RAW presents Lucia August/Everybody Can Dance, STEAMROLLER Dance Company, and Kristin Torok at SAFEhouse Arts
Weds-Thurs May 4-5, 2016 at 8PM
Sliding Scale $10-20
Lucia August, choreographer and performer is presenting an excerpt from “standingOUTstanding” solo show upcoming in July at SPF9 (summer performance festival)
"They Never Really Leave"
Do those we love never leave us? Forty year-old cassette tapes unexpectedly surface. The recorded voices are mine and a long lost college love...
RAW presents Lucia August/Everybody Can Dance, STEAMROLLER Dance Company, and Kristin Torok at SAFEhouse Arts
Weds-Thurs May 4-5, 2016 at 8PM
Sliding Scale $10-20
Lucia August, choreographer and performer is presenting an excerpt from “standingOUTstanding” solo show upcoming in July at SPF9 (summer performance festival)
"They Never Really Leave"
Do those we love never leave us? Forty year-old cassette tapes unexpectedly surface. The recorded voices are mine and a long lost college love's. The phrase "long lost" is not only figurative but literal; that lover vanished in 1983. She was never seen or heard from again. Until now.
Lucia August is a choreographer, performer and dance educator in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been dancing for over 55 years. For many decades, Lucia encountered tremendous resistance in the dance world regarding her larger-than-average dancer’s body. At age 50, she freed herself of negative beliefs to dance professionally. Lucia was a company member and collaborator of Dandelion Dancetheater (2003-10) performing throughout California and nationally. She also performed with Big Moves' Modern Dance Ensemble and with the Erika Shuck Project.
Since 2010, Lucia has been showing her own choreography in a number of Bay Area locations, including queer dance festivals at Dance Mission and CSUEB and at Works in the Works, the annual choreographer's showcase in Berkeley, CA. She also spends time teaching "Everybody Can Dance" workshops.
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Legendary Children is the latest work by STEAMROLLER Dance Company that explores and explodes contemporary notions of queerness. Set in the penultimate disco dance floor, Legendary Children explores Queer lineage both historical and personal using recorded interviews that are interwoven throughout the performance. Dances that explore the essentiality of queerness set to the music of contemporary queer artists such as Matmos, Bright Light, Bright Light and Jimmy Somerville bump up against the interviews to look at what, if any are the differences between queer bodies and straight bodies and at the body as a site of queer pleasure, queer sorrow and queer resistance.
In 1993, a loosely knit group of artists came together to create guerrilla performances to address the spread of HIV/AIDS to other communities (women, people of color). The company is currently under the direction of founding member, Jesselito Bie, tIn addition to various SF parking lots, STEAMROLLER has also presented work in the Bay Area Dance Festival, the 1996-200 In the Street Festivals, the 1996-2001 San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festivals, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Festival of Bay Area Dance, Asian American Dance Performances and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.
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Also presenting a new work by Kristin Torok.
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sponsoroed by RAW (resident artist workshop), a residency program of SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts.