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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEYerba Buena Center for the Arts AnnouncesNew Programming for 2012-2013Media Contact: Maureen Dixonmdixon@ybca.org; 415.321.1307Highlights Include U.S. Presentation of David Shrigley’s Brain Activity, OccupyBay Area, Nayland Blake: FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!, The Parade: Nathalie Djurbergwith Music by Hans Berg; Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero’s Turbulence (A DanceAbout the Economy), Return Engagements by the World Renowned WoosterGroup and Sen Wei Dance Artists, and One West Coast Premiere and Two WorldPremieres in Kronos Quartet’s Kronos: Listen Local.Nathalie Djuberg; “The Parade” (detail) 2011YBCA, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103Ticket and Program Information: 415.978.ARTS (2787); www.ybca.orgGallery Admission: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachersFREE YBCA members and YBCA: You

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 12 noon-8 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon-6 p.m.Free First Tuesday of Every Month: 12 noon-8 p.m.SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. ─ (July 12, 2012) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is very pleased toannounce its new programming for 2012–2013 which includes in visual arts, the United Statespremiere of David Shrigley’s Brain Activity, new works from Nayland Blake, and NathalieDjuberg’s The Parade; plus performing arts pieces: Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero’sTurbulence (A Dance About the Economy), the Bay Area Premiere of Voices of Strength:Contemporary Dance & Theater by Women from Africa, New Frequencies Fest 2012, theWorld Premiere of Clas/sick Hip-Hop with Les Twins, return of the world renowned WoosterGroup, the West Coast Premiere of Shen Wei’s Undivided Divided, and San Francisco’sown Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet with Kronos: Listen Local that includes twoworld premieres and one West Coast premiere.YBCA utilizes four Big Ideas to organize its wide-ranging programs and provide a context withwhich to engage the art. These ideas, which encompass art from all disciplines, are designed tofocus an investigation of contemporary art and its relationship to the larger world. Using the BigIdeas as portals, YBCA has established a framework of thought that invites exploration and risktaking, quiet reflection and active engagement. The Big Ideas are: ENCOUNTER: Engagingthe social context; SOAR: The search for meaning; REFLECT: Considering thepersonal; and DARE: Innovations in art, action, audience.VISUAL ARTSSole U.S. PresentationDavid Shrigley: Brain ActivityNow through Sunday, September 23, 2012/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: SoarThe work of David Shrigley effortlessly infuses a comedic sensibility into a serious fine artpractice. David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist’s work— seeminglyamateurish, crude drawings, sculptures made of unusual materials, and installationscharacterized by incongruities of scale—offering insightful and often surreal commentary on theabsurdities of life, death and everything in between. Irreverent and mischievous, Shrigley’s artpresents the kind of odd scenarios you never come across in real life, but wish you did.When was the last time you laughed out loud inside an art gallery? And I don’t mean sniggeringat contemporary art… [David Shrigley’s exhibition] should come with a promise: laughterguaranteed, or your money back. -- Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph, LondonYBCA is the only United States venue for this exhibition, which comes to YBCA directlyfrom the Hayward Gallery, London. It was curated by Cliff Lauson.David Shrigley (b.1968, Macclesfield, England) lives and works in Glasgow. He has had soloexhibitions at venues including UCLA Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, Kunsthaus Zurich,Malmo Konsthall, Museum Ludwig, Camden Arts Centre and the CCA Glasgow. His work wasfeatured weekly in The Guardian from 2005 to 2009 and he has had a number of books of hiswork published, most recently the retrospective What the Hell Are You Doing?: The EssentialDavid Shrigley. He collaborated with animator Chris Shepherd on the film Who I am and What IWant in 2005. Worried Noodles, a CD released in 2007, features settings of the lyrics from his2

