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FEBRUARY 2010 BCF SPECIAL EVENTS MASTER CLASS SERIES Saturday, February 6 Ronald K. Brown/Evidence co-sponsored by YBCA 1:30 – 3:30 pm Malonga Casquelourd Ctr, 3rd Floor, Studio C 1428 Alice Street, Oakland $10.00 All Levels Welcome Space is Limited – Registration Required For Registration and Information: 866.898.2722 Saturday, February 20th Modern w/ Michael Velez co-sponsored by Dance Mission Theater 3:30 – 5:00pm Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street, San Francisco $10 All Levels Welcome Fusing elements of release, Taylor, Horton and contemporary influences, Velez’s students enjoy movement that is dynamic and intentional while challenging the solidarity of technique. The energy required should encourage dancers to explore movement through an organic sequence of the body’s weight and momentum. Technical experiments in alignment, coordination and versatility will prepare the body to dance through space with spirit yet safely. The warm up moves into lengthy phrases that will build to a complete combination. Focus is placed on core strength and the individual’s full-bodied awareness. Michael provides a generous and responsive community within the classroom where students can push themselves to new personal boundaries. Sunday, February 21st Fond Kongo Modern w/Byb Chanel Bibene co-sponsored by Dance Mission Theater Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street, San Francisco 1:30 – 3:00pm $10 All Levels Welcome In this work of perpetual experimentation, I consider my workshops as taking place on a tray where the dancer-actor is an interpreter and puts a link between the intro and extra body space. Set up in forms of sound, bodily gamuts, sequences and the gesture, I am interested in circumscribing in the space, words or phrases and patterns, all described on palpable papers or tissue of imagination. The backdrop to the dance will be based on the merits of Kongo background, that is to say, the bases of the Kongo dances cultural values from which emerge all the possible interpretations of life experienced by everyone whatever their origin and that through singing, clapping hands, theatricality, beating the ground, laughing, breathing ... For more information or to register for class call: 866.898.2722 Parking is limited. Dance Mission Theater is located across the street from 24th Street BART. FILM SERIES REflect...The "Black Dancing Body" on Screen see. think. dance. @ BCF Tapping into the phenomenon of "screendance", the Black Choreographers Festival partners with see. think. dance. to present the first annual REflect film series. REflect mines the rich visual history of Black dancers and choreographers on film through a dynamic selection of documentaries, feature films and shorts. Bringing Addis Ababa to Oakland and Rio de Janeiro to San Francisco, REflect offers up several glimpses into Black dance across the Diaspora. Saturday, February 13th Documentaries on Black Dance 1 pm showing Free to Dance 4pm showing The Spirit Moves Malonga Casquelourd Center, Studio D 1428 Alice Street,Oakland Free to public SATURDAY, FEB 20 1pm showing Remembering Thelma, Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum, Praise House, Conjure Women 3:30pm showing Bale De Pe No Chao, Only When I Dance Mission Cultural Center 2868 Mission Street (between 24th & 25th ) San Francisco Free to public Saturday, February 27, 2010 Urban Shorts & 21st Century Africa (hosted by Baobab Village) 3388 19th Street (bet. Mission & Capp) $10 per screening, $15 for both 1 PM Showing Urban Shorts Shorts from TAGsf Shorts from YAK films Caution Voguing: The Message Shake Off I See Beyond the Black Sun 3:30PM Showing 21st Century Africa Black Spring Adugna Karahano African Dance; Sand, Drum and Shostakovich At the Baobab screenings, there will be food and drink available for sale. Attendees will have to show ID at the door for a "drink" wristband. For more information on REflect Film Series go to www.seethinkdance.com For information on BCF performances and Master Classes: 888.819.9106 / 866.898.2722 Festival programming subject to change |
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