City Hall, San Francisco
Friday, March 2, 2018, Noon
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In their eighth season presenting free monthly dance performances in San Francisco City Hall’s extraordinary Rotunda, Dancers’ Group and World Arts West continue their partnership to bring audiences lunchtime glimpses into movement and musical traditions from around the world.
This March, Dance Generators presents its latest playful dance-theater work Base Ten, revealing how numeric systems evolved because of our two hands and ten fingers, and considers the linguistic, mathematical, historical and social ramifications of this non-coincidence.
Dance Generators company members range in age from teens to those in their eighties. Through dance, the company shatters commonly held stereotypes about aging, and creates bridges between people of all ages. A part of the USF Dance Program in the Department of Performing Arts & Social Justice, Dance Generators is celebrating 10 years in San Francisco under the direction of Natalie Greene.
The Rotunda Dance Series brings many of the Bay Area’s most celebrated dance companies to San Francisco City Hall for free monthly noon-time performances and is presented by Dancers’ Group and World Arts West in partnership with Grants for the Arts and SF City Hall.
The 2018 Rotunda Dance Series will continue on Friday, April 27 with the Kick-Off of Bay Area Dance Week.
Dance Generators (dancegenerators.or
Dance Generators aims to stretch audiences’ definitions of dance by presenting highly physical, theatrical and site-specific performance that is created through multi-generational collaboration. Together, the company disrupts preconceived notions about who gets to dance, where dances take place, and what dances are about. Throughout this anniversary year, the company is exploring how the human body relates to the history of counting.
About World Arts West (worldartswest.org)
For four decades, World Arts West has supported and presented world dance artists throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The main presenting program of the organization is the nationally acclaimed San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, which presents over 100 distinct dance forms and thousands of local dancers who are sustaining and innovating within those forms. The organization works year round to advance cultural literacy and build bridges of cultural understanding.
About Dancers’ Group (dancersgroup.org)
Dancers’ Group promotes the visibility and viability of dance. Founded in 1982, we serve San Francisco Bay Area artists, the dance community and audiences through programs and services that are as collaborative and innovative as the creative process itself. In response to the needs of its constituents, Dancers’ Group has evolved to fulfill a dual function as a service organization and as a presenter of performance opportunities that maximize the visibility of dance in the Bay Area.