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Yes Sweet Can
March 3, 8:00
Ohlone College, Fremont
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Joanna Haigood (Director) is the Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre, located in Bayview Hunterspoint/San Francisco.
Most of her creative work focuses on making dances that use natural, architectural and cultural environments as a point of departure for movement exploration and narrative. It involves in-depth research into the history
and the character of sites and typically integrates aerial flight and
suspension.
Her work has been commissioned by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Dancing in
the Streets, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National
Black Arts Festival, Lines Contemporary Ballet, Black Choreographers Moving
Festival, Boston Dance Umbrella, Axis Dance Company, Festival d'Avignon and
Festival d'Arles in France. Her work is also in the repertory of the Joffrey
Ballet of Chicago.
Ms. Haigood has been awarded fellowships from the the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, the James M. Irvine Foundation. She also received the
Cal Arts/Alpert Award in Dance in 1999 and United States Fellowship Award in
2007. Locally, she has received a Bay Guardian Local Discovery (GOLDIE) Award and three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards.
Ms. Haigood has taught at the National des Arts du Cirque in France, the
Laban Centre in England, Spelman College, the Institute for Diversity in the
Arts at Stanford University and was a Granada Teaching Fellow the University of
California at Davis. She has enjoyed artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Center and at the Exploratorium Museum. She currently teaches at the San Francisco Clown Conservatory, where she has the pleasure of working with some of the finest circus artists.
This is Joanna's first directorial project with Sweet Can and Wendy Parkman. It has been a tremendous honor and joy to work with such a fantastically talented group of artists.
For more information about Joanna's work, please visit her website: www.zaccho.org |
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