Upcoming Events

Paufve Dance interview on NPR's All Things Considered
Tuesday August 18
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2010

8x8x8
Thursday February 4, 8pm
Starry Plough Pub
3101 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705-1822
(510) 841-2082
Tickets: $8 at the door with 21+ ID

8 choreographers, 8 new works, 8 bucks!

Featuring new dance and theater works by:
Duniya Dance & Drum Company/Joti Singh
Kimiko Guthrie
Rebecca Johnson
Mutt 49
Navarette x Kajiyama
Nina Haft & Company
Project Agora/Kara Davis
Vitali Kononov

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

Visit Shawl-Anderson.org for more information .

“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