More information about the show can be found here.

Tickets available on-line at this direct link. ]]> info@joegoode.org (Joe Goode Performance Group) 2010051000 Sat, 8 May 2010 10:05:14 PDT http://www.joegoode.org/workshops.html Writing From The Body:
From Gesture to Language

This half day workshop led by Joe Goode is designed to help participants (dancers, artists, and curious souls) create deeply felt narrative material inspired by emotional impulses found in everyday life: a simple gesture, a sound or bodily configuration. You will learn how to take simple steps toward material that is authentic and original. Joe refined his unique teaching style over the twenty-five years he spent creating performative material for his own award winning ensemble, Joe Goode Performance Group.

Saturday November 7, 2009
1:00pm–5:00pm
$75

Performing Language:
Voice and Body Together

This workshop will focus on bringing language (the spoken word) and movement (body language) into a cohesive whole that feels organic and necessary. We will learn techniques such as: Collision combining starkly contrasted materials to create surprising new meanings and Animation enlarging or abstracting a simple word or gesture to the point that a character emerges. This workshop is suitable for actors, writers, dancers, and just regular people who want to stretch their creative powers.

Saturday November 14, 2009
1:00pm–5:00pm
$75
 
...or take both November workshops for $140.

Location:
San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
301 8th Street Studio 205
San Francisco, CA 94103

In February...

Start Simple
Three Days of Performance Practice

What is often missing in our art making is the personal investment, the simple enjoyment of being present in our material. This is a workshop for people who want to discover that enjoyment and learn how to bring themselves and their subject matter into alignment.

Each day will include:

• Body Practice–zeroing out the body to bring it into receptivity
• Improvisation–honing the skills of listening, responding, adding value
• Generating material–taking simple steps toward material that is authentic and original
• The Art of Performing–learning to treat the performative moment as a moment of inquiry

February 6 2010 4:00–9:00pm
February 7 2010 12:00pm–5:00pm
February 8 2010 12:00pm–5:00pm
$240
 
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 8th Street Studio 200
San Francisco, CA 94103

For more information and to register, email info@joegoode.org
or call 415 561 6565

San Francisco, May 27, 2009—Light, space, time and what humanity decides to take into the future—by choice and of necessity—will be explored in the world premiere of Traveling Light, a new site-specific work by choreographer/director Joe Goode in collaboration with leading dance and theater designer Jack Carpenter at San Francisco's Old Mint Building. Sixteen performances of the one–hour work will be given July 30–August 9. Hard on the heels of fall within, a sold–out, site–specific work at the Ann Hamilton Tower at the Oliver Ranch in Geyserville, CA in May 2009, Traveling Light is the next work in a series in which Goode explores non–traditional venues for dance/theater by revealing external and internal landscapes that resonate with history, place, ideas and time. San Francisco's Old Mint is currently being restored and repurposed by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society and is rarely open to the public. These performances are a unique opportunity to experience this historic building. Performances of Traveling Light will be given 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, July 30–August 1; 8 p.m. Sunday, August 2; 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4 and 5 ; 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, August 6–8; and 8 p.m. Sunday, August 9. The Old Mint is located at 88 Fifth Street, at Mission Street, San Francisco 94103. For more information: www.joegoode.org, twitter: joegoodegroup.

At a time when the international dialogue is increasingly turning to eco–consciousness, Goode and Carpenter want to challenge the viewer to examine his or her relationship to excess. In particular, how do we "travel light" into the future? What is the role of fossil fuels, of synthetic materials, indeed of personal possessions? What does it mean to be "natural" and do we still have that capacity in this overtly technological society?

As we "travel lighter" we will need to consider what we must shed—our ideas of prosperity, of ownership, of territory. Perhaps we enter a world with no borders, a place where one's sense of self is defined not by what you have accumulated or accomplished but by how porous and transparent you can make yourself. Akin to the spiritual journey, this effort to "travel light" is an attempt at losing attachments and beginning to see oneself as a humble component in a vast and rich ecosystem.

Goode and Carpenter will push the boundaries of their respective crafts by creating a very specific and nuanced set of conditions in a series of rooms within the Old Mint for this dance/theater work. Audiences will be divided into several groups that will simultaneously move through the spaces in the course of the performance installation. As such, each presentation, while containing the same elements, will be a different experience for each group, and the "narrative" of the piece will shift according to audience members' perspective. Composer Jay Cloidt will create sonic landscapes that enhance the performance, permeating the spaces as audience members move through the Mint. Costumes will be designed by Wendy Sparks and performers include Felipe Barrueto–Cabello, Melecio Estrella, Damara Vita Ganley, Jessica Swanson, Andrew Ward, Patricia West and Alexander Zendzian.

Says Goode: “We are clearly leaving a glutted, overfed age of prosperity and waste and moving into a more ecological era out of necessity and perhaps desperation. Traveling Light considers what we bring forward and what we leave behind. There are certainly personal and financial ramifications of our situation, but there are also spiritual and psychological issues about how we are going to be different now. I think the future will be a more reasonable time, not so much about personal greed. The Mint is an historical, institutional representation of money and capitalism and where we are coming from, and it seems ironic and right to explore where we are going inside of it.”

Jack Carpenter adds: “This project is exciting in that, in many ways, it gets back to some of the original work Joe and I did in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the Capp Street installations, early Disaster Series, Markers). The site–specific aspect of the work is a bit of a wild card. Our original ideas of combining natural light and "artificial light" and letting each reflect its respective environments changed when we finally settled on the Old Mint. The character and contradictions of the building overwhelmed our preconceptions. In recent years, Joe has used technology in much more sophisticated ways (most notably video and audio). He is now interested in a sculptural light element that is mobile and operated by the performers. This element of real time spontaneity intrigues me.”

We are pleased to announce Traveling Light a performance installation at the old San Francisco mint will be presented this summer.

Thanks to our loyal patrons, all three performances of "fall within" at the Ann Hamiltion Tower in Geyserville are sold out. (There is a waiting list you can get on by calling our office.)

Audience members will receive an e-mail with direction and parking details this week. You may also visit the fall within website for maps and information.

An advance heads-up for our RSS subscribers: Join Joe Goode Performance Group for a dance theater day-out! There is a reason Joe is known for his avant-garde installation pieces -- and this Spring the company prepares for tis most exclusive venue yet!

Tickets go on sale April 6th for the two afternoon performances.
$100 for the performance and post-show VIP soiree
$45 for the performance only.

Stay tuned for more details.