August 10 - 12, 2018 (Friday – Sunday)
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts &
Culture present the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. The Bay Area’s
only festival with a focus on aerial dance artistry, bringing regional,
national and international established and emerging artists for three days of
action-packed performances, panels, and workshops.
An explosion of creativity has reinvented aerial
performance. A new generation of artists bursting with innovative imagination
and extraordinary skills have given birth to one of the most incredible and
visceral art forms of the 21st century.
Artists from a broad spectrum of backgrounds are
re-imagining, re-shaping and re-inventing what has traditionally been the
province of circus alone. A breathtaking array of new performers with
influences that range from Balanchine to Burning Man are stunning audiences
around the world. We aim to bring that explosive energy together in a
sensational festival unlike any other.
Full Schedule:
Friday, August 10
Cowell Theater
Showtime 8PM
Cost: $35/adults, $25 kids (under 18) & seniors
Participants:
UpSwing Aerial Dance Company
Sonya Smith & Bianca Cabrera
Sierra Camille
Caroline Wright & Xochitl Sosa
Beth Clarke
Kameko Shibata
Veronica Blair
Helen Wicks and Katelyn Hane
Azraa Muhammad & Meléa Emunah
Saturday, August 11
Festival Pavilion
Sonya Smith Bungee Workshop
10AM -12 PM
Cost: $40
Festival Pavilion
Aerial PLE (Physical Limitation Elimination) Workshop
with Jim Donak
10AM -12 PM
Cost: $40
Cowell Theater
Youth Performance Showcase
Showtime 12PM
Cost: $25/adults, $15 kids & seniors
Zaccho Youth Company
BANDALOOP/Destiny Arts Performance Company
Circus Center's San Francisco Youth Circus
Les Aerielles from Trapeze Arts
Circus Spire
Firehouse
Terry Sendgraff’s Book Launch Party
1 - 3PM
Festival Pavilion
Showtime 3PM
Cost: $35/adults, $25 kids & seniors
Acrobatic Conundrum
BANDALOOP
Veronica Blair
Cowell Theater
Showtime 8PM
Cost: $35/adults, $25 kids & seniors
UpSwing Aerial Dance Company
Jessica Curl Rose & Andrea Keene
Felicity Hesed
Sonya Smith & Bianca Cabrera
Caroline Wright & Xochitl Sosa
Veronica Blair
Beth Clarke
Alex Allan
Azraa Muhammad & Meléa Emunah
Sunday, August 12
Festival Pavilion
Acrobatic Condundrum workshop
10 AM - 12PM
Cost: $40
Festival Pavilion
Aerial PLE (Physical Limitation Elimination) Workshop
with Jim Donak
10AM -12 PM
Cost: $40
Festival Pavilion
Showtime 3PM
Cost: $35/adults, $25 kids & seniors
Acrobatic Conundrum
BANDALOOP
Veronica Blair
Firehouse
Artist Talk Back: The Routes of Vertical Dance
Origin and History. 1960-2018, first generation
Wanda Moretti, artistic director and choreographer for Il
Posto (Venice, Italy) will present her lecture "The Routes of Vertical
Dance,” featuring the he first generation of vertical dance artists. Each
artist presented in the history represents a different approach and an unique
vision for vertical dance. On buildings, in urban and rural environments, on
historical architectures, in nature, on mountains, on trees, in the theatre,
suspended from a crane, from a bridge; each of these personal paths of movement
on vertical planes reveals first-hand, personal experience, process, passion
and performance. The presentation includes 14 short films (some rare) of early
and contemporary vertical dance performances.
The Routes of Vertical Dance will be followed by a
discussion with aerial dance pioneers Joanna Haigood (Zaccho Dance Theatre),
Amelia Rudolph (BANDALOOP) and Wanda Moretti, along with other festival
artists, on the challenges and joys of this extraordinary field.
Immediately after 3 pm performance (around 4:30)
Cost: Free
