2019
PERFORMANCES

Photo by: Finnish Hall
Miriam Woldarski/SENSE OBJECT
Dance Machine! A Surrealist Oracle
December 31st, 2019
Tuesday at 8:00pm
Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St
Berkeley, CA 94702
Dance Machine is a live interactive installation created by Miriam Wolodarski in collaboration with Rajendra Serber, featuring Megan Lowe and Rosemary Hannon. This surrealist oracle performance is followed by a contact improvisation jam with musical offerings, beverages, snacks, and surprises. Join us for a New Year's dance party to call in the joy and hope for 2020!
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Photo by: Sebastian Arrua
Megan Lowe Dances
Finger Trap
Presented by Scott Wells & Dancers in Muscle Memory
December 5th-8th, 2019
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 7:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
"Dancing with you, is like taking an advanced course in physics," Brenton Cheng said to Megan Lowe after an extensive and exciting dance at a contact jam, years ago. In Megan Lowe Dances' Finger Trap, Megan and Brenton dive deep into physical puzzles, while treading on the surface of shared ancestry. This duet will be shared in an evening with Scott Wells & Dancers, featuring Mira Barakat, Sabrina Danielle Baranda, Liz Duran Boubion, Megan Lowe, Mel Mark, Kristen Rulifson, Carmen Serber, Ronja Ver, Shira Yaziv, and Mindy Zarem.
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Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
In the Skin of Her Hands
November 1st-3rd, 2019
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 5:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
“In the Skin of Her Hands” will share stories and perspectives of breast cancer survivors, their families and communities, gained from a community engagement project involving interviews and workshops. So many women have been affected by breast cancer, including Lenora’s sister and mother, creating an extremely urgent need for greater awareness, information, and connection in the face of this health crisis. On average, every 2 minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. Over 3.3 million breast cancer survivors are alive in the United States today. Featuring dancers Jory Horn, Lynn Huang, Hien Huynh, SanSan Kwan, Lenora Lee, Megan Lowe, and John Nguyen.
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Photo by: Austin Forbod
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Ossining, NY)
September 20th-22nd, 2019
Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 3:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday at 3:00pm
Next to Sing Sing Prison
354 Hunter Street
Ossining, New York 10562
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe.
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Photo by: Sebastian Arrua
Megan Lowe Dances
Action Potential
August 17th-25th, 2019
Saturdays at 6:00pm & 8:00pm
Sundays at 7:00pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Action Potential is a site-specific dynamic dance and live music adventure by Megan Lowe Dances, created for Emeryville's Athletic Playground. Audiences will be led on an innovative journey through the rooms of Athletic Playground, while dancers artfully activate ladders, planks, bars, mats, blocks, aerial apparatus, walls, and each other. Megan, Sonsherée Giles, and Shira Yaziv, join together for six energetic, athletic, and virtuosic performances, demonstrating prowess in site-specific dance, contact improvisation, and dynamic partnering. Girl Swallows Nightingale will paint a vivid musical canvas that shifts its colors between modern rock, jazz, theater, funk, and pop, to underwater soundscapes and dreams of outer space. Witness one of six invigorating shows and watch a space come to life and transform.
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Megan Lowe Dances
Alive (Excerpt of Action Potential)
Athletic Playgrounds' After Dark
July 20th, 2019
Saturday at 7:30pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Megan Lowe will be showing an excerpt of Action Potential, of an exciting solo with a tall wooden ladder, in an evening of dance and acrobatic performances at the Athletic Playground.
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Screenshot by: John Carnahan

