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Awards

 

Isadora Duncan Dance Award (izzie) for choreography for the Advetures of Cunning and Guile, 2007

 

Festivals


Timara Festival, Hall Auditorium, Oberlin Ohio May 9-12, 2007
Yerba Buena Gardens Choreographers Festival,Yerba Buena Gardens SF   August 20, 2006
West Wave Dance Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA  July 2006
Women on the Edge Festival, Exit Theater, San Francisco, CA May 2006
Yerba Buena Gardens Choreographers Festival,Yerba Buena Gardens SF   August 23-27, 2004
Summerfest Dance Festival, San Francisco, CA  July 2004
Yerba Buena Gardens Theater Festival,Yerba Buena Gardens SF   July 25, 2004
Dance Is Festival, Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA January, 30 2004
East Bay Dance Festival, Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA March 28,29,30 2003
House Special, ODC Residency ODC Theater, San Francisco CA September 6,7,8, 2002
Yerba Buena Gardens Choreographers Festival,Yerba Buena Gardens SF   August 19-23, 2002
Summerfest Dance Festival, San Francisco, CA  July 2002
National Dance Week, Center Street Studio, Oakland CA April 2001
2000 Women - Vancouver, B.C. Canada October 2000
Oakland Arts Festival - Oakland, CA April 23 2000
National Dance Week, Center Street Studio, Oakland CA April 2000
Women on the Edge - San Francisco, CA March 17,18,19 24,25,26 2000
National Dance Week Berkeley & Oakland  CA  May 1999
Women on the Edge - San Francisco, CA March 16,17,18 1999
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May, 1998
Women on the Edge - San Francisco, CA March 13,14,15 1998
Wild Women, Wild Men, Performance Gallery - San Francisco, CA July, 1997
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May, 1997
CSUS Festival of the Arts - Sacramento, CA April, 1997
Dance Kaleidoscope North - Walnut Creek, CA 1996
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May 1996
Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver, Canada  April, 1996
E-Festival, Dancers Group / Footwork, San Francisco, CA January - February 1995
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May, 1995
Summertime Dance Project, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA August 1994
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May, 1994
Outdoor Dance Festival - Emeryville, CA May, 1993

 

Commissions, Residencies   


CCRMA Summer Concert, with Sueng-yon Seny Lee, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
Djerassi Winter Residency - February 2006
Cabrillo College, Cabrillo CA - repertory work for students, Fall 2005
University of Wisconsin, Madison, repertory work for students, Spring 2005
Li Chiao Ping, original commissioned work 'Yiddishe Mama' 2005
Li Chiao Ping Workshop /  Residency at The Farm, Oregon, WI June 2004
Verge Residency, ODC Theater, 2004
Djerassi Artist in Residency, August, Ken James, 2004
Art Farm Residency, Ken James, acceptance for September 2003
Djerassi Artist in Residency - winter, Cynthia  Adams, January, 2003
ODC Choreographers Residency, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA,  August-September 2002
Djerassi Artist in Residency, Ken James, February, 2002
Djerassi Artist in Residency, Cynthia Adams, November 2001
Djerassi Artist in Residency, May 1999
Wesleyan College, Master Class, November 1996
Sonoma State University, Petaluma, CA  Commission "Tether" April 1994
Hollins College, Roanoke VA, Commission "Glossolalia: dances of the night"  October 1992

 

