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Dancing Solo
Dancing Solo
Fri Oct 15, 8PM
Sat Oct 16, 8PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Admission: $12-15 Sliding Scale, $10 Student/Senior
Join us for two evenings of fiercely compelling inter-disciplinary dance works by three contemporary Pilipina American choreographers - Tanya Bello, Frances Sedayao, and Raissa Simpson.
Souterrain (Tanya Bello) transforms the space into a series of vignettes that thread the lives of 3 random people through blind chance.
Fame Solo (Raissa Simpson), set to a collage score from David Bowie to Black Eyed Peas, is a multitude of adverse expressions formed from observations of famous people.
ARTIST BIOS
TANYA BELLO (Marymount Manhattan College B.F. A. in Dance) studied in the schools of Jose Limon and Martha Graham. After graduating, Tanya became the Assistant to the Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Trust and was promoted to Liaison for the Martha Graham Trust at the Library of Congress. She danced with Rincones & Company Dance Theater (RCDT) and served as Outreach Coordinator receiving the Mayor Arts Award in Washington, DC and was commissioned to create a piece at the Kennedy Center. She performed with Cross Currents Dance Company, NY2, City Dance Ensemble, and Bowen McCauley Dance and worked with choreographers Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Adrian Bolton and danced as a guest artist for Dance Council Movement in New York City. She was on the Board of Directors for the Loudoun Arts Council as well as taught for Virginia Ballet, the Dance Academy of Loudoun, and the ChildrenâÂÂs House of Washington.. Tanya had the opportunity to live in Italy for one year where she taught master classes in the Tuscan, Marche, and Abruzzo Regions of Italy as well as performed with Arya TheatâÂÂart Danza Compagna. In 2005, she relocated to the Bay Area and currently teaches at the Professional Ballet School and the ODC School as well as assisting KT Nelson on the yearly reconstruction of the Velveteen Rabbit. In the Bay Area, she has performed with Erin Derstine, Liberation Dance Theater, Shared Space under Nol Simonse, SHIFT Physical Theater, Robert Mosesâ Kin, and Mark Foehringer. She is currently dancing with Janice Garrett and Dancers and Charles Moulton and is a guest artist with ODC/ Dance. Most recently, she has been awarded a residency at Joe LandiniâÂÂs Garage for creating a new work under Resident Artist Workshop.
Tanya is the Artistic Director of Project. B., whose mission is to create dances that tell a story invoking the audience to ask questions and contemplate the human condition while eloquently engaging the audience in eclectic, kinetic, and athletic movement.
RAISSA SIMPSON is a native of Cleveland--raised in San Jose, Ca, hailed by Dance Spirit Magazine for âÂÂReflective Contemporary ChoreographyâÂÂ, Simpson makes vibrant dances embodying socially relevant issues. She is a recipient of the Regional Dance America (RDA) Award, San Jose State Univ.âÂÂs Peoples Choice Award, Zellerbach Family Foundation in combination with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Theatre Bay AreaâÂÂs CA$H Grant. She is a young emerging artist whose work is commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission. She holds her BFA from State University New York, Purchase (SUNY)- talent-based scholarship, subsequently attending the schools of Dance Theatre of Harlem (NYC), the Paul Taylor School (NYC). She has toured and performed as a company member with Robert Moses Kin (2002-2007) and Joanna HaigoodâÂÂs Zaccho Dance Theatre (2007-Present) among others. An African American FilipinaâÂ"Raissa is a choreographer whose work has been from a cross-cultural approach. She has performed in numerous national festivals including JacobâÂÂs Pillow where Village Voice dance critic Deborah Jowitt noted, âÂÂSimpson dances big.âÂÂ
âÂÂSimpson reinvents classical ballet and modern dance aesthetics with a sleek and sexy edge.Ultimately, her sleek style transcends confining categories. While her movement style refusesto be pinned down, one thing is for certain: her choreography is as fierce and boundless as her dancing.â - SF Bay Guardian
FRANCES SEDAYAO is a Philippine native who has been performing in the SF Bay Area for the past 12 years. Her martial arts and dance training began at CSU Hayward and at the Alvin Ailey School in New York. Her performance interests range from politically charged themes to experimental dance theatre-based works incorporating traditional and modern performance art forms. Works with environmentalist/ recording artist, Joey Ayala, artist-activist Pearl Ubungen, Anne Bluethenthal, Amara Tabor-Smith, Sue-Li Jue, Dandelion Dance among many others continue to inspire her passion for performance as means for global change and justice. As an independent artist, she has presented original works in the Bay Area, New York and Vancouver BC. Frances is a Serpent Source Grant Recipient and was honored as the Dance Featured Artist for 2003 Apature in SF. In 2007 she was awarded a New York Arts' Residency from Dance OMI International where she collaborated with 10 dance artists from all over the world. She currently works with writer/poet Aimee Suzara, and most recently toured the Middle East with Nina Haft & Company.
âÂÂFrances Sedayao dancing, in particular, expressed more than all those performers put together.â Danceviewtimes, Rita Felciano
âÂÂFrances Sedayao performs the evening's best soloâ¦.â SFBay Guardian
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LocationBayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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