ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE and BAYCAT present
PICTURE BAYVIEW
A film conceived by Joanna Haigood in collaboration with Jo Kreiter, Shakiri, Lizzy Spicuzza, Shamsher Virk, Wesam Nassar, Ariel Dovas, Jose Alfaro, Villy Wang
Wed 7pm / June 2, 2010
Brava Theater
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
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Featuring 120 students from:
Dr. Charles Drew College Preparatory School, Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary, S.R. Martin College Preparatory School, Muhammad University, Zaccho Youth Company
Tickets: $2 - $20 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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6TH ANNUAL CIRCUS FOR ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS
Zaccho Youth Company performs to benefit Alameda's Circus for Arts in Schools
Sun 1pm & 4pm / April 18, 2010
Kofman Auditorium
2200 Central Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
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Jeff Raz, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil and the Pickle Family Circus, will once again join a cast of top acrobats, clowns, jugglers, musicians and more (all donating their time) to bring the Circus for Arts in the Schools to Alameda. All proceeds from this event will benefit arts education programs in Alameda.
This 70-minute show is a fast-paced cabaret-style circus featuring world class performers. It is appropriate for all ages.
NOTE: Advance tickets will be on sale at TOY SAFARI, 1410 Park Street, and ALAMEDA NATURAL GROCERY, 1650 Park Street,starting March 1st.
BUY TICKETS
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Aerial Dance Performance in Bolinas
Come join the Bolinas Aerial Artists and
Zaccho Youth Company for a unique and uplifting performance!
Sat 7pm / April 3, 2010
Bolinas Community Center
14 Wharf Road
Bolinas, CA
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Children aged 8-15 will showcase their original choreography that incorporates aerial props - window frames and hoops. Please come and support these fantastic young artists in their Fourth Annual Performance together!
Tickets are $10 adults, $5 children.
Doors open at 6:45. No late seating.
For more information contact:
Joanna Haigood
jhaigood@zaccho.org
415-868-8821
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CIRCUS WORKSHOP POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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Saturday Night@CIIS: Working Artist Series - Spring 2010
7:00-8:45pm / March 13, 2010
Namaste Hall
CIIS Main Building
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco
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Panel: Sustaining a Life as an Artist.
Panelists: Joanna Haigood, choreographer, cofounder of ZACCHO Dance Theater;Thaisa Frank, writer; Ellen Sebastian Chang, director/writer; and Keith Hennessy, performer/choreographer.
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The Breach will utilize theater, dance, music, and video to investigate the pros and cons of the reparations debate. Internationally renowned aerialist Joanna Haigood joins Ackamoor & Jones in this innovative performance art production.
Breaking Ground - A Public Charrette, produced by Dancing in the Streets, is a site-specific choreography workshop that will be held in one of New York City's most intriguing sites. Led by nationally acclaimed choreographer Joanna Haigood, the workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to work across disciplines to explore movement composition within the context of architecture, history, and public spaces. Haigood offers tools to interact with this historic landmark and guides participants to create short studies using their own movement language and sensibilities. Participants will discuss architecture as object, its function and design, and its role as container of history, as metaphor and as a stage. The 4-hour workshop is modeled after the 5-day charrette process, which Joanna Haigood developed for Breaking Ground - A Dance Charrette, Dancing in the Streets, critically acclaimed series that "raised the bar for site-specific dance in this city" (Gay City News). Work by Joanna Haigood, Stephan Koplowitz, David Rousseve (left to right)
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Alpert Award-winning choreographers Joanna Haigood, Stephan Koplowitz and David Rousseve carry out a lively discussion about their practices and their far-ranging experience with the intersection of site-specific choreography and media, as demonstrated in film and video works screened by each of the three artists. How does site - a particular natural, architectural or cultural environment - inspire dance? How can film document the process and product of site-specific dance? Joanna Haigood is artistic director of San Francisco's Zacho Dance Theater. Koplowitz, based in Los Angeles, is currently directing the touring company TaskForce, which completed a residency in Plymouth, England, this summer. David Rousseve, also based in L.A., directs REALITY, a dance theater company that is now touring a work called Saudade. The panel is introduced by CalArts President Steven D. Lavine and moderated by Irene Borger, dance ethnologist and director of the Alpert Awards in the Arts.
