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about the tour

Why a tour?

After five years of existence, intermedia performance group DOUBLE VISION is going on tour! While most of our past has been situated in the San Francisco Bay Area, our wanderlust minds have been busy concocting ways to explore new lands. With more than a year of preparation, giving up day jobs, lovers, apartments, lizards, organic food, and other comforts, ten of us are getting skinny enough to fit into one Mercury Sable and one Subaru Impreza. We will be traveling over 3,000 miles from the shores of California to the metropolis of New York City. Along the way we hope to meet you!

We do truly hope to meet you. Our purpose of this tour is not only to show our work to the world but to meet its inhabitants. This means all of you; dancers, choreographers, musicians, artists, philosophers, geeks, hippies, bankers, loafers, go-getters, hermits, tastemakers, and semi-humans. If you are reading this then you are likely one of these people... and if we are coming to your town, please send us an email so we can get some coffee or a taco with you.

The moons have aligned, the cosmos has signaled, the muses have knocked and all have permitted our dreams to come true! However, we could not have done anything without the loving support from our team, families, friends, and friends to be. It probably goes without saying that the past couple years have been extremely challenging for many of us on planet earth. While much optimism surrounds advances in technological achievement, DOUBLE VISION intuits a sense of a collective uncertainty swelling. Many are becoming scared, hopeless, apprehensive, and immobile.

While DOUBLE VISION does not follow an overt political agenda it does attempt to initiate artistic innovation. By embracing the manifestations of contemporary life we experiment and integrate a multitude of art forms and ideas. The act of creating pieces, events, and/or collaborations becomes our strongest means of both political and artistic expression. While many in the group have been handcrafted from a life of American suburbia, standardized-testing, and the unattainable demands of socio-economic success; we are revolting against these tyrannical idioms by embarking on the 4x60 Tour. We are sure that through the eyes of many, our performances will be seen as impractical, useless, and lacking in importance. However, if you are one of the lucky spectators to witness DOUBLE VISION, we will provide proof that the performing arts are still alive, strong, and potent.

So again we invite you to join the action by meeting us on the road this coming September and October of 2008!

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Confirmed Dates + Cities

How you can help!

Any cross-country trip with ten people would pose financial and logistical challenges, what with skyrocketing fuel costs, housing concerns, road maps, luggage, and food for six weeks. The additional complications and expenses involved with transporting our specialized equipment, organizing space to rehearse throughout the country, creating contracts with venues, and maintaining dozens of costumes means that we need support now more than ever from our friends and colleagues.

DOUBLE VISION has been proud to receive support from prestigious organizations including Meet The Composer and the Zellerbach Family Foundation as well as praise from publications like the Albuquerque Journal, Bay Area Guardian and Rhizome.org. As our friends on Yelp say: “Exhilarating, funny, challenging, complex, beautiful. Unconventional and experimental, just the way modern dance should be.”

Please help make DOUBLE VISION’s national tour possible with a gift in whatever amount is meaningful to you. It will make a huge difference to us. We’ll be praising your generosity every day from September 1 to October 7 (and you can learn more about the extrinsic benefits of your gift here).

To donate, you can do one of the following:
1) Use the above paypal button to donate online,
2) Send a check made out to DOUBLE VISION to 1474 Sacramento Street #101, San Francisco, CA 94109,
3) Click here to find out how to make a tax-deductible donation via check.


Special thanks to our current tour sponsors + funders:

Sponsors:
DragonBar, Finlandia Vodka, Cartlidge & Browne Winery, Tiger Beer


We are grateful to all of you who make our work possible:

4x60 Tour Donors:

$1000+ (Advocate of the Great Third Eye)
Jim and Marta Clute

$500+ (Producer of Light and Sound)
Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey
Ann and Dan Borman

$100+ (Super Vision Benefactor)
William and Susan Carrow
Janet Ferry
Helen Grindley
Mike and Kathleen Forni
Cathy Ann Holtmeier
Jay Jennings
Paul and Susan Jennings
John and Vicki Kryzanowski
Arna Lonesui
Michael Patterson & Barbara McShane
Nick and Cathy Paris
Mary Jane Pollack
Joseph and Frances Remmett
Joe Rodriguez
Dan Wilson
Cheryl Wilson
Scott and Linda Wilson

