SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2012 - WestWave Dance presents an evening of work by choreographer Maurya Kerr/tinypistol, Monday, August 27, 8 pm at Z Space. This special one night show commemorates the 21st season of WestWave Dance presenting 523 choreographers, 393 world premieres and 2,092 performances.

The performance will feature three pieces by Ms. Kerr including: BUCK (2011), Sick with Joy (2011) and the world premiere of FreakShow, an exploration of otherness, the exigency of connection, and how loneliness determines us. Lighting design is by David Elliott and costume design by Glynnis Slater.

The dancers of tinypistol are: Christopher DeVita, Robyn Gerbaz, Babatunji Johnson (Philein/ZiRu productions), Nick Korkos, (Hubbard Street 2, Zhukov Dance Theatre), Emilie Leriche (Hubbard Street 2), Casie O’Kane, Grace Louise Stern, Kimberly White, and Megan Wright.

Ms. Kerr is a former principal dancer with Alonzo King LINES Ballet. She is also a winner of the 2011 Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, and in February of 2012, created sad monsters with Hubbard Street 2 during a residency at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.


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WestWave Dance 2012: An evening of work by choreographer Maurya Kerr/tinypistol

WHO: WestWave Dance presents an evening of work by choreographer Maurya Kerr/tinypistol
WHEN: Monday, August 27, 8pm
WHERE: Z Space, 450 Florida Street, San Francisco
TICKETS:
	$20 General Admission in advance $23 General Admission at the door $18 Students and Seniors Tickets can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information visit www.westwavedance.org

ABOUT MAURYA KERR/tinypistol
tinypistol is a San Francisco based dance company founded in 2010 by Maurya Kerr. Maurya danced with Alonzo King LINES Ballet from 1994 to 2006, dancing previously for Pacific Northwest Ballet and Fort Worth Ballet. She is a winner of the 2011 Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, and in February of 2012, created sad monsters with HS2 during a residency at UNCSA. Maurya premiered Quarry Hymn with Ballet Nouveau Colorado in Spring 2011, and returned in Fall 2011 to create Groundling in collaboration with visual artist Sarah Wallace Scott. In June of 2011, the Aspen Fringe Festival presented a full evening of her work, including the commissioned premiere of BUCK, which was also performed as part of WestWave Dance Festival’s 20th Anniversary Gala. Most recently Maurya was awarded a 2012 CHIME grant to work in mentorship with Alex Ketley.

About WestWave Dance
WestWave Dance presents contemporary choreography in a shared-program format in San Francisco. The Festival's mission is to provide veteran and newly-established choreographers of all cultures and disciplines, in and beyond the Bay Area, an opportunity to present their work in a professional venue in order to experiment, develop, and refine their repertories, and to build audiences without the burden of self-producing.

WestWave Dance is a project of DanceArt, Inc. The WestWave Dance season and other DanceArt programs are funded in part by: Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and The Fleishhacker Foundation.


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