Reviews, Press


San Francisco Chronicle, Swells, Catherine Bigelow, May 28, 2006
Voice of Dance, Allen Ulrich, review 24 views April 30, 2006
Voice of Dance, Allen Ulrich, review Adventures of Cunning and Guile Feb. 27, 2006
Voice of Dance, Joanna G. Harris, review "Homeworks" Li Chiao-Ping Dance, April 24, 2007
Danceview.com, review Adventures of Cunning and Guile, Spetember 12, 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice Fall Preview Issue, September 7, 2005
San Francisco Magazine, November issue 2004
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice Fall Preview Issue, September 8, 2004
San Francisco Chornicle, Review Summerfest program 4, August 2, 2004
Dance View Times, Review Summerfest program 4 ,  August 2004
Dance View Times, Review "24 Views",  April 19 2004,
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice, February 25, 2004
San Francisco Bay Guardian - Tales of a Woman review, May, 2003
Woman's Business Monthly - Tales of a Woman preview, May, 2003
San Francisco Weekly - 'Mind Games' interview, October 17-23, 2001
Oakland Urban View - Critics Choice, October, 2001
Digitalcity.com - Critics Choice - October,  2001
San Francisco Weekly - Night and Day, October 8-16, 2001
San Francisco Bay Guardian - Pick of the Week, October, 2001
San Francisco Bay Guardian - Best of Year Issue, December 20-27, 2000
DanceView, Vol. 17, No.20, Spring 2000
San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 15-22, 2000
San Francisco Examiner, February 2, 2000
San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 9, 2000
San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 24-31, 1998
East Bay Express, Critics Choice 'Over There', March 12 - 18, 1998
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8 Days a Week,  November 6 - 13, 1996
Oakland Tribune, Review, October 24, 1996
Oakland Tribune, May 27, 1996
Vancouver Sun, April 19, 1996
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice January 24-30, 1996
San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 31-February 6, 1996  
20th Century Music Journal,  November, 1995
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8 Days a Week, September 20- 26, 1995
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice, May 30, 1995
San Francisco Arts Monthly, Ten Good Ways to Launch The New Year,  January, 1995
San Francisco Examiner, August 26, 1994
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice, May 25, 1994
San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 27, 1993

 

Lectures, Workshops, Teaching


Adjunct Professor, Mills College, Spring 2007
Guest Artists, Master Classes, Mills College, September, 2006
Pilates, UC Berkeley, Ongoing
Guest Artists, Cabrillo College, CA Fall Semester 2005
Guest Artists, University of Wisconsin, Madison Spring Semester 2005
Li Chiao Ping Workshop /  Residency at The Farm, Oregon, WI June 2004
Shotgun Players Workshop, Pilates and Yoga for performers summer 2003
National Dance Week "The Performer Prepares"workshop Cynthia Adams May 2003
Center Street Studio, 'Creating Movement' Workshop, May 2002
'Pilates and Yoga', the Yoga Room, Berkeley, Ongoing series   
American Association of University Women,(AAUW) Alameda Chapter, September, 1999
Wesleyan College, Master Class, November 1996
San Jose State University, Master Class Graduate Students, 1994
Tuesday Art Series, Barnes and Noble, Oakland, CA, October 1994

 

Television, Film Appearances


Senses, HD video by Douglas Rosenberg, Wisconsin Public Television, WI
SPARK, date listings  February 25,27  2004
Midnight Magic, Filmmaker Flora Skivington, Choreo. Jennifer McAllister  shot Dec. 2003
Again, Filmmaker Kia Simon, Choreographer Chris Black  shot May 2003
Headspace, Santa Cruz CA ,May 2000
Headspace, Santa Cruz CA ,May 1999
Dance House TV, October 1995
Fog City Television, March, 1995

 

Boards and Panels


2006 Djerassi Artist in Residency Program Dance Panel, June 2006
2005 -   Board of Directors, Dancer's Group, San Francsico, CA
1996 - 1999     Board of Dierctors, San Francisco Butoh Festival, San Francisco, CA
1993 -   Board of Directors, Fellow Travelers Performance Group, Berkeley, CA

 

Production Activities


Fellow Travelers Performance Group is active is providing opportunities for  local, national  and international performers to be seen in San Francisco.  Over ninety artists from the Bay area, across the United States and Canada have performed in our low tech (usually) group shows, offering a rare chance to be produced in the Bay Area. 

 

Women on the Edge - 1996 - 2006. A showcase series designed to provide groundbreaking women choreographers of dancetheater works with a low stress, paid forum for their work.

