by Frances Phillips | Nov 6, 2013
Playwright Abi Basch collaborated with SNAP (Some New Arts Project) to create Arctic Hysteria, a new, multimedia theater performance inspired by King Lear, set in a kingdom of melting ice. The play’s title comes from a condition associated with northernmost...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2013
Theater artist Rhodessa Jones used skills she had honed working with incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated women to explore with constituents of The Women’s HIV Program at UCSF the impact of AIDS in the lives of HIV+ African American women. One goal of the project...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 18, 2013
Lead artist Jon Jang collaborated with composer/musician James Newton, poet/playwright Genny Lim, stage director Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Cal Performances to create a new evening-length staged vocal and instrumental work, When Sorrow Turns to Joy, a tribute to Paul...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 18, 2013
Choreographer Thaïs Mazur collaborated with other women artists to create “Women in Black,” a multidisciplinary performance work about the Women in Black Against War movement. The 90-minute piece combined dance with instrumental and vocal music. Artistic partners...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 30, 2013
Linda Tillery and members of the Cultural Heritage Choir collaborated with Joanna Haigood, members of Zaccho Dance Theatre, storyteller Diane Ferlatte, and others to create Invisible Wings, an interdisciplinary performance piece about the Underground Railroad. The...
