LIZZ ROMAN & DANCERS 2010 Season

This Dance, This Place
DanzHaus
1275 Connecticut St
Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Oct. 7-9 Thurs/Fri/Sat
Show Time at 8pm

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Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
May 15-17, May 22-24, 2009 Fri/Sat/Sun
Two shows a nite 8:00 9:30

Lizz Roman & Dancers present their newest building romp "AT PLAY". Roman and her dancers/collaborators will be moving audiences through the halls, stairwells, firescapes and doorways of DANCEMISSION this May for a site-specific exploration of one of San Francisco's favorite dance venues. Dancers Tara Fagan, Kelly Kemp, Sonya Smith, and James Soria will be joined each evening by the long time LR&D collaborators Alex Kelley (cello) and Clyde Sheets (turntables) performing an original sound score.

Choreography: Lizz Roman
Live sound score: Alex Kelly (Cello), Clyde Sheets (DJ/Percussion)
Light Design: Jenny B
Costumes: Martina Neverman
Dancers: Tara Fagan, Brian Fisher, Kelly Kemp, Sonya Smith, James Soria

Blue Floor Reflections
Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida St.
San Francisco
Sept 21-Oct 7, 2006

Lizz Roman & Dancers, known for their grounded physicality and fluid expressiveness, have chosen Project Artaud Theater as the playground for their latest multi-dimensional, site-specific dance piece, "Blue Floor Reflections." Roman's unrestricted use of the space celebrates Artaud’s industrial architecture, turning it into a multi-tiered playground for the company's 10 multi-disciplined, mesmerizing and luscious dancers. Set to the lights, video, and sound designs of acclaimed lighting designer and DJ, Clyde Sheets and Cellist/Composer Alex Kelly, Roman and her dancers utilize the risers, i-beams, banisters, stairs, roofs, walls, doorways, windows, balconies, and stage as they consume the space's raw elements with a movement vocabulary that remains true and honest to the building's architecture. As in her previous dance works, “Blue Floor Reflections” will showcase Roman's interest in the use of space and time in dance. While many dance artists create a dance and present it in a space, Roman creates a dance specifically for a space, inviting the performers and audience to examine movement from different angles and levels, to experience a different point of view and to appreciate dance happening on several levels simultaneously. As in past performances, Roman will allow the audience to watch the dance from multiple perspectives.
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Choreography: Lizz Roman
Live sound score: Alex Kelly (cello), Clyde Sheets (DJ)
Light design: Clyde Sheets
Costumes: Leigh Anne Martin

ODC Rooftop
ODC Commons, 2006
3153 17th Street
San Francisco

When Lizz Roman walks into a building she sees a 360º theater space and unlimited possibilities. When she goes outside, the sky is the limit. Holding with her tradtions that the place dictates the dance, Lizz Roman has once again taken on beams, walls, ladders and rooftops as a playground for her dancers to explore. Whether a body is sliding down a rooftop 100ft. away or dangling 20 ft. over your heads, there is playful motion all around you constantly baiting your attention.

Lizz Roman & Dancers have been constructing original, site-specific installations that offer a multi-dimensional view of dance to her audience. Locations as diverse as Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens, CellSpace and now the rooftops at ODC Commons have been her playgrounds.

In March 2006, Lizz Roman & Dancers returned to ODC to mark the opening of the new ODC Commons on 17th St. for a one time performance using the San Francisco sky as her backdrop and the rooftop world which is above and around the ODC Commons as her stage. She once again showed her ability to craft dynamic movement in space, with the space, without losing the sense of flow which holds the dance together.

Choreography: Lizz Roman
Live sound score: Alex Kelly (Cello/Composer)
Light Design: Clyde Sheets
Dancers: Juliana Carrella, Mandy Christiansen, Mair Culbreth, Sean Dorsey, Emily Leap, Courtney Moreno, Noel Plemmons, Evan Saunders, Sonya Smith, and James Soria

Elements II
Yerba Buena Gardens, 2005

CellGround
Cell Space
2050 Bryant Street @19th Street
San Francisco
March 17-19 and March 24-26, 2005

In March 2005, Lizz Roman & Dancers returned to the theater for the first time in two years to premiere a new work called “CellGround.” Once again, Lizz Roman’s unrestricted use of space celebrates the architecture of CellSpace, turning the cavernous warehouse/theater into a multi-tiered dancers’ playground. Nine accomplished dancers simultaneously utilized the rafters, beams, ramps, banisters, stairs, roof, walls, doorways, counters, and ladders to explore the raw elements of CellSpace with a movement vocabulary that remains true andhonest to the buildings architecture. As in past performances, Lizz Roman asked the audience to view the dance from different perspectives. The first half of “CellGround” was viewed from the main floor, while above the audience, dancers wove paths of breathtaking movement through rafters, stairs, balconies, and walkways. The second half of the evening invited the audience to move upstairs while the dancers slowly transitioned downstairs, and to sought out dances in unexpected places.

Through Lizz Roman’s eye, the architecture of the space sets the stage, but her dedication to the integrity of the movement is the crucial element that keeps her work in the solid realm of dance.

“In CellGround, Lizz Roman and Dancers take on the trusses, balconies, platforms, and a staircase or two in CELLspace's Theater. The result is a lovely hour of music and dance in which beauty is its own reward.” Rita Feliciano, SFBG
Read the SF Bay Guardian Article

 

Choreography: Lizz Roman
Live sound score: Alex Kelly (Cello), Clyde Sheets (DJ/Percussion)
Light Design: Clyde Sheets
Dancers:Mandy Christiansen, Mair Culbreth, Sean Dorsey, Emily Leap, Courtney Moreno, Noel Plemmons, Evan Saunders, Sonya Smith, James Soria, and Mark Stuver

Elements
Yerba Buena Gardens, 2004

Here Is Good (Playing in Stable Places II)
Danse Space, 2003

8 1/2 x 11 (Playing in Stable Places)
ODC Theater, 2001
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8 1/2 x 11
ODC Theater, 2000

Cell Dance
Cell Space
2050 Bryant Street @19th Street
San Francisco

Lizz Roman & Dancers' "CellDance" takes on the cavernous warehouse space/art haven at 2050 Bryant Street with a site-specific installation. Known for her dances built around larget sets, Lizz Roman has taken on the architecture of the ware-house and turned it into a large playground for dance.

Hall Dance
ODC Theater, 1999

Always Falling
Brady Street Theater
60 Brady Street
May 7-8, 14-15, 1999

In Her Dream ODC Theater, 1997
3153 17th Street
San Francisco

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