Zaccho Dance Theatre

 

BUY TICKETS Meet the Performers Watch the Trailer See performances by leading and emerging aerial artists from the Bay Area and beyond! August 16 to 18, 2024 Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture  2 Marina Boulevard (at Buchanan Street), San Francisco, CA TODAY'S FEATURED ARTISTS: Cowell Theater Evening Showcase, Part 2 August 16th & 17th at 8:00 PM Accessibility Services: ASL Interpreters Live Audio Description with Haptic Access Tour Corporeal Imago Vancouver's Corporeal Imago brings their work LIMB(e)S featuring aerialists Eowynn Enquist and Isak Enquist. Corporeal Imago (CI) explores contemporary tragedy through an intersection of aerial acrobatics, contemporary dance and visual theatre. Limb(e)s was created by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes with the support of Cirkör LAB, the centre de création and the Résidences Ponctuelles of Espace catastrophe, and made possible thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council, with additional support from The Dance Centre, Dancing on the Edge Festival, and KW Studios. Gabrielle Martin & Jeremiah Hughes in LIMB(e)S; photo by Jessica Han (2021) Zaccho Dance Theatre featuring Veronica Blair Zaccho Dance Theatre presents Joanna Haigood's early trapeze work Dance with Yal, a humorous piece about the challenges of love. This special re-staging features company member Veronica Blair. One of the top Black aerialists in the country, Veronica has taken her high-flying talents all around the world. Joanna Haigood, choreographer, has been Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre since 1980. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National Black Arts Festival, Festival d'Avignon as well as Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet and Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Joanna Haigood in Dance for Yal; photo by Lois Greenfield (1985) Alice Sheppard Kinetic Light Alice Sheppard of Kinetic Lightpresents her work And Dawn Rises Slowly.  Alice Sheppard is the founder and artistic lead for Kinetic Light, a project based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and advance the intersectional disability arts movement.  Through nuanced investment in the histories, cultures, and artistic work of disabled people and people of color, Kinetic Light promotes intersectional disability aesthetics as a creative force and access as an aesthetic critical to the creative process and not a retroactive accommodation. Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey (2024) Jason Span Jason Span joins the festival performing his aerial hoop work Ascension.  Jason Span is a former gymnast and a former US Navy Hospital Corpsman based out of Jacksonville, Florida. He was honorably discharged from active duty in the United States Navy after serving for ten years to pursue his dream of becoming an aerial artist. Jason quickly developed his artistry on aerial silks in June 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He relocated back to his home town in Jacksonville, Florida on October 2015 when he joined Bittersweet Studios. Jason Span in Zaccho Dance Theatre's "Flying to Freedom"; photo by Brandon Davis (2023) Buy Your Tickets Now!

Zaccho Dance Theatre | 1777 Yosemite Ave, Studio 330 | San Francisco, CA 94124 US