Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Jose

Start Date:

  1/18/2025

End Date:

  1/18/2025

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Krissy Keefer's Dance Brigade kicks off its 50th Anniversary Season with a seven-city West Coast Tour January 9-19 of A Woman's Song for Peace, a new dance theater work featuring performances by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade's fierce, nuanced choreography. The tour runs January 9-11 in Oregon and continues in California January 15-19. The California performances are January 15 at Center Theater at Mendocino College in Ukiah, January 18 at Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College in Aptos, January 17 at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa and Sunday, January 19 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Dance Brigade is sponsoring this seven-city tour to make an indelible mark on the upcoming inauguration. This is a cry for peace to end all wars so that peace and justice can prevail, not only in the Middle East, but also in Sudan, Ukraine, and at our borders and inner cities of the U.S. "As we move through an intense and divisive Presidential election cycle in which these issues are front and center, Dance Brigade offers A Woman's Song for Peace with the aim of reorienting audiences to our shared humanity and desire for peace. We believe that this collaboration can unify and activate people. We offer it as a gift to our communities for healing, transformation, and a vision for a way forward," says Keefer.

1975 was the birth of the Wallflower Order Dance Collective. Original member Keefer has carried on the legacy of provocative, feminist dance producing productions that explore the intersection between art and social justice with Dance Brigade, a dance company, which formed in the Bay Area in 1984 Grrrl Brigade, a youth empowerment dance program and Dance Mission, a dance center in the heart of San Francisco's Mission district supporting underrepresented, emerging, and established artists.

https://dancemissiontheater.org/dance-brigade/the-peace-tour/

Location:

  Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College

Room:

Address:

  6500 Lower Perimeter Road

Phone:

City:

  Aptos

State/Province:

  CA