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SF Intl. Arts Festival: Dance Elixir presents THIEVES
Dear Audience Members,
The dance presentations by Nina Haft and Company and Dance Elixir at the San Francisco International Arts Festival will continue as planned. However, it is with regret that we must inform you that the Iraqi Bodies company will not be performing at the Festival this weekend.
Although our petition to the U.S. Government to bring the company here was approved on April 28 and they were interviewed at the U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam on May 13 the final clearance has not been received for two of the four company members. As such, they will not be able to travel to the United States in time to perform for us this weekend.
We are continuing to push for a successful resolution of their case in time for them to travel to Seattle next week, but sadly they will not be performing in San Francisco.
This weekend's schedule of performances at the Southside Theatre will now be as follows:
Fri 3 June, 8pm
Nina Haft & Company T:Here
Dance Elixir Quieting Heart
(Lars J. Brouwer - live electronics & Leyya Tawil - dance)
Sat 4 June, 8pm
Nina Haft & Company T:Here
Dance Elixir THIEVES (work-in-progress showing)
Sun 5 June, 4pm
Dance Elixir THIEVES (work-in-progress showing)
Sun 5 June, 7pm
Dance Elixir Quieting Heart
(Ava Mendoza - guitar & Leyya Tawil - dance)
We hope you will still be able to join us for the performances this weekend. If you need to make changes to your order in light of the different program, please call Brown Paper Tickets at
1-800-838-3006 x.2, or by replying to this email.
For more information on the new program line-up, please call our offices at 415-399-9554.
Thank you again for your support of the Festival.
Sincerely,
Andrew Wood
Executive Director
San Francisco International Arts Festival
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THIEVES is an international collaboration between choreographer Leyya Mona Tawil (Artistic Director of DANCE ELIXIR) and Iraqi choreographer/composer Muhanad Rasheed, with his band the Lazy Sleepers. THIEVES paints a raw, alternatively grotesque and tender picture of a shadowy humanity. The piece asks, "How does one prepare to die?" Tawil and Rasheed are joined onstage by three Iraqi musicians: Zaid Hassan (guitar), Majed Rasheed (bass), and Mustafa Essami (Percussion).
Based on the premise that grief and violence are realities experienced by every human, Tawil and Rasheed consider THIEVES to be a shared journey where they measure their personal narratives against three embodied manifestations of inflicted grief and violence: The Bandit, The Wolf, The Killer.
As a product of society, the thief is simultaneously a victim, but also a deeper evil that roams freely. The Killer is the dying. The Bandit has nothing. And so too, the Artist must not only create, but destroy. In the creation of THIEVES, the artists refuse the illusions of hope and beauty. Instead they choose to conjure harsher questions for each other: Must we prepare to die in order to have faith in life? What have I stolen? What is mine? What is contained in the skin--my darkest story?
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LocationSF Intl. Arts Festival: Southside Theater, Fort Mason Center
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
United States
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