Master Class, Lecture, and Demonstration

2nd Annual National Queer Arts Festival

June 5, 1999
Master Class: 12 – 2:30pm
Lecture & Demo: 8pm
San Francisco

Presented by Queer Cultural Center

This evening, internationally renowned choreographer, Bill T. Jones will discuss his life and experiences and how they inform his movement vocabulary in past and upcoming projects.

Bill T. Jones, a 1994 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. Mr. Jones became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum in 1973. Before forming Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982, Mr. Jones choreographed and performed nationally and internationally as a soloist and duet company with his late partner, Arnie Zane. In addition to creating over 50 works for his own company, Mr. Jones has received many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Bill T. Jones remains today one of the most celebrated queer choreographers of the twentieth century.

MASTER CLASS

June 5, 1999
12pm – 2:30pm

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA

Registration: $50

LECTURE & DEMONSTRATION

June 5, 1999
8pm

BRAVA!
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA

Tickets: $15

DATE & TIME
Tuesday
June 20, 2017
Doors: 7:30pm

LOCATION
Brava Theater Studio
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA

TICKETS
$15

ACCESSIBILITY
ADA Accessible seating and bathrooms
Please arrive fragrance free

ABOUT NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL

The National Queer Arts Festival is an annual multidisciplinary Festival currently held May through July throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Each year we commission over twenty performances, visual arts exhibitions, and interdisciplinary showcases and in the process of producing work we support hundreds of artists, technical and production crews.

ARTISTS

Baruch Porras Hernandez

Baruch Porras Hernandez is a writer, performer and stand-up comedian that has been on stages all over North America. He has performed his solo shows alongside the greats, most notably Paper Planes at Keith Hennesy’s TOO MUCH a Queer Art Marathon at the legendary MaMa Calizo’s Voice Factory, When I was a Color Kid at Marga Gomez’s PERFORMARAMA at Oasis, My Last Day of the Dead at SOMArts, and had his first full length solo show Reasons to Stay on the Ground at Joe Landini’s The Garage as part of the National Queer Arts Festival in 2010.

Mr. Porras Hernandez has won The Moth in LA, Literary Death Match, Best of Bawdy Storytelling, and is featured on the critically acclaimed RISK podcast. He has work published in numerous anthologies online and in print, was a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow in 2014, a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow in 2016, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is a regular KQED community arts host, and is “The Voice” for Shipwreck Erotic Fan Fiction live show and podcast. He was born in Toluca, Mexico, grew up in the East Bay, and lives in San Francisco.
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Even Odcikin

Even Odcikin was awarded the 2015 National Directors Fellowship by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National New Play Network, the Kennedy Center, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. Based in San Francisco, he is a director and producer with credits at Golden Thread Productions (where he serves as the Director of New Plays and Marketing) including Yussef El Guindi’s Language Rooms, in San Francisco and Los Angeles (critic’s pick for LA Times), Mona Mansour’s Urge For Going, Kevin Artigue’s The Most Dangerous Highway in the World (Theatre Bay Area Award Recommended Production), Denmo Ibrahim’s Ecstasy | a waterfable, as well as numerous short plays in ReOrient Festivals. He has directed and developed new plays at South Coast Rep, the Lark, O’Neill Theatre Center, InterAct Theatre Company, National New Plays Network Showcase, Magic Theatre, Crowded Fire, Impact Theatre, and Playwrights Foundation with such writers as Eugenie Chan, Christopher Chen, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Prince Gomolvilas, Garret Groenveld, David Jacobi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Michael Lew, Rehana Mirza, and Nick Nanna Mwaluko, amongst many others. A graduate of Princeton University, Evren received the 2013 TITAN Award by Theatre Bay Area; and was selected as an Emerging Theatre Leader by TCG for their American Express Leadership Bootcamp.
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Master Class, Lecture, and Demonstration

ABOUT NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL

ARTISTS

Baruch Porras Hernandez

Even Odcikin

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