Bridge Live Arts presents Experiments in Motion, a live performance that features new works by choreographers Rebecca Fitton, Cherie Hill, and Hope Mohr. Since 2023, the artists have collaboratively developed Dancing Distributed Leadership, a project that explores shared leadership through choreography, performance, and community engagement. Now, the artists share their inquiries and discoveries through a performative lens with three distinct dance premieres.

DATES

Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8 pm

Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8 pm **ASL live interpretation**

Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2 pm

LOCATION

SPACE 124, a project space in Project Artaud

401 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

PERFORMANCES

approval process - Directed by Rebecca Fitton and co-created and performed by Zoe Huey, Emily Hansel, Melissa Lewis Wong, and Lawrence Tome

approval process ruminates on the interwoven intimacies of co-creating a budget. Budgets are often understood to be complicated matrixes representing an immobile, hypercapitalist bottom line. This work seeks to unravel and humanize this narrative by celebrating budgets as choreographies of expansive care for those implicated in its line items.

The Space In Between - Choreographed and performed by Cherie Hill, with dance and performance by Andreína Maldonado and video art by Leslie Foster.

The Space In Between examines the challenges, intimacy, and societal repercussions of distance. During the pandemic, social distancing expanded and caused significant impacts on our culture, including shifting the ways we work and communicate. In this multi-media dance piece and incubator for processing grief and distance, the artists investigate how one reconciles historical and contemporary separation.

Partial View - Directed by Hope Mohr. Co-created and performed by Rosemary Hannon, Belinda He, and Hope Mohr

What does it mean to perform process? How can we render embodied research transparent to others? Partial View is an improvised duet exploring sustained, shifting relationships and the tensions in honoring both somatic experience and the performance context.

📸 Photo/Media Release: audiences may be captured as part of the work during filming of the Sunday show. 

ACCESSIBILITY

• Space 124 is a 0.5 mile uphill from the 16th St Mission BART. Buses (55, 22, 23) run from BART and drop passengers 0.3 mile from Space 124. There are five concrete steps from the street to Space 124. A ramp entry is available.
• There will be ongoing construction on Alabama St in front of Space 124. Traffic will still be allowed to flow, and sidewalks will be accessible. If this changes before the shows, B.L.A. will inform audiences.
• Space 124 features a no-step entry and performance space. Some audience movement will be required during the performance.
• ASL live interpretation will be provided at Saturday's show.
• The approval process features experimental audio description narrated by Fitton, an access practitioner for audio description.

ABOUT Dancing Distributed Leadership

The Dancing Distributed Leadership project explores shared leadership through choreography, performance, and community engagement. The work explores balancing individual voice, deep listening, collective authorship, and an embodied study of different experiences. Public sharing includes live and virtual evening-length performances paired with audience dialogues; public conversation and movement workshops on shared leadership in dance; open rehearsals; writings; and resources. The project is choreographed and led by an intergenerational, inter-disabled, multi-racial team composed of current and past B.L.A. leaders with diverse experiences and perspectives. Rebecca Fitton is a disabled improvisational dance-maker, audio describer, and B.L.A.’s newest Co-Director; Cherie Hill is a choreographer who creates works inspired by the African Diaspora, nature, and feminism (B.LA. Co-Director since 2020); and Hope Mohr is a choreographer working across dance, drawing, and language who transitioned out of Co-Directorship in 2023. Each brings their own aesthetic interests and choreographic processes to this shared creation.

FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Dancing Distributed Leadership is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program, the New England Foundation for the Art’s National Dance Project Finalist Award, and residencies at the National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron and Space 124, a project space in Project Artaud.

Cherie Hill’s The Space in Between is supported by funding from California State University, San Marcos. The creation of Hope Mohr's Partial View was made possible in part through the Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Arts Center and the Artist in Residency program at Zaccho Dance Theater.

Bridge Live Arts programming is made possible with support from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program, and generous individual donors.

Header Photo Credit: Dale Dong