Jeanine durning the bridge project science
•
To Being is a choreography of persistence in the heart of jeopardy and precarity: the body continues in ongoing change, relations transform, meanings proliferate and fade. A companion work to Durning’s acclaimed solo performance practice, inging, To Being is based on the decidedly chosen practice of nonstopping — always moving absent destination— always becoming, never arriving. A psychosocial experiment, To Being opens to a landscape where radically divergent desires converge and empathy unfolds. To Being is dance as both ontological inquiry and homage, a force against the absolute, the nameable. To Being is a composition of endurance, a sonata of devotion. To Being is an unending search for an imperative relationship to movement in which dichotomies between self and other, material and immaterial, thought and action, incessantly dissolve. But more than anything else, To Being asks: What’s at stake? Where’s the end? How can we give more when all we feel is that we’ve
•
POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community (2020)
OCT 2, 2020: Real Talk # 1: Vectors of Adverse Desire
randy reyes (Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco)
OCT 9, 2020: Free Play
Jarrel Phillips (Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco)
OCT 10, 2020: Encaje
Judith Sánchez Ruíz (Dock11, Berlin)
OCT 11, 2020: PURPLE is
Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with sam wentz (Dock11, Berlin / CalArts, Los Angeles)
Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100 (2019)
AUG 10-11, 2019: Public Workshop and Audition for Dancers
With Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener (ODC Theater, San Francisco)
AUG 12-23, 2019: Residency for Commissioned Artists
(ODC Theater, San Francisco)
AUG 16 & 23, 2019: Open rehearsals/Public Salons
(ODC Theater, San Francisco)
SEPT 26, 2019: Inherited Bodies
6 PM (Women’s Building, San Francisco)
NOV 7, 2019: Artist Ta
•
Bridge Project: Rewriting Dance
Nov 6-8: Fri at 8pm, Sat at 6pm, Sun at 7pm
The Bridge Project annually recruits the prime movers of American postmodernism to the Bay Area to teach and perform. Crossing discipline, geography and perspective, this year's event, titled Rewriting Dance, features Jeanine Durning, Deborah Hay, Alva Noe, Michele Steinwald and six Bay Area dance makers working at the intersection of language and choreographic thinking. Produced in association with CounterPulse.
SUMMARY OF PERFORMANCE EVENTS:
Friday Nov. 6 at 8 PM: Jeanine Durning's inging featuring the practice of unscripted nonstop language as performance.
Saturday Nov. 7, 6-9 PM: Reorganizing Ourselves, a performative lecture featuring choreographer Deborah Hay and philosopher and cognitive forskare Alva Noe discussing observation, consciousness and the links between art and science. The schema concludes with a salon-style discussion with audience members facilitated bygd dance curator Michele Ste