Preview: Lower Left's Satellite Project.PREVIEW: LOWER LEFT'S SATELLITE PROJECT "Keeping the postmodern premise alive!" says Karen Schaffman, of San Diego's Lower Left Performance Collective, about the mission of the group's Satellite Project. Dance artists from four cities chose four to seven performers to collaborate with them. Lower Left co-founder Nina Martin (Marfa, Texas Marfa is a city located in the high desert of far West Texas. The population was 2,121 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Presidio CountyGR6. Its ZIP code is 79843. ), who made work with a political edge, as did interdisciplinary performance artist Keith Hennessy (San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ). Lionel Popkin (Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ), was inspired by South Indian Mughal miniature paintings. Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (the Minneapolis-based BodyCartography Project) shot a dance film in Joshua Tree Joshua tree: see yucca. National Park's desert landscape. The performance is only the public face of this multilayered project, which has exposed more than 80 workshop participants to innovative dance ideas. November 10-13, Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla, CA; www.lowerleft.org. |
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