 

A Month of Sundays -1996 May through December, then sporadic salons - A month of Sundays began as a thirty week Sunday night performance series in alternative spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This experiment in lost cost production where high caliber artists could branch out into new areas, was very successful.  Allowing and encouraging experimentation allowed many artists to try new methods, whether or not they worked.  Over the thirty weeks dance companies, dance artists, composers, poets, actors, sculptors and other artists all got chances to interact, get feedback and show work.

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

 

2007     East Bay Community Foundation, project support Intersecting Stories
2006     Puffin Foundation, Women on the Edge Festival 
2005     Zellerbach Small Grants for the Arts - Women on the Edge Festival
2004     Zellerbach Small Grants for the Arts - Inferno Project - Appetites of Gluttony
2004     W A Gerbode Foundation - Inferno Project - Appetites of Gluttony
2004     W. and F. Hewlett Foundation - Inferno Project - Appetites of Gluttony
2004     CA$H Grant - Inferno Project -'Appetites of Gluttony'
2004     Capital Group Companies, General Support
2004     Genentech Matching Funds, general support
2003     Zellerbach Family Fund - support - Tales of a Woman
2003     Clorox Foundation - support - Tales of a Woman
2002     Zellerbach Family Fund - Fiscal Sponsor - POTRZEBIE Dance Project
2002     Zellerbach Family Fund - Fiscal Sponsor - Linda Carr
2002     Gerbode - Fiscal Sponsor - POTRZEBIE Dance Project
2002     William and Flora Hewlett Foundation  - POTRZEBIE Dance Project
2002     Fleishhaker Fourth Generation Grants - Fiscal Sponsor - Linda Carr
2002     Zellerbach Family Fund - Arts Assistance Grant - Dante Project
2001     Theater Bay Area CASH Grant - project support
2001     Zellerbach Family Fund - project support
2000     Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation, Matching Grant
2000     Nash Foundation
1999     Zellerbach Family Fund - support - Women on the Edge and Strange Love
1999  Megabios Corporation Fellowship
1999     Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation, Matching Grant
1998     Zellerbach Family Fund -  Women on the Edge 1999 / Creation of new work
1998     Lucent Foundation, Matching Grant
1997     Zellerbach family Fund - Project Grant - Women on the Edge
1997Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation,  Matching Grant
1996     AT&T Foundation Grant - Support Grant
1996     Zellerbach Family Fund - Project Grant - The Tourist
1995     AT&T Foundation Grant - Support Grant
1995     Zellerbach Family Fund - Project Grant - Catastrophe Practice
1994     Zellerbach Family Fund - Project Grant - Fractured Vision, Hat and Head

 

New and Repertory works of FTPG

 

2007    

Unbalenced Output, Timara Festival Oberlin OH with Nichole Richter, Amy Nueburg
Dance of the Samnambulists, Timara Festival, Oberlin OH, With Composer Steve Sloan
Untitled, The LAB, San Francisco, CA for Watchword Press 'Whole Story'
The Hunt, Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA

2006

Loft, quintet, 15 min, for Yerba Buena Gardens Choreographers Festival
Version 32, Duet, 2 min., for "24 Views", Chor. Ken James and Cynthia Adams
PU-RI , solo installation work, with composer Sueng-yon Seny Lee, Chor. Error! Contact not defined.

2005    

Yiddishe Mama, solo, 8 Min., Chor. Cynthia Adams for Li Chiao Ping
Warning Signs, duet, 7 Min., Chor. Ken James
Ghosts of My Friends, octet, 17 Min., Chor.  Cynthia Adams, Ken James
The Adventures of Cunning and Guile, evening, chor. Ken James and Chris Black

2004    

Warning Signs, quintet, 25 Min.  Chor. Ken James
Pate Farm, duet,  7 Min., Chor. Ken James and Cynthia Adams
The Hunt, solo, 12min chor. Cynthia Adams
The Appetites of Gluttony, trio,  13 min. Chor.  Ken James
Duck and Cover, duet, 2 min. for "24 views" show,