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013book Worried Noodles – the Empty Sleeve by artists as diverse as David Byrne, FranzFerdinand and TV On The Radio. www.davidshrigley.comOccupy Bay AreaSaturday, July 7-October 14, 2012/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterSince the Occupy Movement took hold across the country in the fall of 2011, protesters inOakland and San Francisco have produced a substantial output of art and writing in support ofthe principles of economic fairness, equality and reform. One of the legacies of the culture ofactivism in the Bay Area is this rich tradition of creating imagery in support of political and socialcauses. YBCA has curated an exhibition of political posters, and documentary photography andvideo stemming from the Occupy movement; and several projects by contemporary artists,representative of the spirit of Occupy.Additionally, to connect to earlier movements and provide a historical context for the project, theexhibition includes posters and photographs from other political struggles, including the BlackPanther Party (1966-82), I-Hotel (1968–77); the ARC/AIDS Vigil (1985–95); the occupation ofAlcatraz (1969–71); the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964–65); and the SanFrancisco State University protests, to gain an ethnic studies program (1968–69). While theseearlier movements certainly differ in ways from Occupy, they all are the result of a deep desirefor the representation and equal treatment of often underrepresented people.Nayland Blake: FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!Friday, October 12, 2012-Sunday, January 27, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: ReflectIn the 1990s, Nayland Blake was known for his pioneering work in performance art. Since then,he has created an impressive body of work that includes conceptual video, sculpture,participatory performance, as well as self-deprecating cartoonish drawings. Blake was a majorforce in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene from 1984-1996. An avid AIDS activist, hepromoted an aesthetic that combined politics, biography, and queer practices such as cruisingand chance encounters.Blake’s most recent sculptures are created through spontaneous processes reminiscent of hisworking method during his early years in San Francisco, where materials are manipulated intosurprising and oftentimes amusing forms that are informal, odd, and unpredictable. For hisupcoming solo exhibition at YBCA, Blake will create works onsite using memories from his lifeas a creative catalyst. An important reference and inspiration for this exhibition is a videotape bythe late fashion designer Alexander McQueen titled The Bride Groom Stripped Bare (2002).While this video is not part of the exhibition, the deconstruction and reconstruction of the fabricwrapping and shaping is representative of mutability in art making. Blake’s work involves acertain amount of risk, coupled with a capacity to yield elegant works from found, banal, andabject materials. For one artwork in the exhibition, audience members are invited to DJ from theartist’s collection of over 3,000 LP albums.During his years in San Francisco, Blake taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and servedon the board of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and New Langton Arts. He also was a cocurator,with Larry Rinder, of a ground-breaking exhibition, In a Different Light (1995) at the3

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Berkeley Art Museum that explored new ways to examine questions of queerness in art.This exhibition is organized by YBCA and curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director of Visual Arts.Nayland Blake Opening Night PartyFriday, October 12, 2012Tickets: $12 advance; $15 at the door; FREE YBCA members, YBCA: YouThe Parade: Nathalie DjubergMusic by Hans BergFriday, October 12, 2012-Sunday, January 27, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: SoarSwedish-born artist Nathalie Djurberg’s unsettling avian menagerie takes flight this fall at YBCA.In addition to the wild flock of more than eighty freestanding bird sculptures on view, theexhibition also includes five animated films, in which avian psychology is superimposed uponhuman behavior with extraordinary results. Using actual bird species as inspiration for hersometimes grotesque figures, Djurberg explores physical and psychological transformation aswell as pageantry, perversion, and abjection. Her clay animations are set to music and soundeffects by her partner and collaborator Hans Berg. Djurberg’s nightmarish cinematic tales depictthe depths of jealousy, revenge, lust, submission, gluttony, and other primal emotions with anunblinking eye.This exhibition comes to YBCA from the Walker Art Center and was curated by Eric Crosby,curatorial assistant of visual arts and Dean Otto, associate curator of film/video.Nathalie Djurberg was born in Lysekil, Sweden, in 1978. She studied art at Folkuniversitetet(1994–1995) and Hovedskous Art School (1995–1997), both in Gothenburg, Sweden, beforereceiving her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2002. She has honed a distinctive style of stopmotionanimation since 1999, when she first taught herself how to make films. Using thepliability of clay, her handcrafted narratives explore the vicissitudes of revenge, lust, submission,gluttony, and other primal emotions, in wry allegories of human behavior and social taboo.Increasingly, her practice has blurred the cinematic and the sculptural in immersiveenvironments that integrate moving images and sound with related set pieces. She currentlylives and works with Hans Berg in Rättvik, Sweden.Hans BergBorn in Rättvik, Sweden, in 1978, Hans Berg works as a techno and house music producer. Heis a self-taught musician who began playing the drums in punk and rock bands at the age offourteen. A year later, he started creating electronic music—which he has made ever since—when he purchased his first synthesizer and sampler. In addition to his many live concerts, Bergalso has an extensive discography with releases by Kant Recordings, Tsunami Productions,and other labels. He met Djurberg in Berlin in 2004, and since then he has composed themusic for all of her films and installations.The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans BergOpening Night PartyFriday, October 12, 2012Admission for All Galleries: $12 Advance; $15 Door; FREE: YBCA Members, YBCA: You4

