Date: October 11, 2018 to October 21, 2018
Where: Bayview Opera House/Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre, 4705 Third Street, San Francisco, California, United States, 94124
Phone: N/A
Event Type: Arts & Theater
Ticket Price: N/A
Thursday - Sunday, Oct. 11-14 and 18-21, 2018; 8pm
Zaccho Dance Theatre brings the dreams and aspirations of local Bayview Hunters Point residents to life in a new, full-length work entitled Picture Bayview Hunters Point, with free performances over two weekends October 11-14 and 18-21, 2018. This interdisciplinary, site-specific performance centered in, on, and around the historic Bayview Opera House is a celebration of the community in which Zaccho has made its home for the past 28 years and a response to the economic and demographic changes impacting the neighborhood.
Conceived and directed by Zaccho Artistic Director Joanna Haigood in collaboration with video artist Mary Ellen Strom and composer Walter Kitundu, Picture Bayview Hunters Point incorporates high angle aerial choreography with video and sound recording gathered from a series of events and interviews with area residents conducted by the lead artists over the course of a year. The performance, in six sections, reveals personal histories of migration and moments of resistance and offers a collage of community voices expressing hopes and aspirations for Bayview Hunters Point.
Contributing performing artists include Jose Abad, Alex Allan, Lydia Clinton, Delvin Frinon, Antoine Hunter, Azraa Muhammad, Jarrel Phillips, Adonis Damian Martin Quinones, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, Sonya Smith, Helen Wicks, and musician Martin Luther McCoy.
All performances are free and open to the public. Post-show discussion panels will be held Saturday, October 13 and Friday, October 19 with lifelong community residents, Memliek Walker and Toni Carpenter, and moderated by San Francisco City College African American Studies Chair Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin.
Conceived and directed by Zaccho Artistic Director Joanna Haigood in collaboration with video artist Mary Ellen Strom and composer Walter Kitundu, Picture Bayview Hunters Point incorporates high angle aerial choreography with video and sound recording gathered from a series of events and interviews with area residents conducted by the lead artists over the course of a year. The performance, in six sections, reveals personal histories of migration and moments of resistance and offers a collage of community voices expressing hopes and aspirations for Bayview Hunters Point.
Contributing performing artists include Jose Abad, Alex Allan, Lydia Clinton, Delvin Frinon, Antoine Hunter, Azraa Muhammad, Jarrel Phillips, Adonis Damian Martin Quinones, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, Sonya Smith, Helen Wicks, and musician Martin Luther McCoy.
All performances are free and open to the public. Post-show discussion panels will be held Saturday, October 13 and Friday, October 19 with lifelong community residents, Memliek Walker and Toni Carpenter, and moderated by San Francisco City College African American Studies Chair Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin.
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.zaccho.org/?picture_about
Email: office@zaccho.org
Phone: 415-822-6744
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