Please join us for an early development work in progress preview directed by Constance Hockaday, with the assistance of choreographer Keith Hennessy. Old Man, Dance is a movement piece that experiments with deconstructing the white male expression of power by placing Hockaday's white, queer gaze on to the white male body. The preview will be followed by an audience talk back that will inform the project’s development and final realization, facilitated by equity and inclusivity coach Dia Penning.
Doors Open: 7pm
Performance Begins: 7:30
Talk Back at 8pm facilitated by Dia Penning
ARTIST BIOS:
Director
Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways. Her work confronts issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging. In 2001, she began making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats-- an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us--as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution. Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. In 2016, she was a San Francisco MOMA SECA award finalist. She has been in residence at Headlands Center of the Arts (2016-17) and at Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018). She is also a Senior TED Fellow.
Assistant Choreographer
Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a dancer, writer, choreographer, activist, and ritualist. Raised in Canada, living in San Francisco since 1982, he tours internationally. Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, and Constance Hockaday. Recent awards include the Guggenheim and the Sui Generis. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband, 1985-1994. 2017-18 gigs include VAC Foundation (Moscow), Impulstanz (Vienna), L'Artère (Québec), Warsaw Flow, Blackwood (Toronto), Movement Research (NY), FRESH (SF), and the colleges San Diego State, UC Riverside, St Mary's, and Hollins.
DANCERS
Rod Neves Born on East 14th Street. Rod came of age on the flatlands during the turbulent 60s. Found his way to New York City in the mid 70s where he kicked his way around as an actor, singer, dancer, food server and bartender (including the iconic Studio 54). The 80s brought opportunities to tour as a backstage technician with various star headlined Broadway musical productions both domestic and global. Returned to the Bay in the late 90s and embarked on service at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative where he became a advocate for food justice. Recently retired, this performance of Old Man Dance at Mills College represents having come full circle.
Harry Breaux, a Cajun from south Louisiana, grew up with the alligators. After escaping to the snowy hills of Tennessee for his teenage years while attending a military academy to “make a man out of him”, he eventually made it to Oregon for a “very gay hippie time” in the early 70’s, splitting his time between there and the “gay revolutionary pleasures” of San Francisco. Having survived the devastation during the 80’s and early 90’s, he barely survived a near AIDS death himself in December 1996. In Cajun country there is a word for that little something extra added to any experience, it’s “lagniappe”. Every single day since being at death’s door is “lagniappe” and he is grateful to still be here and able to share his gifts, talents and self-professed wisdom with others. Having officially become a long-term survivor of AIDS as documented in the San Francisco Chronicle’s documentary LAST MEN STANDING, he spends much of his time advocating for many causes while volunteering for the Castro Ambassadors and serving as a docent at the GLBT Museum. Although currently unemployed, he seeks a satisfying part-time job in order to keep his edge. His favorite thing about being a part of this “OLD MAN DANCE” project is that at the age of 74 and having survived disco, he can still dance at all!!! With a heart and head looking to the future, he encourages each of you to dare to be different by being your most authentic self.
Tim J Luddy teaches yoga at Yoga Tree/Potrero Hill in San Francisco and with the Naked Yoga for Men group. He also teaches meditation and Lujong, a system of Tibetan yogic exercise, at the Wisdom Sun sangha. Prior to that, he worked for forty years as a designer and art director, culminating in a stint as the creative director of Mother Jones magazine. The last time he was involved in any kind of public performance was in 1971. https://www.tjl-yoga.com
Rocky Blumhagen is passionate follower of Yoga, Vinyasa and Kundalini and teaches in San Francisco and on the Oregon coast. Another passion is vocal performance with an accomplished singing career as a soloist in one man shows, symphony and big band work and an officianado of the Great American Songbook. His “Easy to Love” CD, all music and lyrics of Cole Porter was recorded with the Portland Chamber Orchestra. You can find more about his music at https://www.thecrooner.net. Rocky also had a career in commercial Radio, managing and directing sales departments for nearly 20 years in Portland Oregon working with a variety of radio formats. Rocky has been
Involved with human rights political action since the mid 1980’s. This work in later years has moved more to mindfulness, looking for answers within and making peace first, within. Rocky feels that yoga is the pathway for a true body, mind and spirit connection. This performance piece, “Old Man Dance” spoke to him in many ways and he is grateful for the opportunity to work with such an insightful cast and to look deeper within, making conscious choices based on a new world emerging. He will be attending Stanford University in the DCI fellowship program next year with his partner further exploring mindfulness.
