Upcoming Events
Paufve|Dance and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents:
Bare Bones
Nine Dances by:
Nina Haft & Company (Saturday only)
Digby Dance
Erin Gottwald/Summer Brown
Rebecca Johnson
Marija Krtolica
Maureen Miner (Saturday only)
Hope Mohr Dance
Randee Paufve (Sunday only)
Christy L. Thomas
Shaunna Vella
Saturday May 31st, 8pm – Sunday June 1st, 3pm
$12 at the door
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
2704 Alcatraz Ave at College, Berkeley
Annual Events
Paufve | dance produces two annual performance events, Bare Bones and 8x8x8:
Bare Bones is a curated, low tech performance series, inviting choreographers to
present new work in an informal venue, typically a warehouse space in Berkeley. An
ongoing experiment in choreography and exploration, Bare Bones serves as a way to
share resources and build community amongst artists and audiences, bringing new
choreography to Bay Area audiences in an affordable, intimate setting.
8x8x8 challenges eight choreographers to create new work for an approximately 8’x8’
performance space. A response to the lack of suitable, affordable performance spaces
for choreographers working in the San Francisco Bay Area, 8x8x8 is presented in alternative venues such as a punk music club in downtown Oakland, and an Irish pub
in Berkeley. Ticket prices are minimal - $8 at the door – encouraging both dance lovers
and the non-dance audience to view dance in a low key setting. By bringing dance to
unusual venues typically reserved for live music, 8x8x8 is a successful new experiment
in choreography, presentation and audience development.
“The overriding experience of Bare Bones was of an evening of dances for grown-ups ….
Theintellectual and emotional relief of viewing work freed of pretension and liberated
from cliché took me by surprise. It was the artistic equivalent of being engaged in a
compelling conversation by very smart and impassioned people.”
– Ann Murphy, Dance View Times, May 2004
Teaching Workshops
Schedules to be announced...
“If I wanted to become a choreographer, I would go study with Randee Paufve. She
creates good movement. She layers her material until everything fits together like
anelaborate puzzle. She works with superb dancers and draws out distinct personalities.
In her dances, solos always balance ensembles (her unisons are particularly effective),
and expansive space complements tiny gestures.”
– Rita Felciano, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2002
“Every once in a while, a local choreographer comes along who shatters the
complacent run of thinigs. Something about her work – craft, wit, intelligence, a
riveting perspective – makes the viewer fall in love with dance again, the way a
mesmerizing poem can reinvigorate one’s sense of all poetry. Randee Paufve …. is
such a choreographer.”
– Ann Murphy, SF Weekly, September 2002
Paufve|Dance and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents:
Bare Bones
Nine Dances by:
Nina Haft & Company (Saturday only)
Digby Dance
Erin Gottwald/Summer Brown
Rebecca Johnson
Marija Krtolica
Maureen Miner (Saturday only)
Hope Mohr Dance
Randee Paufve (Sunday only)
Christy L. Thomas
Shaunna Vella
Saturday May 31st, 8pm – Sunday June 1st, 3pm
$12 at the door
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
2704 Alcatraz Ave at College, Berkeley
Annual Events
Paufve | dance produces two annual performance events, Bare Bones and 8x8x8:
Bare Bones is a curated, low tech performance series, inviting choreographers to
present new work in an informal venue, typically a warehouse space in Berkeley. An
ongoing experiment in choreography and exploration, Bare Bones serves as a way to
share resources and build community amongst artists and audiences, bringing new
choreography to Bay Area audiences in an affordable, intimate setting.
8x8x8 challenges eight choreographers to create new work for an approximately 8’x8’
performance space. A response to the lack of suitable, affordable performance spaces
for choreographers working in the San Francisco Bay Area, 8x8x8 is presented in alternative venues such as a punk music club in downtown Oakland, and an Irish pub
in Berkeley. Ticket prices are minimal - $8 at the door – encouraging both dance lovers
and the non-dance audience to view dance in a low key setting. By bringing dance to
unusual venues typically reserved for live music, 8x8x8 is a successful new experiment
in choreography, presentation and audience development.
“The overriding experience of Bare Bones was of an evening of dances for grown-ups ….
Theintellectual and emotional relief of viewing work freed of pretension and liberated
from cliché took me by surprise. It was the artistic equivalent of being engaged in a
compelling conversation by very smart and impassioned people.”
– Ann Murphy, Dance View Times, May 2004
Teaching Workshops
Schedules to be announced...
“If I wanted to become a choreographer, I would go study with Randee Paufve. She
creates good movement. She layers her material until everything fits together like
anelaborate puzzle. She works with superb dancers and draws out distinct personalities.
In her dances, solos always balance ensembles (her unisons are particularly effective),
and expansive space complements tiny gestures.”
– Rita Felciano, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2002
“Every once in a while, a local choreographer comes along who shatters the
complacent run of thinigs. Something about her work – craft, wit, intelligence, a
riveting perspective – makes the viewer fall in love with dance again, the way a
mesmerizing poem can reinvigorate one’s sense of all poetry. Randee Paufve …. is
such a choreographer.”
– Ann Murphy, SF Weekly, September 2002
