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Raw Materials Series B (2018 Fury Factory)
Once every two years, foolsFURY stages an electrifying gathering of collaborative theater makers from around the country, a truly national hub for ensemble theater work on the West Coast.
The Raw Materials portion of the festival presents works-in-progress from some of the most innovative devised theater companies, both locally and from across the nation. This is a rare opportunity for new work to gain critical feedback through performance and audience engagement, and audiences get to see multiple artists creations for a single ticket price.
Raw Materials Series B
A Host of People (Detroit, MI) Cleopatra Boy
A Host of People is a Detroit-based theatre company led by co-directors Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker. They create art around these questions: How can they host more people into theatrical works that are complex and multifarious; work that is poetic, visual, multi-focal, and frees the viewers imagination, curiosity and spirit? We draw from existing literary works, collaged texts, historical figures, social movements, and personal story, among other sources.
Cleopatra Boy explores the many and varied representations of Cleopatra since antiquity, always with an eye to their contemporary resonance: the rise and fall of empire, rampant colonialism, the exoticization of non-Western people, the East/West binary, and especially the long history of the denigration of strong leaders who are women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ individuals rather than the straight, cisgender, white male leaders we have been conditioned to accept since time immemorial. The piece uses a wide range of sources from Plutarch to Shakespeare to Elizabeth Taylor and recent historical scholarship on ancient Egypt, while employing the contemporary theory and practice of restorative justice to re-imagine anti-patriarchal power, in Cleopatras time and our own. We dramatize the methods of restorative justice and truth and reconciliation commissions to examine how depictions of Cleopatra have been shaped through the male gaze and extrapolate from her story a new redressed and restored vision for the future.
www.ahostofpeople.org
Cynthia Ling Lee (Santa Cruz, CA) Lost Chinatowns
Cynthia Ling Lee instigates postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of Asian diasporic performance. Committed to intimate collaborative processes and foregrounding marginalized voices and aesthetics, Cynthia is an assistant professor of dance in the Department of Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz and a member of the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational, web-based coalition of dance artists whose work triangulates between art-making, activism, and theory. Lost Chinatowns is a multimedia dance-theater work exploring the destruction, lost vibrancy, and historical erasure of Santa Cruzs Chinatowns from 1860-1955. Santa Cruz, now known for being the ultra-liberal leftmost city of the US, was once the center of virulently xenophobic anti-Chinese racism in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The works visuals and texts will draw upon oral histories of former Chinatown residents, as well as historical archives of photographs,19th century anti-Chinese propaganda, and court transcripts of immigration cases. Lost Chinatowns aims to make connections between the historical othering of Asian bodies and current xenophobic regimes in the era of Trump as an act of interracial solidarity between people of color. Lost Chinatowns is being developed in part through Borders Resurfacing, a transnational creative exchange by the Post Natyam Collective.
www.cynthialinglee.com
STATIONS (San Francisco, CA) STATIONS
The STATIONS project is a ceremonial, durational performance event being developed for the 2020 spring equinox. The finished performance of original work will last a full day and tell the stories of a matriarchal lineage of three women and their echoing struggles with the inherent injustice of womanhood. The performance merges Japanese Noh conventions and the Way of the Cross Chronicle to create a ceremonial, communal experience that will transform the performers, the audience, and the space. For this years FURY Factory Festival, they will perform excerpts from the initial experimentations with text, movement, music and chorus.
https://www.marzipanik.com/stationsmain
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LocationZ Below (View)
470 Florida St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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