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Without Reality There is No UtopiaFriday, February 15-Sunday, June 9, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterThe central premise of Without Reality There Is No Utopia is that in the Age of Information—where actual reality has been supplanted by virtual reality, computer simulation, and falsenarratives—it is no longer possible for utopia to exist. Since utopia is based on the improvementof reality, the disappearance of the real also signals the end of utopia. The exhibition illustratesthis by examining the false narratives that masquerade as truth: the collapse of Communism inthe 1980s, the current financial crisis facing its counter-utopia—Capitalism, as well as thecontradictions inherent in geopolitics and the explosion of democratic uprisings around theworld. The exhibition is organized into two asymmetric sections that consider shifts in globalpolitical realities. This international exhibition exposes the political and social functions of―reality‖ through a focus on the collapses of communism in the 20 th century and capitalism in the21 st ; the recent rise in popular rebellions; and the future of democracy.Without Reality There Is No Utopia was organized by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Conteporaneoin Seville, Spain; and curated by Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro, and Juan Antonio ÁlvarezReyes.Visual Arts: PAUSE: Practice and ExchangePAUSE: Practice and Exchange activates YBCA’s Gallery 3 by creating an exciting new seriesof process-based exhibitions with artists in residence from the Bay Area and around the world.These works include lectures, performances and workshops that transform the exhibition spaceinto a fluid and active experience for audiences. Key components are cross-generationalprojects and multi-disciplinary collaborative artworks with a focus on influence, process andmentorship from both international and local artists. Artists are in residence for two weeks afterthe opening of their exhibition for talks and events.William Cordova: Smoke Signals - Viviendo para La CiudadOctober 26, 2012-February 17, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: ReflectWilliam Cordova attempts to reconcile ideas of displacement and transition through the use ofephemeral residue and vernacular architecture that continually shifts and shapes what could bedescribed as our contemporary situation. His installation at YBCA explores the rich and diversecultural landscape of the Bay Area. Components include a series of works on paper with varioussymbols related to the Pacific Ocean, and a suite of 150 drawings—based on geography andarchitecture—on reclaimed letter size paper.William Cordova was born in Lima, Peru, in 1971. He received his MFA from Yale University in2004 and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. The artist has beenfeatured in solo exhibitions at Fleming Museum, Burlington; Artpace, San Antonio; Threewalls,Chicago; PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; and Arndt & Partner, Zurich. Hiswork has been included in many international exhibitions and biennials, including San JuanTriennial, San Juan (2009); Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); Utopia Station, 50th VeniceBiennale, Venice (2003); and several groundbreaking group shows, such as NeoHooDoo at the5

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Menil Collection in Houston, TX (2008), and Street Level at the Nasher Museum at DukeUniversity in Durham, NC (2007).Shih Chieh HuangMarch 1- June 30, 2013/YBCA GalleriesAdmission for All Galleries: $10 adults; $8 students/seniors/teachers; FREE YBCAMembers, YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterShih Chieh Huang creates a sculptural ecosystem using found and collected objects that heanimates into beautiful installations that seem unexpectedly organic and life-like. For hisexhibition at YBCA he will create a work that reflects on the Bay Area’s rich legacy in both themachine performance movement and the countercultural aesthetics of psychedelia. He workswith found and collected objects—including toys, plastic bags, electrical devices, and sensors—which are reassembled in a way that subverts their intended function. Constructed from junkand animated by sophisticated technology they become organic and life-like.Shih Chieh Huang received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited hissculptures and installations at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Busan Biennial,Aichi Triennial, 52nd Venice Biennial, Biennial Zero1 San Jose, Biennial Cuvée in Austria, theNew Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai.He has had solo exhibitions at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Beall Centerfor Art and Technology, and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Huang’s awards include anArtist Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, a Rockefeller Foundation NewMedia Arts Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculpture Award, two New York Foundationfor the Arts Fellowships, and residencies at Art Omi, Skowhegan, and The Marie Walsh SharpeArt Foundation.PERFORMANCEKeith Hennessy/Circo Zero: Turbulence (A Dance About the Economy)Thursday, September 27-Saturday, September 29, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $20 advance; $25 at the door; $15 advance/$20 door forstudents/seniors/teachers; $15 YBCA Members; FREE YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterA member of Sara Shelton Mann’s legendary Contraband performance troupe, Keith Hennessyhas been a revolutionary and influential force in the Bay Area’s performance community formore than 25 years. In response to both the recent economic and ecological crises, his newestwork, Turbulence (a dance about the economy), was instigated before the recent Occupy WallStreet uprising . Like the Occupy movement itself, Turbulence plays with and disregards thegenerally accepted rules of engagement. A collaborative creation, the work is a hybrid ofcontemporary dance, improvised happening and political theater and is intended as both aprovocation and affirmation of the current global movement for economic justice. It is anexperiment not only in performance, but also in developing alternative modes of producingperformance. Integrating new cast members for each performance, Turbulence resists fixed orpredetermined outcomes; improvisation is seen as both a survival strategy and political tactic.Among the guest performers are well-known Bay Area artists Laura Arrington, Jesse Hewit,Emily Leap, Jorge De Hoyos and Hana Erdman.6

