
October 2021
San Francisco Performances Presents: Lyra
The Living Earth Show and Post:ballet perform the World Premiere of Lyra, a new collaborative production featuring the music of composer Samuel Adams, the movement of choreographer Vanessa Thiessen, the direction of Robert Dekkers, and the cinematography of Benjamin Tarquin. Rooted in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Lyra delves into today's most urgent questions regarding empathy, technology, and our relationship to the natural world. Created both in quarantine and in person, Lyra weaves together the digital and the physical…
Find out more »San Francisco Performances Presents: Lyra
The Living Earth Show and Post:ballet perform the World Premiere of Lyra, a new collaborative production featuring the music of composer Samuel Adams, the movement of choreographer Vanessa Thiessen, the direction of Robert Dekkers, and the cinematography of Benjamin Tarquin. Rooted in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Lyra delves into today's most urgent questions regarding empathy, technology, and our relationship to the natural world. Created both in quarantine and in person, Lyra weaves together the digital and the physical…
Find out more »March 2022
The Voice Within
The Voice Within features veteran kathak artist Seibi Lee in an intimate exploration of duality and paradox as encountered in the course of navigating personal and cultural identity. Lee renders two ancient stories in the traditional kathak style – Houyi and Chang’e, a heart rending Chinese story about the love between a mortal hero and an immortal beauty, and Yuki no Onna, a Japanese tale exploring the legend of the mysterious Snow Woman. Both stories evoke the universal experience of longing. Lee instructs…
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