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Events: May 2008 April, 2008
June, 2008
January 19 - November 22 Urban Bush Women Les écailles de la mémoire (The scales of memory) (MAP 2005 and 2006), a new dance work created in collaboration between American choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny and their respective companies, the all-female Urban Bush Women and the all-male Compagnie JANT-BI. April 30 - May 3 The Builders Association CONTINUOUS CITY (MAP 2008), a new work by The Builders Association that explores social networks and the connectivity of our increasingly global society through the lives of one traveling father and his daughter back at home. Danube Festival May 8 - May 18 Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit Sing Jubilee! The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (MAP 2006) a collaboration bringing together OyamO and Mosaic’s multicultural young artists', contemporary theatrical forms and traditional spiritual music. May 8 - May 10 EastSide Arts Alliance The Sisyphus Opera (MAP 2007) the collaborative production of an original musical drama by poet and playwright Amiri Baraka with tenor saxophonist and composer David Murray. The Sisyphus Opera is a new multidisciplinary operatic suite, inspired by themes of race, class, security and planetary survival which attempts to contemporize W.E.B. DuBois' "Sisyphus Syndrome" - "humanity's eternal struggle to roll the rock to higher ground."
EastSide Cultural Center
Oakland, CA May 9 - May 25 DanceArt/Dandelion Dancetheater Oust (MAP 2007), a new multimedia performance event which engages issues of geographical, political, and identity displacement, created by Dandelion Dancetheater for presentation in the 2008 San Francisco International Arts Festival. San Francisco International Arts Festival May 22 - May 24 Goat Island Performance Group The Lastmaker (MAP 2006) takes its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, considered here as movements encountered on different planes. The Lastmaker recapitulates the concerns of 20 years of Goat Island, in what we hope will be a fitting conclusion to our contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance. Battersea Arts Center May 30 - May 31 Goat Island Performance Group The Lastmaker (MAP 2006) takes its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, considered here as movements encountered on different planes. The Lastmaker recapitulates the concerns of 20 years of Goat Island, in what we hope will be a fitting conclusion to our contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance. Arnolfini |
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