ShadowDance

Enter into an evening of elegant disarray, bewitching ambiance and an atmosphere that submerges into the depths of thee human experience…featuring some of the best performance artists, musicians, fine artists, vendors and DJs from the Bay Area and around the world!

Sunday, November 17, 2024

7p.m.-2a.m.

7:00 p.m. Doors

8:30 p.m. Dark Performance Art

The Great Northern

119 Utah Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

Wheelchair accessible – 21& Over

Tickets: $65-$45

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ShadowDance celebrates its 15 year in 2024! This year brings another voluminous evening filled with dance, music, fine art and performance art.

Art on all levels and all mediums!

Experience an atmosphere of sights and sounds that infinitely inspire and provoke curiosity. Produced by Ariellah and Darker Still Productions, this dark arts experience will bring you a feast of thee highest caliber performing and fine artists, including circus arts, performance art, ritual, belly dance, butoh, contemporary, puppet shows, musicians, and much more! Throughout the evening dark music will be broadcast by two leading “dark and alternative” DJs for those who are inclined and inspired to move. Post performance gothique dance party to follow with music by our ShadowDance DJs for your dancing pleasure! Dance to your heart's darkest desire...

This year’s gathering offers surprises that shall fill your dark hearts with overwhelming inspiration and will create much more than an event -but an entire atmosphere in the realms of darkness and humanity, the obscure and the macabre.

From the moment you enter the theatre on November 17, you will forget the outside world and will find yourself spellbound by the marvels that await you before you even arrive in the theatre itself…

Yes, we are leaving you curious…

Have no doubt, it is going to be utterly extraordinary, peculiar, and deeply beautiful.

Come and see for yourself…

Utterly darkly wondrous things await you at ShadowDance XV.

This year’s line-up and art is jaw dropping!

SOME OF OUR FEATURED PERFORMERS:

Tracy Lynn is a movement artist and teacher who melds modern fusion dance, yoga asana, and arm-balancing. For more than a decade, she has helped students utilize movement to transmute heaviness, trauma, and rewrite their body stories. She uses performance to reclaim the self, embody strength, and recognize both light and dark that coexist within us.

Sha Sha Higby is known internationally for her mythical evocative and haunting performances using puppetry and masks, in the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she creates and moves within. It is a metaphorically rich and intimate journey in elaborate multi-layered costume,micropuppetry, and projection.

Paul Mercer is a pioneer in neoclassical music, a violinist and composer whose sounds and timbres reveal the secret melodies and unlock the hidden stories of ancient violins and violas. His extensive Classical and Hindustani music training combines with decades of busking, playing in bands, managing a violin shop, and traveling to the four corners of the earth to create a distinctive style of layering centuries-old instruments with modern electronic effects. Paul has recorded and toured with artists including The Changelings, DP3, Jill Tracy, Zoe Keating, Brass Knuckle Surfer, and Faith And The Muse, and has composed more than 30 soundtracks for stage and film. His upcoming release "The Whispering in the Wood", the long-anticipated follow-up to his 2013 album "Ghosts", is a collection of improvisations and sonic explorations that unveils the voices of these precious instruments, speaking to us from beyond time.

Anandha Ray, MA, MA, DTR, is an innovative creator in dance, inventing new methodologies in the teaching and performance of dance over a career that has spanned over 3 decades. An award-winning choreographer, her work shines light on the invisible and gives voice to the unspeakable, bridging the gap of understanding our humanness.

And many more!

VENDING FROM:

Odd One Emporium is a self taught oddities artist based in Northern California and I create my art using many different techniques and ethically sourced specimens. I love to create beautiful dark macabre pieces and occasionally cross over to the lighter side. You will find specially mummified specimens, medical wet specimens, bugs,bones, and Taxidermy. I love creating something beautiful from death and giving a second life to the lost.

Jeremy Rathbone is a Sacramento artist, best known on the comic convention circuit for his science fiction pieces, many of which were painted live on the show floor. His "Zombots," "Robovikings," and scifi paintings and illustrations have been shown at many public events, publications, and gallery exhibitions. After the passing of his wife in 2017, he put his brush down for what he had thought and intended to be for good. Today, Jeremy's trauma-informed pieces combine the arcane symbols of life and death with the mysteries of infinite space to both express and confront his feelings of grief and his need to connect with life.

And much much more!

Host or Publisher Darker Still Productions