Reminder: Goin' Gaga and Other Dances at CounterPulse @ Sun Jun 5 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Goin' Gaga and Other Dances at CounterPulse ANNE BLUETHENTHAL & DANCERS and CounterPULSE present 'GOIN' GAGA AND OTHER DANCES' Friday – Sunday, June 3-5, 2011 "Her work is brainy, her own, and full of soul, and without her voice the chorus of Bay Area dance would be so much more impoverished." --Rita Felciano, Danceview ABD Productions and CounterPULSE proudly present the premiere of GOIN' GAGA and Other Dances. GOIN' GAGA: Musings on Street Queer and Bad Romancing by a Post Modern Romantic Middle-aged Jewish Lesbian Mother and her Spiritually Trans-gendered Dance Daughters was inspired by an intergenerational dialogue among queer artists about the ascendance of queer and the concomitant decline of feminism. Through music, dance, text and a little body paint, Goin' Gaga functions as a powerful critique of the sexualization of popular culture, while also building a bridge to the young women who embrace that culture. Also on the program is the unveiling ABD's YEAR OF GUERILLA ART: 50 Random Acts of Dance. For the past year and a half, ABD has created spontaneous site-specific dances and performed them on a weekly basis around San Francisco. The company selects a site, arrives inconspicuously, performs, and leaves. "It's a non-promoted, transaction of the gift economy, an art work that exists not only in the dance itself, but in the spontaneous encounter with the 'public'," Bluethenthal explains. "It's a way of participating in an alternative art economy that subverts the rarified concert-hall/gallery exclusivity of art production and acquisition." The piece will include video footage, narrative text, as well as live music and dance performance celebrating this officially unseen work. Rounding off this exciting evening of dance are excerpts of Daughters Untold, a community-based project about gender violence and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) featuring the solo performance of Chin-chin Hsu embedded in subtle and heartfelt ensemble choreography. "Bluethenthal doesn't invent movements she reveals them…as a bit of organic reality pre-selected for our enjoyment." – Oakland Tribune Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers create dances that grow from deep investigations into the language of movement and use that language in eloquent and subversive acts of art. Celebrating 26 years of multi-cultural, feminist modern dance, Bluethenthal's work endeavors to awaken our basic humanity through bold and nuanced choreographies, injecting the possibility of transformation and beauty to even the most difficult subjects from globalization and genocide, to global warming and gender fluidity. The Details: Goin' Gaga and Other Dances Dates: Friday & Saturday, June 3 & 4 at 8 PM, Sunday, June 5 at 6PM Venue: CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street @9th Street in SF Tickets: $20, $15 for artists, students, and seniors – counterpulse.org or 800/838.3006 For Information: www.abdproductions.org When Sun Jun 5 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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