Choreographer/dance maker Minna Harri interviews fellow Finnish citizen and master artist Alpo Aaltoskis Finnish Choreographer Alpo Aaltokoski  to present “Deep” at The Garage Next May 15,16 BERLIN-BASED DUO ‘CHE NE SO’ [JULIA METZGER-TRABER AND DAVIDE DE LILLIS] WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE THE EPISODES – A performance event by Brontez Purnell

On Queer

Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. ‘Queer’ then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-à-vis the normative. - David Halperin

BLOG SALON #2: On Queer Economies – FEB 13th through Feb 17th, 2012

BLOG SALON #2: On Queer Economies – FEB 13th through Feb 17th, 2012

About Release Dates About Instigated by Jesse Hewit and Ernesto Sopprani, this virtual salon gathers some of SF’s best queer contermporary art makers.  Prompted with a question we all grapple with every day, art makers share with us how do they make “it” happen.  We look at what tactics, currencies,…

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TOO MUCH! A Queer Performance Marathon 2012 – UPDATE!

TOO MUCH! A Queer Performance Marathon 2012 – UPDATE!

  Hello those interested in Too Much 2012, It turns out that Too Much 2012 is simply too much!  Inspired by Occupy while looking for new frontiers for local queer performance we decided to try a smaller, more decentralized, public site Too Much! This was a last minute vision without…

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Outsider Tactics – Three questions for Dean Moss

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…

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

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,…

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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…

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Before Common Error or Gay Area Now

Before Common Error or Gay Area Now

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…

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Rachael Dichter’s Tuesday [Holiday] Potluck

Rachael Dichter’s Tuesday [Holiday] Potluck

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…

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