PERFORMANCES 2013

Jan 12-13 Turbulence, American Realness Festival, Abrons Art Center, NY

Jan 27 Open Space / No Tourists, participatory performance jam co-hosted with Jeremy Wade, location TBA, San Francisco

Feb 8 Almost, duo with Jassem Hindi, Side Step Festival, Helsinki

Feb 9-10 Crotch, Side Step Festival, Helsinki

Apr ?? White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour (Iran), Pigeon Palace as part of The Home Theater Festival

TEACHING 2013

Jan-Mar Performance & Culture, UC Davis, Dept of Theater & Dance

Feb 4-8 Performing Queer Failure with Jassem Hindi, Sidestep Festival, Helsinki

Feb 16-17 Performing Improvisation (aka Anarchism), Series 808, Toronto

Jun 23-30 California Witch Camp, Mendocino

Jul Ponderosa, Germany

Jul Post/Contact, Full Moon Dance Festival, Finland

Oct Texas Dance Improvisation Festival

2012 ARCHIVE OF ACTIVITIES

PERFORMANCES 2012

Jan 12-13 Almost, with Jassem Hindi, American Realness Festival, Abrons Art Center, NY

Feb 16-17 Crotch, Rhubarb Festival / Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto

May 13, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour (Iran), SF International Arts Festival

Jun 7-8 Philip Huang's Fart of Gold, Home Theater Festival @ The Pigeon Palace, benefit for Turbulence Euro tour
Jun 21 Crotch, PICA @ Studio 2, Portland

Turbulence (a dance about the economy) World Premier Tour
Sep 13-16 PICA, TBA Festival, Portland
Sep 20-21 Velocity Dance Center, Seattle
Sep 27-29 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco
Oct 4-6 New York Live Arts, New York

TEACHING 2012

Jan 9-13 Potential Shamanic Improv, Movement Research @ Eden's Expressway, NY

Feb 6 Performing Failure, Goddard College, VT
Feb 18-19 Performing Failure, Hub 14, Toronto

May 24/31 Improv Performance Lab, THEOFFCENTER, San Francisco

Jul 2-8 Performing Queer, Regards et Mouvements, Pontempeyrat France
Jul 23-28 Witch Camp, Ponderosa , Stolzenhagen Germany

Jul 30-Aug 3 Performing Queer Failure, Potential Shamanic Improv
Aug 6-10 Sonic Implications (a week-long intensive with Jassem Hindi), Impulstanz, Vienna.

CONFERENCES & TALKS 2012

Feb 5 What I'm Trying To Do, Goddard College, VT

Jun 21-24 Bodies, Identities, and Alternative Economies, PICA, Portland. Including a talk with A.L. Steiner & Keith Hennessy, and an open rehearsal for Turbulence (a dance about the economy), among other fab events at the intersection of queer, alternative, economy.

RESIDENCIES 2012

Turbulence (a dance about the economy) will be developed at the following creative residencies:

PICA, Portland; Regards et Mouvements, France; Ponderosa, Germany; Ufer Studios, Berlin

2011 ARCHIVE OF ACTIVITIES

PERFORMANCES 2011

Jan 6 & 8  Crotch, American Realness Festival, Abrons Art Center, NY

Jan 23  Too Much! a queer marathon, Dance Mission, SF

Feb 19  Almost nothing. Almost everything. at GUTTED, a benefit for LACE (LA) curated by Dino Dinco.

Mar 5  Howlin' for James at In Bed With James Broughton at the SF Art Institute.

Mar 25-26  Auf den Tisch! Improvised action with Meg Stuart and an excellent crew of US and European performers. Yerba Buena, SF.

Apr 14-15  Crotch, Tanzfabrik/Ufer Studios, Berlin.

July 7, Crotch, Malta Festival, Poznan Poland

July 30, Turbulence (study), Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen Germany)
Aug 5, Turbulence (study), Museums Quartier, Impulstanz, Vienna

Sep 10, Fascism/Heroes, the Non-Major show, Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley

Oct, various interventions, streets of San Francisco, Occupy SF

Nov 17, Negotiate (premier), AEx Corps, Dakar Senegal
Nov 24, Crotch, Who's afraid of perfomance art?, Theatre Grütli, Geneva
Nov 27, improvisation with Jassem Hindi, Old Music New Dance, Poznan Poland
Nov 29, improvisation with Jassem Hindi, Sophiensaele, Berlin

Dec 17-18, Turbulence (study), CounterPULSE, SF

Plus I have a role in the genre busting movie I Want Your Love (2011) by Travis Mathews and the James Broughton doc Big Joy by Stephen Silha (prod) & Eric Slade (dir).

TEACHING 2011

April 18-21   Berlin, Tanzfabrik. Keith teaches Post/Contact.

May 1-7   Kiev Festival of Contact Improvisation . Keith teaches Post/Contact. Many excellent teachers!
May 9-15   Pontempeyrat, France. Intimacy, Ritual, Spectacle and Failure: post-genre experiments in contemporary performance.

July/August - week long intensives and coaching projects in Poznan Poland, Ponderosa/Stolzenhagen, Impulstanz/Vienna... Post/contact, Potential Shamanism, performance experiments...

