KEITH HENNESSY’S A QUEER 20TH ANNIVERSARY - 2009 - 2010 SEASON…


DEC. 9, 2009 – JAN. 31, 2010 in SAN FRANCISCO

SALIVA (1989)
Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 – 8:00 pm
A Performance by Keith Hennessy with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Restaging at the original site under a freeway South of Market in San Francisco
Specific location posted Dec. 9, 2009 on http://www.circozero.org
Tix: $15 — $25 sliding scale https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82275
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SALIVA (1989)
Wed., Dec. 9, 2009 – 7:30 pm FREE
Performance excerpts, archive clips and discussion of AIDS era performance.
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, SF 94103

Keith Hennessy announces details of his 2009 - 2010 season, which runs December 9, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Keith Hennessy’s A Queer 20th Anniversary will be a retrospective of two seminal pieces performed by Keith Hennessy & company including SALIVA (1989)— A restaging at the original site under a freeway South of Market in San Francisco (12/13/09), a talk & video presentation a few days before the performance (12/9/09) presented by Shaping SF as part of the Art + Politics TALK series at CounterPULSE; and HOW TO DIE (2005 - 06) — A performance by Keith Hennessy with Jules Beckman & Seth Eisen at Dance Mission Theatre (1/15 - 17/10). A highlight of the season will be the West Coast Premiere of CROTCH (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world…)(2008) — A performance by Keith Hennessy at Dance Mission (1/29 - 31/10). CROTCH had its American premiere at NY’s Dance Theater Workshop in April 2009, garnering much acclaim by NY critics: “an outré, charged solo” - NY Times. The season is rounded out with TOO MUCH! A queer marathon: 10 hours of performance, video, a dinner hour, a make-out room, & a dance party, co-produced with and staged at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory in SF (1/10/10).

Keith Hennessy’s A Queer 20th Anniversary celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hennessy’s coming out
solo performance SALIVA, with a full season of events including performances, publications, and a queer performance marathon. The performances — one premiere and two restaged works - will be complimented by both teaching and archive projects. All will be marked by a complex approach to socially-conscious autobiography and the evolution of an accessible, subversive and queer voice. Additionally the season highlights grassroots arts spaces and their contributions to aesthetic experimentation and community organizing in San Francisco.

SALIVA (1989)
Performance by Keith Hennessy, with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Co-Presented by Shaping SF as part of the Art + Politics TALK series at CounterPULSE

20 years ago Keith Hennessy created SALIVA, an interdisciplinary dance-performance-ritual under a freeway in downtown San Francisco. Deep within the rage and grief of the AIDS crisis, Hennessy performed a ritualistic reclamation of the body, the queer male body, as holy. SALIVA was also presented at Highways in LA, was featured in the national gay magazine The Advocate (1990), and has since inspired chapters in two academic books: Gay Ideas by Richard Mohr (1992) and How To Make Dances in an Epidemic, the landmark study of AIDS and dance by David Gere (2004). Since 1989 Hennessy has created ten full-evening solo performances (while performing in and/or directing several noted collaborative companies). All of his work has been presented in San Francisco except CROTCH (2008). Since 1998 Hennessy’s work has also been commissioned and presented in Europe, mostly France.
Restaging at the original site under a freeway South of Market in San Francisco
Specific location posted Dec. 9, 2009 on http://www.circozero.org
Tix: $15 — $25 sliding scale https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82275

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2009 -2010 SEASON:
Keith Hennessy’s A Queer 20th Anniversary

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
7:30 pm SALIVA - Talk, Video & Excerpts

Presented by Shaping SF as part of Art + Politics,

CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St, SF 94103

Tix: FREE
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Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009
8:00 pm SALIVA (1989)

Performance by Keith Hennessy, with Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney

Restaging at the original site under a freeway South of Market in San Francisco

Specific location posted Dec. 9, 2009 on http://www.circozero.org

Tix: $15—25 sliding scale. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82275
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Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010
2:00 pm — Midnight (Come & go as you please...)

TOO MUCH! A Queer Marathon
10 continuous hours of performance, featuring emerging and established LGBT artists,
video, food + drink, a make-out room, and a dance party.
CONFIRMED PERFORMERS (as of 11/2/09) : Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Dandelion Dance Theater, Fact/SF,
Jesse Hewit, Jez Kuono'ono Lee, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos Jr., Jose Navarette, Keith Hennessy, Kirk Read,
Laura Arrington Dance, Maria Francesca Scaroni, Philip Huang, Queer Food for Love.

Co—produced with and staged at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory.

Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 1519 Mission Street, SF 94103

Tix $10.00 https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82279
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Thursday — Sunday
Jan. 15 — 17, 2010
8:00 pm HOW TO DIE (2005-06)

Performance by Keith Hennessy with Jules Beckman & Seth Eisen

Dance Mission Theatre, 3316 24th Street, SF 94110 415/ 826-4441

Tix: $15—25 sliding scale. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82277
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Thursday — Sunday
January 29 - 31, 2010
8:00 pm CROTCH
(all the Joseph Beuys references in the world…) (2008)

Solo Performance by Keith Hennessy
Dance Mission Theatre, 3316 24th Street, SF 94110 415/ 826-4441

Tix: $15—25 sliding scale. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82278
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For directions to the venues and additional information about events, please visit: http://www.circozero.org

What: Keith Hennessy’s A Queer 20th Anniversary

2009 - 2010 SEASON

Dates: December 9, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Venues: • CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, SF 94103

• Restaging at the original site under a freeway off 2nd St.

• Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 1519 Mission Street, SF 94103

• Dance Mission Theatre, 3316 24th Street, SF 94110 (415) 826-4441

Tickets: SALIVA talk & video: FREE

SALIVA restaging/CROTCH / HOW TO DIE: $15 - 25 sliding scale,

QUEER MARATHON: $10 for 10 hours (Come & go as you please…)

Box Office: http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4K6ELMaEO4

Telephone: For info please call 415/ 255- 2500

Website: http://www.circozero.org