Alternativa presents
Fresh Festival 2020: Fresh Exchanges
JANUARY 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
7PM - 9PM
FRESH 2020 presents FRESH Exchanges – social, inclusive, easy access community events created to cultivate, invigorate and cross-pollinate the dance, music and performance scenes, players and audiences. Fresh Exchanges will take place at Brava on Wednesdays and Thursdays for three weeks in January. A list of Fresh Exchanges events happening at Brava are listed below. FRESH Exchanges are $5-$15 suggested donation [with no one turned away for lack of funds].
For more information and a full list of FRESH FESTIVAL events, please visit their website at freshfestival.org.
EXCHANGES AT BRAVA
Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Wednesday, January 8
7-9PM in Brava’s Cabaret
Deep Community Engagement:
Regina Y. Evans + Nicia De’Lovely + JahniahOmi Bahari
Photo by Lydia Daniller
Thursday, January 9
7-9PM in Brava’s Studio
Ripe [raw + intimate performance experiments]:
Malia Byrne + Melissa Lewis
Kickbal Ky Frances + Emma Lainer
Wednesday, January 15
7-9PM in Brava’s Cabaret
Deep Community Engagement:
Skywatchers and Tongo Eisen-Martin
Open Mic - Displacement in San Francisco
Thursday, January 16
7-9PM in Brava’s Studio
Ripe [raw + intimate performance experiments]:
Middle Space Dance [Leah Fournier + Amelia Heintzelman]
Melissa Padilla
Photo by Scott Tsuchitani
Wednesday, January 22
7-9PM in Brava’s Cabaret
Deep Community Engagement:
MUA (Mujeres Unidas y Activas) and NAKA Dance Theater
Talent + Truth
Thursday, January 23
7-9PM in Brava’s Studio
Ripe [raw + intimate performance experiments]:
Audrey Johnson
Nicole Maimon + Kass Friend + Zoe Huey
ABOUT FRESH FESITVAL 2020
FRESH is produced by ALTERNATIVA, directed by dancer Kathleen Hermesdorf with musician Albert Mathias, is an apparatus for deeply integrated contemporary dance and music via collaboration, creation, improvisation, performance, production, curation and education. Active in San Francisco since 1998, the organization supports the creative work of the directors, known for research, practice and performance pieces that explore human behaviors and conditions, corporeality and other ineffabilities. FRESH 2020 features 4 weekends of Performances, 3 weeks and weekends of Practices, and 9+ Exchanges, accessible and inclusive community events. FRESH 2020 is inspired by the theme of TENDER and its multiple meanings and transmitted through the experience of 50+ cutting-edge artists from the Bay Area and beyond. The Festival is open to all curious, adventurous and serious bodies.