2020 · Dance – site-specific / aerial
Fog Beast — SF Trolley Dances
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A roughly six-minute site-specific dance film for the all-online 17th San Francisco Trolley Dances, made at the Dogpatch Ropewalk park, which honors the historic Tubbs Cordage rope factory. Conceived as a single traveling shot down the rope walk from Third Street to Angel Alley, it moves through three sections: it opens on Ben playing melodica as Melecio Estrella sings and dances, shifts to Melecio singing over Ben's guitar, and ends with the dancers gathered around Ben's drum set. Ben wrote and produced the score, mixing the live sound with studio recording.
- Premiere
- 2020-10-17
- Venue
- San Francisco Trolley Dances 2020 (online), filmed at the Ropewalk / Angel Alley, Dogpatch
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Filmed Saturday, Oct 3, 2020 by Epiphany Productions (videographer Andy Mogg, dancingimages.com). Streamed online Oct 17-18, 2020, and then available at epiphanydance.org for the rest of 2020 ('ENCORE'). The Fog Beast film begins at about 19:00 in Epiphany's full one-hour program video.
- Credits
- Choreography: Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward. Dancers: Andrew Ward, Ben Juodvalkis, Janine Trinidad, Melecio Estrella, Melissa Lewis, Wailana Simcock. Original score: Ben Juodvalkis (written, composed and produced; performed live on camera on melodica, guitar and drums). Vocals: Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward. Costumes and production management: Krystal Harfert. Video: Andy Mogg (Dancing Images). Presenter: Epiphany Dance Theater (Kim Epifano; Jes DeVille).
Elsewhere
- SF Trolley Dances Performs at Ropewalk — Fletcher Studio, 2020-11-16
- SF Trolley Dances at Ropewalk — Vimeo (Fletcher Studio), 2020
- EDT's 17th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances - FULL 1hr (2020) — Vimeo (Epiphany Dance Theater), 2020
- San Francisco Trolley Dances Moves From The Street To The Screen — BroadwayWorld, 2020-07-27
- 17th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances 2020 — Epiphany Dance Theater, 2020-10