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Damage Control Dance Theater, the revolutionary dance theater company, is destroying the boundaries between fine art, folklore, and funk.
Based in San Francisco, DCDT is Cera, Charlotte, Najla & Yvonne.
Join DCDT for their first evening length show, Looking Glass
premiering July 9th & 10th at 8pm, at San Francisco’s historic Victoria Theatre.
Check out the promo video:
Buy your tickets NOW! http://www.lookingglasstickets.com
In their first year, DCDT performed in venues ranging from the Oakland Metro, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Cowell Theater, and San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center.
In their second year, DCDT toured, taught, and performed in France & Spain to enthusiastic audiences and students.
In their third year, DCDT is developing their first evening length work, as well as touring, teaching, and performing throughout the US & Europe.
Cera & DCDT have offered workshops at Festivals and Intensives such as SF Mecca Immersion, Bellydance Fantasy Festival, The Las Vegas Bellydance Intensive, and France’s first Fusion Bellydance fesitval, BellyFusions.
They have presented their World Fusion Contemporary work in modern dance showcases including Dance Brigade’s Choreographers Showcases, and the Vision Series Dance Festival, in addition to teaching & performing World Fusion Contemporary technique at Kosmos World Music & Dance Camp.
Known for innovative and captivating choreographies, Cera & DCDT have rapidly become highly respected in the world dance community. Cera’s workshops have been attended by members of the Bellydance Superstars and leading teachers in the dance world, and Cera has consulted on creative projects and developed choreographies for stage shows (Simon Stinger, Amanda Palmer), music videos (Katherine Thorne), and musical theater productions.
- Ariellah Aflalo “Rare vibrancy that captures a living, breathing essence...At once familiar and completely fresh.” - Brad Dosland, Taboo Media |
Mission Statement
(a personal note about who we be & what we do...)
Damage Control Dance Theater is not just a dance company, a way of moving, or a group of art-bound friends - it's a philosophy.
We believe that dance (in fact, all art), is Damage Control for life.
No matter how stressed, tired, frustrated, stuck, angry, or hurt we become, no matter what challenges or joys we face, there is always a dance class, rehearsal, or performance waiting just around the corner that will push, challenge, surprise, and inspire us. Or, even better, will allow us to push, challenge, surprise, and inspire ourselves.
We believe that there is nothing we can't face within ourselves or others through dance, and nothing we can't share with our audience - who, we hope, will see a little something of themselves in the work.
We believe that dance training is life training, and that the lessons of one are the lessons of the other.
We believe that dance has the power to inspire, transform, tell stories, paint pictures, and teach.
We are always looking for a bigger and better challenge. We are always looking for the edge of our endurance, skill, stamina, and comfort-zone, in order to break through it to the mystery that lies on the other side. We believe in facing that mystery head on.
We believe that great art is not always comfortable.
We create High Art on the Down Low.
We believe that dance can, and should, be accessible to everyone.
We create folkloric dance - that is, dance for, of, and by, "the folk" - within a modern dance idiom - that is, with an eye toward theatricality, staging, cohesiveness, and a western compositional aesthetic.
So whether the movement draws from Bellydance, Pop n' lock, Hip Hop, or Haitian, Flamenco, Indian, or Contemporary, we're reaching into the belly of the beat and coming up with a vocabulary that's raw, primal, visceral, and true for us. We use this vocabulary for the telling of stories we know, or the stories we'd like to hear.
We're not all ballerinas. We're not all sleeping beauties.
Not all of the stories are dark - but not all of them are light, either.
We believe that sometimes the simplest stories are the most powerful.
We believe that everyone has an important story to tell, and the tools to tell it with, right now.
We believe that we can draw from the world around us, as well as the world within ourselves, to create a language that is universal, and cuts through genres, barriers, and stereotypes.
We believe that we can be the change we wish to see - in dance, in life, and in the world. We believe that you can, too.
love,
cera & dcdt
Interested in booking a DCDT performance or workshop in your town?
Call (415)861-5976, or email cera.raks@gmail.com.
We are seeking dancers who will stop at nothing, fearless investors, producers with vision, and audiences hungry for change. Contact us. |