Hysteresis: 2010 San Francisco Season

Dates:	FRI April 9 – SUN April 11, 2010 [8PM] Post-performance reception on April 9
Where:	Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street @ Mission St. [24th St. BART] San Francisco
Info:	415.287.0192 | dv@double-vision.biz
Tix:	$15 online or at the door | $10 for students with ID [cash only at door]
Press:	Press Release [pdf], Postcard Front [jpg], Postcard Back [jpg], Poster [jpg],  Press Photos, In Dance Article about Hysteresis [pdf] Press Contact: Pauline Jennings

“And as the sweat fell from the soft eyes of each dancer, it shared a space with the dust. The dust, which would reflect off the lights, down the floor of the stage. An overall haunting, metamorphic, and conceptually Futurist adventure. F.T. Marinetti would have been quite entranced. As …I was listening to the sounds of each dancer’s movements; their breathing, knees cracking and sweat flying into the abyss..my eyes filled with tears. I have not seen anything like this before.” - Gina Christine, Beaubourg 268

“It [Hysteresis] epitomized perfectly what I think of when I think of good modern dance.” – Samantha Waidler, SF Dance

“Unfettered from the sense that there was something “to get,” the viewer’s mind was free to drift among associations, the dancers evoking now a flock of birds, now an ocean current, now a windstorm gathering force.” - Bonner Odell, IN DANCE

DOUBLE VISION is pleased to announce the premiere of Hysteresis at Dance Mission Theater, April 9-11th. Hysteresis is 70 minutes of non-stop, innovative dance, sound, lights, and costumes informed by a residency at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The work is a metaphor for the state of being alien or observing that which is alien to oneself.

Free from traditional structures and narratives, Hysteresis evokes an abstract dreamscape rich in complex shapes, relationships and points of meditation for the audience. The audience is presented with unknown customs, languages, and symbols through image, sound and the implementation of stochastic and hysteretic systems. As the observer experiences what is at first deemed noise, relationships and patterns begin to emerge and understanding can occur. Noise gives way to an idea and the idea leads to a certain comfort in this incessantly uncertain world.

Hysteresis features five dancers and four collaborators with choreography by Pauline Jennings, music by Sean Clute, lighting design by Ben Coolik, costuming by Andrea Campbell and performances by Blaine Bookey, Emily Gorman, Wendy Marinaccio, Jennifer Mellor and Cecelia Peterson.

Hysteresis was made possible through generous private donations, CounterPULSE’s fiscal sponsor program, The Garage’s RAW Program and grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

DOUBLE VISION (www.double-vision.biz), creates contemporary performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result is a body of work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving. Led by Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute, DOUBLE VISION recently celebrated their first five years with two ambitious tours. First, the company produced a 5-week, 17-city tour of the United States and then participated in a 2-month residency at the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Austria with additional performances in Prague, Zurich and Pecs.

Press Photos by Rick Mellor. Click on any below photo to enlarge.