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2016
PERFORMANCES

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Photo by: Andrew Weeks

Scott Wells & Dancers with Keith Hennessy
and Nita Little Dance Research
Goodbye DanceGround

 

December 10th, 2016

Saturday at 7pm

DanceGround Keriac

1805 Divisadero Street

San Francisco, CA 94115

 

DanceGround Keriac is a historic dance/performance space that is being lost because of gentrification & eviction. After 25 years of serving the San Francisco dance community and providing affordable work/live space for many many artists, DanceGround Keriac is forced to close it’s doors. Scott Wells and the DanceGround Residents are holding a final benefit performance to celebrate all the wonderful dances and dancers this space held and nourished over the years and raise some money to help with move out costs. There will be performances and rituals to bless and release the space and Keriac's ghost (who’s ashes are still under the dance floor) by artists who used to live and work there.

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Photo by: Robbie Sweeny

Scott Wells & Dancers with Keith Hennessy
Touchy Subjects

 

November 4th - 13th, 2016

Friday and Saturday at 8pm

Sunday at 7pm

 

Dance Mission Theater

3316 24th Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

 

Keith Hennessy told Scott Wells that he didn’t like the “gay” joke in Wells’ dance. Scott said, “Okay. Let’s make a show.” Working together for the first time in 23 years, long-time Bay Area choreographers Hennessy and Wells ask: What political territories are exposed, broadened, or critiqued, through the simple act of two bodies in contact? Performers are Jose Abad, James Graham, Sebastian Grubb, Kaitlin Guerin, Keith Hennessy, Megan Lowe, Scott Wells, Miriam Wolodarski, and Shira Yaziv.

For more information, please visit:

Scott Wells & Dancers Website

Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles - "Meeting Room"

Photo by: John Carnahan

Sonsherée Giles & Megan Lowe
Meeting Room

Finnish Hall Performing Arts Salon

 

October 14th, 2016

Friday at 8pm

 

The Finnish Hall - Meeting Room

1970 Chestnut St

Berkeley, CA 94702

 

"Meeting Room" is a site-specific duet rooted in contact improvisation and partnering in relationship to a space. In this dance, Megan and Sonsherée must all ways be in contact with an architectural structure in the room, either directly or through each other—an exciting challenge for the dancers to explore, that evolves as they shift from surface to surface. Through this unique rule and limitation, new possibilities of movement and relating to each other are found.

For more information, please visit:

October Salon at the Finnish Hall

Megan Lowe - "Grace and Delia are Gone" - Flyaway Productions

Photo by: RJ Muna

Flyaway Productions
Grace & Delia are Gone

Flyaway Productions' 20th Anniversary Season

 

September 22nd - October 2nd, 2016

Thursday-Sunday and Wednesday-Sunday at 8pm (Wed/Sun shows at 7:30pm)

 

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture

2 Marina Blvd

San Francisco, CA 94123

 

Celebrating our 20th anniversary, Flyaway will premiere a new site specific work that explores violence against women through the lens of murder ballads. Featuring collaborations with composers Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi, designers Sean Riley and Matthew Antaky, and dancers Alyana Stroud, Yayoi Kambara, Marystarr Hope, Laura Elaine Ellis, Megan Lowe, Karla Quintero and Sonsherée Giles. Co-presented by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. 

For more information, please visit:

Island City Waterways Website

Megan Lowe - "Needles to Thread: Dancing Along These Lines" - Flyaway Productions

Photo by: Yvonne Portra

Flyaway Productions
Wall Ball

The San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival

 

August 20th & 21st, 2016

Saturday & Sunday at 3pm

 

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture

2 Marina Blvd

San Francisco, CA 94123

 

Flyaway is thrilled to re-create its 2011 signature dance, “Wall Ball”, featuring a trio with Megan Lowe, Sonsherée Giles, and a red tether ball. "Wall Ball" was created to bring attention to California’s funding crisis in our public schools. Original music is composed by Beth Custer.

 

The San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival is the Bay Area’s premiere aerial arts event that features internationally recognized aerial artists and exciting new artists breaking into the field. Produced by Zaccho Dance Theatre, this biennial festival brings together spectacle, daring athleticism and poetry to create a dynamic performance event.

For more information, please visit:

Flyaway Productions Website

Megan Lowe - "Island City Waterways" - Epiphany Productions

Photo by: Andy Mogg

Epiphany Productions
Island City Waterways

 

May 20th-22nd, 2016

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 10:30am, 12:30pm, and 2:30pm

 

Rhythmix Cultural Works

2513 Blanding Avenue

Alameda, CA 94501

 

In May 2016, Island City Waterways will celebrate the birth of the Island City of Alameda with a free public art event open to all ages. Audiences will be taken on a journey to four sites along the water’s edge—between the Fruitvale and the Park Street bridges—to experience art, dance, music and tales connecting them to Alameda’s rich maritime past. Dancers include Brianna Anthony, Nuria Bowart, Colin Epstein, Sonsheree Giles, Lynda Gutierrez, Antoine Hunter, Wayne Tai Lee, Megan Lowe, Priscilla Park, and Zahna Simon with music by Maze Daiko.