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Bay Area PremiereVoices of Strength: A Two-Night Celebration of Contemporary Dance & Theater byWomen from AfricaProgram One: Nelisiwe Xaba & Kettly Noël, Correspondances, Nadia Beugré, QuartiersLibresFriday, October 19, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $5 Friday - all tickets $5; FREE YBCA:YOUProgram Two: Maria Helena Pinto (Sombra), Bouchra Ouizguen, Madame PlazaSaturday, October 20, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: SoarAs part of our commitment to supporting the work of contemporary African choreographers,YBCA welcomes Voices of Strength: A Two-Night Celebration of Contemporary Dance andTheater by Women from Africa, a U.S. debut tour that celebrates the stylistic diversity ofcontemporary performance across the African continent. Created and performed by NelisiweXaba (South Africa), Kettly Noël (Haiti/Mali), Nadia Beugré (Côte d’Ivoire), Bouchra Ouizguen(Morocco) and Maria-Helena Pinto (Mozambique), the works in Voices of Strength use humor,irony, poignancy, and power to confront personal obstacles, address political and social issues,and paint true and vivid pictures of the lives of contemporary African women.Program One:Kettly Noël (Haiti/Mali) and Nelisiwe Xaba (South Africa), CorrespondancesNoël and Xaba met through a friend in Johannesburg, and a year later they decided to create apiece together. Thus began a series of correspondences on diverse subjects addressing theintimate fabric of friendship while exploring themes of race, culture, and gender. The work theycreated, Correspondances, is a lively and sophisticated duet that is part theater, part dance, andpart storytelling.Nadia Beugré (Côte d'Ivoire), Quartiers LibresA solo by Nadia Beugré, Quartiers Libres draws from her heritage and daily experiences toexpress, in an emphatic and intangible way, a woman’s journey to reclaim power and purpose.Beugré has a commanding onstage presence that in this piece is matched by a live-mixedinteractive sound design. A former member of the stunning all-female Compagnie TchéTché,founded by the legendary Béatrice Kombé, Beugré leads the way for a new generation ofcontemporary choreographers from Côte d’Ivoire.Program Two:Maria Helena Pinto (Mozambique), SombraSombra (Shadow) is a stark and poignant solo that gives voice and light to the hidden women ofour societies. With an overturned bucket on top of her head, both obscuring her vision andkeeping the viewer from seeing her face, Pinto imagines women who are central to life—thosewho idealize, imagine, create, construct, plan, organize, and execute—but exist in shadow.Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco), Madame PlazaAn ensemble piece created by Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen, Madame Plaza isperformed with three traditional Moroccan cabaret singers called Aïta—vocalists whose customincludes guttural wailing and incantations. In Morocco, the Aïta are paradoxically the object ofadmiration and fantasy, but also contemptuous rejection. Their artistry is often classified as7

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013folklore, but their presence is immediately and profoundly contemporary. With touchingdirectness and surprising humor, Madame Plaza comments on traditional notions of femininityand celebrates the essential freedom of both the body and the voice.San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in Association with YBCA PresentsJohn Cage: MusicircusSunday, October 28, 2012, 1 p.m.–5 p.m./YBCA Forum and GalleriesFREE admissionBig Idea: ReflectAmerican composer John Cage was one of the most influential and controversial musical voicesof the 20th century. For three days at the end of October, San Francisco Contemporary MusicPlayers celebrate the centennial of Cage’s birth with performances and activities that explorethe magic and mayhem that defined his long and notorious career. The celebration culminatesat YBCA with a new production of Cage’s exuberant musical carnival Musicircus. In this freemarathon concert, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and friends will performCage’s music and writings simultaneously throughout YBCA’s Forum and galleries. Audiencesare invited to come and go throughout the afternoon and to experience the full range of Cage’sgenius, from exuberant periods of raucous energy to moments of silence and contemplation.The day also features a variety of food carts, student performances, and a self-guided soundwalk, and is appropriate for all ages and all levels of musical knowledge or experience.New Frequencies Fest 2012Friday, November 16-Sunday, November 18, 2012YBCA’s annual music series, New Frequencies, gets a makeover this season and returns asNew Frequencies Fest 2012, a three-day mini-festival of music from around the world. NewFrequencies Fest 2012 expands your musical horizons with a wide range of programming,including: Women, Strings & Song, an evening of song from some of the finest contemporaryAmerican women songwriters and composers; Descarga SF/NY, a lively celebration of AfroCuban music and dance; and Chamber Music Day Live + Free, a melodic buffet of chambermusic from around the Bay Area.New Frequencies Fest 2012: Women, Strings & SongFriday, November 16, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $15-$20 advance; $20-$25 at the door, $15 YBCA members; YBCA:You FREEBig Idea: SoarWomen, Strings & Song is an evening of song by contemporary women songwriters &composers who use the voice and strings as their principal instruments of expression. Thelineup includes Brooklyn-based cellist Marika Hughes; San Francisco’s acclaimed bassist andcomposer Lisa Mezzacappa who will be joined by New York vocalist, poet & improviser FayVictor; and the remarkable Parkington Sisters from Cape Code making their San Franciscodebut.New Frequencies Fest 2012: Descarga SF/NYSaturday, November 17, 2012, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $20 advance; $25 at the door; $15 students, seniors, teachers advance; $20students, seniors, teachers at the door; $15 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: SoarJoin us for a lively celebration of Afro-Cuban folklore and creative jazz improvisation, featuringthe inimitable sounds of the Proverb Trio. The evening opens with performances by OaklandbasedCuban drummer Sandy Perez y Su Ladé and the Ramon Ramos Alayo Dance8