Screenshot by: Megan Lowe
SWERVE Dance Collective (the company formerly known as Scott Wells & Dancers)
Presented by San Francisco Movement Arts Festival
July 19th, 2019
Friday 5:30-8:30pm
(SWERVE performs outside from 5:30-6:30pm)
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Our first performance as SWERVE Dance Collective, will occur at the Grace Cathedral outside courtyard, as part of SFMAF. This site specific exploration is created and performed by Sebastian Grubb, Megan Lowe, and Miriam Wolodarski-Lundberg; it will be opening the festival, which includes 300+ artists representing some of the many different flavors of the Bay Area arts scene.
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Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Richmond, CA)
May 17th-18th, 2019
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Performed on the empty lot next to the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
339 11th Street
Richmond, CA 94801
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Composer Pamela Z will translate the oral histories of several women with families fractured by incarceration into a score informing the choreography of Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter, who has assembled a cast of six women performers: Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope and Megan Lowe.
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Megan Lowe Dances
at Aerial Tea
May 5th, 2019
Sunday at 2:00pm
Bandaloop Studio
1601 18th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv will be showing a snippet of Action Potential in an afternoon of dance performances at Sonya Smith's Aerial Tea. Want a taste of Megan and Shira's previous explorations? Check out Triangulate - Excerpts.
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Photo by: Maurice Ramirez

Screenshot by: Danny Nguyen
Megan Lowe Dances
Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish
Screening on:
May 4th, 2019
Saturday at 2:00pm
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema's "Kids + Dance + Film"
Lafayette Public Library Meeting Room
775 W. Baseline Road
Lafayette, CO, USA
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.
Not a resident of Colorado? If you want to view Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish, please visit:

Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room
April 19th-27th, 2019
Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00pm
+ Saturday Matinees at 2:00pm
Downtown San Francisco near Civic Center
1125 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Composer Pamela Z will translate the oral histories of several women with families fractured by incarceration into a score informing the choreography of Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter, who has assembled a cast of six women performers: Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope and Megan Lowe.
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Photo by: Yayoi Kambara
Kambara + Dancers
LATERAL BIAS
Presented by David Herrera Performance Company
April 11th-13th, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm
Z Space
450 Florida Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
KAMBARA + DANCERS with singer Megan Lowe will present LATERAL BIAS — a new commission for Dance Mission Theater in collaboration with architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak contemplating climate change. Included in David Herrera Performance Company's 10th home season, who is premiering Resurrection of Everyday People.
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Screenshot by: Chris Hosch
Megan Lowe Dances
Terraces
Officially Selected for Screening at the 7th Annual Tiny Dance Film Festival
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 at 2:30pm (Program B)
Roxie Theater
3117 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Follow a dancer on a sunny outdoor adventure: explore a staircase, climb a tree, kick up leaves, expand through a spacious field, and glide across water. "Terraces" is in an inventive, site-specific exploration, expanding perspectives on the infinite ways a person can interact with the space around them.
Tiny Dance Film Festival is based in San Francisco and features short dance films from across the globe, that stretch into new territory, challenge dominant narratives, and embrace brevity.
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Photo by: Yayoi Kambara
Kambara + Dancers
LATERAL BIAS
Presented by Dance Mission's D.I.R.T. Festival 2019
Saturday, March 9th, 2019 at 8:00pm
Sunday, March 10th, 2019 at 7:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
KAMBARA + DANCERS with singer Megan Lowe will present LATERAL BIAS — a new commission for Dance Mission Theater in collaboration with architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak contemplating climate change. The D.I.R.T. Festival, or Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, is a social political dance festival in its 4th year. D.I.R.T. presents the work of artists that explicitly addressing local/global challenges through their creative process.
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Megan Lowe Dances
Caleidoscope
Presented by Cal Performances
February 8th, 2019
Friday at 8:00pm
Zellerbach Hall
101 Zellerbach Hall #4800
Berkeley, CA 94720
Showcasing the very best of the performing and fine arts at UC Berkeley, Caleidoscope brings together students, faculty, and staff in short (two-to-four-minute) performances running back-to-back—without applause or interruptions—in a seamless, dramatically conceived performance on the Zellerbach Hall stage. Megan Lowe will be singing at this event.
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Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Dynamic Partnering
Athletic Playgrounds' After Dark
January 25th, 2019
Saturday at 7:00pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv will be showing a short dynamic partnering dance in an evening of dance and acrobatic performances at the Athletic Playground. Want a taste of Megan and Shira's previous explorations? Check out Triangulate - Excerpts.
For more information, please visit: