Joe Goode Performance Group Premiere of 'Fall Within' May 16, 2009

Continuing more than three decades of creating innovative, site-specific and collaborative movement theater works, choreographer/director Joe Goode presents the world premiere of "Fall Within" in two performances at an internationally acclaimed architectural sculpture by Ann Hamilton. Goode explores the contrasts between darkness and light in Ann Hamilton's double-helix staircase tower in a private collection at the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County in collaboration with the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Parking for the performance site is located at Geyserville Park & Ride, Hwy.128 at Remmel Rd., Geyserville, CA 95441, one block East of Geyserville Ave. next to the Rail Road tracks. Audience members must arrive no later than half an hour before performance time and will be shuttled to the performance by bus after parking.

"To be able to be anywhere near an Ann Hamilton piece is a thrill," says Joe Goode. "And the challenge of making a kinetic piece on a stairway is too delicious to pass up. Viewers and dancers will be in such close proximity that they can almost reach out and touch one another. I wanted to make something that reflects the medieval, mysterious quality of this place that to me is very much about playing with darkness and light, intimacy and separation.

"When you go into the tower you feel completely dislocated from the rest of the world, like you are in another time and place. I want to heighten this sense of dislocation by creating an aural and kinetic environment that allows the viewer to drift in an unreal space, to 'fall within' a memory or fantasy that is private and personal."

Fall Within will feature the six Joe Goode Performance Group performers and 42 young women of the San Francisco Girls Chorus on one of two adjacent but unconnected spiral staircases in the tower with audience members standing and sitting on the opposite spiral facing the performers.

$45-$100.

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