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Migrations
Fri � Sat, June 4 & 5
8:00PM
$12.00 general
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ODC Theater is proud to present Migrations, featuring three of the Bay Area�s up and coming choreographers
ODC Theater is proud to present Migrations �04, the annual showcase of San Francisco�s most promising new choreographers, curated from the previous year of Pilot program participants.
�The ODC School and Theater sponsor mentorship and residency programs that serve the ultimate goals of encouraging professionalism in the dance field. The programs are feeder systems designed to give emerging artists tools to advance their work, and mid-level and professional artists the support needed to develop their creativity.� The programs offered with regard to mentorship are: Pilot, which is managed by the school. Migrations and Flight which are managed by the Theater with some School involvement for artistic choreographic mentorship. The ODC residency programs House Special, Verge (working title) and Artists in Residence are all managed by the theater. � The new works choreographed by Brittany Brown Ceres are entitled "Normal people have secrets", and the duet "Underneath all these nothings". Inspired by the little things we are all so afraid to reveal, �Normal People Have Secrets� is a seamless series of narrative interludes revolving around both white and not-so-white lies. Beginning with the drowning murder of a loved-one, this new work intends to pierce the sticky-sweet center of all of our secrets. The exploration of non-verbal characterization, ensemble dancing, and honest risk are at the for-front of movement development. With the haunting "Akhmatova Songs", by John Taverner, sung by Patricia Rozorio, Ceres and the six dancers tell stories of many little lingering personal lies.� "Underneath, all these nothings" is a recreation of a gothic, Victorian duet inspired by the Brothers' Quay's full-length feature film, Institute Benjamenta. This haunting piece, set to a sparse and breathy score, was presented in ODC's Pilot 41. It is the first of a series that will shape an evening-long work to be presented in November. As shaped by Gertrude Stein's 1920's short stories, spoken through a set of ping pong the development of the piece moves through this century of game-playing and love-making. There is an interpersonal progression from independence to dependence within the performers' relationships. It is as if the time it takes to "know" another person is equal to all time, past, present and future-and each separate journey is full of the same collective stories, revelations, boredom and disasters, spread along unique timelines.
Faye Driscoll will present three works. She will perform a new solo entitled, "Yeah you are," a spasmodic adventure in which an attempt at authenticity becomes a facade of swirling defenses. Secondly she will present a new duet in which the performers stumble in symbiosis, this currently untitled work is inspired by intense physicality and an obsessive, playful love that may be headed toward self destruction. Lastly she will present a group work entitled "w-w-walk" which uses the devices of repetition and accumulation to introduce us to a kooky cult of characters. In the end a shameful and hilarious secret is revealed which ultimately bonds the motley crew together.
Nora Chipaumire's work as a solo artist investigates the collaborative process with the context of cultural, social, political and technological identities of African contemporary life. For Migrations �04, she will present two solo pieces, �Mutupo� & "Convoys, curfews, and roadblocks". �Mutupo� is a prayer/ totemic poem to her ancestors; "Mutupo" is the word in the Shona language for totem. "Convoys, curfews, and roadblocks" is a monologue that confronts the current situation in Zimbabwe by looking at the past. Nora draws from her experiences during the Zimbawean Revolution as a means of understanding the present Zimbabwean predicament. It is also a talkback / response to an increasing number of literature works that have come out which focus on white Rhodesian experiences during that same period of time.
BIOGRAPHIES
Brittany Brown Ceres is the Director of the Summerfest/dance, the Manager of ODC Theater, and is in the early stages of forming a new company, Dance Ceres. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and received her BA from UC, San Diego in 1995 under the direction of Jean Isaacs, Nina Martin, and Margaret Marshall. After graduating with her MFA in Choreography from SUNY, Purchase College, she finished her studies with an MA in Dance Education at Stanford in 2001. As a freelance choreographer, she has produced her own work in New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, and New Zealand. Her work has been shown in the San Francisco Bay Area at Summerfest/dance, ODC�s Pilot 37, 40 & 41, The Thumbnail Festival, Dancers' Group's Local Series, Venue 9 Series and at the American College Dance Festival. Ceres was awarded the Mary Edith Clifford Award for Choreography by the Stanford Dance Division in 2002. Ceres is currently dancing with Deborah Slater Dance Theater. visit BBC at www.fierceface.com.
Faye Driscoll is a former New Yorker and recent transplant to San Francisco. She is well known for her performing in Doug Varone and Dancers as well as for her refreshing voice in the world of choreography. Driscoll's unique work is quirky and dramatic. She is inspired by the awkward, imperfect, and contradictory in daily human interaction. In her choreography, she creates a physical language to illustrate and engage this sloppy humanity and the result is an anomalous unpredictable beauty. Faye Driscoll's choreography has been performed at the U. of Utah in Salt Lake City, the U. of Maryland, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, and in NYC at NYU's Ticsh, The Kitchen's 'dance-in-progress' series, Danspace Project's 'food for thought' and '40up' project's, PS122's 'avante-garde-a-rama', the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Galapagos, Dixon Place, Ur, and
Dancenow/NYC '99-'03. Faye was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers '00-'03 with whom she performed, toured, taught and still returns to work with on the occasional project. She also has performed extensively in the works of both David Neumann and Yasmeen Godder who influenced her greatly as artists. Driscoll holds a BFA in dance from NYU's Tisch school for the Arts.
Nora Chipaumire is a graduate of the University Of Zimbabwe's School of Law, and holds masters degrees in dance (MA), choreography and performance (MFA) from Mills College in Oakland, California (USA). She has studied dance formally and informally in her native country Zimbabwe, USA, Cuba and Jamaica. Her work has been presented in numerous San Francisco Bay Area venues such as ODC, Venue 9, 848 Community Space, Temescal Art Center, and The Berkeley Art Center. Nora has also been presented in important Bay Area Festivals such as San Francisco Summerfest (2002), Women on the Way Dance
Festival (2001), and Afrosolo African Diaspora Series (2002). In addition, she has received artistic residencies from the Berkeley Art Center and Berkeley High School. Chipaumire has worked with various companies locally, nationally and internationally, including Molissa Fenley and Dancers (NYC), Dimensions Dance Theater (Oak .Ca), Compania De La dansa Narciso Medina (Havana Cuba). She has also worked with esteemed bay area choreographers such as Thais Mazur, Anne Bluthenthal, Laura Elaine Ellis, Robert Moses, Mary Armentrout and Leyya Tawil. As well as the New York based choreographer Crystal Brown of Women at Work Dance Company. She is currently a full time company member of the renowned NYC based American company, Urban Bush Women.
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