Rajendra - Fresh

Video-Dance Lab

2008-12-02T19:00:00Z

Sunday December 28th 2pm to 8ish

i’m going to have a live video-dance lab at MJDC as part of my CHIME activities. i’m hoping to get together some people that are experimenting with live video, dance and music to have sort of a jam. the basic set up will be two cameras and a video switcher. we’ll project the live mix, as well as record it.

this is for dancer’s, video artists and musicians. dancers can explore dance for camera in an environment with the immediate feedback of the projection. video artist can bring additional tools that we can switch into the mix. setups that you’ve been tinkering with, or any other technology that caught your attention, that you would like bring to a lab situation. we will also be recording music and any other audio. the idea is to make a little set up and let the group improvise/experiment. i’m thinking that each hour we’ll reconfigure the setup and have a mini training then we’ll take the hour to explore within that set up.

load in, set up and warm up will start at 2pm. the first “set” will start at 3pm. come for any amount of time.

at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab 301 8th Street (@ Folsom)

CHIME Live!

2008-12-01T08:00:00Z

December 16th at 8pm FREE

Whoa! The year is nearly over! I’ll be sharing the work i’ve done this year as part of CHIME Live. That’s the “Choreographers in mentorship exchange” grant which I received this year in partnership with Scott Wells. I’ll be showing several short dances for camera. Some complete, some just excerpts of the work in progress. Scott Wells and I will also be talking about the exchange process. Deborah Slater and Cynthia Adams will be presenting work at 7pm. Come early and take it all in.

at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab 301 8th Street (@ Folsom)

Dance Lab

2008-11-04T08:00:00Z

I’ll be leading an experimental dance lab…

Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm November 9, 16, and 23rd.

I’ll be experimenting with integrating movement disciplines that have influenced me. We will practice dance as a meditative state, moving with momentum and efficiency in all directions, moving with energetic impetuous, considering alignment as a transitional state, playing with the full range between the core and the periphery and using imagery to inspire movement. This workshop will be structured after the Body Weather Laboratory that i’ve done with Sherwood Chen and Oguri. The first half of class will be focused on movement training; The second half will be focused on improvisation. I’ll be experimenting with fusing this movement training with release technique and other practices.

at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab 301 8th Street (@ Folsom)

Pay what you can.

Election Nite Party

2008-10-25T07:00:00Z

I’ll be dancing with Sara Shelton Mann at YBCA’s Election Nite Party. Anna Halprin will also be there, as well as bunch of other cool cat artists and DJs. Yahoo! Don’t forget to VOTE.

DANCING THE DEAD/DHARMA

2008-10-21T07:00:00Z

I’m dancing for Sara Shelton Mann in this new work….

DANCING THE DEAD/DHARMA

Saturday, November 1, 8 PM Pay what you can!

This evening contains the beginnings of the world premiere of “The Great Liberation Upon Hearing,” February 26-28 2009. Written and produced by Dance Brigade, choreography by Sara Shelton Mann, Taiko composistion by Bruce Ghent and video by Joe Williams (so far)…

Dance Mission Theater Reservations/Box Office: 415-273-4633 3316 24th Street (corner Mission) San Francisco CA 94110

Choreography by: Sara Shelton Mann, Dance Brigade, Anne Bluethenthal, Troupe Sayta and Folawole

Music by: Tashi Shazur, Jennifer Berezan and Bruce Ghent

Other guests include: Vicki Noble Healing Circle with Carolyn Brandy and Drummers Sky Burial film by: Ellen Bruno Video segment by: Joe Williams Performing: Jose A. Navarrete, Rajendra Serber, Sonya Smith, Kira Maria Kirsch, Folawole Oyinlola, Lena Gatchalian, Sarah Bush, Hana Erdman, Karen Elliot, Richelle Donigan, Kimberly Valmore and Krissy Keefer.

Trolley Dances

2008-10-10T07:00:00Z

We’re dancing outside. (i’ll be sure to wear my sunblock.) Scott Wells & Dancers in Trolley Dances

Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008

Tours begin the new Mission Bay branch of the SF Public Library, 960 4th Street (at Berry 2-hr guided tours leave every 45 min. beginning at 11 a.m. 6 performances each on Saturday and Sunday. Start times: 11 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.

