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San Francisco, CA
October 16-18, 2009
Audiences climbed aboard the J-Church Muni Metro to discover San Francisco's diverse dance community and hidden architecture with San Francisco Trolley Dances 2009!
This years sites and sounds was brought to you by - Deborah Slater Dance Theater
- Deep Waters Dance Theater
- SF Merionettes Sychronized Swim Club
- Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
- Kathleen Hermesdorf
- Tina Banchero and Ramon Ramos Alayo
- Rosamaria Garcia and Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos
The SF Chronicle noted, Trolley takes fans to alfresco performances and Trolley Dances - a very San Francisco experience.
Read the SFGate.com Review Here!
Photographers for Trolley Dances 2009 slide show:
Brenda Marie, Kegan Marling, Ralph Baumer
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San Diego Trolley Dances
A Parking Lot in Palomar Chula Vista
Sept. 25-27 and Oct. 3 & 4 2009
San Diego.com commented, Together they have chemistry and remarkable timing. Soaring lifts... and the sound score is a fiesta.
Photographers for Chula slide show: Brenda Marie, Kim Epifano
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Cowell Theatre, San Francisco CA
July, 2009
Performed and created by KIm Epifano, Musician Stephen Kent and Rigger Richard Kittle.
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San Francisco, CA
October 17-19, 2008
The 5th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances took a step into the present and traveled along 3rd Street on the T-Line for 3 exciting days of modern dance in the streets of San Francisco.
This years sites and sounds will be brought to you by
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The Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland
June 27 and 28, 2008
Commissioned by Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company
Choreography and Direction: Kim Epifano
Dancers: Rhona Coughlan, Tara Brandel
Music: Italian Tenores and Tarantellas
Lighting: Paul McCarthy
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco, CA
May 22, 23, 24 2008
Speaking Chinese, a new cross-cultural, multidisciplinary sonic dance theater based on the writings of Chinese American author Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang). A collaborative project of Director/Choreographer Kim Epifano with renowned Chinese composer Zhu Jian'er, Chinese ballerina Hou Honglan, American dancer/actor C. Derrick Jones, and producer Barry Plews of the Creative Futures cultural exchange program, among others. Speaking Chinese was presented at the San Francisco International Arts Festival in May 2008 and premiered in Shanghai at the Lyceum Theatre in June 2008.
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Chinese Culture Center on the China Town
Bridge over Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, CA
May 9, 2008
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Los Angeles, CA
January 15-21, 2008
A week of movement workshops, performances, and jams in sunny Los Angeles, California. The festival is an exploration and celebration of the variety of improvisational movement styles and alternative dance techniques; featuring Contact Improvisation, Site Specific Laboratory, Improv Partnering, Improvisational Performance Structure, Ensemble Movement, and integrating sound, voice, theatre, sets and structures into performance.
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San Francisco, CA
October 19, 20, 21, 2007
The 4th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances - a freewheeling festival of site specific dances performed along San Francisco's F-Line and N-Judah trolley routes was another great success with sold out performances and wonderful weather! Don't miss next year!
Five original dance performances in unexpected places were performed by:
Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions
Paco Gomes and Dancers
Rosie and the Radiators
Run For Your Life!...it's a dance company!
Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
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World Premiere!
Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco, CA
February 23, 24, and 25, 2007
Time bombs, monsters, speeding bus drivers, getting hugged by someone you don't like - these are some of the more than 150 fears that stalk the stage in choreographer Kim Epifano's extraordinary multimedia performance "Fears of Your Life." Based on a book of the same name written by Michael Bernard Loggins, an artist with developmental disabilities at San Francisco's Creativity Explored, Epifano's new work explores our relationship with the sometimes serious and often humorous things that scare each of us. AXIS Dance Company, a critically-acclaimed company that integrates dancers with and without disabilities, performs the work on a stage that is transformed by Loggins' distinctive drawings into a vibrant and interactive world of art and animation, puppetry and poetry.
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San Francisco, CA
October 20, 21, 22, 2006
The 3rd Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances - a freewheeling festival of site specific dances performed along San Francisco's N-Judah trolley route was another great success with sold out performances and wonderful weather! Don't miss next year!
Four original dance performances in unexpected places were performed by:
Kunst-Stoff
Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton
Facing East Dance and Music
Kim Epifano's Epiphany Productions
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San Francisco, CA
Saturday and Sunday, May 6 & 7, 2006
An outdoor dance performance by Kim Epifano's Epiphany Productions to commemorate the centennial of the 1906 earthquake in San
Francisco
Read the SFGate.com Review Here!
Read the Epoch Times Review Here! (PDF)
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Studio Theater, Modavi Center at UC Davis, CA
February 16-18, 24-26 2006
Book by Michael Bernard Loggins from Creativity Explored
With Axis Dance Company and Lloyd Ford
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San Francisco, CA
October 22 and 23, 2005
The 2nd Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances - a freewheeling festival of site specific dances performed along San Francisco's F-line trolley route was another great success with sold out performances and wonderful weather! Don't miss next year!
