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| | SF Intl. Arts Festival. Art Street Theatre, "Yes, Yes to Moscow" |
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| Dates |
From May 30, 2008 9:30 PM
Through June 01, 2008 7:00 PM |
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Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street (@ Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94110 |
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| Info Line |
415-399-9554 |
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http://www.sfiaf.org |
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415-399-9554
info@sfiaf.org
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| Description |
 San Francisco International Arts Festival
The fifth annual San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) kicks off on May 21 and runs through June 8 with more than 40 performances and three major visual arts exhibits being presented by more than 25 San Francisco Arts organizations at multiple venues throughout the City. With its annual theme, "The Truth in Knowing/Now: Threads in Time, Place, Culture," SFIAF 2008 will include numerous World Premieres, US Debuts & International Collaborations featuring leading artists from the Bay Area performing and exhibiting with and alongside their international peers from around the world. This year's festival includes dance, music, opera, theatre and visual arts and events will take place at the Asian Art Museum, Chinese Cultural Center, CounterPULSE, Dance Mission Theater, Herbst Theatre, Union Square, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens and on numerous billboards in downtown San Francisco.
"YES, YES TO MOSCOW"
"Yes, Yes to Moscow" is a collaboration between Bay Area playwright and director Mark Jackson, Berlin-based director and choreographer Sommer Ulrickson, German performance artist Tilla Kratochwil, Bay Area performance artist Beth Wilmurt, and German artist and designer Alexander Polzin.
A very physical, choreographic rendition of Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters, the piece imagines that the Prozorov siblings have finally made their coveted return to Moscow. But, since their lives have been entirely defined by their desire to go to Moscow, now that they have arrived their purpose is lost. They go into shock, retreating to their former selves, longing for the Moscow of their imaginations.
As with Chekhovs play, "Yes, Yes to Moscow" is about that longing for a better life that assumes the grass is surely greener on the other side -- of the wall, the street, the border or the continent. The piece asks questions that are both personal and political. What makes us happy? Why are the future and the past often more important to us than the present? Why do we envy in others what we do not, or think we do not, have? What is it about a foreign land or culture that is so mysterious to us that, amidst our intrigue, we forget at times that we are all human?
Yes, Yes to Moscow premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Germany, in October 2007. The SFIAF performances are presented by Art Street Theatre and SFIAF.
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Photo Credit: Pictured (top to bottom) Beth Wilmurt, Sommer Ulrickson and Tilla Kratochwil in "Yes, Yes to Moscow." Photo by Iko Freese.
Please try and arrive 15 minutes prior to show time. We do not allow late seating. |
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