1275 Minnesota St /
The San Francisco Arts Education Project
laura elaine ellis: ruminations. [re] visited.
Community Choreo & conversation with artists | April 30, 2022 | 4–6 pm
San Francisco Arts Education Project gallery
Performance ruminations. [re] visited. | May 7, 2022 | Doors open 7:00 pm | Performance begins at 7:30 pm | (suggested $20 donation)
Minnesota Street Project Atrium
San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) is thrilled to host dancer, choreographer, and SFArtsED master artist laura elaine ellis in residence.
Journey to making ruminations. [re] visited.
Commissioned in 2019 by Dimensions Dance Theater’s Deborah B. Vaughan, ellis collaborated with members of the dance company to create a dance project in five parts—run. witness. cycle. ash. fly… During the pandemic, this dance project became a film project—ruminations. Co-directed by ellis and filmmaker Desiree Galvez, ruminations. features members of Dimensions Dance Theater with text by poets Jordon E. Dabney and Atiya Ziyad.
As SFArtsED Artists-in-Residence, ellis and visual artist Tiersa Nureyev partner to continue and expand the artistic collaboration with an exhibition in the SFArtsED gallery, featuring the film ruminations. as a multi-channel installation. For ellis, this body of work “traverses moments in time, in body memory, in fever dreams” as she addresses “resilience, grief, loss, and hope in being black, woman, mother, child.” Nureyev designs the costumes worn by members of Dimensions Dance Theater, with the activation of the Minnesota Street Project Atrium on May 7.
“The stairs in the Minnesota Street Project Atrium I will envision as pews, as a gateway…the sort of gateway that goes through lineage, through ancestry, maybe it is a portal for my ancestors that have made a way for me. ”— laura elaine ellis