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Shelly Adams-Stryker / Fire within
Shelly Adams present's three works, a solo, a duet and a grooup piece all created using the twelve stages of Somot0-Respiritory Integration, a body/breath healing technique created by Donny Epstien) to source material. The works intends a visceral experience for the audience, provoking and inspiring thought, discussion and change.
Sat 7pm and Sun 8pm 418 Project with Jessica Fudim $5

The Body Cartography Project - Condition Outside/Inside
An investigation of the space in between the ongoing journey between our inner and outer landscapes. The ecological entwinement of self,other and environment. a dance of skin, nervous system and special senses. Outside - An ongoing series of dance walks by artist Olive Bieringa in real time, real place, real response and real action. Live improvised action, interaction and response to several blocks of real estate and real people in downtown Santa Cruz.
Pacific Avenue -Saturday, 1pm-2pm
Inside - The Installation performance utilizes a large block of ice, multiple projections, a remote controlled car, a wireless camera, a world of wild animals and an incredible electroacoustic composition by UK composer Alice Kemp that
is experienced by the whole body through the skin.
418 Project -Sat, 8pm and Sun 7pm with Mir and a Company

Cook'n Company - Accept...Except
"Accept. . .except: the paradox of faith" is a high-energy modern dance show
exploring the contradictions and social impact of the hidden values of religion.
The show features a toe-tapping, soulful collection of traditional folk songs,
gospel, and spirituals addressing the issues of judgment, discrimination and
alienation. Weaving spoken dialog and choreography, "Accept. . .except" is
director/choreographer Rivera Cook's first production under the auspices of
Cook 'n Company.
Motion Pacific - Fri 8pm and Sun 8pm. With Flaming Puppet Sisters
Lisa Christensen - Pearl Berry
Pearl Berry is an older woman who complains about her daughter interfering in
her life, "for her own safety". When a lightbulb burns out and Pearl climbs onto
the chair to change it. Lisa's bungee techniques combined withn the hillarity and
charm brought through the character of Pearl offer a fun and irreverent look at
the spunky perserverance in the face of the declining physical abilities that
accompany aging.
418 Project - Sat 9pm and Sun 9pm. with Frey Faust, Sha and Blah, Ana Flecha
Lauren Crux - This is Just To Say...
Lauren Crux was a festival favorite last year and returns this year
with two new works:
This Is Just to Say . . .
--The hidden life of the humble note.
Still Running
--Who we think we are and who we might be.
Crux's style is casual, and gentle, but don't be fooled. Her material is
also challenging, evocative, entertaining, daring, and outright funny.
She has an engaging presence, wry wit, a healthy sense of
irreverence, and enough deep tenderness to help us love our often
difficult lives.
Community TV - Sat 8pm and Sun 7pm. with the Izzy Sisters.
Erica Lann-Clark - One For My Baubo
What do you do when you're going down for the count? This piece follows the
hair-brained misadventures of a woman already a little crazy who wants to be
recognized - just once - as a creature made in the image of God, you know, like
men are, everywhere, even still today.
A chance phone call sends her hurtling into her cultural tragedy, the politics of
class, race, gender, and a dreadful victimhood. So who calls her? A relative. Who
else sends us hurtling down the alleys of our dissolution? Now, you want to
know, will she climb out? Will the talking vagina save her? Come see the show.
Motion Pacific - Fri 9pm and Sun 7pm. With Shadow City

Frey Faust - Loose Leaf
Music : J.S. Bach " Der Goldberg Variationen "
Choreography : Frey Faust
Choreographic Assistance : Isabelle Fuchs
Production : Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf 1991
A tree, looking down from the height of centuries, tries to imagine the
pattern her falling leaves will make, but cannot predict the wind's
caprice.
418 Project - Sat 9pm and Sunday 9pm with Lisa Christensen, Sha and
Blah Productions and Ana Flecha
Flaming Puppet Sisters
Flaming Puppet Sisters a subset of Moving and Storage/
Crash, Burn, and Die Dance Company present Watch This
Like A Poem, a surreal work of puppetry and dance.
Created by Therese Adams and Sara Wilbourne, the piece
is performed by Gianna Colavin-Bridges, Rivera Cook,
Caitlin Deck and Sara Wilbourne.
Motion Pacific - Fri 8pm and Sun 8pm. With Cook 'n Company $5
Anna Flecha
"Kaboom"
418 Project - Sat 9pm and Sun 9pm. with Frey Faust Sha and Blah Productions
and Lisa Christensen
Jessica Fudim - Sheepish
Little Bo Peep is determined to recover her lambs on the lam as she digs through
virtual hillsides, wrangles cottenballs, serenades sheep-shaped clouds and
obediently dances to the audience's instructions. In this multi-media, solo dancetheater
piece, video backdrops and dreamy sound collages set the stage for bo's
travels between the world of "what if's" and the here and now. Hope turns to
hallucination as Sheepish cracks open the question, "Who are we without the
ones we love...and how can they be gone when we think we see them
everywhere?
418 Project - Sat 7pm and Sun 8pm. with Shelly Adams-Stryker $5

