UPCOMING EVENTS

Workshop: Composing Improvisation with Christian Burns

Sunday, February 4, 11am-2pm at Berkeley Ballet Theater
Saturday, February 10, 10am-1pm at Joe Goode Annex

Pay-what-you-can: $10-$30, no one turned away for lack of funds
Space is limited and advance registration is required.
To register: email sistersk@sharpandfine.org

Christian Burns, a much-loved collaborator of Sharp & Fine, will lead two 3-hour workshop sessions focusing on strategies for approaching improvisation as real-time composition that encourages presence, responsiveness, and connection with a space and other people.

Christian is a teaching artist, performer, and choreographer. Some of his collaborators include: Hope Mohr, Bobbie Jene Smith, Alessio Silvestrin, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Eric Beauschsne, Shinichi Iova-Koga, and Kirstie Simon. He danced for James Sewell Ballet and Alonzo King Lines Ballet, was a guest artist with The Forsythe Company, and co-founded/directed The Foundry. He is a long-standing faculty member of the Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program, an Adjunct Professor for Lines Ballet BFA at Dominican University, and in 2023 was a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University.

Performance: New Work

October 18-20, Z Space, San Francisco

A new evening-length work choreographed and directed by Megan & Shannon Kurashige in collaboration with Charmaine Butcher, Julie Crothers, Sonja Dale, Caitlin Hicks, and Molly Levy. With an original score composed by Jordan Glenn.