2009 San Francisco Performance Season

The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories
A Collaboration between Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton

Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18 8PM
Sunday, April 19 7PM

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street (at Third), San Francisco, CA 94103

Choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton collaborate in the creation of the world premiere of The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories, a large-scale work featuring five dance soloists and a Movement Choir comprised of 18 dynamic performers in a unique living canvas that will flood the stage with movement, sound and dramatic action.

Following the stunning success of their 2008 collaboration StringWreck, which Garrett and Moulton created with the Del Sol String Quartet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories will be the two choreographers’ second collaboration together, further deepening their association and broadening the ambitious scale of their innovative work.

Investigating the awkward, delicate, and bittersweet aspects of human experience, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories will be a series of movement stories performed to a 3-sided audience with the Movement Choir serving as a fourth wall that is alive with action and image. Original music will be created for the work by Bay Area composer Jonathan Russell and performed live by and ensemble of 6 musicians. A special guest appearance will be made by singer/songwriter Odessa Chen of which Somewherecold.com says “She has the songwriting and lyric-crafting chops to send shivers up and down the spine of listeners, and her voice is truly a thing if sheer beauty.”

Performances will be given Thursday, April 16-Saturday, April 18 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 19, at 7 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. There will be a special benefit reception following the April 18 performance. Tickets are $32 general and $25 students, seniors, teachers and YBCA members. Groups of 10 or more receive discounted tickets of $20 each. Tickets for the Saturday, April 18 benefit are $75 and include admission to the performance. Tickets are available through the YBCA box office by calling 415-978-ARTS (2787) or online at www.ybca.org/calendar.