Event Listing - Theater, Dance

Fri Jul 11 - Sat Jul 12

975 Howard/The Garage presents

The Top of the Structure is Not Empty

2 Evenings of Contemporary Dance

Tel. (415) 885 4006
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Location	Date and Time
The Garage, 975 Howard 975 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 cross street: 6th St. district: SoMa	Fri Jul 11 (8PM) Sat Jul 12 (8PM)

Description

The Top of the Structure is Not Empty
2 Evenings of Contemporary Dance
Part of SPF3 (third annual summer performance festival)
July 11-12 @ 8pm (Fri-Sat)
The Garage 975 Howard St. San Francisco
$10-$20 brownpapertickets.com
(415) 885 4006
975howard.com

joe_landini@hotmail.com
Co-produced by Non-Fiction

Featuring choreography by Hope Mohr, Jerry Smith, Sonshereé Giles, Rebecca Bryant, Cathie Caraker, Don Nichols, Kelly Dalrymple and Andrew Wass.

Continuing in their investigation of plagiarism and authorship, Non Fiction with SAFEhouse, presents a program with new work by some of the Bay Area's most innovative choreographic voices. The artists referenced will be Trisha Brown, Nijinsky, Steve Paxton, Meg Stuart, Max Roach, Yvonne Rainer, Mark Morris and Miguel Gutierrez.

SPF (summer performance festival) is an annual program that features both veteran and emerging artists in the fields of dance, multi-media and theatre. Produced by SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts @ The Garage, the festival is a three month performance celebration that reflects the broad spectrum of contemporary performance in the Bay Area.

SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (Saving Art From Extinction) @ The Garage is a non-profit arts presenting organization that specializes in incubating new performing art through residencies, workshops and performance. The Garage is the home of the raw & uncut performance showcase, RAW (resident artists’ workshop), SPF and AIRspace (queer performing artists residency program).

Non-Fiction strives to respond to our environment and find ideas others have missed/forgotten/ignored, distill them and amplify them. It is Non-Fiction's goal to trim the excess, the chaff from ideas and present them in their purest forms while fleshing out our world, uncovering the hidden nooks, and dust off the ideas good but forgotten. Non-Fiction follows a process to its logical end, rather than bowing immediately to our aesthetic. We do not completely trust the subjective experience. Yes, the subjective experience is always there; we can never rid ourselves of our tastes and opinons (and why would we want to?) To paraphrase Nietzsche - Personal aesthetic is dead. By focusing more on the objective experience, we find that when exploring subjective experience, our ideas and aesthetic come to fruition with greater clarity and celerity. We have chosen to work under the name Non Fiction as we do not try to something that is not already on stage. There is no artifice. Our interests lie in dissecting an idea/situation into its constituent elements. Only once the normal relationships of the elements have been destroyed can the real work begin. We strive to create work that asks a question or a explores a situation/problem, which must be solved or satisfied for the work to “work”. Something not immediately obvious can be uncovered by repeating processes/problems, by running through the variables. I want to create an image, foster an idea that will last in the viewers’ memory long after they have left the theater. The show may have ended, but the performance can continue on. The audience is just as much a part of the performance, if not more, as what happened on stage.

Andrew Wass began dancing in college, replacing the chem lab with the dance studio. Since living in the Bay Area for the past 6 years, he has had the opportunity to perform in work by Scott Wells, Jess Curtis, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, and Mary Overlie. His dance films have been shown in film festivals in LA, Minneapolis, Rio de Janeiro, Houston, Berlin, and San Francisco. His performance work has been shown in San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Marfa, Tijuana, and New York. In the fall of 2007 he was an artist in residence at Djerassi. He also received the Jack Loftis and Vibeke Strand, MD honorary Fellowship in 2007. Please visit www.andrewwass.com.

Kelly Dalrymple is intrigued by repetition and precision in bodies and on paper. Other interests lie in bodies that fulfill intention, find stillness, and explore complexity and simplicity. As a member of Lower Left she investigates and teaches solo and group improvisation and choreographic skills through a performance lens. Lower Left recently became artists in residence at Marfa Live Arts. Kelly cofounded the performance group Non Fiction, is a visual artist, a graduate of Mills College, and teaches Pilates. Major influences include Mary Overlie’s post modern theories, Nina Martin’s Ensemble Thinking and Articulating the Solo Body, and the Alexander Technique with Shelley Senter. The work of Yvonne Rainier, Deborah Hay, Wally Cardona, Mary Reich, and Trisha Brown is influential in her own creative process. Along with other Lower Left members Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, and Margaret Paek, Kelly is carving out a new dance destination in Marfa TX, where they organize and facilitate improvisation performance labs and workshops. Kelly has taught at Missouri State University, Earthdance, Movement Research’s improvisation festival, and University of Houston. Kelly grew up in San Diego, currently lives in Oakland and is headed towards making her home/s in Marfa, Tx and Berlin, Germany.