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The Bluets Project
Upcoming Performances
Cid Pearlman Performance celebrates their longstanding collaboration with cellist/composer Joan Jeanrenaud in an evening of three works: Strange Toys, small variations and Your Body is Not a Shark. The earliest piece on the program, Strange Toys, a 10-minute duet for two women, had its New York premiere at the Joyce Soho in 2004. Nominated for two Los Angeles Horton Awards, small variations premiered as a 30-minute sextet in 2006.
Finally, Your Body is Not a Shark, an evening-length work, which premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco in 2013. This work was created in collaboration with poet Denise Leto, and four sections of the nine-part whole will be presented on this program.
Goethe and Chelsea Hotel from Bluets #1-40
Spring 2018: Cid Pearlman Performance in collaboration with UCSC students & composer Jonathan Segel. Bluets #1-40 is research towards The Bluets Project, a multi-year, multi-location performance initiative that engages with Maggie Nelson’s book-length poem “Bluets.” Nelson’s work mixes philosophical ideas with somatic and political realities. The living, breathing queer and marginalized body is brought to the center.
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Cid Pearlman Performance
Cid Pearlman Performance brings together dancers, visual artists, writers, musicians and other culture workers to use performance as a platform to unravel the complicated nature of human interactions.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
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New York Times
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LA Weekly
“Wit is a rare commodity in dance. Even more than its gentler cousin, humor, it demands a finely tuned eye and ability to observe with detachment without letting go of commitment. Cid Pearlman has what it takes.”
Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“I want to live in the little societies that Cid Pearlman creates: people hold their ground when they need to, still they have an essential gentleness toward one another.”
Janice Steinberg, San Diego Dance Critic
"...it was Pearlman’s Drowning Poems that trembled with a poignancy and grief so textually rich it took my breath away.
Julia Ciapella, santacruzdanceblog.wordpress.com
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