Gary Wills- still waiting.
Dia Penning, dramaturge and process coach
Dia has served as the Arts Education Manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Manager of Community Arts at California College of the Arts, Director of Adult Programs for Gallery 37 and Associate Director of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Columbia College Chicago. She published three volumes of curricula on structural racism and supports many creative projects and performances in the exploration of race, class, gender and oppression. Her work has included collaboration with Guillermo Gomez Pena, the Yes Men, Ragged Wing Ensemble, MotiRoti and others.
As the founder of the The Equity Collective, Dia coaches in a diversity of spaces, from SFMOMA to the National Parks,individual artists to tech executives. She supports her clients in investigating limiting assumptions and expanding their ideas of what is possible. Dia’s current collaboration, Yoga and Social Justice, is in Alameda, CA beginning July 2019.
Dramaturge
Sofia Cordova
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova's work considers sci-fi and futurity, dance and music culture(s), the internet, mystical things, extinction and mutation, migration, and climate change under the conditions of late capitalism and its technologies. Her work is currently featured in the latest edition of Bay Area Now at San Francisco’s YBCA. It is also part of Pier 24’s and The Whitney Museum’s permanent collections and has been the subject of a First Look feature in Art in America. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, performances, and albums the duo collectively scores all of her video and performance work.
Social Media Handles:
@constancehockaday
show less
Doors Open: 7pm
Performance Begins: 7:30
Talk Back at 8pm facilitated by Dia Penning
ARTIST BIOS:
Director
Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways. Her work confronts issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging. In 2001, she began making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats-- an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us--as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution. Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. In 2016, she was a San Francisco MOMA SECA award finalist. She has been in residence at Headlands Center of the Arts (2016-17) and at Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018). She is also a Senior TED Fellow.
Assistant Choreographer
Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a dancer, writer, choreographer, activist, and ritualist. Raised in Canada, living in San Francisco since 1982, he tours internationally. Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, and Constance Hockaday. Recent awards include the Guggenheim and the Sui Generis. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband, 1985-1994. 2017-18 gigs include VAC Foundation (Moscow), Impulstanz (Vienna), L'Artère (Québec), Warsaw Flow, Blackwood (Toronto), Movement Research (NY), FRESH (SF), and the colleges San Diego State, UC Riverside, St Mary's, and Hollins.
DANCERS
Rod Neves Born on East 14th Street. Rod came of age on the flatlands during the turbulent 60s. Found his way to New York City in the mid 70s where he kicked his way around as an actor, singer, dancer, food server and bartender (including the iconic Studio 54). The 80s brought opportunities to tour as a backstage technician with various star headlined Broadway musical productions both domestic and global. Returned to the Bay in the late 90s and embarked on service at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative where he became a advocate for food justice. Recently retired, this performance of Old Man Dance at Mills College represents having come full circle.
Harry Breaux, a Cajun from south Louisiana, grew up with the alligators. After escaping to the snowy hills of Tennessee for his teenage years while attending a military academy to “make a man out of him”, he eventually made it to Oregon for a “very gay hippie time” in the early 70’s, splitting his time between there and the “gay revolutionary pleasures” of San Francisco. Having survived the devastation during the 80’s and early 90’s, he barely survived a near AIDS death himself in December 1996. In Cajun country there is a word for that little something extra added to any experience, it’s “lagniappe”. Every single day since being at death’s door is “lagniappe” and he is grateful to still be here and able to share his gifts, talents and self-professed wisdom with others. Having officially become a long-term survivor of AIDS as documented in the San Francisco Chronicle’s documentary LAST MEN STANDING, he spends much of his time advocating for many causes while volunteering for the Castro Ambassadors and serving as a docent at the GLBT Museum. Although currently unemployed, he seeks a satisfying part-time job in order to keep his edge. His favorite thing about being a part of this “OLD MAN DANCE” project is that at the age of 74 and having survived disco, he can still dance at all!!! With a heart and head looking to the future, he encourages each of you to dare to be different by being your most authentic self.