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Company, and culminates with a dance party featuring contemporary Cuban dance music byRumbaché playing timba, son, and fresh originals.Chamber Music Festival in Association with YBCASunday, November 18, 2012, 12 noon-7 p.m.YBCA Forum, Galleries and Lam Research Theater at YBCA (formerly Novellus Theater)FREE admissionBig Idea: SoarChamber Music Day Live + Free is a unique, day-long showcase of performances designed tospotlight the breadth and variety of professional chamber music in the Bay Area. Produced bythe San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, Chamber Music Day, now in its fifth season,unites the community of ensembles, presenters and arts organizations to feature 30 of the SanFrancisco Bay Area's finest baroque, classical, contemporary, cutting-edge improvisation andjazz ensembles-in 30-minute performances created to delight new listeners and seasonedconcert-goers of all ages and backgrounds.World PremiereClas/sick Hip-HopFriday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1, 2012, 8 p.m./Lam Research Theater atYBCA (formerly Novellus Theater)Featuring: Les Twins, Daniel Bernard, Roumain, Rennie HarrisTickets: $15 advance; $20 at the door; $10 YBCA members, students; FREE for YBCA:YouBig Idea: DareWhat happens when you pair an up-and-coming violin virtuoso with five hip-hop dance acts onthe same stage? We call it Clas/sick Hip-Hop—a two-night mini-festival featuring YouTubesensations Les Twins, legendary hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris, trail-blazing b-girl Rokafella,Bay Area new comers Ladia Yates and I Dummy, and virtuoso violinist Daniel BernardRoumain in a mashup of music and movement you won’t want to miss.The hip-hop dance duo Larry and Laurent Bourgeois, popularly known as Les Twins, areidentical twin brothers who have set fire to the global hip-hop dance scene. Les Twins havetoured with Beyoncé and their videos have been viewed over 20 million times on YouTube.Internationally renowned award-winning choreographer Rennie Harris is hailed as one of thegodfathers of hip hop in America. With his company, Rennie Harris PureMovement (founded in1992), he brought hip-hop dance to the concert stage as an alternative to the stereotypes andnegative images of it created by television and to recognize its myriad influences, inventivespirit, and potential to bring people together.Better known as Rokafella, Ana Garcia burst through the concrete ceiling of the maledominatedhip hop scene. Through her music, dance, and recent film All the Ladies Say,highlighting the lives of six iconic female street dancers, she has become a mentor to the manyyoung b-girls now emerging worldwide.Richmond-born Ladia Yates and 19-year-old Oakland native Levi “I Dummy” Allen provide alook at the diversity of dance styles overtaking the Bay Area. One of the rising stars of the BayArea hip hop scene, Ladia has been described as ―the Queen of Jookin;‖ and I Dummy wowedthe So You Think You Can Dance judges during his audition for Season 8 with his turf (―takingup room on the floor‖) dancing.9

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Daniel Bernard Roumain melds his classical music roots with his own cultural references andvibrant musical imagination. He has carved a reputation for himself as an innovative composer,performer, violinist, and band leader and is perhaps the only composer who has collaboratedand performed with Philip Glass, Cassandra Wilson, Bill T. Jones, and Lady Gaga.West Coast PremiereBebe Miller: HistoryFriday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26, 2013, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: ReflectFor more than 25 years, ward-winning dancer and choreographer Bebe Miller’s has beenexploring the unruly edges of the heart and mind to create a unique physical language that fullyexpresses the complexities of the human condition. Her newest piece, A History, is an eveninglengthduet that invites audiences to experience what it feels like to make and perform a dance.Part performance, part installation, part interaction, A History shifts the focus from performanceto process and can be seen simultaneously as both the evidence and result of artistic creation,exposing how we do what we do and what the outcomes are.Bay Area PremiereWooster Group/New York City Players: Eugene O’Neill’s Early PlaysThree One-act PlaysThursday, February 14-Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumThursday, February 14: Thrifty Thursday: All Seats $5Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: ReflectA reprise of thee one-act plays by Eugene O’Neill known collectively as the ―Glencairn plays‖ —Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917), and The Moon of the Caribbees(1918) — Early Plays recounts the tales of a group of sailors on a tramp steamer as they gofrom port to sea and back again, exposing the under belly of turn-of-the-century maritime lifeand the longing and loneliness of life at sea. The episodes are threaded together with hauntingmelodies, composed and written by director Richard Maxwell, and staged with a simplicity andgrace that allow these simple stories to resonate deeply and emotionally.Since its inception in 1975, the Wooster Group has been celebrated as one of the most vibrantand vital voices in contemporary American theater. Known for their pioneering explorations withnew technology and multidisciplinary art forms, they have left an indelible mark oncontemporary performance, which has resulted in an Obie Award for direction for RichardMaxwell.West Coast Premiere/World PremiereKronos Quartet’s Kronos: Listen LocalThursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22, 8 p.m./ Lam Research Theater at YBCA(formerly Novellus Theater)Tickets: $25-30 regular advance; $30-25 at the door; $20-25 student, teacher, senioradvance; $25-$30 student, teacher, senior at the door; $20-25 YBCA member; YBCA:YouFREEBig Idea: EncounterSan Francisco’s own Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet concludes its multi-yearpartnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with this program highlighting the vibrant10

