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YBCA Presents the Critically Acclaimed The Good Dance—dakar/brooklyn by Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba on Apr 1–3, 2010
YBCA Presents Bay Area Artist Sara Kraft with the World Premiere of Hyperreal on Mar 18–20, 2010
YBCA Presents the First Collaborative Exhibition by LA-Based Artists Kara Tanaka and Marco Rios with Death's Boutique from Mar 20–Apr 25, 2010
YBCA and San Francisco Performances present the Bay Area Premiere of bahok from the Akram Khan Company on Feb 18–20, 2010
YBCA Presents Acclaimed Choreographer Ronald K. Brown's Newest Work Two-Year Old Gentlemen on Feb 4–6, 2010
YBCA Presents Icons of Attention with Bay Area-Based Video and Performance Artist Kamau Patton, Jan 30–Mar 7, 2010
YBCA Announces the Largest U.S. Presentation of Work by Internationally Renowned Artist Renée Green, Feb 20–Jun 20, 2010
Youth Speaks and YBCA present Left Coast Leaning Festival
YBCA Celebrates Brazil's Creative Vitality with the Exhibition When Lives Become Form, 1960s to the Present, Nov 5, 2009–Jan 31, 2010
YBCA Presents Tropical Vulture with Legendary Filmmaker George Kuchar and Mexican Artist Miguel Calderón on Nov 21, 2009–Jan 10, 2010
YBCA Presents the Bay Area Premiere of Lay of the Land by Internationally Acclaimed Performer Tim Miller on Nov 20 & 21
YBCA and the San Francisco Performances Present the Bay Area Premiere of To Be Straight With You from England's DV8 Physical Theatre, Nov 12–14
YBCA Presents Gregory Maqoma—One of South Africa's Leading Choreographers—in His Acclaimed Solo Performance Beautiful Me on Nov 5–7, 2009
YBCA Presents the World Premere of Dogsbody by SF's Venerable Theatre of Yugen on Oct 22–24, 8 pm
YBCA Presents the West Coast Premiere of Fondly Do We Hope … Fervently Do We Pray from Tony Award Winning Choreographer Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company on Oct 1–3
Kronos Quartet Performs Rahayu Supanggah's Purnati at the Oliver Ranch to Benefit YBCA on Oct 25 at 3 pm
YBCA Announces Keywords School at YBCA in Its First West Coast Presentation on Sep 26–Nov 15, 2009
YBCA Presents Margaret Jenkins Dance Company / Guangdong Modern Dance Company in the World Premiere of Other Suns (A Trilogy)
YBCA Announces Wallworks Featuring Eight Extraordinary and Compelling Artists
09_10 Season Signals Big Changes at YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
09_10 Season | 08_09 Season | 07_08 Season | General Images
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PAUSE :: Singing the Net • May 1–Jun 13, 2010
Karnaval, Previous work by Olive Martin, 2005
image by LAX Art
photo courtesy of the artist
Manmuswak, Previous work by Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, 2005
photo by Denis Mortell, courtesy of GREC and Galerie Maisonneuve
X and Y v France: The Case of a Legal Precedent - at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, 2008
photo by Marc Domage
PAUSE :: Death's Boutique • Mar 20–Apr 25, 2010
Death's Boutique, Marco Rios and Kara Tanaka, 2010
courtesy of the artist
Crushed by the Hammer of the Sun, Previous work by Kara Tanaka, 2008
image by LAX Art
photo courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Dissolver, Previous work by Kara Tanaka, 2008
photo courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Fangoria, detail from site specific installation Public Intervention, UC Irvine 2007, Marco Rios
photo courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York
CrossFade • Feb 19–Jun 20, 2010
CrossFade
Ian Breakwell, Nine Jokes, 1971 (video still)
Taravat Talepasand: Drawings • Feb 13–Jun 20, 2010
Taravat Talepasand, Death to Bitches!, 2008
Taravat Talepasand, Hafez September 9, 1978, 2009
Taravat Talepasand, Traditions are as followed, 2008
PAUSE :: Icons of Attention • Jan 23–Mar 7, 2010
Detail from site specific installation A Machine Project Field Guide to the LA County Museum of Art, Kamau Patton, 2007 (video still)
photo courtesy of the artist
