Outsider Tactics – Three questions for Dean Moss

. This past January 19 through the 21st, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented the west coast premier of Dean Moss’s Nameless Forest. As part of THEOFFCENTER effort to contribute critical discourse into dance performance, Tessa Wills sat down with Dean Moss and asked him a few questions. Tessa: Hi…

A Question of Legacy; A text Inspired by Pina Bausch by Tessa Wills

Pina Bausch’s company Tanztheater Wuppertal from Germany visited Berkley to perform Danzón in December 2011. It gives me an opportunity to crystalise some questions which bang around for me constantly as a working artist living in the Bay Area, but trained in Europe. How is her work expanded, reflected,…

American Dreaming

December 9th, 2011 at 22.30pm American Dreaming is a facilitated durational event in which we hope to surrender concerns with hegemony and other framings, where we hope to produce knowledge instead of confirming what we already know, to find new ways of being together. The evening will propose a series…

Before Common Error or Gay Area Now We present the queer body’s reactions to physical and conceptual time/space. The performances exist as rituals that delineate the viewers awareness of visibility, both spectacular and quiet. Each performer is working with an individual language that hopes to reach the audience through emotional…

Rachael Dichter’s Tuesday [Holiday] Potluck Tuesday December 13th at [**]! SPACE 848 Divisadero (at McAllister) Free, but you know, it’s a potluck. Rachael’s Tuesday Potluck’s have become a tradition for some of us. A chance to gather and talk about anything and nothing, a moment to pause from our busy…

The OffCenter presents BODY WEATHER LABORATORY with Sherwood Chen @ [* *]! SPACE – 848 Divisadero San Francisco, CA 94117 Four consecutive MONDAYS 6:30p – 9:30p November 28 thru December 19 . BODY WEATHER LABORATORY is kinesthetic and movement research initiated by dancer/farmer and improvisateur Min Tanaka, and further developed by exponents…

Thanksgiving Day at [**]Space Community Healing Circle with Sara Shelton Mann followed by a Thanksgiving Potluck Music, Singing, Sitting/Lying down, Giving and Receiving. Sara Shelton Mann will lead a healing circle at 11am (about 45 min), and then we will have a community potluck right after. Bring pillows or blankets for…