A Woman’s Song for Peace
Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade Presents
A Woman’s Song for Peace
HOLLY NEAR, FERRON & DANCE BRIGADE
with Christelle Durandy, Jan Martinelli, Tammy Lynne Hall, Michaelle Goerlitz, Shelley Jennings
A Tribute to the Past, A Vision for the Future
January 9-19, 2025 https://dancemissiontheater.org/dance-brigade/the-peace-tour
The highlight of Dance Brigade’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Season will be the creation, performance, and touring of A Woman’s Song for Peace – a new dance theater work featuring original, live music by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade’s fierce, nuanced choreography and signature melding of styles with Hip Hop, Modern, Salsa, and Taiko – utilizing these storytelling components to convey a larger narrative about social justice and liberation.
A Woman’s Song for Peace is Dance Brigade’s contribution to the current political and social dialogue around peace, war, and foreign policy in our society and in the world. We bear witness to wars in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in Sudan, and a culture/rhetoric of war and violence in our own society and at our Southern border. As we move through an intense and divisive Presidential election cycle in which these issues are front and center, we argue about specific details of foreign policy – and it’s easy to forget that we all share a basic desire for peace.
A Woman’s Song for Peace aims to reorient our audiences towards this priority, helping us remember our shared humanity. We believe that this collaboration can unify and activate people, and we offer our artistic response – a creative cry for peace – as a gift to our communities, an aid for individual and collective healing and transformation, and a vision for a way forward.
In Eugene, OR, Dance Brigade will partner with WOW Hall on WOW’s 50th anniversary fundraising event on Saturday, January 11th with a tribute to their shared history including songs and storytelling by Holly Near and Ferron, and performance of a signature dance theater piece with original members from the Wallflower Order Dance Collective, whose inception took place at the WOW Hall in 1975. “Defiance” was created in 1977 in sign language and written by Dorothy Miles and performed across the US and internationally; it remains a lasting and powerful work about finding one’s voice and speaking one’s truth to power.
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JAN 2025 WEST COAST TOUR PERFORMANCE DATES:
- Jan 09: Soreng Theater @ Hult Center (Eugene, OR) 7:30 pm Show GET TICKETS
- Jan 10: Newmark Theatre @ Portland’5 Centers for the Performing Arts (Portland, OR) 7:30 pm Show GET TICKETS
- Jan 11: WOW Hall Fundraiser (Eugene, OR) 6:00 pm Doors Open GET TICKETS
- Jan 12: Craterian Theater @ Collier Center (Medford, OR) 5:00 pm Show GET TICKETS
- Jan 15: Center Theater @ Mendocino College 7:30 pm Show (Ukiah, CA) GET TICKETS
- Jan 17: Ruth Finley Person Theater @ Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (Santa Rosa, CA) 7:30 pm Show GET TICKETS
- Jan 18: Crocker Theater @ Cabrillo College VAPA Complex (Aptos, CA) 7:30 pm Show GET TICKETS
- Jan 19: Herbst Theatre @ San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center (SF, CA) 6:00 pm Show GET TICKETS