| Sini Anderson returns to SF with Brand New High-Way a collaborative performance
created and performed with New York City artists Natalie Agee and Rebecca
Stronger of ‘Lava.’ Live music by Bitch, Aimee Norwich and Larry
Simonitsch, Video by Luke Woodward & Sini A. Trapeze, acrobats, music,
video projection, and words: All heartfelt, all Live; All for our ‘Brand
New High-Way’
Brand New High-Way is a collaborative project among seven travelers trying
to find their individual yet collective, new road home.
Strangers, artists, lovers, activists, friends.
Blood pumping, shallow breathing, constantly thinking, and human.
A zigzag map, winding roads in unexpected places, bodies meeting and
flipping, reflectors posing as stars, trapezes hanging from pitch black
sky’s, and speed, a forest off a road, a fretless bass, trying to
find some grace, putting on the brakes, a fiddle and a girl and a bow,
computers translating forms from 3 different cities, cameras finding wet
pavement, projectors aiming super-high,
And words,
Attempting to describe feelings for which there are none.
And sound,
And light,
And hope for the optimistic with no hope.
This is our ‘Brand New High-Way’
Bitch opens with her new band The Exciting Conclusion on Thursday and
Sunday night; Friday & Saturday, Alessandra Ogren & Cohdi Harrel
in ‘Escape Artist’ ( from wise fool/ one rail road circus
santa fe, nm)
SINI ANDERSON
Sini Anderson is a Performance Artist, Producer and Director who lives
in both San Francisco and New York City. She has been performing and touring
her work for over a decade. She was the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director
of Sister Spit and Sister Spit’s Ramblin Road Show from 1995 to
2001 from 2001-2006 she was the artistic director of the non-profit by
the same name. Anderson has been a resident artist of The National Queer
Arts Festival from 2000-2006 and this is her finial year. In 2005-06 Anderson
did a residency in NYC with Brooklyn’s all women dance/ acrobatic
trope ‘Lava’ the show ‘(w)HOLE ran at the Flea theater
in Tribeca for seven weeks with rave reviews. Anderson has collaborated
and performed with some of the countries leading underground artist’s
including Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman (LeTigre) Kaia Wilson (The
Butchies) Amy Ray of (The Indigo Girls) Bitch, Dorothy Allison, Alice
Walker, Patti Smith and more. Her work has been supported by the San Francisco
Arts Commission, The Horizons Foundation, Theatre Bay Area’s Cash
Program, The California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts San Francisco,
Open Meadows, The Women’s Foundation, and the Astraea Foundation.
Anderson tours her work six months of every year.
Anderson has also been a Chief Curator and Artistic Director for The
National Queer Arts Festival, a Co-Producer for the Nectar Stage at San
Francisco’s Pride, President of the board of directors for the Harvey
Milk Inst., and Co-Chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural
Center. When Anderson is not making shows, she works in Independent Film
on such projects as By Hook or By Crook, Mango Kiss, Jaded Consumer Looking
for Something More, Fumbling Towards Rock, the Miriam and Helen Story,
and Maggots and Men.
BITCH
After selling-out an extended 5-week residency in NYC, feminist folk hero
BITCH will be rocking San Francisco with her new band, The Exciting Conclusion,
which was formed in a thunderous collaboration with The L Word's Daniela
Sea.
A forerunner in the movement of performance art and minimalist rock,
Bitch’s live performances are wild, personable and outspoken. Amy
Ray of the Indigo Girls says, "I have seen Bitch turn the toughest
crowds and inspire the most cynical minds. She has a serious vision, but
she is not afraid to be irreverent, and she is not afraid to entertain."
Alternating between violin, bass and ukulele, she is known for her bold
stage persona, wild fashion sense, and expert musicianship.
Bitch has toured around the world as a solo artist and as half of the
wildy popular duo, Bitch and Animal. She has released four albums, two
on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records. Her upcoming solo debut, Make
This/Break This, will be released on Kill Rock Stars this fall, and was
featured on Showtime’s The L Word. She just completed a cross-country
tour opening for Amy Ray, and will be headlining The Michigan Women’s
Music Festival this summer.
As an actress, Bitch can be seen in the upcoming feature film Shortbus,
directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig & the Angry Inch.) |