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Bay Area Now 4
Under the Radar I |
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Fri, Oct 21 & Sat, Oct 22, 8 pm • Forum
$20 regular
$17 students, seniors and teachers
$15 YBCA Members |
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Experimental artists embody the soul of local performance.
To uncover them, we enlisted the help of four local independent
curators—Keith Hennessy, Sean San JosÈ, Francis
Wong and Isabel Yrigoyen—whose long-standing presence
in the community keeps them in touch with what’s
new. Join us as we celebrate artists who challenge the
status quo in ways we couldn’t imagine, and in places
we didn’t know existed.
Featuring (same program each night, not necessarily in order of appearance):
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Glamamore, Fauxnique and Kiddie
San Francisco drag superstars Glamamore, Fauxnique and Kiddie present
Triad (working title), a look at powerful, glamorous creatures that run
in packs of three. With their taste for dark beauty, flights of fancy,
and highly stylized theatrics, they move the drag number into operatic
territory. Though they employ the long-standing tradition of lip-synch,
they treat it more as an extension of a dance than as a means of
impersonation. The fabulous gowns they wear (by Mr. David) are
transformers, threatening to disintegrate, explode, envelop…. Expect
female energy yes, but in the form of witches, valkyries, spiders,
fates and planets.
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Jade-blue Eclipse
Jade-blue Eclipse specializes in handbalancing and contortion. To learn
hand-balancing and contortion, as with any technical physical skill,
Jade-blue spent years of days-and-nights training and dieting. One day
recently, her inspiration faltered, and she spent much of the last year
pondering the age old question – is there such a thing as free will? As
in, where is the strength of will and perseverance to train? Often, in
our society, the idea of free will exists only to justify punishment
from those who judge. Or, was training, and the ability to survive it,
a DIVINE GIFT named Inspiration and Love? Jade-blue expresses her
feelings of being inspired and in love with this new work, CURSED.Ý
Jade-blue Eclipse Web site
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Jewlia Eisenberg’s Charming Hostess
Charming Hostess is three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm
and radical braininess. Their music is intensely physical, rooted in
the body – voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats,
sex-breath and silence. They live where Jewish and African diasporas
collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and
Andalusian melody.Ý
Charming Hostess Web site
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The
John-Carlos Perea Quartet and Revision Production Company
presents Creation Story, a new work-in-progress.
John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish) is an electric bassist,
pow-wow singer, cedar flautist and composer whose original work “pushes
beyond the wanky self-indulgence of old-school fusion to forge a new
kind of multiethnic groove.” (SF Weekly).
His recent appearances include performances with comedian Charlie Hill
and Taj Mahal. Edwardo Madril (Pascua Yaqui) is the creative director
of Revision Production Company and the co-founder of Four Winds Native
American Dance Group. He is an active member of the Bay Area Native
American community and a representative of his culture: as a dancer,
singer, teacher, and playwright.Ý
John-Carlos Perea Web site
Revision Production Company Web site
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Lynn Breedlove
(queer homohop punkrock sugarcoated feminist tranny theory standup comedy)
Breedlove is the singer/lyricist for Tribe 8 and SLAMB, author of the novel Godspeed,
co-host of K¼vetsch queer open mic, voted Best of the Bay for 8 years
in a row, and DJ on the Unka Lynnee and Aunty Cindy show (pirate
radio's freak answer to LoveLine on streaming audio piratecatradio.com
and 87.9 on your dial), bringing queer and trans music and opinionated
opinions to the airwaves. Shim is currently working on Godspeed, the movie.Ý
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Tommy Shepherd aka Mc Soulati, Dan Wolf aka DWolf, of Felonious
and special guests
Tommy Shepherd aka Mc Soulati, Dan Wolf aka DWolf, of Felonious join
Nick Mccarthy aka DJ Aspect a members of a live band Shotgun Wedding
Quintet. Felonious is an award winning live hip hop band based in San
Francisco, consisting of a seven-man ensemble with 4 "live" Emcees,
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Toychestra
Toychestra is an all-women musical ensemble that plays toys. Some are
actual instruments like toddler-sized pianos and xylophones and drums.
Others just make great sounds, like the pink zoo train or Boo Megaphone
or the acoustic, multi-sonic Activity Center. Still others are used for
percussion, like the washboard, Don’t Wake Daddy, and woodblock. Each
instrument is individually amplified with contact microphones and the
collection is mixed live for a bigger electronic sound. This creates a
sophisticated aural experience that is a far cry from a bunch of
kiddies banging around. Toychestra performs original compositions
ranging from stark to upbeat, from percussive to melodic, to ambient,
avant-garde and kitsch. In the past the band was known to do a few
covers ranging from Dvorak to Kraftwerk to Black Flag. Ý
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Bay Area Now 4 is made possible in part by:
Tecoah and Thomas Bruce; Robert Goodman and John Bankston; Kathryn A.
Hall and Tom C. Knutsen; Meridee Moore and Kevin King; Saks Fifth
Avenue; The SBC Foundation; Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion
Brenner; Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer.
Bay Area Now 4 performances have been made possible in part by the Fleishhacker Foundation. |
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