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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t

Danced with mesmerizing intensity and technical precision, Scofield and Shuey’s collaboration is part of a long term project exploring adolescent group dynamics; how and why people fall into or push each other into the roles of Leader, Follower and Outcast.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

Provocative writer/director Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Gatz

One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest is a vocal performance that imagines movement, video, costume and character to be instruments as inextricable from the process of musical arrangement as piano, guitar and strings.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: In Concert

Larry Krone performs original songs and country music standards, infusing them with all the love and devotion one would expect from a downhome, defiantly wholesome, cross-dressing cowboy entertainer.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: PERFORMANCE (career ender)

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Repeat After Me

Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: No Dice

Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: KOMMER

KOMMER, Dutch for "sorrow," traces the intersecting paths of six people as they race through inventive evasions, slapstick parlor tricks and dialogue culled from a soap opera in their search for something human and familiar.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Normal and Happy

A dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures and a tense, awkward physicality.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Donna Uchizono Company

With its breath-taking opening, State of Heads explores the feeling of waiting.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Sell Out

Long fascinated with street cred, artistic self-identification, personal economy, and the relationship between corporate America and culture, Dickson is publicly mining the evolution of his lifestyle from DIY to 2.0. Sell Out, his latest PowerPoint monologue, or PowerLogue, documents this journey.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Charlotte Vanden Eynde & Kurt Vandendriessche

A starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Marc Bamuthi Joseph

A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac

A subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac sings songs about love, mermaids, subway safety directives and revolution.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies

Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: The Suicide Kings

In Spite of Everything is the latest entry into the emerging genre of hip-hop theater, featuring one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word collectives: The Suicide Kings.

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Miranda July: No One Belongs Here More Than You

No one belongs here more than you. A reading and book signing with Miranda July.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: BEBE MILLER COMPANY

Miller combines virtuoso choreography with cutting edge motion capture technology to investigate the relation between the foreign and familiar in contemporary life.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: JERRY QUICKLEY

Directed by reg e. gaines, acclaimed journalist Jerry Quickley tells the sweat-inducing tale of his travels to Iraq.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: CRISPIN SPAETH DANCE GROUP

Performed in a lightless room for a small audience equipped with night vision apparatus.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: BLINGLAB

Utilizing hand-constructed puppets made from thrift store cast-offs, BlingLab presents a bumbling set of explorers by reading between the lines of Lewis & Clark’s infamous expedition.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: JENNIFER MONSON/iLAND

Flight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: SPALDING GRAY PROJECT

Part of an ongoing project to honor Spalding Gray’s memory and perhaps capture one of his elusive “perfect moments” in which doubt, distress, and angst yield momentarily to a broader epiphany.

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