Nov, 3 week training in contemporary dance/choreography, AEx Corps (Atelier Expérience et Corps), Cie 1ere Temps, Dakar Senegal

CONFERENCES & TALKS 2011

Dec 28, Jan 4  Kickst(art), La Alternativa at Kunst-Stoff Arts. 1. Duets: How white people perform gender, power, whiteness in pas de deux. 2. Real and representation: Primus, Ailey, Dunham, with an intro of Christina Aguilera and Joaquin Phoenix.

Feb 15      Queer, Broke, Persistant How to make engaging art from the economic and ideological margins. UC Davis, guest lecture DRA 257, U Club, Davis CA.

Feb 22      Performing the Political Body, with Cecilio Cooper and Tina Takamoto, at CCA, coproduced by Queer Cultural Center, SF.

Jun, Inquiry into Dance, 3-talk series produced by Alternative Academy at Kunst-stoff. Lectures with video on recent dance histories (Ann Liv Young, Jerome Bêl, Contraband)

Also, as part of the process of research/making Turbulence (a dance about the economy), we've been hosting all kinds of salons and teach-ins and discussion - from SF to Ponderosa.

ARCHIVE CALENDAR 2010

PERFORMANCES 2010

Jan 10      Too Much! a queer marathon, Mama Calizo’s, SF
Jan 15-17  How To Die, Dance Mission, SF
Jan 19-21  Crotch, The Southern, Minneapolis
Jan 29-31  Crotch, Dance Mission, SF

Mar 19      Makeout!, Tingle Tangle 2nd anniversary, Café du Nord, SF
Mar 20      my dancing, Dance Mission annual fundraiser, SF
Mar 27      Celebrity judge, Squart produced by Laura Arrington Dance, The Lab, SF

Apr 10       Improvisation with Isabelle Üski, Barnaby Tree, Véronique Gougat, Chorescence, Grenoble, France

May 6        Crotch, Queer Zagreb, Croatia
May 7        A brief history, Queer Zagreb, Croatia
May 13      untitled, A Peep Show of Queer Privates, UC Davis (Queer Studies Grad Symposium 2010)
    
May 26-27  Pigeon Palace Presents, Home Theater Festival, SF
May 29      Almost nothing. Almost everything. SF International Arts Festival, Southside Theater, Bldg D, Fort Mason, SF

Jun 11        Almost nothing. Almost everything. The New Museum, NY

Jul 1        Choreography collaboration for performer Jesse Hewit, part of This Is What I Want, National Queer Arts Fest, The Garage, SF

Jul 26         Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references...) Impulstanz, Vienna
Jul 28         A brief history..., Impulstanz, Vienna

Oct 14       Performance Installation, Pow3 Action Art Festival,
@ Viracocha & ATA

Nov 12       Crotch, Bluecoat Performance Space, Liverpool
Nov 18      A brief history..., Sophiensaele, Berlin
Nov 21      Crotch, Shotgun's Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Dec 19      Turbulence, CounterPULSE, SF
Dec 31      Turbulence, Kunst-stoff, SF (student showing)

TEACHING 2010

Apr 5-6    Experiments in Composition, Alternative Conservatory, Kunst-Stoff Arts, SF

Apr 11     Contact Improv as Creole process, Chorescence, Grenoble, France

Apr 12-16   Performance, Presence, Contact, Chorescence, Grenoble, France

Apr 19-28   Provocation, Ritual, Experience, University of Dance & Circus, Stockholm

Apr 29-May 2  Queering Contact, Touch & Play Festival, Schwelle 7, Berlin

May 17-Jun 7  Making Dances, Starting Trouble, Studio 210, SF

Jun 14-22   Improvisation, American Dance Festival, North Carolina

Jun 27-Jul 4   Challenging Orthodoxy, California Witch Camp, Mendocino

Jul 18-24   Performance lab, Ponderosa Tanz Land Festival, Stolzenhagen, Germany
Jul 26-31   ttt, teacher training, Impulstanz, Vienna
Aug 2-6    Potential Shamanic Action, Post-Contact Improv, Impulstanz, Vienna

Nov 11-14   Raw Roar Rare 5-day festival, Bluecoat Performance Space, hosted by Liverpool Improv Collective, Liverpool, England
Nov 15-19   Profitraining, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

CONFERENCES & TALKS 2010

Jan 6     Paradigm Unwinding, Alternative Conservatory, Kunst-Stoff Arts, SF

Mar 13     Sustaining a Life as an Artist, MFA in Creative Inquiry, California Institute of Integral Studies, SF

Apr 5-6     Wrestling with (dance) history, What is Contemporary Dance?, Alternative Conservatory, Kunst-Stoff Arts, SF

May 13-14     Queer Studies Grad Symposium, UC Davis (Queer Studies Grad Symposium 2010)

Sep 23     Talk at Palo Alto Art Center as part of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. With Estonian visual artist Katri Haarde.

Dec 28      Lecture on dance duets as a model for social and cultural study. Kunst-stoff, SF, part of La Alternativa's Kickst/art intensive.

RESIDENCIES 2010

Feb 2-28  Yaddo Artist Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY

Sep 14 - Oct 14 Djerassi Foundation, Bay Area, CA