Detail from site specific installation A Machine Project Field Guide to the LA County Museum of Art, Kamau Patton, 2008
photo courtesy of the artist
Get Yours, Previous work by Kamau Patton, 2008
photo courtesy of the artist
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams • Feb 20–Jun 20, 2010
Previous installation of Endless Dreams and Water Between at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Space Poem 2
Renée Green, 2008
photo courtesy of Free Agent Media and the artist
Previous installation of Endless Dreams and Water Between at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Space Poem 2
Renée Green, 2008
photo courtesy of Free Agent Media and the artist
Previous installation of Endless Dreams and Water Between at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Space Poem 2
Renée Green, 2008
photo courtesy of Free Agent Media and the artist
Some Chance Operations video still
Renée Green, 1999
photo courtesy of Renée Green, Free Agent Media, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Stills video still
Renée Green, 2009
photo courtesy of Renée Green, Free Agent Media, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
PAUSE :: Tropical Vulture • Nov 21, 2009–Jan 10, 2010
Acapulco 79, Miguel Calderon, 2008
photo courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto
Tropical Vulture film still, George Kuchar and Miguel Calderon, 2009
photo by Eamon Ore-Giron
Bad Route, Previous work by Miguel Calderon, 1998
photo courtesy of Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
Beginning, Previous work by George Kutchar, 1998
photo courtesy of the artist
Falcon #6, Previous work by Miguel Calderon, 2003
photo courtesy of Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
Resistol 5000, Previous work by Miguel Calderon
photo courtesy of Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present • Nov 5, 2009–Jan 31, 2010
Mega Box, Beatriz Milhazes
photo courtesy of Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo
Sewing the Invisble, Jum Nakao
photo courtesy of Jum Nakao Inc.
Untitled, Marepe
photo courtesy of Galeria Luisa Strina
Untitled, Tomie Ohtake
photo from private collection
PAUSE :: Keywords School • Sep 26–Nov 15, 2009
Xu Tan
photo courtesy of the artist
Xu Tan
photo courtesy of the artist
Xu Tan
photo courtesy of the artist
Previous installation of The Keywords School, Guanzodong Museum, Xu Tan
photo courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Previous installation of The Keywords School, Stockholm Contemporary Museum, Xu Tan
photo courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Wallworks • Jul 18–Oct 25, 2009
(Previous works by artists featured in Wallworks)
Details from site specific installation The Laboratory, Yehudit Sasportas
photo courtesy of Kunstverein Braunschweig
Four States, Odili Donald Odita
photo courtesy of the artist and Michael Stevenson Gallery
Randall-Ray, Chris Henley
photo courtesy of Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio / Museum purchase with funds provided by Dave and Ellen Ryan © Chris Finley
Zyliss, Tillman Kaiser
photo courtesy of Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary
Dennis Nyback Presents: So, You Wanna Fight! • Apr 18, 2010
Dennis Nyback, So You Wanna Fight (portrait of Joe Louis)
courtesy of William Neal Brown
Dennis Nyback, So You Wanna Fight (vintage Joe Louis fight poster)
no credit
Independent Inuit Film: The Fast Runner Trilogy • Apr 9, 11 & 17, 2010
Inuit Films, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner
courtesy of Iglooik Isuma Productions
Inuit Films, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner
courtesy of Iglooik Isuma Productions
Inuit Films, Before Tomorrow
courtesy of Iglooik Isuma Productions
Inuit Films, Before Tomorrow
courtesy of Iglooik Isuma Productions
Inuit Films, Journals of Knud Rasmussen
courtesy of Isuma Distribution Intl, Inc.
Inuit Films, Journals of Knud Rasmussen
courtesy of Isuma Distribution Intl, Inc.
The Word and the Image: Films by Marguerite Duras • Apr 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2010
Marguerite Duras, India Song
courtesy of Culturesfrance
Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Granger (production shot)
courtesy of Moullet Et Cie
portrait of Marguerite Duras
no credit
British Television Advertising Award Winners • March 20 & 21, 2010
BTAA, 2009
Barclaycard Waterslide
BTAA, 2009
BBCiplayer Penguins
BTAA, 2009
Comfort Naturalists
BTAA, 2009
Drench Brains
BTAA, 2009
Honda Problem Playground
BTAA, 2009
Hovis Goonlad
BTAA, 2009
Orange Anjelica Huston
BTAA, 2009
PG Tips Breakfast
BTAA, 2009
PG Tips Breakfast
BTAA, 2009
PG Tips Queen
BTAA, 2009
Sony Foam
BTAA, 2009
Walls Towerblock
Human Rights and Film • March 4–28, 2010
Leila, from YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
credit Human Rights Watch
Mozambique, from YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
Human Rights Watch
courtesy of Venice Arts
Petition
courtesy the artist
Petition
courtesy the artist
SIDA, by Gaspar Noé
from the film 8
SIDA, by Gaspar Noé
from the film 8
The Story of Pashini Beka, by Jan Kounen
from the film 8
The Story of Pashini Beka, by Jan Kounen
from the film 8
The Water Diary, by Jane Campion
from the film 8
The Water Diary, by Jane Campion
from the film 8
Thoughts in a Hijab, from YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
courtesy of Human Rights Watch
What Courage Means to Me, from YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
credit Human Rights Watch
American Radical
credit Typecast Films
The Glass House
credit Fictionville Studios
The Glass House
credit Fictionville Studios
American Radical, Norman Finkelstein
credit Typecast Films
Freaks, Punks, Skanks & Cranks • Feb 18–27, 2010
San Francisco Punks
Flipper
photo courtesy of Target Video
San Francisco Punks
Mutants
photo courtesy of Target Video
San Francisco Punks
photo courtesy of Target Video
Scarlet Diva
by Asia Argento
photo courtesy of Media Blasters
To My Great Chagrin
by Jeff Sumerel
photo courtesy of Spontaneous Productions
To My Great Chagrin
by Jeff Sumerel
photo courtesy of Spontaneous Productions
To My Great Chagrin
by Jeff Sumerel
photo courtesy of Spontaneous Productions
Gold
by Bob Levis
photo courtesy of Levis Productions
Gold
by Bob Levis
photo courtesy of Levis Productions
Gold
by Bob Levis
photo courtesy of Levis Productions
Gold
by Bob Levis
photo courtesy of Levis Productions
Jacques Tati: Genius of French Comedy • Jan 21–Feb 11, 2010
Jour de Fête
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
The Magnificent Tati
photo by Michael House
The Magnificent Tati
photo by Michael House
The Magnificent Tati
photo by Michael House
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
M. Hulot's Holiday
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Mon Oncle poster
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Playtime
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Trafic
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Trafic
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Trafic
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Trafic
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Trafic
Jacques Tati
photo courtesy of Janus Films
Favela On Blast • Jan 23, 2010
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Favela On Blast
photo courtesy of Leandro HBL & Westley Pentz
Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves In Global Music • Jan 16, 2010
Beyond Ipanema
O'Seis
photo courtesy of Beyond Ipanema LLC
Beyond Ipanema
Caetano Veloso
photo courtesy of Beyond Ipanema LLC
Beyond Ipanema
Filmmakers
photo courtesy of Beyond Ipanema LLC
Sweet Barbarians (Os Doces Bárbaros) • Jan 16, 2010
Os Doces Bárbaros de 1976
Caetano Veloso
photo courtesy of Jom Tob Azulay
Os Doces Bárbaros de 1976
film poster
design by Bea Feitler
Os Doces Bárbaros de 1976
Gal Costa
photo courtesy of Jom Tob Azulay
Os Doces Bárbaros de 1976
Gilberto Gil
photo courtesy of Jom Tob Azulay
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas • Dec 10, 2009
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
photo courtesy of the Muppets Studio, Sesame Workshop, and the Jim Henson Company
Mr. Bug Goes to Town • Dec 10, 2009
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
That's Entertainment III • Dec 10, 2009
That's Entertainment III
The Barkleys of Broadway
photo courtesy of MGM
That's Entertainment III
Torch Song
photo courtesy of MGM
That's Entertainment III
Torch Song
photo courtesy of MGM
It's A Gift • Dec 10, 2009
It's A Gift
photo courtesy of Universal
It's A Gift
photo courtesy of Universal
It's A Gift
photo courtesy of Universal
Om Shanti Om • Dec 6, 2009
Om Shanti Om
photo courtesy of Eros Entertainment
Om Shanti Om
photo courtesy of Eros Entertainment
Parade • Dec 3 & 5, 2009
Parade
photo courtesy of Les Films de Mon Oncle
CineKink: San Francisco • Nov 19–21, 2009
CineKink: San Francisco
Kink Inc.
photo courtesy of Casey Clark
The Cost of Living • Nov 14, 2009
The Cost of Living
photo courtesy of DV8 Films
The Cost of Living
photo courtesy of DV8 Films
A City of Sadness • Nov 5–8, 2009
A City of Sadness
photo courtesy of Era International Ltd.
