Performance
YBCA presents an acclaimed series of contemporary performance each season. See details below or request a YBCA Performance Brochure by calling 415.978.2787.
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Feb 18–20, 2010
Named after a Bengali word meaning 'carrier', bahok explores the ways in which the body carries national identity and a sense of belonging. Eight dancers from diverse cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds—Chinese, Korean, Indian, Slovakian, South African and Spanish—attempt to communicate through dramatic dance and spoken vocabulary as they wait out their airport limbo, their destination unknown. …
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Feb 19 – Post-Show Conversation w/Akram Khan Company
Mar 18–20, 2010 • World Premiere
Bay Area artist Sara Kraft returns to YBCA with the world premiere of HyperReal, blending text, song, sound, movement and live video to examine the complex and conflicted ways we inhabit our minds, our bodies and our world in the digital age. How do we determine what is "real" in a world where our experiences and perceptions are mediated through technology—a world where even our "actual" physical experience can be questioned?
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Mar 19 – Post-Show Conversation w/Sara Kraft
Feb 25 – Kamau Patton & Sara Kraft In Conversation
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Apr 1–3, 2010
Brooklyn-based choreographer Reggie Wilson returns to YBCA with The Good Dance – dakar/brooklyn, the culmination of a multi-year collaboration and cultural exchange that melds the rich art, culture and history of diverse ancestral pasts, incorporating the rhythms of African, Caribbean and African-American dance to create a theatrical world that passionately reflects upon the connections, both intimate and metaphoric, of the cultures of the Congo and Mississippi rivers …
May 20–22, 2010 • World Premiere
A full-length multimedia performance incorporating movement, video and sound, tribes / dominion maps out the kinesthetic and vibratory shift in our global culture, investigating the ways in which people find, communicate and experience one another in an increasingly interconnected world. Szlasa creates original film and media design elements as the foundation for a live performance by Sara Shelton Mann, founder and director of one of the Bay Area's most exciting performance ensembles, Contraband …
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
EmcArts Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
Koret Foundation
LEF Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
YBCA Performance 09–10 is made possible in part by:
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Additional Funding for YBCA Performance 09-10:
The National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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