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Kira Kirsch and Rajendra Serber
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An evening of new dance for kinesthetic transformation
Presented by Dance Mission’s Down and Dirty Dance Series, San Francisco
March 18 – 19, 8pm
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Kira Kirsch and Rajendra Serber, presented by Dance Mission’s Down and Dirty Dance Series
Friday – Saturday, March 18 – 19, 8pm
Tickets $15 – $25 (sliding scale) available at brownpapertickets.com/event/157635
At Dance Mission, 3316 24th Street (corner of Mission Street), San Francisco, CA 94110
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Kira Kirsch and Rajendra Serber moving their cells and souls at Dance Mission’s Down and Dirty Dance Series. Presenting >oh< an evening of new dance with an international group of performers. Kira and Rajendra are well know in the vital San Francisco dance scene for their performances with Sara Shelton Mann, Scott Wells and others. Their choreographic investigations are infused by somatic, virtuosic and phenomenal sensibility. Together their goal is to transform the audience through a kinesthetic experience that lets your body fly and cry. oh.
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Kira Kirsch and Rajendra Serber moving their cells and souls at Dance Mission’s Down and Dirty Dance Series. Presenting >oh< an evening of new works with an international group of dancers and guest choreographer, canadian, Kelly Keenan. Kira and Rajendra are coming together to share their years of research in somatic traditions and extract what is vital now, with choreographic investigations that are infused by somatic, virtuosic and phenomenal sensibility. Together their goal is to transform the audience through a kinesthetic experience that lets your body fly and cry. oh.
Kira and Rajendra are well known for their performances with Sara Shelton Mann, Scott Wells and others. They have been colleagues and friends since 2006 giving each other flight and unforgettable dances. They share a passion for the art of contact improvisation, off-balance and movement as energy, which they have been investigating in teaching, practice, performance and in their own choreography.
The evening will include new works directed by Kira and Rajendra with local dancers, musicians and Canadian dancer and choreographer Kelly Keenan (Montreal). The work ranges from an investigation into the ecology of monsters, to an utter celebration of being together, to states of transience and migration. Among the works will be a duet between Kira and Rajendra exploring the anticipation of touch and the physical collisions of distant desires. Other dancers include: Sebastian Grubb (SF), Kristen Greco (Berkeley), Daniel Bear Davis (Santa Cruz), Rosemary Hannon (Berkeley), Phoenicia Pettyjohn (SF), Sierra Helvey (SF), Ian Smith (Oakland), Kathryn Lynn Shearman (SF), Adam Baltieri (SF).
Kira Kirsch is a movement artist & activist from Berlin/Vienna. Her most recent work ‘species’ is a moving body exposition in collaboration with choreographer Kelly Keenan, which has been presented at festivals in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco and Europe. In San Francisco Kira can be seen in the works of media & performance artist David Szlasa, visionary Sara Shelton Mann, Avy k. productions, DanceBrigade and a moving image installation tribute to Pina Bausch. She is well known internationally as a primary teacher of Axis Syllabus and the foremost expert in the Bay Area. The Axis Syllabus is a new discipline in movement education science integrating somatics and dynamic movement.
Based in San Francisco, Rajendra is making choreography for stage and screen. He was awarded the DANCE MOViES Commissions for a new dance film which premiered in 2010. This work was developed in residency at San Francisco Film Society’s FilmHouse. Last year he also collaborated on new work which were presented in San Francisco, Berlin and Paris. He has performed for Sara Shelton Mann, Scott Wells and collaborated on choreography for film with Dandelion Dancetheater, and multimedia presentations with The Residents.
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