little known dance theatre with Lux Boreal:
Incidental Fear of Numbers

December 28, 2008 – 5pm

World Premiere

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Thursday - Saturday, January 15-17 @ 8pm

Sundary, January 18 @ 7pm

In Residence/Rehearsals Open to the public:
Thursday – Saturday, December 18 – 20, 12 - 5pm
Thursday – Saturday, January 8 – 10, 12 - 5pm

Performers: Dina Academia, Jess Humphrey, Carmen Rojo, Joe Alter
and Lux Boreal: Angel Arambula, Henry Torrez, Briseida Lopez, Azalea Lopez, David Mariano, Raul Navarro, Victoria Reyes

This evening length performance, directed by Leslie Seiters, is a collaboration between dancers of San Diego’s Little Known Dance Theater and Tijuana based Lux Boreal. Incidental Fear of Numbers considers the exchange between audience and performer, precision and abandon, function and futility, density and spaciousness with movement, sound, time, light and the body’s relation to the materials that surround and compose us.

During the last 10 years Leslie Seiters has made performance work that couples movement with visual design to create environments that engage audiences to occupy space and time in unfamiliar ways. Seiters directs Little Known Dance Theater and co-directs Los Angeles based Lean-to Productions. Her choreography and visual design have received San Francisco’s “izzie” awards. Her residencies include ODC and CounterPULSE Theaters, San Francisco. She received her MFA from Ohio State University and currently teaches at San Diego State University.

Advance Pay-What-You-Can Tickets for all 2009 Season performances can by clicking below or by calling (619) 235-8466

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Karen Finley:
IMPULSE to SUCK

December 27, 2008 – 7pm

The performance of the apology and
The separation of sex and state

West Coast Premiere

Thursday - Saturday, January 29 – 31 @ 8pm
Post-performance discussion on Thursday
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Looking at the sexual psychodrama of our political leaders, this work is inspired by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s 2008 confession and apology for patronizing prostitutes.
Finley’s latest spoken word text includes an examination of Spitzer’s confession, his underlying compulsion, the role played by his wife Silda, as well as imagining the sexual encounter and the married couple’s therapy sessions. Finley sees the agony of the son’s need for approval from the father and the ancient wrestling of the feminine archetypes of mother and whore.

Karen Finley is an innovative and controversial New York based performance artist/literary figure/visual artist. She has created countless installations, drawings, performances, and public sculptures all over the world. Finley gained notoriety for her show We Keep Our Victims Ready, which premiered at Sushi in 1989. The show drew the ire of Senator Jessie Helms who used her performances as a focal point in the culture wars. She has also been featured on many television shows and has been a semi-regular on Bill Maher’s "Politically Incorrect". She has posed for Playboy magazine and collaborated with many artists including Sinead O’ Conner. She currently teaches at New York University.

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Teresa Gunn:
Juanita Goes to Rehab

December 27, 2008 – 6pm

from the Trailer Park Queen series

World Premiere

Thursday - Saturday, February 26 – 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 1 @ 7pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Using songs, spoken word, and storytelling, Juanita Goes to Rehab starts with the coach catching Juanita smoking pot and kicking her off the team. Then she starts hanging out with the stoners, it was all downhill from there…she should have joined the Navy.

The Trailer Park Queen series, began with Teresa Gunn’s 1996 “performance art” album, which told the tale of Juanita LaRue, a biker chick from Imperial Beach.
There are six shows in the Trailer Park series, several of which have been presented informally. This is Teresa Gunn’s first public presentation of work from the series.

Teresa Gunn is a rock singer/songwriter, musician, and social activist. In 1998, Teresa Gunn founded Street of Dreams which provides art education as a college preparatory class for high risk adolescents. To date the program has worked with over 2000 young people and their families.

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HIGHWAYS’ QUEER EXCHANGE & SAN FRANCISO LGBTQ ARTISTS

December 27, 2008 – 6pm

Fringes-Margins-Borders

San Diego Premiere

Thursday - Saturday, March 12 - 14 @ 8pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Performers: DEADLEE, Alison De La Cruz, Ian McKinnon

Using poetry, music, monologue, hip/hop, dance, and storytelling, Fringes-Margins-Borders includes six compelling autobiographical works that examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender contemporary life in California. Our state is one of the world’s leading battlegrounds of change and conflict, and these works artfully articulate our evolving cultural paradigm.

DEADLEE has attracted press with his groundbreaking, genre-screwing approach, including cover stories in Gay City News and Choice magazines and the New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine, The Advocate, L.A. Weekly, and Variety. He has appeared on the Tyra Banks Show and the Howard Stern radio show. He was one of 18 gay hip hop artists featured in the landmark documentary film "Pick up the Mic". He has written and performed Tres Leches and LA Weekly’s Pick Of the Week - Doomed Angels.

Alison De La Cruz is a multi-disciplinary cultural worker and artist. Her work ranges from solo theatrical pieces to documentary film narration to community based cultural organizing and productions.

Ian McKinnon is a Gay centered performance artist who has been creating/ curating gay men’s shows in LA for six years. He was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, for his piece SPANKED! which toured to the NYC Fringe Festival and The New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He is also the creator and director of the glitter-rock-musical collective The Discount Cruise to Hell.

