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Events and info for San Francisco International Arts Festival
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870 Market Street, Suite 1256
San Francisco, CA 94102 |
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415-399-9554 |
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info@sfiaf.org |
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http://www.sfiaf.org |
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| The fifth annual San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) kicks off on May 21 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 San Francisco's downtown. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival "Speaking Chinese" |
May 22, 2008 8:00 PM - May 24, 2008 7:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| "Speaking Chinese" is a dance poem set to music, with a score created from the works of the acclaimed Shanghai composer Zhu Jian'er and text inspired by "Love in a Fallen City," a novella by the Chinese writer Zhang Ailing. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival - thirty seven isolated events sorvi... |
May 22, 2008 8:00 PM - May 31, 2008 8:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| thirty seven isolated events - World premiere responsive intermedia performance by blindsight choreographer paige starling sorvillo (SF), media artist Lucy HG (LA), composers Susan Hawkins (UK), Liz Allbee (SF/OAK). + Sound installation by Hawkins. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival "Mordake" |
May 22, 2008 8:00 PM - Jun 07, 2008 8:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| The world premiere of Erling Wold's "Mordake" starring tenor John Duykers, is inspired by the strange case of Edward Mordake, a 19th Century English nobleman tormented by a voice coming from a womans face on the back of his head. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. Dandelion Dance Theater with Compan... |
May 23, 2008 7:00 PM - May 24, 2008 4:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| Dandelion Dance Theater (San Francisco) in collaboration with Compania Y (Spain) perform "Oust." AXIS Dance Company (Oakland) presents Joe Goode's "the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping" |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. "EARPLAY 23: Intricate Inventi... |
May 28, 2008 7:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| The Earplay Ensemble plays its fifth annual concert of international experimental music featuring the works of Christopher Burns (US), Beat Furrer (Germany), Peter Maxwell Davies (England), Hector Parra (Spain) and Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy). |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. Cristina Moura "like an idiot&... |
May 29, 2008 7:00 PM - Jun 01, 2008 4:30 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| "like an idiot" is a solo performance by Cristina Moura a dancer and choreographer from Brazil. The piece premiered at the Panorama de Danca Festival in Rio de Janeiro. Since then the show has been presented almost 100 times in 13 countries |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival "Angels of Suderac" & &quo... |
May 29, 2008 9:30 PM - Jun 01, 2008 2:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| "Angels of Suderac" is a work created by choreographer Kate Foley working with a group contemporary dancers from Zagreb. The piece is inspired by her research into the 17th century witch trials of the fairy cult healers of Janjina. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. Dance Elixir & Shlomit Fundaminsky |
May 30, 2008 7:00 PM - Jun 01, 2008 9:30 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| A double bill featuring the world premiere of "Capital Life" created by Arab-American choreographer Leyya Tawil for Dance Elixir and the US debut of Israeli choreographer Shlomit Fundaminsky with a duet titled "Skid Marks." |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival, lean to productions "an attic ... |
May 30, 2008 8:15 PM - May 31, 2008 8:15 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| The Bay Area premiere of an evening length duet by collaborators Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters. With precision physicality and haunting imagery, the performers weave dance, theater, humor and horror to create a spellbinding dreamscape. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. Art Street Theatre, "Yes, Yes ... |
May 30, 2008 9:30 PM - Jun 01, 2008 7:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| "Yes, Yes to Moscow, a choreographic-theater rendition of Chekhovs play Three Sisters, is a collaboration by artists from San Francisco and Berlin exploring contemporary questions of happiness, longing and expectation in an international world. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival. Element Dance Theater, Navarrete x ... |
Jun 06, 2008 8:00 PM - Jun 08, 2008 8:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| "The Mapping Project" is an installation performance by Element Dance Theater, Navarrete x Kajiyama, visual artist Ilya Noe, and animator Chris Lanier that explores the human penchant for creating maps of our geographies and our histories. |
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| SF Intl. Arts Festival: Omar Sosa & John Santos Music Lectu... |
Jun 06, 2008 8:00 PM |
Berkeley, CA |
| Omar Sosa and John Santos, reunited in a rare duo presentation for the first time in over six years, will share the spiritual/political/musical elements that drive their music and bring their highly-acclaimed collaboration to the Bay Area. |
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| SF Intl Arts Festival: Omar Sosa & John Santos Music Lectur... |
Jun 07, 2008 8:00 PM |
San Francisco, CA |
| Omar Sosa and John Santos, reunited in a rare duo presentation for the first time in over six years, will share the spiritual/political/musical elements that drive their music and bring their highly-acclaimed collaboration to the Bay Area. |
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