2021
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: RJ Muna of Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram
December 9th-12th, 2021
Thursday/Sunday at 7:00pm,
Friday/Saturday at 8:00pm,
+ Saturday matinee at 5:00pm
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tangram is a dynamic partnering duet between Megan Lowe and noted dance artist Brenton Cheng. This project challenges traditional ideas of male/female duets, which are frequently portrayed romantically and often displayed as a man lifting a smaller woman. By using physics/momentum, Brenton and Megan lift/are lifted by each other equally, leveling the playing field and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. As dance artists with Chinese ancestry, Brenton and Megan deconstruct tropes often associated with Chinese heritage. In a time with particularly strong anti-Chinese sentiment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making work that contributes to the visibility of Chinese American artists feels especially urgent.
Photo by: Brooke Anderson
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
as part of Dance Mission's Taiko Festival
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
October 23rd-24th, 2021
Saturday and Sunday evening (time TBD)
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to perform excerpts of our 2020 sold out shows of Butterfly Effect, as part of Dance Mission's Taiko Festival. 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. Hear Megan sing!
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
as part of Paseo Artistico "History Matters in the Mission"
October 23rd, 2021
Saturday, 12:00pm-6:00pm (Dance Brigade goes on at 4:30pm)
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to perform excerpts of our 2020 sold out shows of Butterfly Effect, as part of Paseo Artistico "History Matters in the Mission". 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. Hear Megan sing!
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Megan Lowe and Lena Gatchalian
Photo by: RJ Muna of Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram Project
Presented by Upswell Summit 2021
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Artist Talk at 7:45am-8am PST (10:45am-11am EST)
Meet the Artist at 8:55am-9:55am (11:55am-12:55pm EST)
Megan Lowe Dances has been invited to discuss our project Tangram at Upswell Summit's 2021 virtual event. Megan is incredibly honored to be preceding and proceeding an amazing talk with LaTosha Brown, Angela Davis, and Angela Glover Blackwell.
"This year, the Summit is all about building a racially just and healthy society—and that’s a commitment that requires extraordinary ambition and inspired vision from each of us. Throughout the experience, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with passionate changemakers from every kind of mission and geography. Enhance your skills. Build deeper connections. Care for your wellbeing. Transform society."
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
October 14th-17th, 2021
Thursday - Sunday at 7:00pm and 8:30pm (two shows a night)
+ Saturday matinee at 5:00pm
CounterPulse
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Flyaway Productions premieres MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY, the second in a trilogy of outdoor public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration. Meet Us Quickly is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora, Bend The Arc Jewish Action, Prison Renaissance, and through CounterPulse’s curated co-production program. It will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse and the Dahlia Hotel next door. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Maddy Lawder, Megan Lowe, Sandia Sexton, and Helen Wicks.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Clarissa Dyas, Hannah Ayasse, and Krista DeNio
Julie Phelps and Marc Kate
Radius
September 11th, 2021
Saturday at 2:00pm-3:00pm
The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
1150 25th Street, Building B
San Francisco, CA 94107
Performed by a group of experimental dancers and electronic musicians, the work aims to create a temporary zone governed by collaboration, mutability, and fluidity rather than hierarchy, power, and structure. Dancers and musicians are both responsive and generative in turn with inspiration and influence moving in both directions. The composition is collectively devised, continuously revealing emergent poetics within the stream of images, movements, and sonics. Responding to both harmony and discord, Radius is a rehearsal of being with – with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next.
Gregangelo Museum
Lost Interiors
August 26th, 2021
Thursday at 6:00pm-7:00pm
Virtual Premier Registration Online
The Gregangelo Museum presents Lost Interiors, a video poem that uses site-specific dance to explore how the body experiences a lost attachment to a familiar daily place. Featuring poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Miah Jeffra, and Nazelah Jameson and dance by Megan Lowe, this virtual premiere features a screening of the film followed by a live Q&A.
Still by: Benjamin Friedman
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Maw Jaw
Presented by Upswell Pop-up
as part Let’s Talk About Money
July 27th, 2021
Tuesday at 11:00am-1:30pm PST (2:00pm-4:30pm EST)
Megan Lowe Dances has been invited to share our film Maw Jaw at Upswell Pop-up's Let's Talk About Money virtual event. "Our culture likes to pretend that it’s impolite to talk about money and yet, as nonprofit, movement, or foundation leaders, it rules our every waking moment. So, let’s talk about money. Do we actually have enough resources in this sector? Are they getting to Black, Native, Latinx, and other communities of color? How well are we accounting for our ongoing crises? And what are our data telling us about whether we are moving in the right direction or need a major course correction? There are a ton of questions, and leaders from all levels of the charitable community have different paths toward solutions. In Pop Up #3 we’ll make sense of how organizations and movements should be resourced to achieve the healthy and antiracist world we’re striving to create."
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Johnny Huy Nguyen and Megan Lowe
Lenora Lee Dance
And the Community Will Rise - Excerpts
as part of the Ping Yuen-Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party
July 17th, 2021
Saturday at 12:20pm
(The day’s events will take place from 11am - 3pm)
Ping Yuen Center
795 Pacific Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Lenora Lee Dance is thrilled to be participating in the “Ping Yuen-Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party”, an event promoting unity and solidarity within our communities, with an emphasis on our Black and Asian community. Chinatown Community Development Center celebrates the rainbow of cultures within the Ping Yuen Properties as well as provide a day of enrichment, showcasing cultural dancing, food, spoken word, performances, games, inviting pillars of the community such as Norman Fong, Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, UNITED PLAYAZ, Community Youth Center and the Street Violence Intervention Program. “Say it Loud, I’m Ping Yuen and I’m Proud,” embodies the spirit of what the “Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party” will emit into the Ping Yuen residents, Pride in Togetherness, Solidarity and Peace within our communities.
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Portland, Oregon)
Presented by Boom Arts in Act Out Festival
June 25th-27th, 2021
Friday at 5:00pm
Saturday and Sunday at 11:00am
Zidell Yards
3121 SW Moody Ave, Portland, Oregon
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.
Photo by: Austin Forbord of Clarissa Dyas and Megan Lowe
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Maw Jaw
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival
Sunday, May 30th, 2021
Portsmouth Square - Chinatown
Clay Street and Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Saturday, June 5th, 2021
Kapwa Gardens - SoMa
976 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Megan Lowe Dances and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center team up to present Maw Jaw, a free outdoor dance event at Portsmouth Square, featuring a site-specific dance film journey and live excerpts from MLD’s Tangram project. Maw Jaw rehearsals will occur outside in public spaces around San Francisco’s Chinatown—activating benches, railings, poles, stairs, and play structures—inviting passersby to witness the creative process, enhancing community engagement, sparking conversations, and inspiring interest in dance as a tool to engage with the environment/people around us. This project is in solidarity with the API community.
