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WAH! Fest 2016
WAH! Fest 2016
We are HERE! Women in the Arts, presented by CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music in partnership with Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Featuring 3 days, 9 choreographers, 9 musicians, 1 site-specific work, 3 gallery artists, 3 guest speakers, 1 light designer
WAH! Fest, seeks to visibly AMPLIFY and W I D E N the IMPACT of womens work in the arts, while giving back to the community. 30% of ticket and art sales go directly to support Bay Area women's causes (TBA)
WAH! Fest is a creative platform for DIVERSE WOMEN choreographers, musicians, and artists making contemporary work through a feminist lens, including those who identify on the gender continuum as woman.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Program A
6:20pm - Ziva Hadar - Live Music
7pm Main Stage Choreographers
Seda Aybay Owens/Kybele Dance
Nichele Van Portfleet
Jackie Goneconti, Karla Quintero, Shareen DeRyan
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
Guest Speaker: TBA
PROGRAM B
8:20 Deborah Crooks - Live Music
9pm Main Stage Choreographers
Ayana Yonesaka
Pearl Marill
Rebecca Bryant
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
10:15 Ellisa Sun @ Café LaBoheme - Live Music
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
PROGRAM A
6:20pm - Katie Iannitello - Live Music
7pm Main Stage Choreographers
viv dance company
Pearl Marill
Rebecca Bryant
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
GUEST SPEAKER: TBA
PROGRAM B
8:20 Melissa Lyn Live Music
9pm Main Stage Choreographers
Morgan True, Vicky Kapo, Molly Katzman, Mori Walts
Seda Aybay Owens/Kybele Dance
Samantha Giron
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
10:15pm Lizzie Carr @ Café LaBoheme - Live Music
SUNDAY, MAY 1
PROGRAM A
4:20 Lauren Monheim - Live Music
5pm Main Stage Choreographers
Jackie Goneconti, Karla Quintero, Shareen DeRyan
Nichele Van Portfleet
Morgan True, Vicky Kapo, Molly Katzman, Mori Walts
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
GUEST SPEAKER: Olive McKeon
PROGRAM B
6:20 Katya Bitar - Live Music
7pm Mainstage Choreographers
viv dance company
Samantha Giron
Ayana Yonesaka
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL
8:15pm Sin Nombre @ Café LaBoheme, Closing Party - Live Music
SITE-SPECIFIC Work: Heather Arnett, CatCallChoir
(ALL three days)
GALLERY ARTISTS: Maria Doglio, Kate Langlois-Bhat, Nalyne Lunati
(ALL three days)
ABOUT the Organizers:
CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music are comprised of longtime collaborators Christine Cali (dance director) and Matt Langlois (music director). Their work collides at the midline of Contemporary Dance and Modern Rock Concert, while dissecting conventions of artistic form and social constructs. Through a meshing of technique with improvisation, technology with body, precision with wild abandon, motion with live sound, theory with practice; CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music build their work through a rigorous collaborative approach where the human spirit is celebrated for all of its temporality, and physicality and consciousness are pushed toward the center, edges and beyond. CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music challenge creative process and build their work through a rigorous collaborative approach. CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music is a fiscally sponsored project through Dancers Group.
Background on WAH! Fest 2016
Our interest in establishing WAH! Fest as an ongoing opportunity for women artists has formulated during the past five years as a platform for women to continue to become more prominent and present in the arts. Recently, there has been a spike in inquiries around where are all the women choreographers and directors in dance? We too have been frustrated with the current inequalities and lack of opportunities available at a higher rank for women in ALL fields, and specifically as dance directors. Building this festival with an emphasis on women artists but also with a specificity of the kind of work created, work through a feminist lens, seemed like the perfect response to address an inadequate system. WAH! Fest will respond to our 21st century dance climate and continuum. WAH! Fest will speak to our current trends and dance/art practices, WAH! Fest will support diverse women artists through rebellious, wild and masterful contemporary work; demanding value and space for our voices, bodies, and minds.
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LocationDance Mission Theater (View)
3316 24th St. @ Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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