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April 9-11, 2010 | Hysteresis | Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA

DOUBLE VISION | Hysteresis | 2010 San Francisco Season

When:	April 9 – 11, 2010 [Fri-Sun][8PM]
Where:	Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street @ Mission St. [24th St. BART] San Francisco
Info:	415.287.0192, dv@double-vision.biz
Tix:	$15

“…exhilarating, funny, challenging, complex, beautiful. Un-conventional and experimental, just the way modern dance should be.” – Yelp

“Unfettered from the sense that there was something “to get,” the viewer’s mind was free to drift among associations, the dancers evoking now a flock of birds, now an ocean current, now a windstorm gathering force.” – Bonner Odell, IN DANCE

DOUBLE VISION will present the world premiere of Hysteresis, an evening-length dance showcasing choreography by Pauline Jennings, sound and video by Sean Clute, lighting and set design by Ben Coolik and costume design by Andrea Campbell. Hysteresis features virtuosic and poly-rhythmic movement patterns, contrapuntal groupings and moments of live-triggered responses. Free from traditional structures and narratives, the dance evokes an abstract dreamscape rich in complex shapes, relationships and points of meditation for the audience.

Hysteresis was informed by a residency in Vienna, Austria, at the Museumsquartier. The work is a metaphor for the state of being alien or observing that which is alien to oneself. The audience is presented with unknown customs, languages, and symbols through abstraction of image and sound. As the observer experiences what is at first deemed noise, clear relationships and patterns begin to emerge and understanding can occur. Noise gives way to an idea and the idea leads to a certain comfort in this incessantly uncertain world.

Performances by Blaine Bookey, Emily Gorman, Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor and Cecelia Peterson.

Hysteresis was made possible through generous private donations, CounterPULSE’s fiscal sponsor program, The Garage’s RAW Program and grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

DOUBLE VISION (www.double-vision.biz), creates contemporary performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result is a body of work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving. Led by Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute, DOUBLE VISION recently celebrated their first five years with two ambitious tours. First, the company produced a 5-week, 17-city tour of the United States and then participated in a 2-month residency at the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Austria with additional performances in Prague, Zurich and Pecs.

February 20-21, 2010 | the illuminated corridor | Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA

the illuminated corridor presents: apparent motion

When:	February 20-21 [Sat-Sun] starts at 6:21PM and 5:55PM
Where:	Victoria Theater, 2961 16th St, San Francisco, CA
Cost:	FREE outside

The illuminated corridor and San Francisco Cinematheque will present a two-day celebration of the art of live image projection: the cinematic exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery.

Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings will be teaming up to project outside onto the Victoria Theater. Their video will include high contrast Wolfram and cellular automata inspired projections.

December 10, 2009 | L.A.C.E & DOUBLE VISION | Rowan Lofts, Los Angeles, CA

L.A.C.E. & DOUBLE VISION Present: Palimpsest

When:	December 10th [Thur] 7-9:30PM
Where:	5th and Spring St., Los Angeles, CA
Cost:	FREE

The Los Angeles Contemporary Ensemble (L.A.C.E) and San Francisco based intermedia group DOUBLE VISION will be performing Palimpsest at the Rowan Lofts in downtown Los Angeles. The work will include contemporary dance with movements based on forms of destruction in which materials are over-written. The work will include movement, video, sound and sculpture as well as audience interaction. Throughout the performance these elements create, destroy, and reconstruct top secret blueprints of theme parks in far off lands.

The L.A.C.E. Theater was founded in 2003 by the Los Angeles-based dancer/choreographer, Caitlyn Carradine, to be a “laboratory” to develop experimental ballet works, and to push the limits of contemporary dance 
theater by having a place to work out new ideas, and test them in front of 
small audiences.

DOUBLE VISION, led by Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings, is a group of dancers, musicians, video-artists, and performers. By experimenting with different methods of collaboration through the adaptation of social systems, transvergence of scientific models, and mapping of algorithmic structures, DOUBLE VISION unifies multifaceted art forms and ideas to cultivate innovative performances.

Dance and performance by Blaine Bookey, Caitlyn Carradine, Nicole Dionne, Pauline Jennings and Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor; music and video by Sean Clute.

November 3, 2009 | DOUBLE VISION Fundraiser | Mr. Smith’s, San Francisco, CA

Innovative Performance for Traditional Needs #3

When:	November 3 [Tuesday] 6-9PM
Where:	Mr. Smith’s, 34 7th St., San Francisco, CA
Cost:	$15 Donation [includes complimentary food, cocktails by Kettle One Vodka, wine, auction items and performances]
Tix:	Buy online in advance OR at the door [cash only please] Can’t make it but would like to help? Donate here
Info:	www.double-vision.biz / 415-287-0192

One hundred and sixty years ago gold seekers known as the forty-niners traveled to California by wagon, boat, and foot in the quest for riches. Miners turned millionaires donated their riches to little known performing art troupes in San Francisco. History repeats itself, or at least we are hoping, so spring your wealth at DOUBLE VISION’s annual fundraiser. We need some gold, or at least some buckets and a map, to support our artistic journeys and support upcoming innovate performance of high value.

The fundraiser will showcase performances by DOUBLE VISION dancers, old tune-y music by Sean Clute and live LoopyCam video performances by Tim Thompson. Our very own O-niners led by the unconquerable Nicole Zvarik, will entice you to join their gold-panning bootcamp, while the “Gold Rush Girls” video installation by Jessica Gomula will point the way toward bona-fide fortunes!

Funds for this event will be contributed toward DOUBLE VISION’s production of Hysteresis, a new dance performance that questions the relevance of virtuosity in contemporary performance. Phase 1 of the work will premiere in the Women on the Way Festival (January 2010) and Phase 2 of the work, which includes a team of five collaborators, will premiere April 9-11, 2010 at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco.

DOUBLE VISION Artists: Blaine Bookey, Naomi Clark, Sean Clute, Jessica Gomula, Emily Gorman, Courtney Gulick, Pauline Jennings, Chris Kruzic, Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor, Cecelia Peterson, Katie Polanshek, Jaime Rangeley, Nicole Zvarik, Tim Thompson.

Food, drinks, and auction items will be provided.

November 6-7, 2009 | The Garage, San Francisco | DOUBLE VISION Talk

RAW (Resident Artist Workshop) presents DOUBLE VISION

November 6-7 [Friday-Saturday] 8PM

When:
Where:	The Garage, San Francisco, CA
Cost:	$10 (proceeds go to The Garage)
Info:	975howard.com

Instigated in the depths of The Garage, Hysteresis, a new dance work by Pauline Jennings / DOUBLE VISION, investigates contemporary ideas of complexity and virtuosity with a look at how these ideas are valued artistically in our current times. Nov. 6 and 7 will feature Hysteresis’ full team of five collaborators and five dancers for a lecture and demo of their collaborative processes.

DOUBLE VISION collaborators include: Pauline Jennings (choreography), Sean Clute (music), Andrea Campbell (costume design), Naomi Clark (painting and sculpture), Ben Coolik (light art); Dancers include: Blaine Bookey, Emily Gorman, Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor, Cecelia Peterson.