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ROBERT MOSES’ KIN ADDS TWO WORKS TO THE PROGRAM
FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
THE CINDERELLA PRINCIPLE
AT YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS FEB. 25 - 27
SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, 2010—The nationally acclaimed Robert Moses’ Kin (RMK) contemporary dance company announced the addition of two works from the company repertoire, Hush and Toward September, to the program featuring the world premiere of The Cinderella Principle: Try these on, see if they fit, an hour-long work exploring non-traditional family structures. Three performances will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on February 25, 26 and 27 at 8 pm.
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Robert Moses' Kin's collaboratations
RMK collaborates with award-winning artists on the Cinderella Principle: playwright Anne Galjour, beat boxer Kid Beyond composer/violinist Todd Reynolds, and filmmaker Bill Morrison.
Awards
RMK is grateful for recent funding from the following organizations: The Irvine Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, Grants for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, The Zellerbach Foundation and The Fleishhacker Foundation.
Robert Moses to collaborate with playwright Anne Galjour
Robert Moses has long been interested in using dance to explore social and psychological issues. In his new work “The Cinderella Principle,” Robert Moses will collaborate with the nationally-known playwright Anne Galjour in exploring the evolving cultural identities associated with non-traditional families. Together they will hold community “story circles” to discuss issues of family and culture. These will be followed by individual and family interviews that will delve deeper into the personal experiences of the participants.
Ms. Galjour has a wealth of resources and experiences that are especially pertinent to The Cinderella Project. She recently completed a documentary theater project with the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth University that included extensive research into class difference in the small communities of rural New England. As part of that project she developed a one-woman play, You can’t get there from here, that was performed throughout New England and then brought to Theatre Artaud in September by Z Space Studio.
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Anne Galjour’s one-woman plays have been praised for their originality of the writing as well as excellence of performance. Originally from Cajun French speaking Southeastern Louisiana, she has been a resident of San Francisco for over 30 years. Her additional solo performance credits include Alligator Tales – Hurricane and Mauvais Temps, The Krewe of Neptune, and Alligator Tales (4 Dramatic Short Stories). All of which have played at numerous theatres, colleges and theatre festivals throughout the country.
Anne’s playwriting credits include Okra, which premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in 2004, before moving to Southern Rep, True Brew Theatre, and the Bayou Playhouse; Bird in the Hand, which was commissioned by Z Space and produced by Central Works Theatre Company in Berkeley; and her children’s play The Queen of the Sea, which was commissioned and produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Awards for her work include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards for Best Original Script and Best Solo Performance, the Will Glickman Playwriting Award, the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Emerging Playwrights, S F Solo Mio Festival – outstanding solo artist award, and S F Bay Guardian “Goldie” for outstanding performance artist.
Anne Galjour is currently a lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University, and is a member of both the Actors Equity Association and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
For more information about her work please visit www.annegaljour.com.
UPCOMING 2010 PERFORMANCES: Robert Moses is currently working on a new hour-long, full-company work for his first self-presented season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in February 2010. The Cinderella Principle: Try these on, see if they fit (after a composition of the same title by George Clinton) will focus on the formation of identity within the non-traditional family.
Moses has long been interested in using dance to explore social and psychological issues. In The Cinderella Principle he will collaborate with Bay Area-based playwright Anne Galjour in holding community “story circles” to discuss the issues of family and culture. Anne will then develop text based on these community interviews to include in the performance.
Meanwhile, Bay Area Brazilian-American documentary filmmakers Maria and Giovanni Vaz, who were behind the recent film A Convenient Truth, will create a film documenting the making of The Cinderella Principle.
