Pollination II: Marcus Shelby Trio, Byb Chanel Bibene, Embodiment Project and Indira Allegra

The Red Poppy Art House Presents
The First Annual Cross Pollination People & Performance Festival 
September 24th-28th, 2014

Curated by lu-Hui Chua, Todd Thomas Brown, and Melody Wang

This September, the Red Poppy Art House is producing a new festival aimed at bringing together artists and audiences from different communities and artistic disciplines. It’s all about creating a space of intersection between the different worlds we inhabit; our social spheres, our work life, and our personal paths. Each evening features a mash-up of different aesthetics that highlight the audiences attending as well as the artists presenting. Come experience a weekend of people and performance, magic and medicine, and the space between.

Pollination II: Thursday, September 25, 2014
Time: Doors open at 7:00, Show begins at 7:30pm
Admission: $15-25

All seating is general admission. Please select the admission price you’re most comfortable with within this range. Your additional support is greatly appreciated!

Advanced tickets available here: http://pollination2.bpt.me.
Half of available tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Marcus Anthony Shelby is an accomplished teacher, composer, arranger, and bassist, and has received a number of recognitions and awards in the past 24 years, including “Top Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area” on City Flight Magazine 2005. Currently, Shelby is an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and working with playwright and actress Anna Deveare Smith on her new work “Pipeline to Prison”. 

Byb Chanel Bibene will perform a complex piece that examines the relationship between the inside and the outside of the body, while exploring the intrinsic emotions and how they are channeled out to relate with the environment around us. Choreographer and performer working in both theatre and dance, Bibene’s technical and aesthetic sensibility is rooted in the culture and dances of his country of origin, the Republic of Congo.

Embodiment Project is a San Francisco-based urban dance theater company that was founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Nicole Klaymoon. Comprising ten dancers and a live vocal ensemble, led by EP musical director, Valerie Troutt, the company’s mission is to promote appreciation and understanding of various street dance traditions by presenting original, multi-media works to diverse audiences while challenging traditional approaches to concert dance. With emotionally transparent, autobiographical narratives, and joyous, energetic movement, EP’s work reflects the company’s pursuit of how dance can “speak” and language can “move” – and how this unique form of storytelling can thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Indira Allegra is a poet and artist exploring intimacy, intertextuality, affect and endurance through performance, video works and handwoven textiles. Indira’s experimental “videopoems” Blue Covers and Weep Willow: The Blues for Lady Day have screened at film festivals such as MIX NYC, Perlen Hannover LGBT Festival, Visible Verse Festival and Fusion. In the Bay Area, Allegra has performed with Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance, Mangos with Chili and Peacock Rebellion. She is currently completing her first collection of poems entitled Indigo Season.