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Photo: Allison Combs
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As part of it's ARTbursts Series and in collaboration with 11th Hour Ensemble, Theatre of Yugen Presents Alice. PERFORMANCES Preview: September 8th at 8 p.m. Alice. is an original, company-devised production that promises familiar characters transformed and side-lined themes explored as the audience follows Alice on her journey through Wonderland – a world which rejects everything she has learned and come to expect – invigorated by daring movement (and a little Rock n’ Roll)! Six actors, with their bodies alone, will create and remix Lewis Carroll’s classic ‘Wonderland’, bringing to life tidal waves of tears, hookah-equipped mushrooms, wild tea parties and a rabbit hole that extends to the center of the earth. Using a unique combination of theater and dance methods, the show includes Ballet, Jazz, Viewpoints, Suzuki, Noh, and Kyogen influences – attracting theater, dance, and non-traditional arts fans alike. Evolving over the past two years, Alice. has seen many different incarnations – everything from a two-minute piece at SOMArts, to a fifty-minute musical workshop edition in collaboration with Tony Award Nominee Barbara Damashek. For the first time in its full format, in conjunction with the Theatre of Yugen (part of the ARTbursts series) and funded by Theatre Bay Area’s CA$H Grant, Director Allison Combs retells this classic tale of one individual’s adventures through the surreal and the extraordinary, while examining themes of transition, alienation, and courage in the face of the unknown. Thoughts From the Director "The more I work on this project, the more reason I find to continue working on it. It’s been two years now, and every time we perform a new version it doesn’t feel done, but slightly closer to some unnamed thing we’re inching towards. Perhaps it’s that the more I explore the text, the closer I can connect my own experiences with the absurd events in the story. Only recently have I discovered what it might feel like to be trapped in a Hall of Doors with no way through any of them, or to nearly be drowned in your own tears, or to be forced to run a race with no beginning and no end. Recently, in the country at large, Alice in Wonderland has undergone a huge resurgence, witnessed through Tim Burton’s film as well as a fair number of theatre productions. I would venture to suggest that these productions are not in reaction to Burton’s film, but rather in reaction to a societal need for this story. Something about Alice is definitely ‘in the air.’ What I hope to do in this final production is remove the layers and associations this story has acquired throughout the years, and get to the heart of the Wonderland. I want to find out what makes it pulse, why it’s timeless, and then share that it in our own way: with lots of running around, gymnastics, and a healthy pinch of Classic Rock."
For more information and reservations please call: 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com Press page - Neighborhood Eats & Drinks - Directions to NOHspace |
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SORYA! October 27th - 31st Selections from our Kyogen in English Repertoire Theatre of Yugen's Sorya! will present the classic Kyogen comedy, Fukuro Yamabushi (Owl Mountain Priest,) as well as Act 1 from a new adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone by company member Lluis Valls. For more information please call: 415-621-0507
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Worklights The last Sunday of every month 2010 3 - 5pm Check calendar for upcoming worklights FREE Fresh schemes, artistic dreams: the R&D lab of our experimental troupe, where the Theatre of Yugen ensemble tries out new ideas for projects, working with members of the Yugen Orchestra, an affiliation of Bay Area musicians and composers.
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Moshe Cohen and Theatre of Yugen CoPresent Mr. Yoowho's Holiday Directed by Sheila Berotti December 16th - January 2nd Mr. YooWho discovers his dream of traveling the world in the most unlikely of places, a field of sunflowers. He travels through a potpourri of wonder generating laughter that reaches far across generational lines. Enter a world where humor and poetry intermingle with precision mini-board high diving, a world where European clown and mime mix with Japanese Kyogen and Yiddish Absurdism. Following rave reviews in Europe (“Charlie Chaplin of a modern time”,) Moshe Cohen brings his show back home to San Francisco. In the fall of 2008 Moshe traveled to Krakow to work intensely with director Marek Pasieczny, bringing together work that Moshe has developed over the last twenty years. After serious dramaturgy work, Moshe unveiled his new work at the basement cabaret theater Loch Camelot. Now Moshe returns home to San Francisco, and builds upon this foundation in collaboration with the Theatre of Yugen, injecting a Noh and Kyogen influence to his insightful ritual of travel, and holiday celebration. To learn more: www.YooWho.org Press page - Neighborhood Eats & Drinks - Directions to NOHspace
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Theatre of Yugen's 8th Annual Winter/Spring Training Session January & February, 2010 January 26 - March 6, 2010 Theatre of Yugen’s provides performance-based session in the dance (komai / shimai) and chant (kouta / utai) of the classical Japanese forms of Noh (drama) and Kyogen (comedy). These classes are dedicated to providing first-time participants with necessary underlying basics, focusing on short dances and songs from the Kyogen and Noh repertoire. Meticulous body and verbal articulation characterize the dance (komai/shimai) and chant (kouta/utai) of the classical Japanese forms of Kyogen and Noh. 6 weeks • 1, 2 or 3 days/week • tues 6-9pm • thurs & sat 9-12pm Weekend Intensives first weekends of each month February – May Limited enrollment - call 415-621-0507 for more details Theatre of Yugen's Winter Training Session is a six week semi-intensive, performance-based training in the dance (komai/shimai) and chant (kouta/utai) of the classical Japanese forms of Kyogen comedy and Noh drama. Students learn a number of short dances and songs from Kyogen and Noh plays and focus on one piece for the final recital. |
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The Iliad Project: Dogsbody October 22nd – 24th, 2009 World Premiere Dogsbody is commissioned by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dogsbody is a modern day adaptation of Homer’s The Iliad told from the point of view of child soldiers, addressing war, the nature of force, and the perpetration of genocide. Dogsbody is generously funded in part by Multi-Arts Production Fund (a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation), Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program (a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative), National Endowment for the Arts, Flintridge Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts. Yerba Buena Presents: Artist InSight Open Rehearsal with Theatre of Yugen Friday Oct 2nd, 2009 6:30-7:30pm Experience theatre making in its process, bridging the gap between the artists and the audience in this open rehearsal of Dogsbody, a new theater piece exploring the phenomenon of child soldiers making its World Premiere at YBCA Oct 22nd-24th. Q & A Session from 7:00-7:30 with director Dijana Milosevic. Come in at any time between 6:30-7:30.
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October 24, 2009 Post Performance Brunch Press page - Neighborhood Eats & Drinks - Directions to NOHspace |
Theatre of Yugen's 31st Season is generously funded in part by our supportive individual donors, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Rockefeller MAP, Columbia Foundation, the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Theatre of Yugen is a proud member of Theatre Bay Area, Project Artaud, Theatre Communications Group and the Network of Ensemble Theaters. |
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