Ether After (2023)
Photos by Steve Disenhof and Doug Kaye
Pause to Bridge (2023)
Dance Generators gathers artists ranging in age from 21 to 90 for choreographic experimentation at ODC. Collective movement rituals, improvisational scores, collaborative choreographic prompts, reflection, and dialogue guide research of ageism in the body. Directed by Liv Schaffer and in collaboration with Dazaun Soleyn, this group of artists will examine practices for creating across the ages, and culminate in a public sharing that illuminates cogenerated ideas, values, and physicalities emergent to bridging divides.
Crowned (2022)
Crowned is a performance piece exploring lineage and legacy that is passed down generation to generation that premiered at the University of San Francisco’s Fall Dance Ensemble Concert in November 2022.
Photos by Chesire Isaacs
Big Red House of Rest (2022)
Big Red is a performance project and community engagement workshop series at senior housing facilities across the Bay Area in collaboration with EngAGE Inc.
The work explores the roles of embodiment and intergenerational relationships in co-generational social healing. Pictured below are moments captured during a work-in-progress showing at the ODC State of Play Festival.
Photo by Hillary Goidell
Returning Forward (2022)
The final work of student choreographer, Heidi Erickson, premiered at the Spring 2022 USF Senior Project Showcase. The piece highlighted the evolution of growth and the support shared within an intergenerational community as we grow as individuals.
Photos by Josh McDermott and Chesire Isaacs
Returning Forward (2021)
A work in progress showing of student choreographer Heidi Erickson’s senior thesis choreography performed as a part of the Performing Arts & Social Justice Fall 2021 Showcase.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF RETURNING FORWARD
A film by Rebecca Mauney capturing Dance Generators’ creative process Fall 2021
PASJ 20th Anniversary Festival (2021)
A look into Dance Generators’ creative process and collaborative explorations during the Spring 2021 semester.
Editing by Liv Schaffer & Victoria Silverman
CHIME RESIDENCY (2020)
Dance Generators engaged in the creative process during Liv Schaffer’s 2020 CHIME residency. CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) is a professional mentorship program for choreographers and movement-based artists by Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. CHIME 2020 programming is paired with Encounters Over 60, a program focused on amplifying the voices of women artists over 60.
Photos by Kegan Marling.
Unearthed (2020)
Choreography by Dance Generators performers.
Filming by Nico Sotomayor. Editing by Liv Schaffer.
Mütterland (2019)
Choreography by Liv Schaffer.
Photos by Robbie Sweeny.
Rotunda Series (2018)
Choreography by Natalie Greene.
Video courtesy of SF Ethnic Dance Fest.
Base Ten (2017)
Choreography by Natalie Greene.
Photos by Robbie Sweeny.
Video courtesy of USF.
USF Spring Dance Concert (2016)
Choreography by Natalie Greene.
Photos courtesy of USF Performing Arts and Social Justice Department.
To Die of Joy in the River (2013)
Poem by Nina Serrano.
Choreography by Natalie Greene.
The Piece That Started It All (1999)
Choreography by Amie Dowling.