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THE BIG IDEAS 07-08
YBCA continues to explore the frontiers of contemporary art through “The Big Ideas” as a way of providing context around the extraordinary diversity of programs we present. This season we invite you to explore works that open our eyes to what we can’t or don’t want to see as part of a series called Reality Check; works that celebrate peace and collaboration as part of our series, Making Peace; and works that consider the new fluidity of identity in a series called Identity Shifts. Presented in a more-or-less festival format, we’ll be taking up one Big Idea at a time this season starting with Reality Check this summer and fall; Making Peace this winter and early spring of 08 and Identity Shifts in spring/summer of 08. Buy a Big Idea series and participate in the full range of festival programs.
BIG IDEA #1: REALITY CHECK
The contemporary world is one of harsh realities but also one of illusion, shape-shifting and downright obfuscation. Software plays smoke and mirrors with reality, making the fake appear flesh; while the media edits "truth" in questionable ways, politicians
excel at dissembling, and geneticists tinker with reality at its core. In the arts, reality can be even more elastic—and more compelling. The post-modern era dethroned the authoritarian voice, investing in individuals the power to create their own meaning in
art, and in their lives. Creative, high-tech tools are now in the hands of the DIY millions. The proliferation of realities is eye-opening. It can also be numbing making us sit back, take a breath and wonder, "What's real?" The artists in this series play with every angle of this pressing question.
Sep 14 & 15, 2007
Don’t miss the Bay Area debut of this groundbreaking Dutch theater company, in a humorous and poignant multimedia performance about grief, community and “finding just the right song.” The first half of...
Oct 18–21, 2007
You’ve never seen Bill T. Jones quite this way before—the world-renowned dance company will perform up close and personal in YBCA ’s intimate Forum. In Chapel/Chapter,...
Nov 8–10, 2007
His Triptyque Sans Titre was the most talked-about performance of the 05_06 season. This year, the contemporary dance visionary returns with an extraordinary dance theater experience...
BIG IDEA #2: MAKING PEACE
Having glimpsed the abyss—culturally, politically—many artists are forging a path ahead with greatoptimism and are making peace, not war. Some of this work is indeed an overtly political cry to halt violence. other artists approach the idea of peace from an individual perspective—creating a sacred sense of well-being that illuminates our humanity Some reach across political and artistic boundaries to collaborate with others with a sense of humor and a desire to reflect the good and the beautiful in the world around us. What springs from our engagement with art is a redemptive force that gives us power to re-make our world anew. Join us for this series and see how artists are pointing the way forward with hope, with imagination and with courage.
Feb 6 & 7, 2008
Born in Vietnam and trained in Paris, choreographer/performer Ea Sola creates vital contemporary works grounded in the traditional culture, music, dance and history of Vietnam. YBCA is pleased to...
Feb 9, 2008
Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe created Bang on a Can in 1987 to unite musical communities. Their concept? Instead of separating...
Mar 6–8, 2008
Choreographer Shen Wei is the rare genius who uses classical techniques to challenge contemporary thinking, and integrates artistic disciplines with startling simplicity. His vision is epic and large-scale— to experience Shen Wei...
Apr 24–26, 2008
Local choreographer Shinichi Iova-Koga, who founded the internationally collaborative troupe inkBoat, has earned a devoted following for his hybrid performance style—a synthesis of traditional and experimental dance, Japanese Butoh and physical theater. His environments are fractured...
BIG IDEA #3: IDENTITY SHIFTS
Who are you? This question has a whole different meaning in the opening years of the 21st Century Race, gender, nationality—once concrete identifiers are now, to some degree, open to interpretation and we are greeting this news with both celebration and dismay. The rise of religious extremism, the conflict between cultural identity and national borders, the rejection by many of traditional gender roles and labels, has plunged the world into a clash between embracing strict boundaries or celebrating fluidity and complexity. So we ask, “Who am I and where do I belong?” Is it more liberating to destroy definitions or embrace them? By disrupting the status quo and exploring deeply their sense of self, the artists in this series ask us to rethink how we know who we are, and what we think we can be.
Apr 3–5, 2008
This unique project is setting the performance world abuzz for bringing together African and African-American dance companies—one all-male and one all-female—and two powerhouse female choreographers. Germaine Acogny,...
May 8–10, 2008
Once again, YBCA offers up shared evenings of extraordinary local performance artists. This time, we’ve asked them to develop work that responds to our visual art exhibition The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics on view in our galleries Mar 29–Jul 13, which...
May 15–17, 2008
A visual street theater of metaphor and clownery, the internationally acclaimed Ilkhom Theatre of Uzbekistan began in 1976 as a renegade theater under the strict Soviet regime. Now citizens of an independent republic,...
Jun 19–21, 2008
YBCA has long been committed to supporting the work of electrifying storyteller Marc Bamuthi Joseph. For our season finale, we’re proud to present the break/s, Joseph’s multimedia journey through verse, contemporary...
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
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YBCA Performance 07-08 is made possible in part by:
The Columbia Foundation
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Additional Funding for YBCA Performance 07-08:
The California Arts Council, The Fleishhacker Foundation, Multi-Arts Production Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts: National Dance Project, Performing Arts Japan, a project of the Japan Foundation, WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, Whole Foods Market, Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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