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013creative voices of its hometown composers. Internationally renowned for scouting the world overfor exceptional collaborators, Kronos turns its focus to its home turf for two world premieres,including a new work for string quartet and electronics by San Francisco’s celebratedcomposer/performer and media artist Pamela Z, co-commissioned by YBCA and the KronosPerforming Arts Association; and a new piece by Nathaniel Stookey, who at age 17 was theyoungest composer ever commissioned for the San Francisco Symphony’s New and UnusualMusic Series. The program also features the West Coast premiere of Carrying the Past by DanBecker, chair of the composition department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, andworks by other San Francisco musicians.West Coast PremiereShen Wei: Undivided DividedThursday and Friday, March 21 and 22, 2013, 8 p.m.Saturday, March 23, 2013, 5 and 8 p.m.Sunday, March 24, 2013, 2 and 5 p.m.Thursday, March 21: Thrifty Thursday: All Seats $5YBCA Forum/GalleriesTickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: SoarBest known for choreographing the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, ShenWei was a founding member of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, China’s firstcontemporary dance company. He has been widely celebrated for his sophisticatedchoreography, breathtakingly powerful cross-cultural performances and gorgeous visualimagery, and was hailed by the The Washington Post as ―one of the greatest artists of our time.‖The company’s newest piece, Undivided Divided, is a unique performance installationcomprised o a grid divided into 30 squares inhabited by 16 dancers. Audience members areinvited to stroll amongst moving ―displays‖ of painted dancers, projected videos and sculpturalinstallations. Set to an original score by Sō Percussion and concrete sound design by LawsonWhite, the multimedia work envelopes the audience not only through its spatial design but alsovia multi-track sound creating an exciting new type of immersive interaction between audienceand performer.Axis Dance Co. – 25 Years of Daring Dance!Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumSunday, March 31, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m./YBCA ForumTickets: $25; $20 seniors/people with disabilities/students/YBCA Members; $15 youth 14and under; FREE YBCA: YouBig Idea: DareAXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles ofperformers with and without disabilities, invites you to share in their celebration of 25 years ofexcellence in creating and performing physically integrated dance. You can expect a thrillingevening of breathtaking dance and bold ideas as AXIS presents two world premieres, one byVictoria Marks set to an original sound score from San Francisco-based composer Beth Custer,and one by San Francisco’s own Amy Seiwert. These performances will change the way youthink about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever.David Dorfman & Future Soul Think Tank: Prophets of FunkThursday, April 25-Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8 p.m./YBCA ForumThursday, April 25: Thrifty Thursday: All Seats $511

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: DareDavid Dorfman Dance delivers a blast from the past as Sly and the Family Stone, one of thethe Bay Area’s favorite funk bands comes alive again on stage at YBCA with their newest work,Prophets of Funk, an electrifying performance that celebrates the band’s groundbreaking andoriginal sound and salutes the struggles and achievements of everyday people. Audiences areencouraged to sing – and dance – along with their favorite oldies, including Stand, Let Me TakeYou Higher, Dance to the Music and (of course) Everyday PeopleFILM/VIDEOTahrir: Liberation SquareThursday, July 26 and Saturday, July 28, 7:30 p.m./YBCA Screening RoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterA real-time, cinéma vérité-style chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history ofmodern Egypt. Together with thousands of other citizens, Noha, Ahmed, and Elsayed havebeen involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. Day after day,sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the filmfollows these young and unexpected heroes and their shattering fight to attain freedom. (2011,90 min, digital)Kaneto Shindo RememberedThursday, August 9-Thursday, August 26, 2012/YBCA Screening RoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: SoarThe exceptional Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo died in May at age 100. In tribute, wepresent this series of three of his very finest films. Haunted by the devastation of his nativeHiroshima, Shindo was a life-long socialist and directed almost 50 films over the span of hiscareer. He left a remarkably diverse body of work, from humanist docu-dramas toexpressionistic ghost stories. In the 1940s, he was a screenwriter, and then began working asan assistant director to such major filmmakers as Kon Ichikawa and Seijun Suzuki. Heeventually formed his own production company and made politically conscious features,culminating in The Naked Island, his mesmerizing wordless study of Japanese farmers,considered by many to be his masterpiece.Amos Vogel and Film as a Subversive Art Remembered: L’Age d’Or (The Age of Gold)By Luis BuñuelThursday, September 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m./YBCA ScreeningRoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: DareFounder of the legendary Cinema 16 film society as well as the New York Film Festival, AmosVogel died at the age of 91 in April. He is best remembered by some for his seminal book Filmas a Subversive Art. This amazing text illustrated the power of cinema to challenge aesthetic,political, sexual, and ideological ideas. In tribute, we present Luis Buñuel’s rarely screenedclassic L’Age d’Or, co-written by Salvador Dali. Vogel wrote this about the film: ―In accord withsurrealist ideology, only love—wild, anarchic, irrational love—is acceptable. Everything else issubverted; the rich, the church, the state, the military, as well as those pervasive bourgeoisvices of sentimentality and romanticism…‖ (1930, 63 min, 35mm). Preceded by the unhinged12

