Small Dances in the Park: SF Botanical Garden (2022);

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The Great Meadow at SFBG, Golden Gate Park

Small Dances in the Park: SF Botanical Garden was performed as part of JPMWs free, public, urban landscape activation events, that explore ways of sharing space versus occupying it. This particular iteration was created for the vast Great Meadow of the SF Botanical Garden. Small Dances creatively unpacks the stops and starts of making and sharing public art through the recent transitionary waning of the pandemic. Valuing process, form, and an ethics of solidarity care, Small Dances was created with an intentional indirection, focusing rather on the dynamics between pause and possibility, the accumulation of heartbreaks and unknowns, and the sometimes surprising gifts found amidst loss.

Co-Creators and Performers: Styles Alexander, Emily Hansel, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, and Phoenicia Pettyjohn

Composer: Clark Buckner

Poetry and Text: Styles Alexander and Phoenicia Pettyjohn

Video Documentation: Chani Bockwinkel with editing by Clark Buckner

Special thank you to Shareen DeRyan

Presented in partnership with SF Botanical Garden.

Photo Credit: Hillary Goidell