Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  11/7/2024

End Date:

  11/10/2024

Start Time:

  8:00 PM

End Time:

  3:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Nov. 7 - 10: Th at 8pm, Fri and Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2pm

SFDanceworks Season 7 presents premieres by Rena Butler and JA Collective alongside a solo work by renowned choreographer Marco Goecke.

Since 2014, SFDanceworks has earned a reputation for its high-caliber curation and top-notch dancers. Each season the company aims to present the best of the past, present and future of dance, and this year SFDanceworks has commissioned a new work by JA Collective, the duo of Aidan Carberry and Jordan Johnson.

Best known for their intricate and spellbinding choreography created for pop music videos, the Los Angeles-based artists, who trained under William Forsythe at the University of Southern California, will make their Bay Area debut as part of SFDanceworks' new season. Performing to new music by J. Tyler Johnson, bass player with the rock band half*alive, Carberry and Johnson will be joined on stage by Lani Yamanaka, who is returning to SFDanceworks for a third season.

Rena Butler has been called "the epitome of contemporary cool" (Dance Magazine). The much in-demand dancer and choreographer most recently performed with Gibney Company and was their inaugural choreographic associate. Before that she danced with Kyle Abraham's A.I.M., Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Her original choreography has been commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada, Sweden's Norrdans, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet X, Whim W'Him and San Francisco Opera, among many others.

For SFDanceworks, Butler is working on a quintet with live music performed by the Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco.

Finally, SFDanceworks will present Butler a second time on the program, performing in Marco Goecke's highly acclaimed solo work, 'Affi'. "This is a stamina-testing, 11-minute solo sure to mesmerize," said Dana Genshaft, SFDanceworks artistic director. "Long established in Europe for his unique movement vocabulary, Goecke is an artist Bay Area audiences deserve to know better."

http://www.sfdanceworks.org/

Location:

  Z Space

Room:

Address:

  450 Florida Street

Phone:

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA