Wilderness: Paleolithic Dance Theatre

[Sarah Vox]

Wilderness, Paleolithic Dance / Theatre                                                         

John LeFan   & The Wilderness Scouts                                           

premieres Thursday, November 5 and runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights through November 21. Performances take place at 8PM at The Mariposa Studio, 2808 Mariposa Street in San Francisco.

 

Wilderness is any place where the next step is unpredictable.  Wilderness is mountains, deserts and oceans.  Wilderness is a foreign city at three AM and you don't speak the language.  Wilderness is your first day out of the closet. Wilderness is a doctor telling you to get things in order, the cancer will kill you in six months but a year later you walk out of the hospital completely free of disease.  Wilderness is improvisation.  Wilderness is something to care for and cherish in the face of this beast called civilization.

 

PROGRAM

(1) OUT THERE 

Written and performed by John LeFan

Music by Bob Dylan & Ludvig Von Beethoven

 

(2) IMPROVISATION AS WILDERNESS

Based on improvisation structures developed by Mangrove: Byron Brown, John LeFan, Curt Sidall and James Tyler

Performed by  Michael Armstrong, Anna Dal Pino, Terese Hoibye, Joan Lazarus & John McConville

 

(3) BUS STOP AS URBAN WILDERNESS

Sampled writing of Antonin Artaud' "To Have Done With The Judgement of God" (1947)

Performed by Bob Taxin & Joe Weatherby

 

(4) MYTHS AND PETROGLYPHS

Structure by John LeFan

Created and performed by Michael Armstrong, Anna Dal Pino, Terese Hoibye, Joan Lazarus & John McConville

 

(5) EMPTY

Written and performed by John LeFan

Music by Ernest Tubbs

 

(6) TOURISM

Sampled writing from Allen Ginsburg, "Howl Part Two",  (1956)

Performed by Bob Taxin & Joe Weatherby

 

The show last one hour with no intermission.

 

 

For More Information call: 415- 861-4330 or go to www.mariposastudio.org  Tickets are $15-$30 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com

Cast:  Michael Armstrong, Anna Dal Pino, Terese Hoibye, Joan Lazarus, John McConville, Bob Taxin, Joe Weatherby

About John LeFan:  John LeFan has been making dance and theatre since 1965.   His choreography has won Bay Area Critics Circle, L.A. Dramalogue and National Endowment for the Arts awards.  When not sweating it out with dancers and actors in a dark space in an inner city, he is often found (or not) in remote, inhospitable and gorgeous canyons.  He won't go near Burning Man.

About The Mariposa Studio:  The legendary Mariposa Studio was the original home of Mangrove Dance Company.  Since 1976,  it has been a laboratory for artists such as Whoopi Golberg, Contraband and The Blake Street Hawkeyes.  Tony, Obie,  LA Dramalogue, and San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle award winning shows began life in the Mariposa Studio. Co Artistic Directors, John LeFan and Anna Dal Pino continue to produce a variety of visual and performing arts.  www.maripsosastudio.org

 

 

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