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Laurel and Hardy short Big Business, directed by James W. Horne and Leo McCarey (1929,19 min, 35mm).Femina Potens' ASKEW Film and Performance FestivalThursday, September 13–Saturday, September 15, 7 p.m./YBCA Screening RoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: DareASKEW is an experimental interactive exploration of performance, activism, and counterculturethrough documentary and experimental film coupled with performance art, readings and dance.The festival spans three evenings, each thematically curated and followed by an interactivepanel with the audience. Guest curated by Madison Young.Femina Potens is a nationally recognized non-profit arts organization, established in 2000, anddedicated to the advancement of LGBTQ & Allied Artists and Communities. Femina Potens is aleading queer organization in San Francisco and in 2012 launched new programming in NYCand Los Angeles.Intersections: LOVE:SEX:PORN:ART: Our Intimate IdentityThursday, September 13, 7 p.m.Featuring works by Oriana Small aka Ashley Blue, Lorelei Lee, Cheryl Dunye, Chloe Camilla,and Dylan Ryan.Oriana Small and Lorelei Lee present excerpts from their respective novels and memoirspresented in conjunction with silent short films composed of both moving and still images basedon their individual experiences within the adult industry.Hima B will be screening an excerpt from License to Pimp, her feature documentary about thedilemmas that strippers face when they must pay for the privilege to work in strip clubs wheremanagement violates their labor rights. Filming in San Francisco, the filmmaker, an ex-stripper,investigates the various factors that enable the strip clubs to pimp their workers and deny thembasic rights that workers across America are guaranteed.Cheryl Dunye presents Mommy is Coming. Set in the international creative melting pot that isBerlin, this raunchy romantic comedy of errors confronts the last lesbian taboo: Mommy. A takeon screwball comedies and porn topped off with Dunye's ingenious form of storytelling.The Birth of Something New: Explorations of Queer Home, Family & CommunityFriday, September 14, 7 p.m.Featuring works by Sadie Lune, Madison Young, and Hima B.Sadie Lune presents EGG, a collaborative work by Sadie Lune and Kay Garnellen. EGG is asexy, funny, romantic, and dirty visual poem; an intimate collection of erotic moments betweentwo lovers infused with food, fertility, surprises, joy, and love; and one woman's journey towardmotherhood with her ftm transgender partner.Hima B presents Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories. OneFilipino and three Chinese families and their gay and lesbian children engage in dialogue aboutshame, grief, love, growth, living with HIV/AIDS, the acceptance of homosexuality by familymembers, and the cultural perceptions of homosexuality. The Gay Asian Pacific Alliance in SanFrancisco awarded this documentary with the 1997 George Choy Memorial Award.13

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Madison Young presents Down the Rabbit Hole: A Year in the Life of a Sexy Mama, whichexplores theatrically and cinematically the transformative first year of motherhood for a womanimmersed in alternative sexual subculture. Cinematic elements consist of several parodies ofqueer-sploitation films that illustrate the societal fear of non-traditional parenting and nontraditionalfamily dynamics that include LGBT and sex workers. Video elements also includeinterviews from other queer and sex worker moms and parents about their first year ofmotherhood and their transformative experience. Young's onstage character resembles Alicefrom Alice in Wonderland, modified with autobiographical elements from her life as seen throughthe looking glass. Become immersed in Young's new surroundings of "Mama-land" in thisexperimental performance and multi-media presentation.In/Visible: Women fighting for visibility & survival in a world that doesn't alwayscelebrate differenceSeptember 15, 7:00 p.m.Featuring work by Lisa Bufano, Mollena Williams, Dylan Ryan and Rozen Debowe, Vixen Noir,and Midori.Lisa Bufano presents an exploration of body movement, performance and film in this newvisual and performance work. The dominating theme is the visceral experience of alienation,embodied by creatures, real and imagined.Mollena Williams presents a new short interactive film exploring BDSM, race, culture, andemotional reaction to consenting adults engaging in impact play. How does an audienceperceive a black female being "beaten" by a Caucasian male upon her own direction andchoosing? How does a viewer’s reaction alter as the race of the "sadist" changes?Vixen Noir presents a multi-media performance and video work that melds poetry/spoken word,singing, burlesque and video projection while exploring how Audre Lorde’s essay and speechThe Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power sparked a major transformation in Noir's life as anerotic being, queer woman, and artist.Midori addresses the in/visibility of aging women in Japan by utilizing film and performance.Midori asks you, the viewer: When the Yamamba passes, will you see her? Will you meet hergaze? She seeks and seeps into the psyche of those who will not see her. There she makesnew nightmares. Yamamba ( 山 姥 ) lives in the dusky edge of the primordial forest, on the fringeof civilization's subconscious.Dylan Ryan and Rozen Debowe present Tooth&Nail, a short erotic film that thematically dealswith the dichotomy of reality and fiction within the context of the sexual mind and mental health.Played out by the dynamically striking Dylan Ryan, this intricately woven femme expertly walksthe battlefield that can only be created within the confines of the imagination. As she addressesthe fine lines of reality, Ms. Ryan fleshes out a relationship with herself that is accessiblycontroversial.Special Engagement – New 35mm print!Celine and Julie Go BoatingBy Jacques RivetteThursday, September 20 and Friday, September 21, 7 p.m.Saturday, September 22, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.Sunday, September 23, 2 p.m.Tickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: You14

