Flyaway Performance in The D.I.R.T. Festival
13 invocations for World Peace

November 4, 2024
Monday at 7PM

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Flyaway is thrilled to be a part of this political activist arts festival: 13 invocations for World Peace. We will be performing an excerpt from Ode to Jane—featuring Laura Elaine Ellis, Jhia Jackson, and Ai Yin Adelski and Music by Xoa Asa—in an evening program that includes Sarah Bush Dance Project and Dance Brigade. The full festival runs October 24 – November 5, 2024.

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Flyaway’s Next Workshop:
LOVING THE AIR

Fall 2024

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In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, activists in Chicago, calling themselves ‘Jane,’ built an underground network for women with unwanted pregnancies and provided illegal abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. Flyaway Productions’ new site work, ODE TO JANE, appreciates this history of resistance and brings a contemporary lens to what resistance looks like in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenderloin, right now. We will incorporate oral histories, suspended rocking chairs, and aerial dance on fire escapes and walls. We will evoke an expanded idea of what resistance is amidst racial reckoning, the addiction crisis, the city’s housing catastrophe, threats to women’s bodies, and the complex intersection of these realities.

• Directed by: Jo Kreiter
• Performance by: Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Ai Yin Adelski, and Saharla Vetsch
• Music by: Xoa Asa
• Lighting by: Jack Beuttler
• Set Design by: Sean Riley
• Rigging Design by: Dave Freitag
• Costumes by: Jaimelyn Duggan

The commission and production of this premiere is made possible in part by the Gerbode Foundation Special Award in the Arts program, as well as support from the CA Arts Council, Zellerbach Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, SF Grants for the Arts, New Music USA, and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.

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Flyaway has been commission to create a site-specific dance for the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. This new work—featuring Laura Elaine Ellis, Jhia Jackson, and Ai Yin Adelski and Music by Xoa Asa—will fold into ODE TO JANE, premiering in the Fall of 2024.

Flyaway will be in residence with open rehearsals at Fort Mason Monday-Friday, 4:30-8PM, June 17-28, 2024.

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Jo Kreiter Teaching at the Tuesday Jam

July 30 + August 6, 2024
Tuesdays, 6-7:30PM for the Class | Jam at 7:30PM

Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA

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Come see the city’s youth in action, with original dances led by Flyaway Artists and created by the city’s esteemed youth of our 2024 program.

Supported by DCYF, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Bill Graham Foundation, and the CA Arts Council

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An intervention and performance by Flyaway Productions, with Mega Mouth Rebels for Peace & Justice in Palestine.

This is a Free Event open to all; no tickets or reservations required.

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A three day extravaganza of contact improv with over 31 classes and nine jams held at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts. Flyaway’s Jo Kreiter is teaching at thespin.

Flyaway is offering another apparatus-based dance weekend workshop. This is an all levels workshop for students who want to cultivate strength, trust, listening, inversions, and partnering with a flying object. We will dance on steel hoops, umbrellas, and poles, focusing on techniques, sequences, and your own exploration.

The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art and Poetry

MoAD Digital Exhibition
September 27, 2023 – March 3, 2024

See Exhibit Online Here!

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IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS
Performance and Visual Arts Exhibit

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October 6-15, 2023
Friday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. (Panel discussion to follow)
Saturday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sunday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. (Panel discussion to follow)
Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. (Panel discussion to follow)
Saturday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sunday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m.

SPACE 124
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

If I Give You My Sorrows starts with a bed. People often hear the phrase “women in bed.” It’s a phrase that can conjure lurid sex, objectification, misogyny. In this historic moment repressing women’s choice and women’s bodies at the national level, we want to reframe women’s beds as a place where our complexity and depth live. Where our bodies rest, transform, grieve, and repair. What secrets do we leave in our beds? What wounds do we bury there? How do our beds hold what is messy, tragic, grueling? Research is rooted in the experience of three women, including trans women, currently and formerly incarcerated.

Featured activists include Betty McKay, Lisa Strawn and Tomiekia Johnson.

The project features original music composed by Carla Kihlstedt, Kalyn Harewood and Pamela Z, and performance by Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Razelle Swimmer, Natalya Shoaf and Megan Lowe.

Audiences are invited to view The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art and Poetry, following each performance, which continues Flyaway’s artist-as-activist work of prison systems change, in partnership with Empowerment Avenue and Museum of African Diaspora. This exhibit is offered by Empowerment Avenue and co- curated by Tomiekia Johnson and  Chantell Jeannette Black, who are serving time at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Works by six artists and three poets are featured in the collection and  will be on view in person adjacent to Space 124 as well as on MoAD’s website as a digital exhibition.

This is a rare opportunity to dance on Flyaway’s new suspended apparatus, currently in development for IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS. We are accepting 8 students only, for an intimate, in depth exploration of three hanging steel beds, designed for aerial dance. Previous aerial dance experience will be helpful.