A City of Sadness, director Hou Hsiao-hsien
photo courtesy of Getty Images
Pink Cinema Revolution: The Radical Films of Koji Wakamatsu • Oct 8 & 29, 2009
Ecstasy of the Angels
photo courtesy of Dissidenz Intl
United Red Army
photo courtesy of Masayuki Kakegawa
United Red Army
photo courtesy of Masayuki Kakegawa
United Red Army
photo courtesy of Masayuki Kakegawa
Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy • Oct 1–4, 2009
Suspiria
photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Suspiria
photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox
The Mother of Tears
photo courtesy of Myriad Pictures
The Mother of Tears
photo courtesy of Myriad Pictures
The Mother of Tears
photo courtesy of Myriad Pictures
Film Ist, a girl & a gun • Sep 24 & 27, 2009
Film Ist, a girl & a gun
photo courtesy of Sixpack Film
Film Ist, a girl & a gun
photo courtesy of Sixpack Film
Liverpool • Sep 17, 19 & 20, 2009
Liverpool
photo courtesy of The Match Factory
Liverpool
photo courtesy of The Match Factory
Liverpool
photo courtesy of The Match Factory
Bigger Than Life • Sep 10, 12 & 13, 2009
Bigger Than Life
photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
Bigger Than Life
photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
Bigger Than Life
photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film • Aug 6–30, 2009
Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame
photo courtesy of Foto File Inc.
Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame
photo courtesy of CMG Worldwide Inc.
Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame
photo courtesy of National Baseball Hall of Fame
Sunday In Hell
photo courtesy of Jørgen Leth
Sunday In Hell
photo courtesy of Jørgen Leth
Agua
photo courtesy of Celluloid Dreams
Agua
photo courtesy of Celluloid Dreams
Agua
photo courtesy of Celluloid Dreams
Bad News Bears
photo courtesy of Paramount
Holy Girls And Headless Women • Jul 14, 15 & 23, 2009
The Headless Woman
photo courtesy of Strand Releasing
The Holy Girl
photo courtesy of Fine Line Features
The Holy Girl
photo courtesy of Fine Line Features
La Ciénaga
photo courtesy of Lita Stantic and Cuatro Cabezas Films
Graphic Sexual Horror • Jul 16–17, 2009
Graphic Sexual Horror
photo courtesy of the artists
Graphic Sexual Horror
photo courtesy of the artists
Until the Light Takes Us • Jul 9–11, 2009
Until the Light Takes Us
photo courtesy of Until the Light Productions
Until the Light Takes Us
photo courtesy of Until the Light Productions
Until the Light Takes Us
photo courtesy of Dead Big
Big Idea Night pARTy: Under the Influence • Apr 3, 2010
Aybee - thePeople
photo by Zinaida Soin
BeBrown, Cali & Cecil - thePeople
photo by Byron Malik
Cecil - thePeople
courtesy of rehes creative
DJ Daz-I-Kue & Cecil - thePeople
courtesy of rehes creative
Global Lives Project • Feb 20–Jun 20, 2010
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
image of Jamila Jad, Lebanon, 2009
courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
image of Rumi Nagashima, Tokyo Japan, 2007
photo by Wakako Iguchi, courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
Ngwale Village, Malawi
courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
Sukasari, Garut West Java, Indonesia, 2008
photo by Antonius Riva S., courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
video still of James Bullock, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2004
courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project: Step Out of Your World
Hampi, Karnataka, India, 2009
courtesy of the Global Lives Collective
Global Lives Project Opening Night Celebration
Kid Kameleon
photo by Kelly Koehler
Global Lives Project Opening Night Celebration
Tinker
photo by Whit Bissell
Global Lives Project Opening Night Celebration
Chief Boima
photo by David Logan
SF Mime Troupe • Dec 10–11, 2009
False Promises, SF Mime Troupe
photo by Tom Copi
K!eiko, SF Mime Troupe
photo by Earl Crabb
Peter Coyote in L'Amant Militaire, SF Mime Troupe
photo by Gerhard Gscheidle
Gorilla Band, SF Mime Troupe
photo by Michael Bry
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (hetero-sexuals encouraged to apply) • Aug 1–Oct 25, 2009
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply)
photo courtesy of Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply) - Fou Fou Ha with Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
image by Tracy Bugni
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply)
photo courtesy of Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply)
photo courtesy of Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory - Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide (heterosexuals encouraged to apply)
photo courtesy of Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party • Jun 6, 2009
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham
What's the Big Idea? Late Night Party
photo courtesy of Charlotte Cunningham