World Premiere!
Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa
Tribes
May 20 – May 22 (Thurs. – Sat.)
YBCA concludes its 09_10 performing arts season with the world premiere of Tribes, an innovative new collaborative work by Bay Area choreographer Sara Shelton Mann and media artist David Szlasa. A full-length multimedia performance incorporating movement, video and sound, Tribes maps out the kinesthetic and vibratory shift in our global culture, investigating the ways in which people find, communicate and experience one another in an increasingly interconnected world. Szlasa creates original film and media design elements as the foundation for a live performance by Sara Shelton Mann, founder and director of one of the Bay Area’s most exciting performance ensembles, Contraband.
The commissioning and production of Tribes is made possible by The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Choreographer Collaboration 2008 initiative.
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Sara Shelton Mann
Movement Alchemy
February 15-18, 22-25
M-TH • 7-9:30pm
$150 full workshop OR $25/drop-in
Movement Alchemy
Intensive group process
Cultivation – energy, present moment, relationship to forces and bodies
The heart of improvisation and composition – active imagination and skill
Performance training – presence, practice, personal direction
Sara Shelton Mann’s company, Contraband, appeared on stages, in warehouses, abandoned buildings and outdoors from 1979-1996. Sara has received 4 Isadora Duncan Awards. She collaborated and toured internationally with Guillermo Gomez-Pena 96-99. She was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography in 2000. Her ODC Theater 06 presentation of Télios/Telíos was awarded 1 of top 10 dance performances in San Francisco. She created “Inspirare” in 2007 and was commissioned to direct “Alarma” a performance project by Galeria de la Raza, inspired by the immigration marches. The “Inspirare Trilogy was presented by ODC Theater in spring 2008. Sara has taught, toured in the U.S., Canada and Europe since 1980. Her work is funded nationally and internally through grants, private foundations and resourceful people. She is presently a Granada Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis, and a recipient of a Gerbode Choreographers in Collaboration Award. Her next work “Tribes” created with collaborator David Szlasa will premier at YBCA, San Francisco in 2010. Sara is certified in several healing modalities and is continual student of dowsing.
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