Join us in the studio for a series of open rehearsals featuring Zaccho Dance Theatre's latest repertory. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see the Company's dynamic works Departure and Arrival (2007), The Monkey and the Devil (2008), and The Shifting Cornerstone (2008), in an intimate setting. We look forward to your response, dialogue, and most of all, your presence!
The Breach will utilize theater, dance, music, and video to investigate the pros and cons of the reparations debate. Internationally renowned aerialist Joanna Haigood joins Ackamoor & Jones in this innovative performance art production.
CounterPULSE Dance Discourse Project #6
Read more about the Montalvo Arts Initiative, AGENCY TWO shows only: this concert is a benefit for Flyaway's Community Programs Flyaway is being featured in an evening of spectacular dance by choreographers from New York and San Francisco. Participating artists include Joanna Haigood, Randee Paufve, Annie Rosenthal Parr and Ellis Wood, Zaccho Youth Company, plus students from SF State and USF. Come see your favorite dancers Melissa Caywood, Kelly Kemp, Erin Okayama, Jo Kreiter and newcomer Brit Karhoff. In an act of great generosity, New York choreographer Ellis Wood will donate box office proceeds to Flyaway's youth and community programs. So come see this amazing lineup of twirlers and spinners and support Flyaway's youth and community programs!!! SHOWS at 8:00 PM at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, SF TICKETS: $10-15 on line at http://flyaway.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=HLTvNgKXAAEAAAN5AAKQ4w or call the box office at 415. 345.7575 The Zaccho Youth Company will join Jeff Raz, formerly of Cirque du Soleil and the Pickle Family Circus, and a cast of top acrobats, clowns, jugglers, musicians, and more (all donating their time) to bring the circus to Alameda. Jeff envisions Circus for Arts in the Schools as an annual fundraiser for arts education in Alameda schools. San Francisco Trolley Dances Saturday, October 18, 2008 Sunday, October 19, 2008 Tours depart 11:00am - 2:45pm --------------- Artistic Director Joanna Haigood's new work celebrates the spirit of the community that the company has called home for over 18 years. Joined by esteemed community playwright Mary L. Booker and two youth from the community, Shaneca Redmon and Anastashia Willoughby, Zaccho Dance Theatre will express the hopes of Bayview residents for a renewed future and the promise of an energized social movement to bring about change. The work titled rEvolution will also feature Zaccho Dance Theatre dancers Noé Serrano, Robert Henry Johnson and Zaccho will perform at the historic Bayview Opera House. A city landmark built in 1888, the Bayview Opera House serves primarily as a center for after school programs, community meetings, and classes. It is located at 4705 3rd Street in San Francisco at the corner of Third and Newcomb. As one of the four City of San Francisco cultural arts centers under the aegis of the San Francisco Arts Commission, BVOH serve as the focal point for arts and culture in the Bayview Hunters Point Community by providing accessible, diverse, and high – quality arts education, cultural programs and community events in a safe environment.
Trolley Dances' guided performance 'tours' leave from the Mission Bay Branch Library at 960 4th St. at Berry every 45 minutes starting at 11 a.m. and take 2 hours to complete. The last tour leaves at 2:45 p.m. Performances are FREE with a valid Fast Pass or one-time fare of $1.50.
Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Pictured: Elizabeth Streb from Breaking Ground 2006 Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette October 4-5, 2008 --------------- Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette is a multi-year urban voyage to the far corners of New York City that invites choreographers and audiences to explore new ways of making and viewing dance while exploring compelling stories they tell. Coined in the 1800s, the term "charrette" originally referred to an intensive course for architectural students in Paris, who were given 72 hours to solve a complex design Problem and then place their plans in carts ("charrettes") and rush them to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The dance charrette was conceived by Joanna Haigood as an invigorating exercise for choreographers, challenging them to create a site-specific work in five days with no prior The site of (and the public) Visit Dancing in the Streets' website (www.dancinginthestreets.org) after 1pm on Monday, September 29 for the location of the mystery site! Past choreographers include: Eiko and Koma, Ann Carlson, Larry Keigwin, Teri O'Connor, Elizabeth Streb, Douglas Dunn, Jawole Willa Zolar, Reggie Wilson, Noemie LaFrance, Yasuko Yokoshi --------------- Drawing from their individual family histories and antebellum Performers: Ross Hollenkamp, Jodi Lomask, Raissa Simpson and Dwayne Worthington 
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THE BREACH
A collaboration with Cultural Odyssey
Performed by Joanna Haigood, Rhodessa Jones, and
Idris Ackamoor
Thur-Sat 8pm / Sun 3pm / February 18 - 28, 2010
The African American
Art & Culture Complex
Buriel Clay Theater
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 9410
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Zaccho Youth Company Open House
At the Zaccho Studio:
1777 Yosemite Avenue, Studio 330
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Saturday, December 5
1:00PM
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Come join us at our very first Zaccho Youth Company (ZYC) Open House. Zaccho Youth Company presents dance that integrate aerial flight and suspension as a way of expanding the dancers spatial and dynamic range. ZYC is part of a larger Youth Performing Arts program conducted by Zaccho Dance Theatre in the Bayview Hunters Point.
Enjoy an afternoon of great fun, delicious snacks and spectacular performances by the Zaccho Youth Company!!!
Donation: $10
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DANCING IN THE STREETS
Breaking Ground - A Public Charrette
Two FREE Interdisciplinary Site-Specific Workshops for
Choreographers, Dancers, and Architects
Led by
Joanna Haigood
Federal Hall National Memorial
Thursday, November 12, 10 am - 2 pm
Or
Friday, November 13, 10 am - 2 pm
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THE WORKSHOP
- A guided tour of Federal Hall
- An overview of site-specific work
- Choreographers, dancers, and architects work together in small teams to create short movement studies in response to the site
TO REGISTER
The workshop is free, but advance registration is required.
- Each workshop is limited to 25 participants
- Slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis
- To register, CLICK HERE
- Please specify which day you would like to take the workshop.
Registration begins October 15th and ends November 5th
Upon registration, you will receive an automatic confirmation email from the registration service provider, NYCharites.org. Shortly after this confirmation, you will receive detailed information from Dancing in the Streets, including travel directions.
Joanna Haigood is widely recognized for her site-specific and aerial choreography that uses natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre. Her work has been commissioned by the Joffrey Ballet, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Festival d'Avignon, and Dancing in the Streets, among others.
Federal Hall National Memorial: the Greek Revival building, designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, was erected in 1842 on the site where George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the USA.
Dancing in the Streets has a 25-year legacy as a premiere producer of site-specific work. It has commissioned, produced and presented more than 500 performances and installations by over 300 contemporary artists. Breaking Ground is one of the organization's two signature series. The other is Hip Hop Generation Next, a series of performances, films, and panel discussions that explore the local, national and international evolution of hip hop dance.
Presented in partnership with openhousenewyork
Breaking Ground - A Public Charrette is supported by Mertz Gilmore Foundation and with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council
Read about it at URBAN OMINIBUS
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REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater
631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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November 4, 2009
Dancing on Site and on Camera
A conversation and screening with Joanna Haigood, Stephan Koplowitz and David Rousseve
Co-presented with Dance Camera West
Funded in part with generous support by The Herb Alpert Foundation. The Alpert Awards in the Arts, a fellowship program that supports innovative practitioners in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and visual arts, are administered by CalArts on behalf of The Herb Alpert Foundation.
