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JOE GOODE PERFORMANCE GROUP

Grant Year

2024-25

Grant Program

Creative Youth Development

Award Amount

$16,203.00

Project Description

With the support from the California Arts Council, Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) will create an original dance theater performance piece elevating the stories and experiences of middle-high school age youth using JGPG’s signature creative methodologies. This free program supports youth in training and creating alongside dance theater professionals.

Organization Summary

Creation and presentation of new work of dance theater, by Joe Goode and local choreographers.

Movement for Humans, a gentle accessible movement class for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities

Resilience Project, a program which interviews a specific group of participants – originally Veterans – and using their stories about resilience to develop participant-specific new dance theater work.

The Joe Goode Annex. An affordable studio theater rental program for individual artists, community arts groups, and other small nonprofits.

Workshops and classes at the Annex and online, for people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests.

Inspired Bodies. JGPG offers teens at several school sites the opportunity to train with company member and create original dance theater works.

D.R.A.G | Divination, Rainbows, and Glitter is led by JGPG company member and teaching artist, Wailana Simock/Magdelena workshop participants explore new ways to express themselves through drag, movement and story-telling and honor ancestral and indigenous knowledge of sex and gender identities.

GUSH Dance Festival serves dance-makers and audiences in the SF Bay Area with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and QTPOC artists. This biannual community-centered project is aligned with equity, social justice and decolonizing the art-making experience by providing an open platform for artists to create work that voices their distinct history, culture and artistic imprint.

Organization

Joe Goode Performance Group

Address

499 ALABAMA ST # 150

SAN FRANCISCO

94110-1967

County

San Francisco

Region

Bay Area – San Francisco

Phone

(415) 561-6565

Congressional District

California Assembly district 12

State Assembly District

District 17

State Senate District

District 11

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