Upcoming Digital Performance!
Queering Dance Festival presents Frolic Online - a free dance event
by Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
I am happy to present a work-in-progress, ALL I KNOW, that I began last year at the first Queering Dance Festival. This piece explores the impact of doors (closed, locked and otherwise) in our lives. The title reflects that all I knew in 1974 was that I loved her. Because of that repressive time, it became a radical act to pursue this love by coming out as a lesbian.
Past Events
Hermit
SAFEhouse Digital Showcase
June 20, 2020
Solo Artist - original improvisational work
Station of the Main Altar
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival
Grace Cathedral
January 24, 2020
Hermit
Mbongui Square Festival
Shawl Anderson Dance Center
December 21st and 22nd, 2019
ALL I KNOW: work-in-progress
Queering Dance Festival
Shawl Anderson Dance Center
September 2019
Solo Artist, Station of the Main Altar- presented original improvisational work
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival and Dance Film Festival at Grace Cathedral
July 2019
SPEAKING FROM THE BODY: queer and not-so-queer stories in movement and spoken word
Presented by San Francisco International Arts Festival and Queer Arts Festival
Co-sponsored by the Wattis Foundation and the San Francisco Movement Arts Festival
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture - Firehouse Theater
June 2019
Photos: Lynne Fried
Collaboration at the Living Arts Museum
Jack London Square
May 2019
Hermit - a work in progress
Dance-A-Rama Festival
Western Sky Studio, Berkeley
May 2019
Solo Artist, Station of the Red Stone - presented original improvisational work
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival at Grace Cathedral
January 2019
Backward
Local Artists Showing: Salon
Shawl Anderson Dance Center
July 2018
LIFECYCLE
(How many will we go through in this life?)
with Jasprit Singh on sitar
Oakland Dance Festival
Jack London Square
April 2018
-and-
May 2018
as part of
This Too Shall Pass: 49 Experiments with Impermanence
Cal State University, East Bay
standingOUTstanding
My one-woman variety show of intimate storytelling in movement
and spoken word returns from a wildly successful run at the
2017 Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival!
May 2018
also as part of
This Too Shall Pass: 49 Experiments with Impermanence
Cal State University, East Bay
LIFECYCLE - world premiere collaboration with Jasprit Singh on sitar
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival
Grace Cathedral - January 2018
standingOUTstanding
I returned to the 70th annual Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival!!!
Nine daily shows from August 4 - 12, 2017,
including my tenth World Premiere, "Backward"
Greenside @ Nicolson Square (Venue 209)
Solo Artist, Station of the Moving Red Dress - presented original improvisational work in San Francisco Movement Arts Festival at Cathedral St. Mary's of the Assumption and Grace Cathedral
January 2017
BACKWARD
~ a new work-in-progress!
December 2016
SAFEhouse for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
as part of ANYTHING GOES: THE FIELD - group performance
The Field is a peer-to-peer forum for artists to share developing work and exchange feedback.
Why are we always pushing ourselves to go to the next thing?
Why do we torment ourselves to continuously go forward?
What happens if we stop?
~also shown:
November 2016
Studio Azul, Berkeley, CA
The 38th Annual WORKS IN THE WORKS - a group show
presented by Choreographers' Performance Alliance
standingOUTstanding
Intimate Sharing in Movement and Spoken Word
Three dance stories speak of a lost love reappearing in a new form,
a man with a secret that everyone knows but pretends not to,
and the understanding that some things never leave.
presented at:
SPF9 (summer performance festival)
July 2016
ODC Theater, Mott Studio
San Francisco, CA
SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts
Resident Artist Workshop (RAW) performances!
1 Grove St. San Francisco, CA
Shows from 9/2015 - 5/2016
May 2016
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.
January 2016
standingOUTstanding
presenting the world premiere of They Never Really Leave and a couple of 2014 Fringe Festival favorites, including Consistent Paradox!
September 2015
Consistent Paradox - a story about a man with a secret that everybody knows but pretends not to
Photo by Ava Kennedy
standingOUTstanding at the 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival
standingOUTstanding is my eighth World Premiere in four years. It features a blend of experimental postmodern dance and improvisation focusing on leading edge themes guaranteed to provoke, stimulate, entertain and captivate the audience’s attention. The performance explores what happens when previously non-convergent parallel lives collide and merge into one. There is also an examination of a life filled with consistent paradox.
Summer 2014
My video was selected for historic preservation by the Fringe Performance Archive and is now conserved in the National Library of Scotland.
Online video event plus Live Q&A
Sunday, October 19, 2014