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ShadowDance XIV: A Dark Performance Art Event

  • Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110 United States (map)

Darker Still Productions presents

ShadowDance XIV:
A Dark Performance Art Event

Saturday, November 12, 2022 
Doors at 6:00 p.m.
Dark Performance Art at 7:00 p.m.

COVID information: Masking Required

Featuring some of the best performance artists, musicians, fine artists, vendors and DJs from the Bay Area, and around the world, including Tribal Baroque, DJ Zlaya, Ida Mahin & Max, and many others.

ShadowDance celebrates its 14th Anniversary with a voluminous evening, filled with dance, music, fine art, and performance art, at Brava Theatre on Saturday, November 12. An evening of elegant disarray, dark fairytales, and bewitching ambiance, ShadowDance will inspire and provoke curiosity, creating an atmosphere full of thee depths of thee human experience. 

Produced by Ariellah and Darker Still Productions, this dark arts experience will be a feast of the highest-caliber, featuring circus arts, performance art, ritual, belly dancers, butoh, contemporary, puppet shows, musicians, and much more. For those inspired to move, dark music will be broadcast by two leading “dark and alternative” DJs throughout the evening. Dark vendors will entice patrons with their wares. 

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TICKETS

$40 Advance | $50 Door 

Wheelchair accessible. Must be 21 years and older.


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FEATURED PERFORMERS INCLUDE:

Tribal Baroque 

This dynamic duo are sound alchemists who call what they do “prayforming.” Like aliens from a distant, unknown world, they are the ultimate creative outlaws. Tribal Baroque are Thoth (countertenor and violinist), an 2002-Oscar winner who has been prayforming for over 30 years; and Lila'Angelique (coloratura soprano and violinist), who has been prayforming with Thoth for more than 12 years, first as mentee, then as partner since 2015.
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DJ Zlaya

Body Rapture (Oakland)/Cold Trinity (Belgrade)/ Voight-Kampff Machine/Étant/more than 30 years of club, radio, production, and conceptual continuity .DJ Zlaya has been active in Electro-Industrial scene since the early 90's. His span of activities is as wide as the literal ground he’s covered, from his native Yugoslavia, to the Midwest of United States, to California. Since his move to San Francisco, DJ Zlaya has been involved with all kinds of Bay Area dark-music institutions, including Strangelove, Death Guild, BodyShock, The Hanging Garden, Satori, Disorder, Last Rites, and the Dancing Ghosts. He is a founder of Body Rapture, Bay Area’s ultimate EBM and Industrial Music programme. 

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Ida Mahin & Max 

Ida Mahin & Max are Goth fusion-style performers and instructors from Germany. They understand dance as a non-verbal, universally understandable language, in which aesthetic, cultural, and historical impulses from all over the world flow together. Their artistic focus lies in the awakening of characters, storytelling, and the mediation of truthful emotions. Their stage creations are heavily influenced by life, visual arts, cultures, concepts, literature, theatre, movies, and their deep love for a wide spectrum of dark music. In their workshops, Ida & Maxx devote significant attention to imparting background knowledge, far from clichés. They seek to reveal and enhance the individual skills of every single dancer, be they advanced or newbie.

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