Four original dance performances in unexpected places were performed by:
Amelia Rudolph's Project Bandaloop
Krissy Keefer's Dance Brigade
Robert Moses' Robert Moses' Kin
Kim Epifano's Epiphany Productions
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Main Stage Dance/Theatre Festival
Main Theatre
Kim Epifano sets new work at University of California, Davis
April 13-17, 2005
Info: www.theatredance.ucdavis.edu
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Sushi Peformance and Visual Arts
December 10-12, 2004
San Diego, CA
Kim Epifano/ Epiphany Productions (San Francisco, CA) and Magpie Music and Dance Company (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Kim Epifano and Jeff Morrison perform their new duet, NonniNonno
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October 23 and 24, 2004
San Francisco, CA
Our first annual San Francisco Trolley Dances was a great time for all and a tremendous success! Trolley Dances consisted of two electrifying days of modern dance in the streets along Muni's historic F-line trolley route in downtown San Francisco.
Four original dance performances in unexpected places were performed by:
Kim Epifano's Epiphany Productions
Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre
Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theater
Jesselito Bie's Steamroller Dance Company
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June 5-20, 2004
Kim set a piece on the Dance Company, aTreck Dance Collective at the IMPULSE Summer Dance Festival, St. Louis, Missouri. She also performed a work in progress with Jeff Morrison, called NonniNonno, June 11, 12 2004 and taught a workshop June 5-9 and a master class on Saturday, June 19.
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April 17 and 18, 2004
Dance Mission Theater
An Evening of New Dance Works by Epiphany Productions' Kim Epifano in conjunction with the UC Santa Barbara Dance Company. Potrero Hill dance legend Kim Epifano returns to the stage with her latest works-in-progress. This time she uses her innovative blend of sonic dance theater to explore her own Italian American roots and one of humanity's most defining dramas - the odyssey of immigration.
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Atrek Dance Collective
Feb 4,5 and 10,11, 2005
Emerson Performance Center
St. Louis, Missouri
"Cawville" is a place of evolution and extinction, where culture begins, ends, and begins again. Set high in the hills of a village, it could be anywhere, anytime. This is a place where humans become birds and birds become humans. These creatures sing and dance into the sky and down to the earth. Folklore speaks of black birds as humans, and from here our story begins...
In this Sonic Dance Theater piece, performers will sing, dance, play music, and tell stories. With sophisticated choreography and high velocity partnering, the stage will take flight in "Cawville. "
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February 2004
Seattle, Washington
Special performance by Kim of "EINSTEIN'S CABARET AND OTHER EXCERPTS" as part of the Scuba Festival
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September and October
San Diego Dance Theater
Various Locations, San Diego, CA
Kim was commissioned to be the Artistic Director of "GROUP", a site-specific piece performed during San Diego Trolley Dances 2003.
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2003
Cowell Theater, San Francisco
Sushi Performance Space, San Diego, CA
A multi-media performance piece (featuring a live
sound score, dancing, special effects and aerial performances) that found its inspiration in the controversial life story of Mileva Maric
Einstein, Albert Einstein's first wife, who was a gifted mathematician. Kim uses Mileva's
story to literally jump off into a gravity-defying investigation of her own theories of space, time and matters of the heart. Einstein's Daughters is the electrodynamics of moving bodies at their best.
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2001
Theater Artaud, San Francisco
Based on Ernest Shackleton's courageous journey into the Antarctic, Below Zero combines powerful choreography and singing by an all-male cast with, actual text and tales from the Shackleton journal, brilliant set and lighting.
(View Video Excerpts: [150K Stream] [Download])
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"Naked Wish"
2000
Mexico
California
An intricate portrayal of exile, inspired by
the music of Yuncheng Lhama, the struggles of the Tibetan people, and experiences of women in Latino cultures. Directed by Kim Epifano, performed by Mexican Modern Dance company, Paralelo 32.(View Video Excerpts: [150K Stream] [Download])
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2000
Koln, Germany
Commissioned by German-based company, Resistdance, Lonely Cowboys explores the American mythology of the cowboy and themes of individual dreams, power and isolation. |
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1999
Dancers' Group, San Francisco
The Great Divide investigates lines of difference,
whether gender, sex, class or race specific. With a great sense of humor, the performers use partnering movement, personal stories and vocal expression to delve into this complex content.(View Video Excerpts: [150K Stream] [Download]) |
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1998
Mexico
California
* winner of 2nd place, Mexico Bi-Nationals Competition
* 1997-98 Bay Area Isadora Duncan award (San Francisco, CA) –for text and soundscore
Discovering the meaning of crossing borders, Epifano teamed with Mexican dance company, Paralelo 32, to express their experiences as women, with placement, land, and roots.(View Video Excerpts: [150K Stream] [Download])
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1997-99
Dancers' Group Studio Theater, San Francisco CA
SUSHI performance space, San Diego CA
*winner of SF Weekly Black Box Award- for Ensemble performance
Inspired by the story of Hildegard von Bingen, this piece explores the energetic relationship between sound and body, through moving, singing, and ritualizing by an all-female cast, while revealing the power and secrets of Hildegard's life.
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