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Kim Epifano - Epiphany Produtions
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
CONTACT IMPROVISATION WITH KIM EPIFANO
JUNE 20, 27 & JULY 11
Saturdays, 12:15pm - 2pm
All levels are welcome


Kim's class builds contact improvisation skills to open the imagination and the body to every dancer's potential. Students explore their individual creativity, balance, and body awareness while learning to move in relation to their self, the floor, and a partner. By sharing weight, strength, space and gravity, participants learn how to trust and be trusted while falling on and off the edges of their bodies. We will explore how the ending of one move is the beginning of another and how to utilize momentum to continue the progressive nature of the dance. Be prepared to sweat, have fun and enhance you dance!

Kim Epifano has a 25-year history as an award winning performer, choreographer, director, educator, and collaborator. She is the Artistic Director of Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater based in San Francisco, California. Since founding her company in 1997, Ms. Epifano has choreographed, directed, and created music for 18 evening length works of "sonic dance theater." Her work has been nominated for and awarded several Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (IZZIES), won the SF Weekly's Black Box Award in 1998 for Best Dance Ensemble, and placed first in Mexico's Bi-National Competition. She received her MFA in Choreography from UC Davis in June 2006 and has more than 12 years of experience teaching dance at the collegiate level. Epifano has taught Contact Improvisation and many other forms of movement, theater and vocalization nationally and internationally.
Class Prices
Single Class $12
4 Classes in 90 days $42
Teens (13-17) Single Class $6 (select classes only)
Seniors (65+) Single Class $6

Classes held at ODC Commons, 351 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415.863.9830, www.odcschool.org


Trolley Dances

Save the Date:
San Francisco Trolley Dances October 2009!


San Francisco Trolley Dances 2009 will be October 16th-18th, 2009. Epiphany Productions has already selected the 2009 Festival route.Ê San Francisco Trolley Dances 2009 will feature six dance companies presenting site-specific performances along the J Church MUNI Metro line. In addition to a piece by Kim Epifano and Epiphany Productions, some of the other companies to be presented are Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Deep Waters Dance Theater, and the San Francisco Merionettes Synchronized Swim Club. The starting point will be announced in July. Check out our website or call our production hotline at (415) 226-1139 for more information.Ê



FLASH REAL

Title: *FLASH REAL* a song dance cycle

Project Description: *FLASH REAL* is a new sonic dance theater piece by Epiphany Productions' Artistic Director Kim Epifano in collaboration with Musician Stephen Kent and Aerial Design Artist Richard Kittle. *FLASH REAL* is a song dance cycle in which Epifano performs a scored improvisation based on her life and travels over the last two years. Encompassing both the personal and the worldly, *FLASH REAL* is an internal journey revisiting the terrain of one's life and how the instantaneous shifting of geography affects not just the sediment beneath one's feet but also the sediment of one's soul. Through the weaving of movement, song, light, and image, Epifano explores the residual emotional, social, and political affects from a hurricane in Cape Cod to her work in Ethiopia, India, China, and Ireland. This is the first cycle of four.

*FLASH REAL* will be shown as part of the West Wave Dance Festival on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 8:00pm. The Festival will be at the Cowell Theater in the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Please visit the Festival's website (www.westwavedancefestival.org) for information and tickets.

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