Helen Wicks Works Dance "Radio Vision" World Premiere

Name: Helen Wicks Works Dance "Radio Vision" World Premiere
Start: 2025-05-04T15:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-04T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Theatre of Yugen at NOHspace

Schedule

Sun May 04 2025 at 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Theatre of Yugen at NOHspace | San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco International Arts Festival presents Helen Wicks Works "Radio Vision" World Premiere!
https://www.sfiaf.org/2025_helen_wicks_works
Friday, May 2nd
8PM
Sunday, May 4th
3:30PM
Theatre of Yugen's NOH Space
2840 Mariposa St. SF, CA 94110
About Helen Wicks Works:
Helen Wicks Works (HWW) combines decades of training in acrobatics, circus, physical theater, contemporary and aerial dance to produce research-driven spellbinding performance for diverse multi-generational audiences. Artistic Director Helen Wicks has been presenting choreography in the Bay Area and abroad since 2014. HWW has been a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers’ Group since 2020. Wicks Works has been commissioned by Bay Area Discovery Museum, Salesforce Tower Top Art, Z Space and has performed original works at Herbst Theater, SF Aerial Arts Festival, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason’s Gateway Pavillion, Project Artaud’s SPACE 124 and more.
About Radio Vision:
Radio Vision is a solo by choreographer and performer Helen Wicks. The piece is an ode to the lineage of music composition teacher Nadia Boulanger and the origins of broadcast television 100 years ago. Radio Vision, accompanied by live cello and piano, weaves together notes by the influential Boulanger and her students including the legendary composer Quincy Jones.
Radio Vision uses circus-informed dance to synthesize Wicks’ 2018 conversation with Quincy Jones and ongoing research on her great-grandfather, Joe Gershenson who was Universal’s former Music Supervisor. Gershenson advocated for and hired Jones in his first Hollywood film score in 1964.