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Big Idea: DareFinally available in a new 35mm print, Celine and Julie Go Boating is a brilliant meditation onthe art of cinema and the nature of fantasy. This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie, alibrarian, and the flamboyant Celine, a magician of sorts, and a White Rabbit who leads Julieright through the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. One of the seminal films of theseventies as well as a key feminist work, it’s regarded by many as New Wave master JacquesRivette's most accomplished film. (1974, 193 min, 35mm)Special Engagement – New 35mm print!We Won't Grow Old TogetherBy Maurice PialatThursday, September 27–Saturday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.;Sunday, September 30, 2 p.m.Tickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: ReflectThis autobiographical film from French master Maurice Pialat (À nos amours, Loulou) is theharrowing account of a relationship in breakdown, with Jean Yanne (who won Best Actor atCannes for this role) as a domineering and philandering filmmaker whose behavior threatens todestroy his relationships with both his wife and mistress. Painfully intimate and marked byPialat’s trademark blend of naturalism and psychologically penetrating formalisticexperimentation, We Won’t Grow Old Together is a wrenching account of emotionalmasochism. (1972, 102 min, 35mmAbout Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsYerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), located in San Francisco's Yerba Buena culturaldistrict, is one of the nation's leading multidisciplinary contemporary arts centers. With a beliefthat contemporary art is at the heart of community life, YBCA brings audiences and artists of allbackgrounds together to express and experience creativity. The organization is known fornurturing emerging artists at the forefront of their fields and presenting works that blend artforms and explore the events and ideas of our time. As part of its commitment to the SanFrancisco Bay Area, YBCA supports the local arts community and reflects the region's diversityof people and thought through its arts and public programming.YBCA programs around four Big Ideas to organize its wide-ranging programs and provide acontext with which to engage the art. The Big Ideas are: ENCOUNTER: Engaging the socialcontext; SOAR: The search for meaning; REFLECT: Considering the personal; andDARE: Innovations in art, action, audience. These ideas, which encompass art from alldisciplines, are designed to focus an investigation of contemporary art and its relationship to thelarger world. Using the Big Ideas as portals, YBCA has established a framework of thought thatinvites exploration and risk-taking, quiet reflection and active engagement.Performing arts, visual arts and film/video programs are curated thematically around Big Ideaswhich illustrate the connections and associations between the works. Public programs and BigIdea Nights, YBCA's popular free open house series, are dedicated to establishing a deeperunderstanding and appreciation of contemporary art. YBCA presents programming year-roundin the Forum, Screening Room, Galleries and Novellus Theater. For tickets and information,call 415.978.ARTS (2787) or visit www.ybca.org.Funding15

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013YBCA’s programs are made possible in part by: Abundance Foundation, Adobe, KoretFoundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Novellus Systems.YBCA is grateful to the City of San Francisco for its ongoing support.YBCA Performance 12-13 is made possible in part by: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.Additional Funding for YBCA Performance 12-13: Zellerbach Family Foundation, PantaRhea Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, and Members of Yerba Buena Centerfor the ArtsYBCA Exhibitions 12-13 is made possible in part by: Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan,Meridee Moore and Kevin King, and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.Community Engagement and Youth Education Programs are made possible in part by:The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Sato Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, JPMorganChase Foundation, Panta Rhea Foundation, The Kimball Foundation, U.S. Bank, Doris DukeCharitable Foundation, Association of Performing Arts Presenters and MetLife Foundation All-In: Re-imagining Community Participation Program, and EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for Museumsin partnership with AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums and MetLife Foundation, andMembers of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.Free First Tuesdays underwritten by Directors Forum Members.The Nayland Blake exhibition is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts;media sponsor: The Bay Area Reporter.PAUSE || Practice and Exchange is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.David Shrigley: Brain Activity is supported, in part, by the Betlach Family Foundation. Mediasponsor: The Bold Italic.Without Reality There Is No Utopia media sponsor: San Francisco Bay Guardian.The presentation of Voices of Strength: Contemporary Dance & Theater by Women from Africawas made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the New EnglandFoundation for the Arts' National Dance Project. Major support for NDP is also provided by theDoris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. MellonFoundation. Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.Kronos Quartet’s Kronos: Listen Local is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for theArts.Bebe Miller: History was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' NationalDance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additionalsupport from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero: Turbulence (A Dance About the Economy) was made possible bythe New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from theDoris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional support from The Andrew W. MellonFoundation; media sponsor: The Bay Area Reporter.16

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