DANCING IN THE PARK SF
Join us Saturday, April 27, 2024 1:00-4:30pm at the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF (MFDP|SF) presents an annual, one day, admission free, outdoor event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Dancing in the Park SF features over 20 dance groups or dance artists including professional dance companies, pre-professional programs and community groups from around the Bay Area.
Click here for the full line up of performances! Kinetech Arts will perform around 3:00pm.
Kinetech Arts Open Lab
Wednesdays, 7 - 8:15pm (PST)
Join our weekly meetup of artists and scientists exploring the intersection of art, science and technology. Experimenting across various disciplines, Kinetech Arts Open Lab is an opportunity to try out new ideas and meet with like-minded people to learn about the latest in performance and technology.
Visit our Kinetech Arts blog and witness some of the magic that happens at Open Lab and our public talk Y-Exchange!
DanceHack 2024
Dance Hack 2024 will be in September! Dates to be confirmed soon!
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2023
Photo of Erin Coyne by Weidong Yang
Kinetech Arts’s Aurum (gold in Latin) portrays a modern-day “gold rush” in San Francisco, with the world’s tech capital viewed through the events of 1849. Humanity is in a disruptive transition era analogous to that time of proliferation, as developments in AI are growing exponentially. By reflecting on the gold rush, when greed fueled ecological and human tolls, this project reflects on our place within a delicate ecosystem. This ecosystem includes the intimate relationships between humans and the digital world.
AURUM artists/collaborators: Erin Coyne, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Felicitas Fischer, Kat Lin, Michael Koehle, Sholeh Asgary, Lillian Bickley, Abigail Hinson, Amber Gott, Olesya Elfimova, Patricia Alessandrini, Tessa Nebrida, Weidong Yang and Ye Feng.
Aurum is supported by 836M and ODC Theater
AURUM Program
Catch Kinetech Arts at the Exploratorium on October 21-22
ABOUT San Francisco Trolley Dances
Epiphany’s San Francisco Trolley Dances (SFTD) is an annual festival presented over 3 days along a designated public transit route, FREE of charge. This is a communal experience uniting and highlighting a diverse group of dance artists, helping people see dance in new ways. SFTD connects neighborhoods and participants to San Francisco’s history, culture, architecture, natural environment and social fabric.
WHERE: DOWNTOWN SF • EXPLORATORIUM • FISHERMAN'S WHARF
WHEN OCT 21 & 22, 2023
TIMES 10AM,* 10:45AM, 11:30AM, 12:15PM, 1PM
“Presented by Epiphany Dance Theater, SF Trolley Dances is the most delectable moveable dance feast of the season. Using the city as both a backdrop and unpredictable character, the peripatetic event ushers many of the bay area’s top dance companies off the stage and onto the street.”
ANDREW GILBERT East Bay Times
FREE! no MUNI fare needed this year! Reservations Required as tours fill up fast. RSVP ensures space on MUNI bus & priority viewing..
*First tour for ADA accesabilty assistance.
The DanceHack invites dancers and technologists of all levels and interests to explore this year’s theme of Post-Reality. This particular theme is intended to provoke multiple possible questions such as: What is it to live in a world dominated by swift technological change that challenges our ability to discern truth from fiction? What is the role of human creativity as AI demonstrates increasing capacity to mimic our artistic thinking? How will our embodied selves be forever altered by robotics?
The theme also recognizes that the previous DanceHack in 2020, took place mere weeks prior to the covid lockdown. The theme for the previous DanceHack was “Reality.” Here we are several years later, post-covid and living in a world forever altered by the pandemic. Is there an artistic response, through the collaboration of dance and technology, that might help us understand our own history in new ways?
On Friday and Saturday evening, there will be panel discussions with experts in various fields relating to these questions. Through multiple workshops, participants have an opportunity to get to know each other and develop teams to explore these questions and any other ideas that are of interest. Then, embracing the idea of the hack, teams gather in a high energy, open and slightly anarchic environment to rapidly prototype ideas into short performances. Ultimately, the weekend concludes with a performance showcase for those projects that wish to participate.
Y-Exchange
Wednesday, September 6th, 7 - 8:30pm
ABOUT THE ARTISTS 🖌️
Margaret Jenkins began her early training in San Francisco at the Peters Wright School of Dance. In the sixties, she moved to New York to study at Juilliard, continued her training at UCLA and returned to New York to dance in many companies including Twyla Tharp's original company with Sara Rudner. In addition, Jenkins was a member of the faculty of the Merce Cunningham Studio and restaged his works around the world. In 1970 Jenkins returned to San Francisco; in 1973, formed the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. She opened one of the West Coast's first studio-performing spaces and a school for the training of professional modern dancers. In the last five decades, she has created over 90 works on her Company, as well as companies in Japan, India, China and Israel.
An engineer, researcher, and artist, Dr. Catie Cuan is a pioneer in the nascent field of ‘choreorobotics’ and works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and art. She recently defended her PhD in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University, where she completed a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering. The title of her PhD thesis is “Compelling Robot Behaviors through Supervised Learning and Choreorobotics”, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Google, and Stanford University. During her PhD, she led the first multi-robot machine learning project at Everyday Robots (Google X) and Robotics at Google (now a part of Google Deepmind). She has held artistic residencies at the Smithsonian, Everyday Robots (Google X), TED, and ThoughtWorks Arts. Catie is a prolific robot choreographer, having created works with nearly a dozen different robots, from a massive ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot to a tabletop IDEO + Moooi robot. Catie is also a 2023 International Strategy Forum (ISF) fellow at Schmidt Futures.