ODE TO JANE
a new site-specific aerial dance by Flyaway Productions
Free Performances
October 4-12, 2024
Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:30PM
Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7:30PM and 8:30PM
Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:30PM
Friday, Oct. 11 at 7:30PM and 8:30PM
Saturday, Oct. 12 at 7:30PM and 8:30PM
At The Cadillac Hotel (above the Tenderloin Museum) | 398 Eddy Street, San Francisco
These events are free & open to all; no tickets or reservations required.
Flyaway Productions brings aerial & apparatus based dance back to the Tenderloin Museum & Cadillac Hotel for ODE TO JANE, a new site-specific work inspired by the pre-Roe v. Wade era activists in Chicago (“Jane”) and tracing that lineage of resistance into present day San Francisco.
Related Public Programs at the Tenderloin Museum
Friday, Oct. 4, post show: artist reception and celebration
Thursday, Oct. 10, post-show: panel discussion with housing activist Nina “Peaches” Foster; Natasha Dennerstein, former lead housing navigator at St. James Infirmary; and Dr. Nicole Barnett, Chief Operating Officer, Planned Parenthood Northern California
Friday, Oct. 11 at 6 PM: the Tenderloin Museum will host a Tenderloin history walking tour with a feminist lens on the neighborhood. Space is limited to 20 attendees—register via Humanitix (via this link).
About ODE TO JANE
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.