2019 · Dance – stage work
The Big Reveal
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A dance-performance 'convening' at the Asian Art Museum that mixed choreography, original songs and interactive learning sessions on human migration, living history and belonging. Its day-long structure imitated, and satirized, a professional conference.
- Premiere
- 2019-07-18
- Venue
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (Samsung Hall and galleries)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Performances July 18, 20 and 21, 2019 (free with registration). Preview excerpt at the SF City Hall Rotunda Dance Series, 2019-06-07. Excerpt at Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest, 2019-07-13. Presented by Dancers' Group with a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Dance Composition Award.
- Credits
- Artistic direction/performance: Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward. Music direction/performance: Ben Juodvalkis. Creation/performance: Katie Faulkner, Danny Nguyen, Melissa Lewis, Wailana Simcock, Janine Trinidad, Patricia West. Dramaturgy/choreographic counsel: Damara Ganley. Session facilitators: Dr. Andrew Jones, Antwan Davis, Wailana Simcock, Janine Trinidad. Stage manager: Jessi Barber (Shawl-Anderson). Producer: Krystal Harfert. Video: Lindsay Gauthier.
Press
“Embedded in the playful song and dance numbers were critiques of our modern obsession with screens and subsequent lack of human connection”
“So Ben [Juodvalkis] said, 'Ok, just talk about how you create load management and creative-capacity building, and I'll take dictation.'”
Elsewhere
- Review: Fog Beast uses movement to mock corporate culture in 'The Big Reveal' — San Francisco Chronicle (Datebook), 2019
- Dances Sung, Songs Moved: Fog Beast Serves it Up in The Big Reveal — In Dance (Dancers' Group), 2019-05
- Finding the Fog Beast — In Dance (Dancers' Group), 2019-06
- ONSITE: Fog Beast — Dancers' Group, 2019-07
- The Big Reveal — Fog Beast — Fog Beast, 2019-07
- Rotunda Dance Series "Fog Beast" at City Hall — Funcheap SF, 2019-06-07