About this project
Who We are
Printz Dance Project is a San Francisco-based modern dance company under the artistic direction of Stacey Printz. Made up of dancers with varied training backgrounds, the company has performed repertory shows in Stacey’s signature fusion style across the US and abroad for 11 years. For the first time, PDP is taking on the creation of an evening-length work to premiere in its home season at ZSpace Theater, SF. The project is huge – the company’s largest project to date – and it is called Hover Space.
What is Hover Space
The piece is about hovering in the middle ground, between the extremes, in the juicy, rich spaces where life really happens. This is the space where risk, action, fear, and movement thrive. And ultimately, it is the place where love lingers.
Stacey’s vision for a floating stage space to represent this middle ground has led to a collaboration with designer and engineer Sean Riley on what has been dubbed the “Hover Floor”, a 12 by 16 foot stage space suspended from the ceiling of the theater on four chain motors. This stage-within-a-stage can raise and lower, but also tilt to extreme angles, affording dancers multiple planes to dance on and new ways to execute contemporary dance. (Our video shows shots from our one-week residency with a prototype of the set).
More collaborators are on deck for our next and final phase of development: DJ and composer Mochipet will mix and perform the electronic musical score live. Lighting designer David Szlaza will add depth and layers to Hover Space by lighting both under and above the set piece. Costumes will be built by Catherine Myre.
Dancers: Dudley Flores, Jenni Bregman, Sharon Gallagher, Stacey Printz, Nhan Ho, Suzy Myre, Elizabeth Chitty, Kelsi Auday, Amanda Lacro, Joshua Lau, Sadie Carhart, Deborah Saputo
After watching the preliminary showing of Hover Space, acclaimed writer/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph described it as follows: “Hover Space is an ambition and a threat, a tender challenge of vertical space and conventional dance-making, a playground for engineers and a leap forward for enthusiasts of the moving body. Stacey Printz is making a work that literally and figuratively functions on multiple planes, harnessing her kinetic and architectural imagination with disciplined abandon.
The result is an experiment in how artists can at once defy gravity, and also fall into the patterns and rabbit holed madness of the human heart. Two stages within four walls in one theater...ten years of thrilled audiences...five minutes to invest in future-thinking art...”
How you can help
Biting off such a large-scale production has been an exciting challenge for the 13 dancers, for Stacey and for the other collaborators. Our energy has come together to produce exciting new possibilities that we are so thrilled to have discovered and cannot wait to share with our audiences. Our only limitation is the budget. We are just shy of our budget for this final phase, which involves all the finishing touches for the show. YOUR DONATION will go directly to: costumes, lighting, a final version of the set, and the musical score. YOUR DONATION will come to life on the stage. Thank you for your support.
Hover Space
Date Nov. 30th-Dec. 3rd, 2011
Time 8pm
Place Z Space (Theater Artaud), 450 Florida St. SF
www.printzdance.org
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Stacey Printz, a San Francisco based choreographer, dancer and educator, received her sociology and dance degrees from UC Irvine. She has taught classes and workshops for 18 years in studios and Universities across the U.S. Internationally, she has taught in Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Amsterdam, Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. In addition to directing Printz Dance Project for 11 years, she has also collaborated on multi-genre, full evening performing arts pieces including Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s internationally acclaimed works, Scourge, The Break/s, and Red, Black and GREEN a Blues which have toured the US and beyond. Stacey is excited to be immersed in an ambitious, full-scale production like Hover Space, and can’t wait to share the work!
