Event Listing - Music, Dance
Thu Apr 23, 2009 - Sat Apr 25, 2009

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents

S.O.S. by Big Art Group


Tel. 415.978.2787
Website
$20 - $25

Location
Date and Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Thu Apr 23, 2009 (8:00 pm)
Fri Apr 24, 2009 (8:00 pm)
Sat Apr 25, 2009 (8:00 pm)

Description
YBCA presents the Bay Area premiere of New York-based Big Art Group, a company that uses media language to push the narrative boundaries of performance, film and visual art. S.O.S. utilizes ten performers and a video matrix that inhabit a multi-camera, multi-screen installation. Inspired by the primal themes of the symphony/ballet Rite of Spring, Big Art Group creates its own contemporary rite of spring, using ordinary rituals of renewal that are abstracted and refracted though video. As these common actions morph into metaphors of war and environmental breakdown, a larger discussion emerges of sustainability and its daily practices. S.O.S. explores futureness, survivalism, revolution, ritual and sacrifice with this question in mind: “Can sacrifice create a new beginning?”

Where:
YBCA Forum, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Info:
415.978.2787 or ybca.org
$25 Regular, $20 Member/ Student/ Senior/ Teacher