Three Sat Night Shows in November!
Nov 5 @ 8pm
Rebekah Enderle is a professional contemporary dancer. She earned a Master of Arts degree in French Studies from New York University and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English from the University of Connecticut. Her education in the humanities informs much of her artistic work, which is motivated by a love to share perspective, create beauty, and document culture through the language of dance.
Aleño Dance Project (Alexandra Tiscareno) is a project-based modern dance company from Oakland, CA. Created in 2022 by Alexandra Tiscareno, Aleños’s mission is to become a size-inclusive modern dance company within the Bay Area and beyond. Believing every BODY is cherishable and should be represented no matter size, shape, or ability. Through this, Aleño strives to bring body inclusivity to the forefront of the performing arts, showing that regardless of size, shape, or ability, anyone can dance.
Kyleigh Carlson is originally from Sacramento California. She earned a BFA in dance from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in Choreography at Wilson College. Kyleigh has served as an intern for Dr. Carol Press, History of Dance Professor. She was awarded the Dance Education Laboratory Scholarship, which extended her education and training in New York (2013), the Patricia Sparrow Scholarship to further her dance studies in New York (2014), and the Emerging Choreographer Award (2015) presented by Professor Mira Kingsley. Kyleigh’s choreographic work has been awarded on the National Level, commissioned for shows such as, Teen Dance Star (2017), and adjudicated at the American College Dance Association western region concert (2019). She has also served as a mentor and choreographer with an arts non-profit organization, the Arts Mentorship Program. Most recently she moved to San José California from Humboldt County where she was a lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt within the Theater, Film, and Dance Department. Currently, she is a Lecturer at San José State University teaching Modern and Ballet technique. Kyleigh has danced professionally with CORE contemporary dance, Comedian Hannibal Buress, Trillium Dance Ensemble, Printz Dance Project (SF) and is delighted to be currently dancing for Limón based company under the direction of Gary Masters and Maria Basile, sjDANCEco.
Sawako Ogo (any/all) is a freelance dancer based in the San Francisco Bay Area from Japan. Upon moving to San Francisco from Tokyo, Sawako graduated with a B.A. in Dance from San Francisco State University. Sawako trained with Ray Tadio and Cathleen McCarthy, as well as academic instruction from Yutian Wong. Sawako had the privilege to work with choreographers and companies such as David Herrera’s David Herrera Performance Company, Natasha Adorlee’s Concepto4, Andi Salazar’s A Pulso Dance Project, Joe Landini, and Christian Burns, as well as numerous artists.
Nov 12 @ 8pm
Elijah Muñoz is a dance artist from Fresno, CA and currently based in Oakland, CA.Elijah was a member of Fresno Dance Collective (NOCO) from 2013-2017 and Altered Modalities, under the direction of Martha Kelly-Fierro, from 2014-2016. He studied dance at Fresno City College and is now pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in software engineering at Arizona State University.
Leo Angel Lefevre a multidisciplinary movement artist, with a background in high level competitive artistic gymnastics, and circus (aerial) training. I started performing in circus shows with the Circus Project Circus Company in 2017, working with Sir Cupcake’s Queer Circus, as well as choreographing dance shows with PCC in Portland, Oregon. My specialities are hand-balancing & tumbling, and I have performed in different circus shows across U.S. I also have experience in a wide variety of dance styles including, modern, lyrical, contemporary, ballet, hiphop, waacking & vogue.
Established in 2020, hearthdance is a project based dance collective founded and run by Kat Flipse. We aim to explore the boundaries of dance while creating community in the process. The collective believes that great dance flourishes in environments where artists are encouraged and empowered to make daring, creative choices. Through this lens, hearthdance makes dances that are sourced in creativity, exploration, and openness.
Nov 19 @ 7pm
STEAMROLLER Dance Company In 1993, a group of artists came together to create guerrilla performances addressing HIV/AIDS in marginalized communities. The company currently under the direction of Jesselito Bie has presented work in the 1997 Bay Area Dance Festival, the In the Street Festivals, the SF Lesbian and Gay Dance Festivals, Asian American Dance Performances, Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Summer Performance Festival, San Francisco Trolley Dances, the DIRT Festival, the first Queering Dance Festival and the 2016-2019 SF International Arts Festivals.
Raven Malouf-Renning received their BA from UC Santa Cruz in 1997, where they studied extensively with Mel Wong and Silvia Martins. Raven is the Assistant Director of the Walks Between Wandering Ensemble, a fusion of Eric Kupers’ Bandelion and the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble. In addition, Raven is also a vocalist and harmonium player in the band Ultrasonic Current. Raven is a Resident Artist at SAFEHouse for the Performing Arts, where they created five solo dance films for the organization’s Online Digital Showcase series, which they also co-hosted. This past summer, Raven premiered their piece on their metagender identity, They, Not She, for the West Wave Dance Festival, and acted as Dramaturg for Gina Stella Dell’Assunta’s piece How To Have A Body. Most recently, they performed with Joe Landini And Dancers in More Is More!, a site specific dance piece honoring local drag legend Juanita More, and co-produced 13 Threads as part of the international collaboration, Event Horizons. This spring, they performed in Joe Landini’s City of Ghosts and also premiered their piece The Next Mountain To Climb at ODC. Creating radically inclusive, raw, honest art and empowering others to do the same is at the heart of their artistic and spiritual practice.
Emma Tome, movement and sound practices are a pathway home, a way to braid together individual, collective, and intergenerational questions about belonging and transition. While Emma works in climate research and policy, they trust even more in art as a steward through loss, disruption, and change. Tome was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their mother is from Maryland, USA and their father is from Okinawa, Japan. Emma has composed music for Nol Simonse and Scott Duane, and is currently a dancer for pateldanceworks upcoming project, fault lines.
Scott Duane is a writer, dancer, filmmaker, retired trans activist, and a total nerd. His love of dance was a later-in-life discovery, emerging as he found himself at the tail end of his years-long journey of gender transition. Prior to entering the world of dance, he used his voice as a writer and filmmaker to process and understand the complexities of gender, centering transness in all its forms. In this new iteration of his artistic life, he is enjoying digging deep into some of these same areas from an embodied, often absurdist perspective. He’s the author of 2019 Lambda Literary Finalist Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, holds a PhD in Mathematics from University of California, San Diego, and has danced or performed in works by Nol Simonse, Eric Kupers, and Garrett & Moulton Productions.
Nov 19 @ 9pm
Dilpreet Anand (they/she) is a multimedia projection and meditative pattern/sketch based visual artist with ancestral roots in Punjab who will not in this bio state where they were born – why do you need to know, why are you asking, are you a cop? – currently living on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land renamed by ypipo Oakland, California. They use their creative practice to access healing through flow states, creating immersive static and moving pattern work that allow viewers a slowing and subversion of colonized time. They see the establishment of viable community support structures as inseparable from their creative practice, centering food justice and mutual aid in their community work.
Gabriel Nuñez de Arco (she/they/them/ esp: ella/elle) is a visual artist, composer, sound engineer, lighting designer and DJ born in Chochenyo Ohlone land (colonial name: Oakland, CA) with roots in Aymara/Quechua land (colonial name: La Paz, Bolivia). They have performed and provided technical support for events across Australia, Bolivia and the United States with a focus on queer DIY dance spaces. Their creative work explores questions of belonging as a queer diasporic person and seeks reclamatory formations of history as generative space for decolonized futures.