Courageous Dance. Rooted in Care.
2020
PERFORMANCES
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy – Virtual Open Rehearsal
December 5th, 2020
Saturdays at 6:30pm (PST)
Available Online
RSVP to jo@flyawayproductions.com for Watch Party link!
Join Flyaway for our upcoming watch party, and get a behind the scenes glimpse of Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy. Chat with the dancers about the making of the piece, and hear about our plans for its premiere in 2021.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Photo by: Mark Guthrie of Shira Yaziv and Sonsherée Giles
Megan Lowe Dances
Action Potential (Excerpts)
Athletic Playground 12th Year Anniversary
November 21st, 2020
Saturday at 7pm
Available Online via Zoom
"It's Athletic Playground's 12th Anniversary and we wouldn't dream of missing it - even though we are very much missing all of you! Join us for a night of virtual performances and shenanigans followed by a virtual Thai Massage class for you to take with your family and podmates." - Athletic Playground
Megan Lowe Dances will be sharing excerpts of Action Potential, a site-specific dynamic dance and live music adventure created for Emeryville's Athletic Playground in 2019. Wathc Megan, Sonsherée Giles, and Shira Yaziv artfully activate ladders, planks, bars, mats, blocks, walls, and each other, channelling their inner superheroes, climbing, lifting, assisting, jumping, and flying in celebration of movement, trust, strength, resilience, and the ability to take action.
Photo by: John Carnahan of Megan Lowe and Sonsherée Giles
Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles
Meeting Room
Presented by Joe Goode Performance Group in Virtual Open House
October 30th, 2020
Friday at 7pm
Available Online via Twitch.tv
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.
JGPG invites you to the FIRST of their new Virtual Open House series this fall, a new Annex platform for digital performance; an informal & conversational exchange between participants and artists. Artist Lineup: Afia Thompson, Daria Garina / Celia Sagastume, Ali Montgomery, Andréa Spearman / A. Spearman & Co., Megan Lowe / Sonsherée Giles, and Robert Moses.
Megan Lowe Dances
Dancing at a Distance
March 15th, 2020 - October 12th, 2020
Ongoing and Available Online
Home and Near Home
Marina Bay, Richmond, CA
Check out a series of dance/art videos Megan is making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most are in response to creative prompts given by Lenora Lee Dance for And the Community Will Rise. Megan will continue to add artistic investigation videos on her website until the physical distancing order is no longer in place. Stay tuned for more!
Screenshot by: Paul Dier
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
And the Community Will Rise
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
September 9th-27th, 2020
Thursday - Sunday
Ping Yuen Center
838 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
And the Community Will Rise includes a series of 12 site-specific, multimedia, immersive performances, transforming selected common spaces, courtyards and apartments in Ping Yuen into performance sites with live contemporary dance, media design, recorded original music, and voiceover from interviews with former and current residents, advocates and historians.
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Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Presented by RAWdance's CONCEPT Series: Digital Edition
August 14th, 2020
Friday 6pm-7:30pm
Available Online!
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Hosted live by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors, Katerina Wong, Wendy Rein, and Ryan T. Smith, the Digital Edition will focus on dance for camera, including a mix of short dance films completed during the recent months of sheltering-in-place, as well as works-in-progress. The films will be followed by a full on dance party, complete with Jumbotron camera action. RAWdance will be joined by choreographers Marissa Brown, Eric Garcia, Frankie Lee III, Megan Lowe, and Jocelyn Reyes.
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Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Official Selected by Rogue Dancer's FilmFest: OUtBreaK! Edition
Available Online:
June 23rd - July 2nd, 2020
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Rogue Dancer brings you a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dance films. The theme this month is devoted to the work made in, finished in, or related to this confusing PANDEMIC time in history.
Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Hien Huynh, Lenora Lee, Jory Horn, and Megan Lowe
Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, & Johnny Nguyen
Through Fire & Water - Dedication to Jory Horn
Produced by Lenora Lee Dance
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
June 13th, 2020
Saturday at 7:30pm (Program B + Reception)
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Through Fire & Water is a series of performance events in dedication to Jory Horn (April 21, 1991 – November 19, 2019). Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, and Johnny Nguyen team up to create work inspired by this profound dance artist and choreographer.
Logo by: The Izzies
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards
The 34th Annual Izzies Awards Ceremony
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
March 23rd, 2020
Monday at 6pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan Lowe Dances is honored to have been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (2018-2019 Performance Season) for:
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble: Action Potential, Megan Lowe with Sonsherée Giles and Shira Yaziv, choreography by Megan Lowe in collaboration with the performers, at Athletic Playground, Emeryville
This year the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee will celebrate 34 years of honoring local dance artists by acknowledging their outstanding achievements in dance. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony this event, and will be free and open to the public.
Photo by: Mogli Maureal of Marica Petrey
Girl Swallows Nightingale
Shapeshifter - Album Release Party
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
March 21st, 2020
Saturday at 8:00pm
Starline Social Club
645 West Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
UnderCover is proud to present an immersive night of Bay Area arts at its finest! Enter a transformative world of ghostly tales, memory fireflies, all imbued with gauzy soundscapes. A multi-disciplinary experience involving local live music, projections, theater, interactive sculpture, fine art, and memory reaping. Yes. Memory reaping. Megan will play the part of a dancing demon in the pre-show, and join GSN for a little singing.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Megan Lowe and Lena Gatchalian
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
January 24th - February 9th, 2020
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 6:00pm
Added Shows:
Thursday, February 6th at 8:30pm
Saturday, February 8th at 5:30pm
Sunday, February 9th at 3pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to announce its latest evening-length dance work, Butterfly Effect, which takes on the climate crisis. Created and directed by Krissy Keefer, the title is a nod to the idea that small actions can have far-reaching consequences. Featuring a live musical score by Bruce Ghent, Butterfly Effect pays tribute to the devastatingly large number of activists that have been silenced, often brutally, because they have spoken truth to power. Megan will be primarily singing in this show, with a little bit of dancing as well.
