UPCOMING
A new performance installation about race by
Joanna Haigood & Charles Trapolin
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
1pm-5pm (ongoing)
Free
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Drawing from their individual family histories and antebellum South Carolina choreographer Haigood and visual artist Trapolin weave their histories together to create a poetic performance installation. The work reflects how slave history and its legacy of skeptical and misinformed race relations continue to influence how blacks and whites relate today, and more broadly, how the presence of unexamined perceptions subvert genuine social and economic equality.
Performers:
Ross Hollenkamp, Jodi Lomask, Raissa Simpson and Dwayne Worthington
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Zaccho's Biennial Fundraiser at Teatro ZinZanni!
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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The Shifting Cornerstone
Saturday August 16, Sunday August 17,
Wednesday-Sunday August 20-24, 2008
A new work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco
Commissioned by Dancers' Group
Check back for times and exact location
Free
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This piece explores the character and the rhythm of the corner of Third and Mission
Streets through a series of simultaneous vignettes continuously looped for 5 hours
each day. Some vignettes focus on the subtle and more nuanced facets of this
bustling corner, while others introduce imagery that challenge the viewer's
general notion of the place itself.
In collaboration with designer Wayne Campbell and performing artists Paul Benney,
Robert Henry Johnson, Sheila Lopez, Amara Tabor-Smith, and Dwayne Worthington.
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Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Pictured: Elizabeth Streb from Breaking Ground 2006
Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette
October 4-5, 2008
New York City
Produced by Dancing in the Streets
Joanna Haigood, Artistic Director
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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 New York City sites and the
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 knowledge of the site, its location, characteristics or the stories it contains.
The site of this year's charrette will be revealed to five New York choreographers
(and the public) on Monday, September 29.
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
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