Saturday, August 30, 2008

Ken Dances in Italy!


Ken just spent a fine few days shooting a commercial with Project Bandaloop in Cortina Italy. The shoot happened on Cinco Torre, a group of 5 towers on an amazing mountain.

Very bright costumes, amazing food, views and company. a very nice time was had.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

West Wave Festival 2008




Hey everyone, we are performing wednesday the 20th and Friday the 22nd at 7 pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. See us on the main stage doing... stuff and things! Kimm E Ward and Andrea Weber are coming out of FTPG hibernation for this! Shawn Oda is back and we are introducing Fiona McCann to the FTPG world.

We will be featuring one of Lawrence Labianca's brilliant sculptures also.

Come out and see a whole pile of what the Bay Area has to offer and, of course, Fellow Travelers!

Info: dancersgroup.org
tickets: ybca.org

Friday, July 25, 2008

FTPG updating things


Hello Campers!

It has been a while, but we are still plugging away at the dance thing. In fact, things are going very well. Lets talk about Leo. He walks, he runs, he goes camping in the Sierras! Very proud we are.

Ken received a CA$H for the creation and performance of more body installations - so keep an eye out in the streets. For those who haven't seen them, body installations are labor related (and often nature related). They tend to be simple, and are created to try to get people to see their world a bit differently. In order to see them you have to be in the right place at the right time. They are unannounced and could happen any time.

Ken and Cynthia are co-creating a piece in the West Wave Festival at the Yerba Buena Center in August. August 20 and 22 to be exact. 7 pm. If you come to the 22nd there are rumors of a reception afterwards.

Cynthia and Deborah Slater are still working on the 109th Bead. Douglas Rosenberg will be shooting new footage sometime in the next few months.

Ken and Matthew Antaky have been brainstorming heavily for a new installation trio that can go anywhere. There is much talk of animating the lights onto video projectors.

Monday, May 19, 2008

May news


Hello Campers,

Cynthia's debut of the 109th bead in the Second Sundays series went great, with Leo managing his first performance with grace and aplomb and more than a little bit of foot bouncing.

Following that program, Cynthia flew to Madison Wisconsin with Deborah Slater to work on the video sections of that piece with Douglas Rosenberg.

On top of that, Cynthia is working on her piece for Li Chiao Ping's women's series.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

April news

Hello everyone,

We have a few upcoming events for you to look out for:

First Cynthia will be a part of the Second Sundays performance at CounterPulse on Mothers Day (that's May 11th if you don't love your mama). She will be showing part of her new piece 'The Hundred and Ninth Bead'. All new. Go and see it and you can be part of the question and answer period afterwards!

Cynthia and Ken will also be performing in the West Wave Festival this summer at Theater Artaud in August. We will post more on that as it gets closer.

Also for those of you who missed the Dance IS Festival, you can catch Burrow/Pond/Coop on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQis-wjv8sU.

Take care all - more news soon!

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Dance IS Festival

Just a quick note that Ken James and Chris Black have a few new pieces they are showing in the Dance IS Festival at the Julia Morgan Theater on March 8th!

8pm. Don't miss it!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

FTPG has met its match

As you know from your previous reading, the East Bay Community Fund gave us an $8,000 matching grant in September. Well, thanks to the generosity of all of you, we made our match!!! This means that 'Intersecting Stories' has the money to pay all the artists who are working on the project .

We will keep you posted as to how everything is going and how the piece is shaping up! stay tuned...

Upcoming performances in the Wrecking Ball performance at ODC Theater, Jan. 19th (the last before the theater is rebuilt) and in the Dance IS show on March 8th.