Queer Exchange is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Highways Performance Space in partnership with Sushi Performance & Visual Art, and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

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bkSOUL & Collective Purpose

December 27, 2008 – 6pm

Hip Hop Saved My Life

World Premiere

Thursday - Saturday, March 26 – 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 29 @ 7pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Performers: Ant Black, Shammy Dee, Kendrick Dial, Lauren Dockweiler, Rudy Francisco, grace shinhae jun, Jesse Mills, Lavina Rich, and Misa Suiter

Hip Hop Saved My Life explores the activism in Hip Hop culture that creates voice for the marginalized, bridges global communities, and empowers young women. Following their successful collaboration The Movement, bkSOUL and Collective Purpose have come together again to explore the power of love and Hip Hop.

Bridging the worlds of underground hip hop and dance/theatre, the collaborations of bkSOUL and Collective Purpose use images, words, and the music of movement, both
social and artistic, to give their viewers a window into the lived experience of oppression, rejection, rebellion, and transformation.

bkSOUL, founded in 2001, is a community of artists grounded in rhythm and beats, drawing from different movement traditions. bkSOUL Artistic Director grace shinhae jun is a choreographer, educator, performer, and scholar. Locally, she teaches at UCSD, Southwestern College, City College, and transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project.

Collective Purpose is a group of performing artists whose mission is to elevate, edutain, and enlighten others through words and performance. Ant Black has been called a mastermind of paradox in urban culture, and his work has been described as "fierce, but it’s also camp, and Black’s ability to convey both is a coup de theatre".

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IMAGOmoves

December 27, 2008 – 6pm

Animan

World Premiere

Garden of Deadly Sound

San Diego Premiere

Thursday - Saturday, April 30 - May 2 @ 8pm
Sunday, May 3 @ 7pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Choreographer/Designer: Yolande Snaith
Composer: Steven Kent
Lighting Projection Designer: Thomas Ontiveros

Performers: Devon Brawney, Rebecca Bruno, Jillian Chu, Eric Geiger, Greg Lane, Tonnie Sammartano, Alison Deiterle Smith , and Elizabeth Swallow

Animan, a dance/theatre collaboration, is a humorous and darkly psychological observation of human social activities and rituals that degenerate into animal behavior and movement.
Saturated with ominous sounds and images, the work is inspired by African animals in their natural habitat.

Garden of Deadly Sound, created with Elizabeth Swallow, is a surrealist twist on the characters of Maria Von Trapp, from The Sound of Music, and Mary Poppins. It explores the archetypal nanny who protects children from dangers both real and imagined.

IMAGOmoves premiered its first full-length concert work, Garden Trilogy, at the Molli & Arthur Wagner Dance Studio at UCSD in 2006. In late 2007, Ten Green Bottles Standing on a Bar was created for Trolley Dances and an adaptation was commissioned by Sushi for the Bottle Night Series in 2008.

Yolande Snaith has been a potent force in the field of international contemporary dance/theatre for more than 20 years. She has choreographed four original works for the camera, including sequences for Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut. She joined the faculty of the Theatre and Dance Department at UC San Diego in 2002.

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Fresh Sound Series

December 27, 2008 – 5pm

Curated by Bonnie Wright
in collaboration with Spruce Street Forum

Second Tuesdays @ 8pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Fresh Sound focuses on cutting-edge music: experimental, electronic, improvised, contemporary classical, and everything in between. Each of the uncompromising musicians are highly respected in their fields, technically and creatively.

JAN 13

– Nels Cline & Alex Cline, guitars and percussion

A rare performance by identical twins Nels (of Wilco) and Alex Cline. The brothers uncanny sense of spontaneous composition and seemingly telepathic rapport will combine with a mutual adventurousness and skilled execution to offer something wholly varied, unpredictable, memorable, and fun.

FEB 10

– Blevin Blectum, costumed live electronics performance with video by Ryan Junell

Gular Flutter is slow-mo sunspots, high contrast hydraulics, Cascaded Integrator-Combing, and negative acceleration, epic sound for distressed ifrit. She produces electronics "with a more oblique slant. . .clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves. . ."

MAR 10

– Aiyun Huang with Liam Clancy, percussion, video, and dance

Tension Study II – Eagle Claw Wu Tsiao Chien Wins by Sean Griffin explores early Kung-Fu films’ use of Chinese percussion instruments to punctuate attack move with solo percussion. Huang will also present vibe/percussion solos.

APR 14

– Pamela Z, voice, electronics, and video, Lisle Ellis, bass and circuitry

From San Francisco and New York, the two musicians will present both duo and solo performances featuring their awe-inspiring acoustic and electronic creations.

MAY 12

– Barnyard Drama, voice, percussion, electronics, guitars

From Toronto, a fresh look at improvising combining elements of song, jazz, and sound scape. Christine Duncan, voice; Jean Martin, drums, turntable, and loops with Justin Haynes, guitar. Duncan’s five octave range and extended vocal techniques combined with Martin’s drums and varied sounds make for a challenging and exciting performance.

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