Sha Sha Higby
Legendary international performance artist, Sha Sha Higby presents Dust on
Water, premier of evocative sculptural costume & puppetry dance, in a drama of
memory and timelessness
"A Higby performance is a blissful combination of shamanism, dance, & puppetry
in which the costume comes alive. For three decades her art has remained as
impressively unique as it is whimsically refreshing." San Francisco Chronicle
Actor's Theater - Fri 8:30pm and Sat 6pm. Workshop Sunday 1:30 @ 418 Project

Izzy Sisters
Ground Play A playful duet about a woman accepting, loving, and dancing with
the little girl inside her. This piece reflects the priceless message that not all
young girls receive that they are more than OK just the way they are, and that
the world does want to see them and hear what they have to say, despite all
messages they might receive to the contrary.
Community Television - Sat 7pm and Sun 8pm. with Lauren Crux

Iman Lizarazu is a world-class juggler and physical commedian.
People who have seen Lizarazu on Bay Area and International stages already
know the Santa Cruz resident is a unique and very funny performer.
As a world-class juggler, a classically trained ballet dancer, mime, and physical
comedian, a jester and a fool in the best, old-world sense of the words, her
background includes a wide range of comic disciplines from circus arts to
commedia dell'arte.
Saturday 9:00pm and Sunday 8:00pm at Community Television

Mir and a Company
"Slime Street"
Choreographed by Miranda Janeschild
Performed by Mir & A Company
"Slime Street" is a theatrical aerial dance performance that discovers beauty in
unlikely places. Curious and repulsive, pure and toxic--an alluring quest for
something grotesque after living a life of innocence.
"Soaring"
Performed by Rhiannon Janeschild and Ella Halliday
A lyrical aerial duet moving from the floor to the sky.
418 Project - Sat 8pm and Sun 7pm. with the Body Cartography Project
Sha and Blah Productions - The Haunting of Grandmothers
Sarah Day and Daniel Davis, Shah and Blah Productions, are presenting an
excerpt from a new full-length piece currently in development. Weaving dance
with symbolic narrative, "The Haunting of Grandmothers" offers a glimpse into a
poetic mind holding a memory dislocated in time and space. It is an exploration
of a process, and the personal ghosts that arise as the self and physicality are
disintegrating. The piece has been greatly influenced by intimate family
experiences with Alzheimers.
418 Project - Sat 9pm and Sun 9pm. with .Frey Faust, Lisa Christensen, Ana
Flecha
Shadow City - The Rehearsal Room
The piece involves a Classical Flutist trying to rehearse (Debussy's Afternoon of a
Faun) and a mangy, working class Custodian interrupting her with various
suggestions and comments, at a certain point the Flutist gets real pissed and says:
"What do you know about music anyway?" and what follows is a capsulated
history of music, from Chant to Modern, delivered by the Custodian in working
class jive talk as he nonchalantly continues his tasks, sweeping, scrubbing, etc.
This leads to an ironic denouement that is sure to get a chuckle or two.
Motion Pacific - Fri 9pm and Sun 7pm. with Erica Lann-Clark
Richard Stockton - Fondle the Fear
Too tired of self help to help yourself? Can't afford a shrink? Laugh yourself into a
positive state with comedian/empowerment sage Richard Stockton as he
performs "Fondle The Fear", a hilarious alternative to running from your demons.
With the comedian's "true stories and real jokes," turn your fears into power
while you laugh your ass off. Richard Stockton claims to be a feral child raised by
Republicans; indeed he looks like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Don
Knotts. In his twenty years as a standup comedian, he has appeared on dozens of
national TV shows ñ growing an audience of devotees to his unique take on the
human potential movement.
Community TV - Sat 9pm and Sun 8pm. with Iman Lizarazu.
Take Out Dance
Sat and Sun 6:15 - 418 Parking lot - Free
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