An evening of Bay Area performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, ENDINGS, emerges as a contemplation of change, loss, and possibility. A show-and-tell of works in progress and new premiers, we nod to our mentors, look towards new moves, and embrace being in the midst of something yet unformed. Co-curated by Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya & Kym McDaniel we propose the prompt, “What is the quickest way to end something?” An open mic/social hour with snacks will follow the show as a creative ice-breaker and casual invitation to share. Bring your friends! It will be fun.

Choreography and Performances by: Kym McDaniel & Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya, Kyle Filley, Sophia Grimani, Raina Sacksteder, Piper Thomasson & Michael Turgeon, and Jesselito Bie/STEAMROLLER Dance Company

A triple bill of works by Bay Area choreographers, Joe Landini and Alma Esperanza Cunningham with Mannakin’s own Traci Cottam.

Alma Esperanza Cunningham presents her latest installment of Great America. Great America is a series of dances that explore the idea of identity, “growing up American”. Using nostalgic music, familiar images, memory, and her own experience of growing up female and bicultural, Esperanza Cunningham weaves a kind of dream that speaks to the past and present. Dancers/collaborators: Raina Sacksteder, Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya, Sophia Grimani, Kyle Filley

Program B - Jan. 16th & 17th @ 8pm

Performances by Chloe Cetinkaya/ Aarabhi Achanta/ Mai Corkins

Chloe Cetinkaya presents, Shotgun Baby Drunk Animal Jukebox, a solo of personal mythology that collages imagery from a rural Midwestern coming of age, female archetypes, and sensual tracings of body and place, with shady men at the periphery.

Dance performance at Safehouse Arts. $25 suggested. NOTAFLOF

Tickets: https://safehousearts.org/

Program Info: https://safehousearts.org/spring-2023-artists-and-bios/

Photo Credit: Sean Anomie

Triple bill performed as part of San Francisco International Arts Festival premiering Alma Esperanza Cunningham’s PARTS/GREAT AMERICA, Aura Fischbeck’s Ambulatory Nature, and Rosemary Hannon & Miriam Wolodarski’s This is It.

Great America performed by Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya, Raina Sacksteder, Jesse Escalante, Ài Yīn [Nicole] Adelski