 

For more information, please visit:

Epiphany Productions Website

Megan Lowe - "Needles to Thread: Dancing Along These Lines" - Flyaway Productions

Photo by: Yvonne Portra

Flyaway Productions
ARCHIVES AND OUTCRIES: a new site specific dance on the SF State University Library

 

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Shows starting at 2:15pm, 3:30pm, and 5:45pm

 

J. Paul Leonard Library

(on the main quad)

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco , CA 94132

 

A free site specific dance commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center, to commemorate their 30th anniversary and to celebrate the work of California’s unconventional women. Dancers are Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Megan Lowe, and Alayna Stroud.

 

For more information, please visit:

Flyaway Productions Website

Megan Lowe - "Arranging/Resisting Control"
Funsch Dance Experience
100 Days Score

 

November 2015 to April 2016

 

The 100 Days Score is a list of 100 prompts to spark daily movement and creative investigations. The prompts are designed to take place anywhere you can make them happen.  The goal is to support home practice in direct and tangible ways, to direct practice towards exploration and away from production, to examine our first choices and immediate instincts, and to invite in influence from other media as a means of enriching creativity. The score can be used for compositional, improvisational, and/or physical-mental conditioning ends. Most importantly the score values autonomy and the freeing of exploration from productivity.

 

To see what Megan is up to with the 100 Days Score, please visit:

Gallery - 100 Days Score Page

For more information about Funsch Dance Experience's 100 Days Score, please visit:

Funsch Dance Experience Website

Thirst Project
Tequila Daisy
Paul Mitchell's Thirst Project Fundraiser

 

Sunday, April 10th, 2016 at 6:30pm

 

Paul Mitchell The School - East Bay, California

100 Crescent Dr, Ste D

Pleasant Hill, California 94523

 

An evening of art and music supporting The Thirst Project, the world’s leading water activism organization. Tequila Daisy played a 7-song set.

Megan Lowe - "Never Finished: Exploratins at the Finnish"

Still by: Danny Nguyen

Lowe Dances
Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish

 

Screening on:

Sunday, March 20th, 2016

 

Fourth Annual Tiny Dance Film Festival

Ninth Street Independent Film Center

145 9th Street

San Francisco, California 94103

 

A girl. Some stairs. Some railings. A door. It's frame. A wall. A ledge. The floor. Some grates. A bench. A window. Curtains... Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish is a truly inventive, site-specific exploration that is sensuous, full of texture and trickiness rooted in weight and elasticity, expanding perspective on the infinite ways a person can interact with the space around them. Crawl through and explore with the dancer, indulge in gravity defying/gravity defining feats, witness tender moments of connection, and watch a space come to life.

 

For more information, please visit:

Detour Dance Website

If you want to view Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish, please visit:

Gallery - Videos Page

Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles - "I Thought You Left"

Photo by: Mark Guthrie

This Sweet Nothing
I Came to See You, But You Are Gone

 

February 26th, 2016

Friday at 8pm

 

Subterranean Arthouse

2179 Bancroft Way

Berkeley, CA 94704


An evening of music, dance, and video, curated by Sonsherée Giles, John Carnahan, and Megan Lowe in collaboration with WaterSaw, Tequila Daisy, and Aaron Priskorn.

A farewell to Subterranean Arthouse, an acknowledgment of passings and loss, and a celebration of endings and beginnings.

$15-20 donation
light refreshments will be available

 

For more information, please visit:

I Came to See You, But You Are Gone Event Page

The Octopus Literary Salon

Logo by: The Octopus Literary Salon

Writer's Round Co-Lab with Tequila Daisy & more

 

January 28th, 2016

Thursday at 7pm

 

The Octopus Literary Salon

2101 Webster Street at 22nd

Oakland, CA 94612

(19th Street BART)

 

Making music alone is fulfilling but making music with others is almost always more satisfying for musiciains and listeners alike. This concert features 6 different songwriters, but few solo performances as the musicians will play on each other's material throughout the entire night. There will be variety of instrumentation, harmonies, and genres in this cohesive collaboration!

 

Featuring: Tony Domenick and Kelsey Bedard of Tequila Daisy, Michelle Renee, Juke Bermuda, Dag Norton, and Megan Lowe

 

For more information, please visit:

The Octopus Literary Salon Website

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