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| | SF Intl. Arts Festival, lean to productions "an attic an exit" |
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| Dates |
From May 30, 2008 8:15 PM
Through May 31, 2008 8:15 PM |
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Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street (@ Mission)
San Francisco, CA |
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| Info Line |
415-399-9554 |
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| Contact |
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.
"AN ATTIC AN EXIT"
an attic an exit reveals two characters traveling through five scenes within the confinement of a single room. Puzzles and clues are offered and deciphered: hanging suit coats, a recurring precipice, levitating geometry, a trail of flour, and the manipulation of salt, saucers, and silverware take the audience on a haunting and delightful ride. With hyper precision, these two white-faced, white-haired twins create a language through movement, define an elaborate set with tedious economy, and find escape from their seemingly restricted environment through an imaginary landscape of fetishization, endless negotiations, and micro-adjustments. The stark black and white restraint of the stage is gradually flooded with details as the piece moves from comic book illustration to mystery novel to poetry.
lean to productions presents the duet work of long-time collaborators Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters. Intent on expanding definitions of dance, lean to productions choreographs movement, props, rigging, and sound to viscerally engage their audience. The company seeks to evoke the moments when movement becomes language, objects become characters, and everyday logic is suspended. With equal concern for precision and wonder, Lincoln and Seiters integrate influences from contemporary dance, visual art, fiction, aerial dance, and theater. lean to productions' work has been presented in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Poland, and Portugal.
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Photo Credit: Rachsel Lincoln & Leslie Seiters in "an attic an exit." Photo by Marcin Mazurowski.
Please try and arrive 15 minutes prior to show time. We do not allow late seating. |
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