Tim J Luddy teaches yoga at Yoga Tree/Potrero Hill in San Francisco and with the Naked Yoga for Men group. He also teaches meditation and Lujong, a system of Tibetan yogic exercise, at the Wisdom Sun sangha. Prior to that, he worked for forty years as a designer and art director, culminating in a stint as the creative director of Mother Jones magazine. The last time he was involved in any kind of public performance was in 1971. https://www.tjl-yoga.com
Rocky Blumhagen is passionate follower of Yoga, Vinyasa and Kundalini and teaches in San Francisco and on the Oregon coast. Another passion is vocal performance with an accomplished singing career as a soloist in one man shows, symphony and big band work and an officianado of the Great American Songbook. His “Easy to Love” CD, all music and lyrics of Cole Porter was recorded with the Portland Chamber Orchestra. You can find more about his music at https://www.thecrooner.net. Rocky also had a career in commercial Radio, managing and directing sales departments for nearly 20 years in Portland Oregon working with a variety of radio formats. Rocky has been
Involved with human rights political action since the mid 1980’s. This work in later years has moved more to mindfulness, looking for answers within and making peace first, within. Rocky feels that yoga is the pathway for a true body, mind and spirit connection. This performance piece, “Old Man Dance” spoke to him in many ways and he is grateful for the opportunity to work with such an insightful cast and to look deeper within, making conscious choices based on a new world emerging. He will be attending Stanford University in the DCI fellowship program next year with his partner further exploring mindfulness.
Gary Wills- still waiting.
Dia Penning, dramaturge and process coach
Dia has served as the Arts Education Manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Manager of Community Arts at California College of the Arts, Director of Adult Programs for Gallery 37 and Associate Director of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Columbia College Chicago. She published three volumes of curricula on structural racism and supports many creative projects and performances in the exploration of race, class, gender and oppression. Her work has included collaboration with Guillermo Gomez Pena, the Yes Men, Ragged Wing Ensemble, MotiRoti and others.
As the founder of the The Equity Collective, Dia coaches in a diversity of spaces, from SFMOMA to the National Parks,individual artists to tech executives. She supports her clients in investigating limiting assumptions and expanding their ideas of what is possible. Dia’s current collaboration, Yoga and Social Justice, is in Alameda, CA beginning July 2019.
Dramaturge
Sofia Cordova
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova's work considers sci-fi and futurity, dance and music culture(s), the internet, mystical things, extinction and mutation, migration, and climate change under the conditions of late capitalism and its technologies. Her work is currently featured in the latest edition of Bay Area Now at San Francisco’s YBCA. It is also part of Pier 24’s and The Whitney Museum’s permanent collections and has been the subject of a First Look feature in Art in America. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, performances, and albums the duo collectively scores all of her video and performance work.
Social Media Handles:
@constancehockaday
Please join us for an early development work in progress preview directed by Constance Hockaday, with the assistance of choreographer Keith Hennessy. Old Man, Dance is a movement piece that experiments with deconstructing the white male expression of power by placing Hockaday's white, queer gaze on to the white male body. The preview will be followed by an audience talk back that will inform the project’s development and final realization, facilitated by equity and inclusivity coach Dia Penning.
Doors Open: 7pm
Performance Begins: 7:30
Talk Back at 8pm facilitated by Dia Penning
ARTIST BIOS:
Director
Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways. Her work confronts issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging. In 2001, she began making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats-- an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us--as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution. Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. In 2016, she was a San Francisco MOMA SECA award finalist. She has been in residence at Headlands Center of the Arts (2016-17) and at Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018). She is also a Senior TED Fellow.
Assistant Choreographer
Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a dancer, writer, choreographer, activist, and ritualist. Raised in Canada, living in San Francisco since 1982, he tours internationally. Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, and Constance Hockaday. Recent awards include the Guggenheim and the Sui Generis. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband, 1985-1994. 2017-18 gigs include VAC Foundation (Moscow), Impulstanz (Vienna), L'Artère (Québec), Warsaw Flow, Blackwood (Toronto), Movement Research (NY), FRESH (SF), and the colleges San Diego State, UC Riverside, St Mary's, and Hollins.
DANCERS
Rod Neves Born on East 14th Street. Rod came of age on the flatlands during the turbulent 60s. Found his way to New York City in the mid 70s where he kicked his way around as an actor, singer, dancer, food server and bartender (including the iconic Studio 54). The 80s brought opportunities to tour as a backstage technician with various star headlined Broadway musical productions both domestic and global. Returned to the Bay in the late 90s and embarked on service at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative where he became a advocate for food justice. Recently retired, this performance of Old Man Dance at Mills College represents having come full circle.
