A Woman’s Song for Peace Featuring HOLLY NEAR, FERRON & DANCE BRIGADE
Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade kicks off its 50th Anniversary Season with a seven-city West Coast Tour January 9-19 of A Woman’s Song for Peace, a new dance theater work featuring performances by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade’s fierce, nuanced choreography. The Oregon performances are January 9 at Hult Center in Eugene, January 10 at Newmark Theater in Portland, and January 12 at Craterian Theater in Medford. The tour continues through January 19 in California.
Dance Brigade is sponsoring this seven-city tour to make an indelible mark on the upcoming inauguration. This is a cry for peace to end all wars so that peace and justice can prevail, not only in the Middle East, but also in Sudan, Ukraine, and at our borders and inner cities of the U.S. “As we move through an intense and divisive Presidential election cycle in which these issues are front and center, Dance Brigade offers A Woman’s Song for Peace with the aim of reorienting audiences to our shared humanity and desire for peace. We believe that this collaboration can unify and activate people. We offer it as a gift to our communities for healing, transformation, and a vision for a way forward,” says Keefer.
1975 was the birth of the Wallflower Order Dance Collective. Original member Keefer has carried on the legacy of provocative, feminist dance producing productions that explore the intersection between art and social justice with Dance Brigade, a dance company, which formed in the Bay Area in 1984; Grrrl Brigade, a youth empowerment dance program; and Dance Mission, a dance center in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district supporting underrepresented, emerging, and established artists.
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