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Guest Speakers: Robert Moses http://www.robertmoseskin.org Choreographer Robert Moses founded Robert Moses' Kin in 1995. His work is a powerful combination of athletic technique, rhythmic complexity, a fusion of different dance styles, and gestural detail. He explores topics ranging from oral history in African American culture to the life and work of author James Baldwin, the isolation found in new love to the dark side of contemporary urban culture, and the simple joyous expressions of pure movement. He has choreographed for film, theater and opera, including most recently the San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of The Force of Destiny. Moses and his company have been honored with many prestigious grants, awards and fellowships, including three project awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Irvine Dancemakers grant, the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award and three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Moses’ work has been commissioned and performed internationally by such companies as Philadanco, Cincinnati Ballet, Transitions Dance Company of the Laban Center in London, African Cultural Exchange and Bare Bones Dance Company in Birmingham, England, and Oakland Ballet, among others. His work has been performed nationally and internationally, including England, Italy and Ireland. Moses was recently appointed Artist-in-Residence and Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, where he has been a lecturer and curator of dance programming since 1995. A highly regarded master teacher, he has taught on campuses and at festivals throughout the United States. Krissy Keefer http://www.dancebrigade.org In 1975, Krissy Keefer co-founded the Wallflower Order, the nation's first feminist dance company. Wallflower toured nationally for almost a decade, staging many of Keefer's works before large and enthusiastic audiences. Keefer injected text into her choreography to convey its overtly political content and in the process developed a new kind of modern dance-theater rooted in the martial arts, female athleticism and social justice issues. In 1984 she co-founded the Dance Brigade continuing her explorations of dance-theater that addresses women's issues. Keefer's longest-running and most successful work, The Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie, was seen by more than 40,000 people and incorporated over 700 bay area artists and musicians during its 10-year run (1987-1996). In 1989 Ms. Keefer staged "Sleepwalker," a dance drama about women and addiction with Laurel Near at ODC Theatre. Supported by a Rockefeller MAP grant, Keefer created "Goodbye Columbus" with Nina Fichter in 1992 to address the underlying racial issues surrounding the Columbus Quincentennial. In 1993 another Rockefeller MAP award supported the creation of "Cinderella," a dance theater piece about women who fight back against sexual and physical abuse. Keefer's body of work includes the trilogy "Ballet of the Banshees" (1995), "The Queen of Sheba" (1999) and "Cave Women" (2002), a series that garnered Isadora Duncan Award nominations for choreography, text, set design, and lighting design. Her most recent work, "Spell," was created in 2004 with Joe Williams, Copper Wimmin, Keith Hennessy's Circo Zero, and the Day of the Dead exhibit at the SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Ms. Keefer has choreographed and directed work for Anne Bluethenthal, Fellow Travelers Performance Group, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival, and others. Keefer has received numerous awards, including three NEA Choreographers' Fellowships, SF Magazine's 1998 Arts Achievement Award for Dance, a 1997 Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award, three Isadora Duncan Awards and the 1993 East Bay Express' "Artists Who Make A Difference" Award.
Deborah Slater director, choreographer and
performer, has worked in dance and theater for the last 20 years,
including the Magic Theater, A Traveling Jewish Theater, San Diego Rep,
Dell ‘Arte, Theaterworks, the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir and The Pickle
Family Circus. A cofounder of Circuit Network Management, she is
Artistic Director of Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Studio 210 and
founder and Artistic Director of
Art of the Matter Performance
Foundation (AOTM). Ms. Slater and DSDT are recipients of numerous
awards, Izzie nominations (most recently 2007) and grants including nine
NEA fellowships, the California Arts Council, Fleishhacker, Vanguard
Public Fund, Zellerbach Family Fund, Haas Family Fund, Grants for the
Arts/Hotel Tax, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Ms. Slater served
on the Executive Committee of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program as
Secretary and Vice-President (2000 - 2006). DSDT has been on the roster
of Young Audiences of the Bay Area for seven years as well as for the SF
Hotel Tax/Grants for the Arts. Ms. Slater has been a guest artist at
Stanford University, San Francisco State University, Cal Arts and CCA.
She has been a Guest Lecturer at the Fromm and Osher Institutes for
Lifelong Learning. Ms. Slater is a mentor for the Vision Series for high
school and young professional choreographers.
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