October 4-12, 2024
Fri. 10/4 at 7:30PM
Sat. 10/5 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM
Thu. 10/10 at 7:30PM
Fri. 10/11 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM
Sat. 10/12 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM
The Cadillac Hotel (above the Tenderloin Museum)
398 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA
Free Event, Open to All
No tickets or reservations required
In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, activists in Chicago, calling themselves ‘Jane,’ built an underground network for women with unwanted pregnancies and provided illegal abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. Flyaway Productions’ new site work, ODE TO JANE, appreciates this history of resistance and brings a contemporary lens to what resistance looks like in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenderloin, right now. We will incorporate oral histories, suspended rocking chairs, and aerial dance on fire escapes and walls. We will evoke an expanded idea of what resistance is amidst racial reckoning, the addiction crisis, the city’s housing catastrophe, threats to women’s bodies, and the complex intersection of these realities.
Directed by: Jo Kreiter
Performance by: Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Ai Yin Adelski, and Saharla Vetsch
Music by: Xoa Asa
Lighting by: Jack Beuttler
Set Design by: Sean Riley
Rigging Design by: Dave Freitag
Costumes by: Jaimelyn Duggan
The commission and production of this premiere is made possible in part by the Gerbode Foundation Special Award in the Arts program, as well as support from the CA Arts Council, Zellerbach Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, SF Grants for the Arts, New Music USA, and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. | 
