| Intersection
for the Arts, San Francisco
commissioned by Intersection for the Arts through the
Emerging Choreographers Award
from the Alexander Gerbode Foundation Directed and Choreographed by Erika Chong Shuch
Created in collaboration with performers:
Dwayne Calizo, Jennifer Chien,
Tommy Shepherd,
Erika Chong
Shuch,
Danny Wolohan
Original Music, Set and Light design by Allen Willner
Co-Choreographed by Melanie Elms
The creation of 51802 was made possible in part by funding received
from the Alexander Gerbode Foundation and the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Arts’ Commission,
the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Intersection for the Arts’ New
Works Fund and Residency Program, as well as through residencies
at Headlands Center for the Arts and Djerassi Resident Arts Program.
51802 was developed as part of The Prison Project, a yearlong
interdisciplinary exploration of the California Prison System
at Intersection for the Arts. | With this project, an array of artists working in fields
as broad as visual art, theatre, dance, poetry and jazz challenge
us to recognize that
incarceration is a fundamental part of the fabric of contemporary Californian,
and U.S. society.
Throughout 2007 and
early 2008, The Prison Project included state-wide outreach and
research,workshops, community conversations, story projects,
as well as the world premieres of new works by Howard Wiley and
the Angola Prison Project; Erika Chong Shuch; Jimmy Santiago
Baca, Ntozake Shange and Campo Santo; and simultaneous visual
arts exhibitions at San Francisco State University and Intersection
for the Arts. Working with an esteemed Community Advisory Network, we will
also be hosting quarterly public forums that bring together the
activists, scholars, and artists who are at the forefront of
this seminal issue. We are honored to be working with pivotal
organizations including California Prison Focus, Prison Activist
Resource Center, and San Francisco State University.
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