RAWdance to Premere MINE at Joe Goode Annex, 12/6

On the cusp of its 10-year anniversary, RAWdance is proud to announce the world premiere of Mine, an evening-length work of contemporary dance created by RAWdance founders Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein. Inspired by the limitless stretches of fencing and barbed wire that partitions much of the rural American West, Mine focuses inward, probing the human urge to possess, consume and control. Mine opens Friday, December 6, 2013 at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco, and runs through Sunday, December 15.

An intimate work for five dancers, Mine draws the audience into a web of carnality. A rigged environment of suspended hooks and netting designed by Sean Riley sets the scene for RAWdance's first ever experiment in movement on an elevated vertical plane. "Our movement vocabulary in Mine could be described as carnivorous, sensuous - urgent - while maintaining our formalist and non-linear roots," says Smith.

"The movement aims to express the origins of possession," adds Rein. "For us those origins are not just, or even mainly, psychological; they're physical, too."

Dramatic lighting designed by Jim French and an original score composed by Joel St. Julienheighten the emotional stakes in Mine. To enhance the theatergoing experience, performances will take place to a limited house of approximately 45 people per show.

Performers in Mine include Kerry Demme, Aaron Perlstein and Laura Sharp, alongside Rein and Smith.

This development of Mine was made possible in part with generous support from The Zellerbach Family Foundation,Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and the Joe Goode Annex.

Photo credit RJ Muna

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