Harry Breaux, a Cajun from south Louisiana, grew up with the alligators. After escaping to the snowy hills of Tennessee for his teenage years while attending a military academy to “make a man out of him”, he eventually made it to Oregon for a “very gay hippie time” in the early 70’s, splitting his time between there and the “gay revolutionary pleasures” of San Francisco. Having survived the devastation during the 80’s and early 90’s, he barely survived a near AIDS death himself in December 1996. In Cajun country there is a word for that little something extra added to any experience, it’s “lagniappe”. Every single day since being at death’s door is “lagniappe” and he is grateful to still be here and able to share his gifts, talents and self-professed wisdom with others. Having officially become a long-term survivor of AIDS as documented in the San Francisco Chronicle’s documentary LAST MEN STANDING, he spends much of his time advocating for many causes while volunteering for the Castro Ambassadors and serving as a docent at the GLBT Museum. Although currently unemployed, he seeks a satisfying part-time job in order to keep his edge. His favorite thing about being a part of this “OLD MAN DANCE” project is that at the age of 74 and having survived disco, he can still dance at all!!! With a heart and head looking to the future, he encourages each of you to dare to be different by being your most authentic self.
Tim J Luddy teaches yoga at Yoga Tree/Potrero Hill in San Francisco and with the Naked Yoga for Men group. He also teaches meditation and Lujong, a system of Tibetan yogic exercise, at the Wisdom Sun sangha. Prior to that, he worked for forty years as a designer and art director, culminating in a stint as the creative director of Mother Jones magazine. The last time he was involved in any kind of public performance was in 1971. https://www.tjl-yoga.com
Rocky Blumhagen is passionate follower of Yoga, Vinyasa and Kundalini and teaches in San Francisco and on the Oregon coast. Another passion is vocal performance with an accomplished singing career as a soloist in one man shows, symphony and big band work and an officianado of the Great American Songbook. His “Easy to Love” CD, all music and lyrics of Cole Porter was recorded with the Portland Chamber Orchestra. You can find more about his music at https://www.thecrooner.net. Rocky also had a career in commercial Radio, managing and directing sales departments for nearly 20 years in Portland Oregon working with a variety of radio formats. Rocky has been
Involved with human rights political action since the mid 1980’s. This work in later years has moved more to mindfulness, looking for answers within and making peace first, within. Rocky feels that yoga is the pathway for a true body, mind and spirit connection. This performance piece, “Old Man Dance” spoke to him in many ways and he is grateful for the opportunity to work with such an insightful cast and to look deeper within, making conscious choices based on a new world emerging. He will be attending Stanford University in the DCI fellowship program next year with his partner further exploring mindfulness.
Gary Wills- still waiting.
Dia Penning, dramaturge and process coach
Dia has served as the Arts Education Manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Manager of Community Arts at California College of the Arts, Director of Adult Programs for Gallery 37 and Associate Director of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Columbia College Chicago. She published three volumes of curricula on structural racism and supports many creative projects and performances in the exploration of race, class, gender and oppression. Her work has included collaboration with Guillermo Gomez Pena, the Yes Men, Ragged Wing Ensemble, MotiRoti and others.
As the founder of the The Equity Collective, Dia coaches in a diversity of spaces, from SFMOMA to the National Parks,individual artists to tech executives. She supports her clients in investigating limiting assumptions and expanding their ideas of what is possible. Dia’s current collaboration, Yoga and Social Justice, is in Alameda, CA beginning July 2019.
Dramaturge
Sofia Cordova
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova's work considers sci-fi and futurity, dance and music culture(s), the internet, mystical things, extinction and mutation, migration, and climate change under the conditions of late capitalism and its technologies. Her work is currently featured in the latest edition of Bay Area Now at San Francisco’s YBCA. It is also part of Pier 24’s and The Whitney Museum’s permanent collections and has been the subject of a First Look feature in Art in America. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, performances, and albums the duo collectively scores all of her video and performance work.
Social Media Handles:
@constancehockaday
read more
Doors Open: 7pm
Performance Begins: 7:30
Talk Back at 8pm facilitated by Dia Penning
ARTIST BIOS:
Director
Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways. Her work confronts issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging. In 2001, she began making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats-- an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us--as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution. Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. In 2016, she was a San Francisco MOMA SECA award finalist. She has been in residence at Headlands Center of the Arts (2016-17) and at Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018). She is also a Senior TED Fellow.
Assistant Choreographer
Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a dancer, writer, choreographer, activist, and ritualist. Raised in Canada, living in San Francisco since 1982, he tours internationally. Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, and Constance Hockaday. Recent awards include the Guggenheim and the Sui Generis. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband, 1985-1994. 2017-18 gigs include VAC Foundation (Moscow), Impulstanz (Vienna), L'Artère (Québec), Warsaw Flow, Blackwood (Toronto), Movement Research (NY), FRESH (SF), and the colleges San Diego State, UC Riverside, St Mary's, and Hollins.
