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FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival
Curated by FACT/SF Artistic Director, Charles Slender-White, the inaugural year of the FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival brings together four stylistically-diverse contemporary dance works.
The 2018 FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival features works by Bay Area groups FACT/SF, Fog Beast, and Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations, alongside a work from visiting artist, Joy Davis (Boston).
Fog Beast and Joy Davis will both premiere new works, and FACT/SF and Simpson/Stulberg will reprise two of their critically-acclaimed duets, Platform and Still Life No. 7, respectively.
The FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival builds on the past success of the FACT/SF Summer Dance Lab and the ideals of FACT/SFs touring initiative, PORT (Peer Organized Regional Touring). The Dance Lab has occurred annually since 2013 and has included participants from the US, Canada, Mexico, and Bulgaria. PORT, launched in 2017 with the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, supports the creation, performance, and touring of contemporary dance across the West Coast.
The 2018 SDF is supported by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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FACT/SF
FACT/SF is a San Francisco-based contemporary dance company, founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Charles Slender-White as a platform for organizing collaborators, building community, and creating choreography. FACT/SF regularly performs in the San Francisco Bay Area, maintains a core group of local collaborators, and has developed an extensive international network of colleagues and partners. In addition to presenting the works of Slender-White, FACT/SF supports and engages with the field through three programs: JuMP, PORT, and the annual FACT/SF Summer Dance Lab.
FOG BEAST
Lead by Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward, Fog Beast uses body based practice and performance to illuminate the modern trappings of the human animal. With roots in dance theater, site specific performance, live music and athletics, Fog Beast approaches physical and aural curiosities with a wide range of tactics. Recent works have been presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Looking Left Dance Festival, and the University of San Francisco.
JOY DAVIS
Joy Davis is a dance artist and educator steeped in Countertechnique, improvisation, and performance. joyproject is her collaborative framework for creation of interdisciplinary performance. She recently created works for New Dialect, Urbanity Dance, Scottsdale Community College, and soon for The Theorists. Together with Alexander Davis, she will make a new work in residency at The Yard this Summer 2018. Joy received an MFA in Choreography from Smith College and was certified to teach Countertechnique in 2012. Her recent teaching endeavors include Gibney Dance, Fact/SF, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Moving Target Boston, Lions Jaw Festival, Arizona State University, and the American Dance Festival. She has taught as Visiting Faculty at Smith College, Wesleyan University, and Harvard University. Joy is an Associate Professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
SIMPSON/STULBERG COLLABORATIONS
Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations was formed in the Bay Area in the Fall of 2014. Since then SSC has been nominated for two Izzie Awards both for Outstanding Choreography and Performance in an Ensemble, performed in theaters and museums all over the Bay Area, and granted prestigious residencies: Counterpulse Theater's Edge Residency, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company's CHIME Program, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center's Artist in Residency, and FACT/SF's commissioning program, JuMP.
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LocationJoe Goode Annex (View)
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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