Fri, Sept. 20 at 8pm, Sat., Sept. 21 at 8pm, Sun., Sept 22 at 4:30pm and 7:30pm
PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences, September 20-22 at ODC Theater. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic "Mothership III" by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies and artists from New York, Ohio and Indiana.
Guest Choreographer Gerald Casel will create a world premiere for PUSHLab, a six-week immersive workshop for pre-professional performers. "Casel's work is meaningful and loaded with coding," explains Simpson. "I'm thrilled to add his voice to PUSHfest and to provide this opportunity for other artists to work with him through PUSHLab."
"My work has been focused on racial equity and interrogating the racial inequities in our field," explains Casel. "For PUSHLab I'll be looking at how we distill, encode, and ascribe meaning into a form that is abstract but shimmers with resonant meaning and how, as a brown or black body, there is already an ascribed meaning even before dancers of color perform." Casel adds "PUSH values and elevates the experiences of dancers of color. I have mostly worked with white-identified dancers since there are not very many freelance dancers of color in San Francisco who seek postmodern dance experiences, so this experience will be quite unique for me."
Additional performance highlights for PUSHfest 2019 include a group work by returning local choreographer Anupama Srivastava and the New York-based Jamal Jackson. New to the Festival this year are four Installation Artists who will activate the theater lobby and audience areas during intermission.
$20-$30.
Presented by PUSH Dance Company.
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PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences, September 20-22 at ODC Theater. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic "Mothership III" by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies and artists from New York, Ohio and Indiana.
Guest Choreographer Gerald Casel will create a world premiere for PUSHLab, a six-week immersive workshop for pre-professional performers. "Casel's work is meaningful and loaded with coding," explains Simpson. "I'm thrilled to add his voice to PUSHfest and to provide this opportunity for other artists to work with him through PUSHLab."
"My work has been focused on racial equity and interrogating the racial inequities in our field," explains Casel. "For PUSHLab I'll be looking at how we distill, encode, and ascribe meaning into a form that is abstract but shimmers with resonant meaning and how, as a brown or black body, there is already an ascribed meaning even before dancers of color perform." Casel adds "PUSH values and elevates the experiences of dancers of color. I have mostly worked with white-identified dancers since there are not very many freelance dancers of color in San Francisco who seek postmodern dance experiences, so this experience will be quite unique for me."
Additional performance highlights for PUSHfest 2019 include a group work by returning local choreographer Anupama Srivastava and the New York-based Jamal Jackson. New to the Festival this year are four Installation Artists who will activate the theater lobby and audience areas during intermission.
$20-$30.
Presented by PUSH Dance Company.
Fri, Sept. 20 at 8pm, Sat., Sept. 21 at 8pm, Sun., Sept 22 at 4:30pm and 7:30pm
PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences, September 20-22 at ODC Theater. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic "Mothership III" by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies and artists from New York, Ohio and Indiana.
Guest Choreographer Gerald Casel will create a world premiere for PUSHLab, a six-week immersive workshop for pre-professional performers. "Casel's work is meaningful and loaded with coding," explains Simpson. "I'm thrilled to add his voice to PUSHfest and to provide this opportunity for other artists to work with him through PUSHLab."
"My work has been focused on racial equity and interrogating the racial inequities in our field," explains Casel. "For PUSHLab I'll be looking at how we distill, encode, and ascribe meaning into a form that is abstract but shimmers with resonant meaning and how, as a brown or black body, there is already an ascribed meaning even before dancers of color perform." Casel adds "PUSH values and elevates the experiences of dancers of color. I have mostly worked with white-identified dancers since there are not very many freelance dancers of color in San Francisco who seek postmodern dance experiences, so this experience will be quite unique for me."
Additional performance highlights for PUSHfest 2019 include a group work by returning local choreographer Anupama Srivastava and the New York-based Jamal Jackson. New to the Festival this year are four Installation Artists who will activate the theater lobby and audience areas during intermission.
$20-$30.
Presented by PUSH Dance Company.
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PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences, September 20-22 at ODC Theater. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic "Mothership III" by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies and artists from New York, Ohio and Indiana.
Guest Choreographer Gerald Casel will create a world premiere for PUSHLab, a six-week immersive workshop for pre-professional performers. "Casel's work is meaningful and loaded with coding," explains Simpson. "I'm thrilled to add his voice to PUSHfest and to provide this opportunity for other artists to work with him through PUSHLab."
"My work has been focused on racial equity and interrogating the racial inequities in our field," explains Casel. "For PUSHLab I'll be looking at how we distill, encode, and ascribe meaning into a form that is abstract but shimmers with resonant meaning and how, as a brown or black body, there is already an ascribed meaning even before dancers of color perform." Casel adds "PUSH values and elevates the experiences of dancers of color. I have mostly worked with white-identified dancers since there are not very many freelance dancers of color in San Francisco who seek postmodern dance experiences, so this experience will be quite unique for me."
Additional performance highlights for PUSHfest 2019 include a group work by returning local choreographer Anupama Srivastava and the New York-based Jamal Jackson. New to the Festival this year are four Installation Artists who will activate the theater lobby and audience areas during intermission.
$20-$30.
Presented by PUSH Dance Company.
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