DANCERS
Rod Neves Born on East 14th Street. Rod came of age on the flatlands during the turbulent 60s. Found his way to New York City in the mid 70s where he kicked his way around as an actor, singer, dancer, food server and bartender (including the iconic Studio 54). The 80s brought opportunities to tour as a backstage technician with various star headlined Broadway musical productions both domestic and global. Returned to the Bay in the late 90s and embarked on service at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative where he became a advocate for food justice. Recently retired, this performance of Old Man Dance at Mills College represents having come full circle.
Harry Breaux, a Cajun from south Louisiana, grew up with the alligators. After escaping to the snowy hills of Tennessee for his teenage years while attending a military academy to “make a man out of him”, he eventually made it to Oregon for a “very gay hippie time” in the early 70’s, splitting his time between there and the “gay revolutionary pleasures” of San Francisco. Having survived the devastation during the 80’s and early 90’s, he barely survived a near AIDS death himself in December 1996. In Cajun country there is a word for that little something extra added to any experience, it’s “lagniappe”. Every single day since being at death’s door is “lagniappe” and he is grateful to still be here and able to share his gifts, talents and self-professed wisdom with others. Having officially become a long-term survivor of AIDS as documented in the San Francisco Chronicle’s documentary LAST MEN STANDING, he spends much of his time advocating for many causes while volunteering for the Castro Ambassadors and serving as a docent at the GLBT Museum. Although currently unemployed, he seeks a satisfying part-time job in order to keep his edge. His favorite thing about being a part of this “OLD MAN DANCE” project is that at the age of 74 and having survived disco, he can still dance at all!!! With a heart and head looking to the future, he encourages each of you to dare to be different by being your most authentic self.
Tim J Luddy teaches yoga at Yoga Tree/Potrero Hill in San Francisco and with the Naked Yoga for Men group. He also teaches meditation and Lujong, a system of Tibetan yogic exercise, at the Wisdom Sun sangha. Prior to that, he worked for forty years as a designer and art director, culminating in a stint as the creative director of Mother Jones magazine. The last time he was involved in any kind of public performance was in 1971. https://www.tjl-yoga.com
Rocky Blumhagen is passionate follower of Yoga, Vinyasa and Kundalini and teaches in San Francisco and on the Oregon coast. Another passion is vocal performance with an accomplished singing career as a soloist in one man shows, symphony and big band work and an officianado of the Great American Songbook. His “Easy to Love” CD, all music and lyrics of Cole Porter was recorded with the Portland Chamber Orchestra. You can find more about his music at https://www.thecrooner.net. Rocky also had a career in commercial Radio, managing and directing sales departments for nearly 20 years in Portland Oregon working with a variety of radio formats. Rocky has been
Involved with human rights political action since the mid 1980’s. This work in later years has moved more to mindfulness, looking for answers within and making peace first, within. Rocky feels that yoga is the pathway for a true body, mind and spirit connection. This performance piece, “Old Man Dance” spoke to him in many ways and he is grateful for the opportunity to work with such an insightful cast and to look deeper within, making conscious choices based on a new world emerging. He will be attending Stanford University in the DCI fellowship program next year with his partner further exploring mindfulness.
Gary Wills- still waiting.
Dia Penning, dramaturge and process coach
Dia has served as the Arts Education Manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Manager of Community Arts at California College of the Arts, Director of Adult Programs for Gallery 37 and Associate Director of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Columbia College Chicago. She published three volumes of curricula on structural racism and supports many creative projects and performances in the exploration of race, class, gender and oppression. Her work has included collaboration with Guillermo Gomez Pena, the Yes Men, Ragged Wing Ensemble, MotiRoti and others.
As the founder of the The Equity Collective, Dia coaches in a diversity of spaces, from SFMOMA to the National Parks,individual artists to tech executives. She supports her clients in investigating limiting assumptions and expanding their ideas of what is possible. Dia’s current collaboration, Yoga and Social Justice, is in Alameda, CA beginning July 2019.
Dramaturge
Sofia Cordova
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova's work considers sci-fi and futurity, dance and music culture(s), the internet, mystical things, extinction and mutation, migration, and climate change under the conditions of late capitalism and its technologies. Her work is currently featured in the latest edition of Bay Area Now at San Francisco’s YBCA. It is also part of Pier 24’s and The Whitney Museum’s permanent collections and has been the subject of a First Look feature in Art in America. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, performances, and albums the duo collectively scores all of her video and performance work.
Social Media Handles:
@constancehockaday
show less
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