Event

Teobi's Dreaming

Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st: Doors at 7:00. Show at 7:30
Sunday, March 23rd: Doors at 2:30pm. Show at 3pm.

Conceived and Directed by Todd Thomas Brown
Cast: Tiffany Austin, Camille Mai, Ellen Antoinette, and Todd Thomas Brown
Music: Camille Mai, Schuyler Karr, and Tiffany Austin
Choreography/Dance: Ellen Antoinette

Teobi's Dreaming is a multi-disciplinary theatrical performance that explores questions on human biology, ancestry, and the fleeting moments of spontaneous presence that we experience in our daily lives. It is a play upon the idea that our biology, and our DNA, represent not so much a biological machine storing genetic information, but rather that we are bio-poetic organisms in a constant evolution of stories and dreams arising through a cellular makeup. Consider how we walk though life confident about certain facts; we know where we live and where we keep our plates, sneakers, and laundry, and yet we are mostly unaware of what goes on inside our bodies in each passing moment. Teobi asks, where is my spleen? Do I know? Is it that I have a body, or does my body have me?

Conceived as a "performative inquiry," during Todd Thomas Brown's Artist Fellowship at San Francisco's de Young Museum, Teobi's Dreaming engages stillness, humor, reflection, challenge, and insight, to facilitate the capacity within us to hold questions that we cannot answer. As the poet Rilke said, "Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Teobi's Dreaming is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

The Red Poppy Art House is located at 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, Ca 94110.