Down and Dirty Dance Series

Description

Week one of Dance Brigade's Down and Dirty Dance Series features: from New York City, Butoh company Vangeline Theater (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), Funsch Dance Experience (Friday and Saturday), and Leyya Tawil's DANCE ELIXIR ( Sunday).

Leyya Tawil's DANCE ELIXIR presents work from their 2009-2010 season entitled Saints/Archangels. Three works from the series-- Grace on a Friday Night, RADAR, and Mercy Starts Now -- were a result of Tawil's international research in aesthetics and identity. For the Down and Dirty Series at Dance Mission Theater, Tawil will present these works along with a preview of You Are Now X, a duet for the angel apparent. This new work is garish, full of lies and decadent details. It will warm you. http://www.danceelixir.org.

From New York City, the Vangeline Theater will present 3 pieces, all explorations of the feminine principle. The Vangeline Theater is a Dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century and are thrilled to come to dance for you in San Francisco! http://www.vangeline.com.

Funsch Dance Experience presents White Girls For Black Power. It takes as its starting point two texts: Malcolm X's American Nightmare speech, and Chuck D's Can't Hold Us Back. Both texts are spoken live, in splinters throughout the piece, in deliberately arrhythmic cadences, against a sound score compiled from 1960s all-girl garage bands. A series of solos, duets, trios, and larger group sections splash and bleed together. The central question of this work is: where do black power and feminist agendas coalesce and collide? http://www.funschdance.org.

More Info

Link

http://www.dancemission.com/events.html#downdirty

Call

(415) 273-4633