$50+ (X-Ray Visionary Support System)
Inder Khalsa and Steve Baudonnet
Jason Brown
Jonrie and Angel Davila
Sarah Grojean
Frank and Ellen Jennings
Juanita Lam
Phillip Lewis
Rob Kent
Matt Marino
Nicole McClain
Susan and Harold Williams
Marilyn Wilson

$1-49 (Kind Cyclops Friend)
Anonymous
Paula Bonanni
Colin Benoit
Chris Caffo
Jen Cohen
Jill Koenen
Little Sambo
April Renae
Tracy and James Straley
Terry Tenopir
Helen Theung
Kristin Torok
Esther Williams
Paul Williams
Andy Wolpert

Thanks to our silent auction sponsors for our August Tour Kickoff & Fundraiser:

Blaine Bookey
Caribbean Coffee Company
Ensemble Personal Image Consulting/Rachel Fauman
Five Streams/Geoff Kuffner
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Logitech
San Francisco Dance Center
San Francisco Performances
Stanford Lively Arts
TheatreWorks
Viader Winery/Cante Swearingen
Rachel Wilson
Bill Wolter

DV Donors:

$1000+(Advocate of the Great Third Eye)
Meet the Composer
Zellerbach Family Foundatin

$500+ (Producer of Light and Sound)
Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey
Wil Shipley

$100+ (Super Vision Benefactor)
Gary and Sharon Barbarash
Patton Granada
Travis Huff
Bonnie Marinaccio
Nicole McClaine
Cathy and Nick Paris and Dot Merrill
Libba Patterson
Michael Patterson and Barbara McShane
Kay and Steve Schroeder

$50+ (X-Ray Visionary Support System)
Susan and Harold Williams
Marilyn Wilson

$1-49 (Kind Cyclops Friend)
Brian Barbarash
Allan Walker and Ellen Webb

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Who's involved?

