Theresa Dickinson invites you to her newest performance experience, beginning January 10, 2008.

"The Former World "
Thursday, January 10 through Sunday, January 27 2008

ZaZa Dance Theatre presents a work by Theresa Dickinson about tectonic aeons in the world of the brain. Aerial and terrestrial movement is set in a web of rope, live music and dancing minerals. Performers travel through telescoped history, moving rocks, organically weird situations--always adapting, changing, trying to survive. The interior of the brain is a moving network of electric connections like the rope web in which each energetic body is directly affected by each other.

Theresa Dickinson, the director and choreographer of "The Former World " began working with rope structures in 1973, when the first set of ropes was designed by Michelle Larsson for Tumbleweed Dance & Music Co. to perform in. That structure was enlarged to accommodate bigger spaces and more performers, and was used in repertory by Tumbleweed until they were stolen after a performance in Golden Gate Park. A new, more complex rope set was built in 1989 by Dickinson and Hal Hughes. At that time the rope world became home to a story of Demeter, Persephone, and Hades.

The Voice Factory
1519 Mission Street
San Francisco

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