o.o.t.s

May 5, 2009 – 12pm

A Visual Art Exhibition consisting of young artists from Vienna, Vancouver, and Los Angeles

May 9, 2009 – June 9, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2009
7pm – 10pm

Participating Artists:

Will Benedict, Robert Billings, Demons, Rachel Detroit, Marlene Haring, Erick Pereira, Nicholas Pittman, Rita Rubas, Lucie Stahl, Pascal Theriault, Alan Zinn, Vickie Zinn

o.o.t.s is part two of a show that first took place in a snow shelter in a backyard in Chicago. This installment features a sculpture, paintings, collage, and sound art pieces, many employing found objects and imagery. The show includes a mid career retrospective by Rachel Pasadena (formerly Rachel Detroit), and new works from master painter Alan Zinn everything from a to z.

o.o.t.s. stands for orphans of the storm, a bunch of friends sharing similar interests in street style visuals. All artists are operating independent from the gallery system, and have always tried to exchange their works for goods, and experiment with new systems of barter. They’re a new pack of artists, kind of like a new litter of kittens, that were raised by witches, ready to put you in a trance with their sight and sound powers.

So come to SUSHI May 9th and please bring a toss away blanket, one plant clipping, one candle, and foreign currency.

You can be late but don’t miss this one!

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POST Card Show

March 16, 2009 – 3pm
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POST Card Show
Fourteen artists make work in the context of cheap, disposable, anachronistic postcards. Bring your stamps!

Given that we are living through potentially the worst economic crisis that has faced the United States in 70 years, I was compelled to design a show that was “low-to-the-ground” and on the cheap. This has always been my bailiwick anyway and, with the new printing technology it has become possible to get postcards made at a very modest price.

“Postcards are purveyors of visual information. Often times the brief missive on the stamped side of the card references the image on the other side “Wish you were here!” or “X” marks the spot. It’s a short cut and a snap shot Postcards are, so to speak, the original “Text Message”; a way to say that you are thinking of someone; a friendly wave at a distance. At this point postcards may seem anachronistic; a vestigial tail on snail mail. But, like vinyl records, super-8 movies and V-8 engines, they have a resilient charm and poetic resonance that seems to resist the march of insistent progress.”

Brian Dick

In Transit II

Time: Saturday March 21 at 8pm

By Christen Sperry-Garcia in collaboration with dance choreographer Sara Pfeifle.

In Transit II investigates patterns of the global transference of bodies and information. Four dancers take on the role of migration, trans-national air travel, daily transit, and the global internet.

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Tere O’Connor Dance
Rammed Earth

February 4, 2009 – 8am

San Diego Premiere

Thursday, Feb 19th @ 8pm
Friday, Feb 20th @ 7pm & 9pm
Saturday, Feb 21th @ 7pm & 9pm
Sunday, Feb 22th @ 7pm

Performers: Hilary Clark, Heather Olson, Matthew Rogers, Christopher Williams

Original Soundscore: James Baker

Rammed Earth is a 60-minute piece designed for a limited audience of 50 people per performance. It explores architecture as a fundamental, subliminal force in the choreographic form as well as in human experience. O’Connor’s interest in “sentient architecture” in which structures change form in response to temperature, climate or human activity, is a catalyst for this work .Audience members are incorporated into the expanding, contracting, liquid space of the work, as they are escorted into different viewing positions throughout the performance.

Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 30 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O’Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Holland; Carte Blanche, Norway; TRAFO/The Workshop Foundation, Hungary; for Canadian dancers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux in Montreal; Dance Alloy in Pittsburgh, PA; and Zenon in Minneapolis, MN. He recently created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov.

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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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