by Frances Phillips | Oct 30, 2015
Collaborating with youth and adults from Filipinos for Affirmative Action and other community-based organizations, choreographer Pearl Ubungen and Filipino musician Joey Ayala created a major, site-specific work in San Francisco’s Presidio about the Philippine...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2015
Jewlia Eisenberg, Jason Ditzian, and Charming Hostess created performances and an interactive sound sculpture/immersive performance installation titled The Bowls Project. The project was inspired by Babylonian Jewish women’s amulets known as “demon...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 9, 2015
Playwright Cherrie Moraga, choreographer Alleluia Panis, and installation/performance artist Celia Herrera Rodriguez collaborated with Campo Santo to develop La Semilla Caminante, a multi-disciplinary performance created with immigrant communities and focusing on...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 1, 2015
Can two people’s limitations or “dis-abilities” combine to become virtuosic? When do our skills become liabilities? Under the Radar–a collaboration among dance artist Jess Curtis, CounterPulse, and disabled and non-disabled dancers working in movement-based...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 11, 2015
Composer Clark Suprynowicz and playwright John O’Keefe collaborated with with director Mark Streshinsky and Berkeley Opera’s artistic/music director Jonathan Khuner to create Chrysalis, a new opera that premiered in 2006. An evening-length work, sung in English,...