No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might
No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might
Presented by the
de Young Museum
in Celebration of the Closing Day of
Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門)
Saturday, August 6th, 2022
10am-3:30pm (Public Creative Process)
4pm (Performance)
de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco, CA 94118
Megan Lowe Dances presents No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might, a process to performance experience at de Young Museum, inspired by the Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) exhibition. In Hung Liu: Great Granary by Wu Hung (2010) Liu asks, “What kind of thing is history? What kind of thing can bear witness to history? I had the sense that history had its one-sidedness and its mutability. Also history is a very subjective thing. What you choose to include and what you don’t—there’s absolutely no way you can encompass all the things you might.” Witness dancers create and explore these themes live on site throughout the day and reveal the process of dance-making and editing, concluding in an experimental performance of what was discovered—in celebration of the closing of this powerful exhibit.
Artistic Direction by:
Megan Lowe
Choreography and Dance by:
Melissa Lewis Wong, Megan Lowe, Danny Nguyen, Johnny Huy Nguyen, & Asha Passalacqua
Music by:
Peekaboo
Videography by:
Theo Schear
Special Thanks to: Maria Egoavil