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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
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