FREE with MUNI Fast Pass or with regular fare of $1.50

INFO: (415) 226-1139 (info is in English)

Off Book

2008-10-09T07:00:00Z

Got a nice review dancing with Scott Wells & Dancers in the SF Chronicle for this Litquake event at Theatre Artuad. The show also featured some other highly entertaining artist.

Off Book (Presented by Litquake and ODC Theater) JoAnn Selisker, Michelle Tea & Scott Wells, Erica Shuch & Alejandro Muguia, Katie Faulkner & Tess Uriza Holthe.

October 9, 8pm Theatre Artaud 450 Florida St. San Francisco

Pomology

2008-09-19T07:00:00Z

Pomology - the study an practice of growing fruit New work by Martha Sue Harris including video collaboration with Iu-Hui Chua and Rajendra Serber

Artist Reception: Thursday, Sept. 25th, 6 to 9 pm
On Display: Sept. 25th to Oct. 21st
Gallery BellJar | 3187 16th St (Between Guerrero & Valencia) | SF CA 94103 | map

With this installation combining sculpture, painting and video, Martha Sue examines her experience of pregnancy through a lens colored by developmental biology, animal embryology, and pomology. Gallery BellJar becomes a bizarre inner landscape populated with imaginary fruit, embryonic creatures and strange plant life, representative of her fascination with the way things grow.

Scott Wells & Dancers 16th Home Season

2008-07-01T18:36:00Z

i’m in a great show coming up this week. come enjoy the show…

Scott Wells & Dancers had to turn away hundreds last year, so (absolutely) ONE LAST TIME we present the audience favorite HOME AGAIN. Also, probably a one time experience will be our version of WEST SIDE STORY. Original music and very original choreography (ours) and ending.

Friday July 4th 7pm with a 4th of July party inside and outside of Project Artaud Theater at 5pm with live performances by guest artists, food, drinks, dance film showings, aerialists and more.

Saturday July 5th 8pm

Thursday - Saturday July 11 - 12 at 8pm

Box Office 415-863-9834

Presented by ODC

West Coast Contact Improv Festival 2008

2008-06-20T07:00:00Z

I’m teaching this year at the West Coast Contact Improv Festival. My class is Friday July 4th at 1pm.

CI Class June

2008-05-20T07:00:00Z

I’ll be teaching Contact Improv at CounterPulse in San Francisco June 17th. The class starts at 6:30pm, followed by the jam at 8pm. I’m filling in for the lovely Jen Chien (as she flys off to CI36).

Hope to see you there.

Vibrate Ireland

2008-05-01T07:00:00Z

Porcupine Bonita will be playing may 15th to 18th at the Vibrate Dance Festival in Ireland. You should go see it.

Izzie

2008-04-27T07:00:00Z

Whoa!

I just found out that I was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award as part of the “Company Performance” category with Scott Wells & Dancers performance last year of Gym Mystics & Wrestling with Affection. Bay Area Dance Awards are monday nite.

Move(men)t

2008-04-11T07:00:00Z

Porcupine Bonita. was presented at Move(men)t April 17 and 18th. There were also several other manly choreographers show'n live work that evening. It was a man-ificent show.

Move(men)t
"a mens dance festival"
curated by Shannon Preto

Thursday - Sunday 17 - 20 April, 2008 @ 8pm

Program A (April 17-18 Thu-Fri) Sheldon Smith, Joshua Klipp (Freeplay Dance Crew), Adam Venker, Shannon Preto and a dance film by Rajendra Serber.

Program B (April 19-20 Sat-Sun) Andrew Wass, Travis Rowland, Scott Wells, Shannon Preto, Charles Gushue and a new film by Eric Kupers.

The Garage 975 Howard St. San Francisco
Tickets $15

CI Class April

2008-04-02T07:00:00Z

I’ll be leading the pre-jam Contact Improv workshop this April. The workshop is open to all levels. We will focus on sensing beyond the point of contact. Beginning with solo work raising the sensitivity between your own body and the floor. Continuing with listening to the messages from your partners point of contact – about their body and their relation to the floor.

Every Saturday in April from 1:30 to 3pm. (Jam from 3 to 6pm)

8th Street Studio, 2525 8th Street at Dwight, Berkeley CA. Workshop sliding scale $12 - 15, (Jam $5).