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OPEN STUDIO REHEARSALS
September 19, 2009
September 26, 2009
October 3, 2009
1:00 PM each day
Zaccho Dance Studio
1777 Yosemite Avenue, Suite 330
San Francisco, CA 94124
Directions
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Director: Joanna Haigood
Set Designer: Wayne Campbell, Charles Trapolin
Video Artist: Ricardo Rivera
Composer: Walter Kitundu
Featured Performing Artists: Brendan Barthel, Keith Fasciani, Robert Henry Johnson, Sandia d. Langlois, Jodi Lomask, Jose Navarrete, Folawole Oyinlola, Shakiri, Raissa Simpson, Shereel Washington, Patricia West, Dwayne Worthington
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THE BREACH (A work-in-progress)
A collaboration with Cultural Odyssey
Performed by Joanna Haigood, Rhodessa Jones, and
Idris Ackamoor
Friday, August 7, 2009
8:00 PM
National Black Theatre Festival
SALEM FINE ARTS CENTER
SALEM COLLEGE
601 S. Church Street
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101
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Visit the National Black Theatre Festival website for tickets
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INTERROGATING MEMORIES BY ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE:
Stacy Prickett in conversation with Joanna Haigood and Robert Henry Johnson
(Session date TBA)
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A conversation with San Francisco-based Joanna Haigood, Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre and performer/choreographer Robert Henry Johnson will move beyond theoretical reflections on performance to focus on creative processes associated with interdisciplinary site-specific collaborations. Choreographic material emerges from specific locales yet can transcend them, exemplified by productions such as Invisible Wings and The Shifting Cornerstone. The company's engagement with issues of race, class, identity and globalization will be summarized to foreground discussions about Zaccho's work. Contemporary issues are explored through an engagement with the past, delving into layers of memory carried in bodies and locations.
Stacey Prickett lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate dance courses at Roehampton University, London, specialising in sociological approaches to dance studies and dance criticism. Her BA is from UC Riverside and postgraduate degrees awarded by Laban, London. Research outputs include conference presentations and articles on dance and politics in the 1930s, the San Francisco Bay Area dance scene and South Asian dance. She is currently writing a book on dance and politics in the USA and Britain.
Visit the Topographies Conference website
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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009 - 6:00pm
Salon-Style Discussion with
Joanna Haigood, Keith Hennessy and Patrick Makuakãne
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 8th Street, (at Folsom) #200,
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Click to locate Project Artaud Theater on the map
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Click for a map locating the Bolinas Community Center
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Anna Halprin at Stern Grove. Pictured: Shinichi Iova-Koga. Photo: Kegan Marling
Dancing in the World: Excavating Site Specific Dance in the Bay Area
Thurs. April 23, 7:30pm, Free
1310 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
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CounterPULSEs well known discussion series returns! The Bay Area has a long & storied history of site specific dance exploration, & is continually coming up with new forms of innovation. DDP moderators Mary Armentrout & Jessica Robinson discuss features of this rich terrain with Bay Area legend Anna Halprin, Joanna Haigood, & Erin Mei-Ling Stuart.
Visit the Counterpulse Events Calendar
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CIRCUS FOR ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Showtimes: 1pm and 4pm
Kofman Auditorium
2200 Central Avenue
Alameda, CA
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Visit the Circus for the Arts website
Buy tickets here
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photo: Andy Mogg
Dwayne Worthington.
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The Shifting Cornerstone
a performance installation
Saturday August 16, Sunday August 17,
Wednesday-Sunday August 20-24, 2008
Mission Street in front of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts gallery entrance
Free
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Directed by Joanna Haigood
Set design by Wayne Campbell
Featuring performing artists Paul Benney, Guy Brenner, Robert Henry Johnson, Sheila Lopez, Amara Tabor Smith, Raissa Simpson and Dwayne Worthington
Commissioned by Dancers' Group
For more information:
(415) 920-9181
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A new performance installation about race by
Joanna Haigood & Charles Trapolin
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
1pm-5pm (ongoing)
Zaccho Studio
Free
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Teatro ZinZanni
Pier 29 on the Embarcadero at Battery Street
San Francisco
Tickets $125 and $250
Purchase tickets online at
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This fundraiser will support Zaccho's free arts programs for children in Bayview Hunters
Point, now in its 17th year. Join us for dinner, wine and a fantastic performance by
internationally renowned artists, including Linda Tillery, Ann Carlson, Beth Clarke,
Derique McGee and the aerial magic of the Zaccho Youth Company.
This event is sponsored by Teatro ZinZanni.
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