	Sean Clute : Sean is an inventor of sound, video, installation, and performance. As Co-Artistic Director of DOUBLE VISION, Sean has built and performed in geodesic domes, suspended pods, and interactive sonic environments. His diverse creative activities have been presented at venues such as The Kitchen, CEAIT Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TED2005, Uspannwerk Kreuzberg (Germany), Shabla Solar Eclipse Festival (Bulgaria), La Case A Chocs (Switzerland), La Ma Ma etc., Times Square Deli Dance, CBGB's, REDCAT Theater, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, California College of the Arts, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts. Sean has an extensive background in music and intermedia art. He holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he was awarded the Music Alumnae Scholarship, Crothers Award, Hellman Award, Lynn T. White Award, and Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award. Additionally, Sean was awarded a scholarship to attend The Kitchen Summer Institute in New York City and a recent scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch in Colorado. Sean holds a BA in Music at the University of New Mexico where he studied classical guitar and composition. Sean has also worked in performing arts and technology organizations with positions held at Orban/CRL broadcast technologies, Columbia University Music Library, and The Kitchen. He has guest lectured at Cal State University Stanislaus, Mills College, and California College of the Arts on intermedia art and technology. Sean is the founder of experimental music groups X-Ray Vision Network and Passing Strange, as well as the co-founder of the electronic music group Cloud Full of Clowns. He has collaborated on a number of projects with groups Ransom Corp., Amoeba Technology, Jose Roque Ensemble, choreographers Pauline Jennings, Nic Petry, animator Nick Fox-Gieg, musicians Zemi 17, Pauline Oliveros, Jessica Catron, Dorsey Dunn, and designer Ben Coolik.
	Pauline Jennings : Pauline is a contemporary dance choreographer interested in prophesizing and questioning the future of humankind through movement. The society she sees is one that is evolving with exciting technological advances, an onslaught of media pushing ideas and products, and in-debt zombie workers afforded little time for reflection and critical thought. Pauline believes that advances in life-extending tools, online communities, media conglomerates, and cybernetics will transform the definition of human nature and should not be permitted to do so unnoticed or unquestioned. Her work attempts to viscerally capture the excitement, confusion and fear that accompany this rapidly changing society. Through her work, she hopes that viewers will have an opportunity to reflect upon and take a more active role in determining their own evolution. Since 2003, Pauline has completed over 70 performances involving collaborations between dancers, musicians, video artists and technologists. Her choreography has been performed in festivals and showcases nation-wide, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Albuquerque. Her choreography for Disembodied Head #2 was filmed for national distribution as part of PBS' Meaning of the 20th Century series. She has both performed and presented work at such venues as the SF Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, and Dance Mission Theater. Pauline currently is a Visiting Artist for the Mills College Dance Department's Repertory Dance Company and has particpated in conferences held at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University, Mills College, Brighton College (UK), and Doncaster College (UK).
: Dancers :
	Blaine Bookey : Blaine co-created the Bluestockings Dance Collective and serves on the Board of Directors for the CounterPULSE community art space. Blaine studied Social Policy and Gender Studies at Northwestern University before working in the areas of asylum and deportation defense. She is currently pursuing her juris doctorate in Public Interest Law from University of California at Hastings.
	Amanda Crawford : Amanda began her dance training at the age of three in Minnesota. She went to Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA, where she received her BFA in Dance. Since moving to the Bay Area, she has had the pleasure of working with various companies and choreographers, and is currently dancing with Dance Naganuma. Amanda has been a member of DOUBLE VISION since 2005.
	Wendy Marinaccio : Wendy choreographs for El Gato Del Diablo Theatre Company and the Uphill Both Ways sketch comedy group. Wendy earned a minor in dance from Stanford University and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in dance and gender studies. Prior to joining DOUBLE VISION, she danced with the contemporary dance company Dog Patch Superstars for five years.
	Jennifer Mellor : Jennifer can't imagine a life without dance. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has performed with civic ballet company Tulsa Dance Theater, modern dance troupe Dance On Tulsa, rhythm tap duo FootSong, and A Call to Feet Tap Dance Ensemble. Jen came to the Bay Area to get her B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford University, and other than a short stint in Philadelphia, she has been in the San Francisco area ever since. Jen is currently dancing and choreographing with High Release Dance, and she is happy to be dancing with DOUBLE VISION.
	Cecelia Peterson : Cecelia has trained with the Ailey School and Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City, in addition to studying dance at Santa Clara. She has also danced with local choreographer Amy Lewis and taught creative dance to children in Salt Lake City, the Bay Area and Belize.
	Rebecca Wilson : Rebecca wass born and raised in the Bay Area. She graduated from Sonoma State University in 2003 with a Bachelors degree in Dance and Environmental Conservation and a minor in Biology. She received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Mills College in 2007. Rebecca has performed with Molissa Fenley and Dancers, Deep Root Dance, Nancy Lyons, and Anne Bluethenthal. Her choreographic work is inspired by the natural environment and the Surrealist movement. Currently she teaches modern dance technique at Sonoma State and is excited to work with DOUBLE VISION.
: Collaborators :
Andrea Cambpell : If you ask Alice she would tell you, since Andrea was 3 years old, when people would ask her what she wanted to do when she grew up ... ''I wanna make clothes''. Born and raised in the City of Angels she attended college in the City of Stars. Preferring the type of art you can hold/wear she spends her time sewing, knitting, sculpting ... when you can part the computer from her hands. Jessica Gomula : Jessica Gomula joined California State University, Stanislaus as the professor of printmaking and new media in the Fall of 2005. She currently enjoys dividing her free time between hiking at Yosemite and being a member of the performance group DOUBLE VISION in San Francisco. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1996, and her MFA from Illinois State University in 2000. She has since taught new media and web design for Bradley University and Heartland Community College, IL. www.gomula.net Dave Holton : Dave Holton is a former US government scientist and current creator of electroacoustic music and automatic electronic music programs. He studied composition and computer music at San Francisco State University and Mills College, graduating with an MFA in 2007. He has performed with DOUBLE VISION in galleries, lofts, bars, theatres, domes, living rooms, and national forests. For the last couple of years he has been building semi-self-controlling audio feedback systems, many of which have been present in DOUBLE VISION performances. He resides in Oakland, CA and teaches Max/MSP programming and sound design at Expression College for Digital Arts.

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