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no quarter
By Larry Arrington
Performed by jose abad, Larry Arrington, Sherwood Chen, and Chelsea Reichert
Lighting- Grisel GG Torres
Music by: Ralph Stanley, William Billing, C. Austin Miles by Western Massachusetts Shape Note Choir, original work by Jassem Hindi
Costumes and constructions - Galen and Kate McAndrew
Stage Manager - Kat Cole
You, darkness, of whom I am born–
I love you more than the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illuminates
and excludes all the rest.
But the dark embraces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations–just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.
-Rilke
Saturn Pluto 2020: our responsibilities to time.
Jan 12th at 22 47 Capricorn
Astrology is not about astrology. It is about what is already happening. Astrology isn't about us, but the way we are sewn into the weave of all we belong to. Right now, you are not dead, but you will die. What kind of ancestor will you be? (thank you Amara for introducing me to this question) what kind of ancestors are with you now? Are they hungry or fed?
Saturn and Pluto’s conjunction occurs approximately every 32-37 years. It creates a condition of contraction. A squeeze. It usually corresponds to difficult political periods of aggressive control. Historically they are often eras with immense crises of power. Buried things announce themselves, the past/dead speak, push comes to shove. It can create a climate of uncertainty and fear. We are asked to take necessary and challenging looks at power, paternity, structure, and the past. We are asked to look at shadow, both personally and collectively. As Saturn speaks to structure and authority and Pluto to raw power and transformation. Structures of power are often refigured under the squeeze of this transit.
A crucial piece of Saturn Pluto alignment is a willingness to look at shadow. These are times that ask us to sit with our fear, our darkness, our legacies. Saturn, Pluto, and the South Node alignments excavate necessary reflection, inviting us to create relationships with what has come before / what will follow.
As we meet this weekend, eclipses speak. Literally and figuratively making shadow visible.
Saturn and Pluto ask us to create relationships with that shadow, that darkness. Imagine yourself not swallowed in the belly of the beast, but buried in the womb of time. Gestation requires darkness. Practice. Grief is darkness practice. Healing is darkness practice. Intimacy is darkness practice. Hope is darkness practice. surrender foresight and watch the prefigurative forms of our futures through the beautiful dance of their shadow. This is a time to unbury generosity, to invite warmth into the darkness, to find faith in the unknowable.
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Saturn & Pluto’s conjunction reminds us that the past is never dead. It reminds us we are responsible for it. All of it- what we celebrate and what we shun. Tonight’s performance takes place on the unceded land of Ramaytush Ohlone. Bringing repair, care, and resource to the wounds of occupation, exploitation, and injustice is what the transit demands.
Sogoreate-landtrust.com
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Reparations/Remediating Long-term Time is a part of a practical approach to working with Saturn transits: If you only take one thing from this show my hope is that it’s a deepening of understanding of our responsibilities to time. If you want to intentionally work with Saturn one way is to claim your role as a steward of time. Everyone has different relationships to lineage. But Saturn asks us to sit with our responsibilities to it- particularly what has come before. Spend some time thinking about what energy needs to be balanced. Where can your efforts move towards reciprocity in relationships with the legacies we belong to. Commit to doing something to balance the scale and bring reparative energy to wounds of the past.
Bios
Larry Arrington www.astrologywithlarry.com IG larrylarryarrington
jose e. abad’s artistic practice is rooted in collaboration and community engaged arts as a form of resistance and liberation. Through dance and storytelling abad’s work unearths lost histories, memories, and wisdom that are held within the body that the mind has forgotten or dominant culture has erased. They examine the relationships between the self and our physical, social, and spiritual environments in order to rip apart the constricting narratives imposed by external forces and create space for the complex and nuanced existence of queer, black, and trans* people of color.
abad is a co-founder of two queer performance collectives Yum Yum Club and Lxs Dxs, and has had the opportunity to perform solo and collaborative works nationally and internationally with artists including: Joanna Haigood, Alleluia Panis, Ivo Dimchev, Keith Hennessy, Scott Wells, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, NAKA Dance Theatre, Sherwood Chen, Seth Eisen, Brontez Purnell Dance Company, and Detour Dance. Currently, abad is a key collaborator and artist facilitator in ABD Productions’ Skywatchers program, working in collaboration with residents of various SRO’s in the Tenderloin to create work that highlights the truths and stories of some of San Francisco’s most underrepresented and invisibilized communities.
IG: future.daddy
Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer internationally with artists including Grisha Coleman, Yuko Kaseki, Amara Tabor-Smith, Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, inkBoat / Ko Murobushi, Christine Bonansea, Anne Collod, Jess Curtis and Sara Shelton Mann. He leads workshops for performers in studio and in natural and urban landscapes worldwide.
For over twenty years he served as a cultural worker in public, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors focusing on community arts programming, arts education, arts grantmaking, and as an artist advocate in the United States, with a focus on supporting tradition-based, Native Californian and immigrant artists. www.sherwoodchen.com
Chelsea Reichert is a dancer and performer, originally from Lawrence, Kansas. She holds a BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, and also trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She has enjoyed working with Sharp&Fine, tinypistol, Courtney Mazeika, Kickbal, Risa Jaroslow, and Kinetech Arts in the Bay Area, and has performed in works by Hannes Langolf and La Intrusa abroad.
Grisel GG Torres (she/they) is a Pisces from the Bay Area by way of migrant parents from Guanajuato, México. She studied Technical Theatre, Light Design, and Props Design at San Francisco State University. GG also loves to make sounds, paint, and dance; seeing their art forms as a vantage point for self-healing. In 2018, GG became the Production Manager at Golden Thread and Venue Manager for Joe Goode Performance Group. They have designed lights for PUSH Dance Company, jose e. abad, Golden Thread Productions, Keith Hennessy, Kat Galasso, Fullstop Dance, and Sara Shelton Mann. GG is super grateful to have a hand in making some of the Bay Area’s best radical art.
Thank you
Rosealie Polk Hardin Snapp Barksdale, Otto Hardin, Cookie Harrist, Amara Tabor Smith, Alexa Burrell, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Alex, Ann, Kate, Rhea, Veronica, Regan, Corie, Rebecca, Dana, Rhonda, Hannah, Amy, Keith, Joan, Hazel Jewel, Austin & Kaitlin Coppock, Demetra George, Lynn Bell, Jason Holley, Richard Tarnas
Turn back, turn back, ye wayward pilgrim
Turn back, turn back, to the peaceful shore
Turn back, turn back, for the savior's waiting
To rescue you from the ranks of woe.
This work is generously supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, FACT SF, ODC Theater Residency, and individual donors.