2003    

American Dream?, solo, 6 min., Chor. Cynthia Adams
The Beast, solo, 20 min., Chor. Cynthia Adams
A Short History of Decay, Solo, 7 minutes, chor. Ken James

2002    

Beware How You Come In and Whom You Trust, Trio, 12 minutes, chor. Ken James
Ties That Bind, septet, 15 minutes, chor. Ken James

2001

A Life Worth Living, septet, 22 minutes, chor. Ken James
Project Earth: Our Violent Earth, Our Violent Nature, sextet, 35 minutes, Chor. Cynthia Adams
Canoe Study #2, duet 8 min.  Chor. Ken James

2000

You Know Me Better, sextet  40 min., , chor. Ken James
26 Movements, duet, 12 min.,  chor. Ken James
In Good Taste, solo, 15 min., chor. Cynthia Adams

1999    

Skewering, solo, duration varies, chor. Ken James
The Temptation of Deer, number of performers and duration varies,  chor. Ken James
Log Pulling, solo, duration varies, chor. Ken James
Dental Hygiene, duet, 7 min., chor. Ken James
Games People Play, Too,  trio, 15 min.,  chor. Cynthia Adams

1998

The Trouble with being Born, quintet, 20 min., chor. Ken James
Footnote,  solo, 15 min.,  chor. Cynthia Adams
Untitled Outdoor, trio, 20 min., chor. Cynthia Adams and Ken James,

1997    

Untitled Outdoor, 12 performers, 20 min., chor. Cynthia Adams and Ken James
A Word From Our Sponsor, duet, 4 min., chor. Ken James

1996

A Gentle Awakening, solo, 12min., Chor. Cynthia Adams
Untitled Outdoor, 15 performers, 20 min., chor. Cynthia Adams and Ken James

1995    

Catastrophe Practice, quintet, 1 hr. 10 min., chor. Cynthia Adams and Ken James
Untitled Outdoor, 15 performers, 20 min., chor. Cynthia Adams and Ken James

1994    

Fractured Vision, octet, 45min., Chor. Cynthia Adams
Between Your Hat and Head, octet, 30 min., chor Ken James
The Fisherman, solo or duet, 6 min., chor Ken James

1993

The Tourist, sextet, 25 min., chor. Ken James
Bodie, octet, 20 min., chor. Cynthia Adams   

1992

Not in the Scriptures, duet, 15 min., chor. Cynthia Adams
Glossolalia, trio, 15 min., chor. Ken James


FTPG spaces performed in:

 

East Bay, CA
8th Street Studio, Berkeley
Berkeley Ironworks, Berkeley
Black Box Theater
Center Street Studio
Dean Lesher Theater, Walnut Creek
Emeryville Marina, Emeryville
Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley
Luna, A Dance Place, Oakland
Oakland YWCA
Open Arts Circle, Oakland
The Stork Club, Oakland
Temescal Arts Center, Oakland
Wildcat Studio, Berkeley

 

San Francsico, CA
455A Valencia St.
848 Community Center
Brady Street Dance Center*
BUILD
Cartoon Art Museum
CELL
Cowell Theater
Dancer's Group Studio Theater
Noh Space
ODC Theater
Theater Artaud
The Lab
Yerba Buena Arts Center

 

Los Angeles, CA
Electric Lodge

 

Oberlin, OH
Hall Auditorium

South Bay / Peninsula, CA
Saratoga
San Jose State University, San Jose CA
Djerassi Ranch, Woodside, CA

 

Sacramento Area
Sacramento State University, Sacramento
Studio 515, Charmichael

 

Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College, Cabrillo, CA
Santa Cruz Dance Gallery, Santa Cruz CA

 

Petaluma
Sonoma State University

 

Virginia
Hollins College, Roanoke

 

Vancouver, B.C.
Blinding Light
Firefall Arts Center

 

Wisconsin
The Farm, Oregon, WI
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

 

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