UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday Salon at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
Saturday November 7th at 8pm
A Benefit for the Dance Up Close/East Bay Series
2704 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705
The Riley Project presents Our Hospitality (performances by Leah Samson and Leigh Riley) alongside works by ahdanco, Aileen Kim and Dancers, Davalos Dance Company, FACT/SF, Patricia Banchik’s Kinesis, Jetta Martin, and Kate L. Burton.
Join us for an intimate evening of new and repertory works in support of the Dance Up Close/East Bay series at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. See the work of seasoned artists and discover new talents.
Tickets $10-25 sliding scale_______________________________________
Available by cash or check at the Center or click HERE to purchase tickets online.
Limited seating available; advance purchase recommended.
World Premier of Second Chances
Featuring performances by Andi Clegg and Andrew Ward with music by Daniel Berkmann
PILOT 55: Flights of Fancy
Saturday November 21st at 8pm followed by post-show reception
Sunday November 22nd at 7pm and 9pm
ODC Dance Commons, Studio B
351 Shotwell Street, SF, CA
The Riley Project premiers their new duet Second Chances in ODC's latest round of the Pilot program. The evening will present an evening of new works by Julie Caffey, Jessica Damon, Erin Derstine, Antoine Hunter, Ara Glenn-Johanson and Leigh Riley.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the ODC Dance Commons front desk or through brownpapertickets.com. Patrons are encouraged to buy tickets early as these shows will sell out! All shows will be ASL interpreted.
RAW presents: Aura Fischbeck Dance
November 23rd & 24th at 8pm
975 Howard Street @ 6th Street - Look for the red door!
San Francisco, CA
Continuing the debut run of Second Chances, The Riley Project moves to The Garage for two pre-Thanksgiving nights of performance.
Aura Fischbeck Dance presents moment studies, a new quartet investigating spontaneous composition, natural selection, individuation, merging, chance encounters, and choice, accompanied by an original score by DJ Owen Bondurant. The program will also feature guest choreographers Leigh Riley/The Riley Project, Sam Stone, and Christine Cali.
Previously this Year...
Debut of Our Hospitality
The debut of a new work Our Hospitality at a group show curated by Aura Fischbeck. Performance at Subterranean Arthouse at the end of June, and at the Garage Artspace in early July. Featuring performances by Aura Fischbeck Dance, Pfeifle Dance Project, Gretchen Garnett & Dancers, SoShes Dance Collective and others.
June 27th, 2009
Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way
(between Shattuck and Fulton),
Berkeley, CA
subterraneanarthouse.org
July 1 - 2, 2009 at 8pm
The Garage Artspace
975 Howard St @ 6th, San Francisco, CA
975howard.com
July 24th
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
Showing and Q&A of local choreographers for the Summer Teen Intensive
shawl-anderson.org
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Jewels in the Square
San Francisco International Arts Festival 2009
May 21 - 31, 2009 in Union Square
sfiaf.org
Come down to Union Square for free site specific shows and outdoor sneak previews of performances by various local and international artists performing as part of SFIAF. The program includes performances by local artists participanting in SFIAF's newest program, titled MASH. This year's inaugural MASH artists are The Riley Project, Shah & Blah Productions and Gretchen Garnett & Dancers.
The Riley Project will be presenting their latest work The Emergent Body in Union Square May 22nd, 25th(Memorial Day), 28th, 29th, and 30th. Performances start at noon each day and are FREE and open to the public. And look for company members performing with Jess Curtis/Gravity in a large group presentation of The Symmetry Project on April 24th.
Union Square
At Powell & Geary, San Francisco
All shows start at NOON and are FREE
Friday, May 22nd
Monday, May 25th - Memorial Day
Thursday, May 28th
Friday, May 29th
Saturday, 30th
Monday, May 25th - Memorial Day
Thursday, May 28th
Friday, May 29th
Saturday, 30th
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MAD BAD Performance Festival
April 24 - May 3, 2009
Moving Arts Dance in Concord, CA
movingartsdance.org
A dance and film festival featuring established and emerging choreographers in contemporary dance along with internationally acclaimed filmmakers will be held in late April and early May at Moving Arts Dance Theater. The dance festival will be held Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. each night. The film festival will have screenings on Sundays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Riley Project will be presenting Jostle in the opening evening of the dance festival, April 24th.