Sat March 7, 2020
T.L.E.S.tival Day 2 – Echoes with the Kronos Quartet and Youth Speaks
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On March 6 and 7, 2020 the ferociously creative percussion-guitar duo The Living Earth Show (Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson) celebrates its tenth anniversary with an ODC co-presentation, T.L.E.S.tival, featuring two of its signature productions, Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman, and Echoes.
The March 7 production, Echoes, is a spoken word chamber opera, is a meditation on, interrogation of, and ode to San Francisco: the magical, troubling, and overwhelmingly complicated place all these artists call home. Created by composer Danny Clay, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet, and performer-poets from Youth Speaks - including director Sean San José, Ashley Smiley, Aimee Suzara, Michael Wayne Turner III, and Tassiana Willis - Echoes integrates elements of poetry, sound, and theater to explore and celebrate the vivid culture of San Francisco.
"An emotionally impactful, timely, and original performance," wrote Nastia Voynovskaya for KQED Arts about the 2017 premiere presented by SF Performances. "Echoes did the important work of fostering a conversation across racial and class lines -- one that rarely happens in an increasingly segregated Bay Area."
Youth Speaks' Ashely Smilely offers: "Echoes is a piece that sits deep within my heart not only because I was born and raised in San Francisco, but because it was also such a tremendous challenge to expand my artistry. Being able to share my heartbreak over the city that I love and its rapid dissolve through Echoes also allows me to have an honest conversation with audience members, whether they are from the City or not, about the City I knew and the City I see now and how it truly makes me feel on every level. I hope that Echoes provides inspiration for not only for San Francisco natives (especially those of color) but other communities in other cities that are experiencing the same things and maybe even inspire them to create an Echoes of their own."
Echoes (music by Danny Clay, text by Youth Speaks, curated by Sean San Jose) was commissioned by San Francisco Performances, Kronos Performing Arts Association, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks. Additional support provided by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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The March 7 production, Echoes, is a spoken word chamber opera, is a meditation on, interrogation of, and ode to San Francisco: the magical, troubling, and overwhelmingly complicated place all these artists call home. Created by composer Danny Clay, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet, and performer-poets from Youth Speaks - including director Sean San José, Ashley Smiley, Aimee Suzara, Michael Wayne Turner III, and Tassiana Willis - Echoes integrates elements of poetry, sound, and theater to explore and celebrate the vivid culture of San Francisco.
"An emotionally impactful, timely, and original performance," wrote Nastia Voynovskaya for KQED Arts about the 2017 premiere presented by SF Performances. "Echoes did the important work of fostering a conversation across racial and class lines -- one that rarely happens in an increasingly segregated Bay Area."
Youth Speaks' Ashely Smilely offers: "Echoes is a piece that sits deep within my heart not only because I was born and raised in San Francisco, but because it was also such a tremendous challenge to expand my artistry. Being able to share my heartbreak over the city that I love and its rapid dissolve through Echoes also allows me to have an honest conversation with audience members, whether they are from the City or not, about the City I knew and the City I see now and how it truly makes me feel on every level. I hope that Echoes provides inspiration for not only for San Francisco natives (especially those of color) but other communities in other cities that are experiencing the same things and maybe even inspire them to create an Echoes of their own."
Echoes (music by Danny Clay, text by Youth Speaks, curated by Sean San Jose) was commissioned by San Francisco Performances, Kronos Performing Arts Association, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks. Additional support provided by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
On March 6 and 7, 2020 the ferociously creative percussion-guitar duo The Living Earth Show (Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson) celebrates its tenth anniversary with an ODC co-presentation, T.L.E.S.tival, featuring two of its signature productions, Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman, and Echoes.
The March 7 production, Echoes, is a spoken word chamber opera, is a meditation on, interrogation of, and ode to San Francisco: the magical, troubling, and overwhelmingly complicated place all these artists call home. Created by composer Danny Clay, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet, and performer-poets from Youth Speaks - including director Sean San José, Ashley Smiley, Aimee Suzara, Michael Wayne Turner III, and Tassiana Willis - Echoes integrates elements of poetry, sound, and theater to explore and celebrate the vivid culture of San Francisco.
"An emotionally impactful, timely, and original performance," wrote Nastia Voynovskaya for KQED Arts about the 2017 premiere presented by SF Performances. "Echoes did the important work of fostering a conversation across racial and class lines -- one that rarely happens in an increasingly segregated Bay Area."
Youth Speaks' Ashely Smilely offers: "Echoes is a piece that sits deep within my heart not only because I was born and raised in San Francisco, but because it was also such a tremendous challenge to expand my artistry. Being able to share my heartbreak over the city that I love and its rapid dissolve through Echoes also allows me to have an honest conversation with audience members, whether they are from the City or not, about the City I knew and the City I see now and how it truly makes me feel on every level. I hope that Echoes provides inspiration for not only for San Francisco natives (especially those of color) but other communities in other cities that are experiencing the same things and maybe even inspire them to create an Echoes of their own."
Echoes (music by Danny Clay, text by Youth Speaks, curated by Sean San Jose) was commissioned by San Francisco Performances, Kronos Performing Arts Association, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks. Additional support provided by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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The March 7 production, Echoes, is a spoken word chamber opera, is a meditation on, interrogation of, and ode to San Francisco: the magical, troubling, and overwhelmingly complicated place all these artists call home. Created by composer Danny Clay, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet, and performer-poets from Youth Speaks - including director Sean San José, Ashley Smiley, Aimee Suzara, Michael Wayne Turner III, and Tassiana Willis - Echoes integrates elements of poetry, sound, and theater to explore and celebrate the vivid culture of San Francisco.
"An emotionally impactful, timely, and original performance," wrote Nastia Voynovskaya for KQED Arts about the 2017 premiere presented by SF Performances. "Echoes did the important work of fostering a conversation across racial and class lines -- one that rarely happens in an increasingly segregated Bay Area."
Youth Speaks' Ashely Smilely offers: "Echoes is a piece that sits deep within my heart not only because I was born and raised in San Francisco, but because it was also such a tremendous challenge to expand my artistry. Being able to share my heartbreak over the city that I love and its rapid dissolve through Echoes also allows me to have an honest conversation with audience members, whether they are from the City or not, about the City I knew and the City I see now and how it truly makes me feel on every level. I hope that Echoes provides inspiration for not only for San Francisco natives (especially those of color) but other communities in other cities that are experiencing the same things and maybe even inspire them to create an Echoes of their own."
Echoes (music by Danny Clay, text by Youth Speaks, curated by Sean San Jose) was commissioned by San Francisco Performances, Kronos Performing Arts Association, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks. Additional support provided by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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