Dance, Dance...Otherwise We Are Lost
Thursday, April 24th | 4:00 - 5:40pm
CORE 301
Free, No Registration Necessary
A gathering to celebrate inclusive dance at CSU East Bay.
Please join the Wandering Ensemble, Professor Eric Kupers, and a diverse sampling of dance groups from the CSUEB community for an introduction to many of the ways that students, alumni, and community members are using dance as a vehicle for connection, expression, healing, and empowerment.
The Wandering Ensemble came together in 2020 to embark on a radically experimental creation process, set to take place over 40 years. We wanted to explore new ways of thinking about creativity, collaboration, time, performance, and community engagement in this era of rapid change.
At this gathering we will share some of what we've discovered so far (5 years into the 40-year process) as well as welcome dance groups and individual artists working in many different ways to share their approach and some of their work.
More information, please email Eric Kupers at: eric.kupers@csueastbay.edu or visit https://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/wandering-in-the-wilderness/
Preview Performance of Lost & Found
Tuesday, April 29th | 8:00-9:30 pm
CORE Mountain Lion Room Patio
Free, No Registration Necessary
6:30-7:45 pm: Community Participation Workshop
Lost & Found is the culmination of Year 5 of the Wandering in the Wilderness project.
Dandelion Dancetheater and the CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble joined forces in 2020 to form the Wandering Ensemble and embark on a 40-year creation journey to experiment with evolving our approaches to performance (and life itself). You are invited to join us for this community-driven, inclusive, ever-evolving, participatory dance/music/theater/ritual experience.
Community participation workshop from 6:30 - 7:45pm for anyone that would like to learn some of the songs and movement structures that make up the performance.
Lost & Found World Premiere Performances
will be presented by the 2025 SF International Arts Festival
- April 30th at El Rio Bar, SF, 8:00 pm
- May 8th at Monkey Brains, SF, 8:00 pm
Sliding Scale Tickets: $0-20
Guest Artists: Sabah Ensemble and CSUEB’s Dance Ensemble
--Community Chorus Participation Workshops each night 6:30-7:45pm--
Tickets & more info: www.dandeliondancetheater.org & www.sfiaf.org
Fifty five years ago, on April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation via television and radio to announce that the United States was expanding the Vietnam War by invading Cambodia. This resulted in a nationwide outpouring of antiwar protests on school campuses. The protests began on May 1st, and three days later four students were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen at a protest on the campus of Kent State University. This led to student strikes that shut down hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools around the country, as people gathered together to protest in various ways. The shooting of Kent State students also prompted Neil Young to write the song "Ohio," which quickly became a protest anthem. On May 15th, two Black students were killed when the police opened fire on a protest at Jackson State College, an HBCU in Mississippi.
At Cal State Hayward, as it was then known, some students produced a newsletter they named Strike News, "serving the greater Cal State community." The University Archives has six issues of this newsletter, all from May of 1970, that have been digitized and can be viewed online in the Digital Archives repository (Please note that this digital repository is a shared platform that contains materials from various CSUs, and it is a work in progress.). Not much information is available about these newsletters beyond what can be gleaned from reading them, but they provide a fascinating snapshot of how some CSU Hayward students responded to troubling current events during a turbulent time at the dawn of the 1970s.
May 21 1970 issue
All 6 issues of Strike News in the Digital Archives repository