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You Catch More Honey with Bees
The show opens with the world premiere of "You Catch More Honey with Bees." This piece is investigating ideas of sustainability and how these ideas are negotiated in our consumer-driven economy. To better illustrate this query the choreographers turn to Honey Bees. Honey Bees provide the pollination necessary for the survival of vital food sources all over the world, yet their habitat is consistently threatened by human-made pollution and over-farming by corporate honey producers. A bee colony has evolved to have highly complex divisions of labor which only allow the female bees to work on sustaining the hive, while the male (drone) bees are simply there to mate with the queen bee to keep the colony regenerating. Once a bee's job is done, they die. Utilizing both dance and film, Rubel and Kazama juxtapose the brutal working conditions of the honey bee that sustains human food production with the struggles of ordinary people, whose labor sustains the lives of the wealthy in our consumer-based American life.
"We Have (Not)" is a multimedia investigation of the delineation of "Haves" and "Have Nots" as a socio-economic derivative. Through bodily movement, various media platforms and the use of clothing as choreographic impetus, this piece explores the meaning of value as it pertains to the acquisition of goods, as well as the preservation of one's place in the hierarchy of the economic strata. How do we situate ourselves on the rungs of our socio-econimc ladder? What does it take to obtain the things that define us as participants in a consumer-driven society? Who is excluded from Having and why? This piece premiered April 12 an 13th, 2012 as part of the 5th Annual Move(men)t Festival at The Garage.
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LocationKunst-Stoff Arts (View)
One Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
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| Minimum Age: 10 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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