San Francisco. The play is partially inspired by Gary Webb’s groundbreaking investigative journalism into the Bay Area...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Composer John Calloway is collaborating with the Community Music Center to create “Music with a Mission,” a suite of musical works examining the history of the Mission District. The work will involve professional artists, students and partners of the Community Music...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Composer and musician Van-Anh Vo is collaborating with Asian Americans for Community Involvement to create The Odyssey—from Vietnam to America, a multi-disciplinary production about the Vietnamese boat people’s spiritual odyssey and the emotional suffering they...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Musician Bernie Krause is collaborating with composer Richard Blackford and choreographer Alonzo King on a new ballet, choreographed by King and set to an original composition by Krause and Blackford, that incorporates natural soundscapes. Krause is the founder of...
