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

"Former Worlds "
Thursday, January 10 through Sunday, January 27 2008

This evening length's dance will be rooted by an artistic vision of a changing, unpredictable environment and its inhabitants. The performance aesthetic can be characterized as biological prehistory, or as epochal geologic change, or as a community coping with an altered landscape. Performers move/dance/fly through an aerial structure of ropes and across a floor of changing earth. Encounters include recognizable social relationships submerged in the flow of communal necessity. Live music will be composed and performed for this work. The dance will run through three weekends for a sum of nine planned performances.

Theresa Dickinson, the director and choreographer of "Former Worlds " 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 were 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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