Sheena Hampton-Johnson/ZYAH Collective

Dancers : Atasiea/Kenneth L. Ferguson, Sheena Johnson Photo © Kurt Loeffler / Loefflerphoto.com The Yellow House Project June 26-27th (Tue-Wed) 7:30pm Installation Opens, 8pm Show $12-20 @THEOFFCENTER 848 Divisadero, SF Multidisciplinary The Yellow House Project is a mullti-disciplinary performative remembrance of our inherited black queer legacies. Through various mediums (dance+theatre+poetry+film+installation) black queer artists "queer their roots" in effort to look at what we can all learn about love, loving and being loved through discovering and re-imagining our black LGBTQI ancestors. Curated by Sheena Johnson/REBEL HOME DANCE (SJRH) Featured Artists: Sheena Johnson, Indira Allegra, m. a. brooks and Nia King SJRH Collaborators: Chris Evans, Kenneth L. Ferguson aka Atasiea, and Nzinga Woods  BUY TICKETS!  Brown Paper Tickets $12-20:   https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246315 EVENT ON FACEBOOK!...

REBEL HOME DANCE presents   LandHome Occupation, displacement, and migration photo credit: P.M, Lydon Ernest Jolly's installation "Natural Reactions" with Sheena Johnson Along with collaborators, Artistic Director Sheena Johnson will present an evening length experience that will expand and embrace those moments that bring us closer to finding a place to land.   LandHome uses a collage of imagery . . . broken weathered bodies, tree-scapes, gospel songs, rocks from a riverbank . . . It is a personal and collective rendering of how we create home in the places we happen to land. Collaborating Artists: Chris Evans (sound, video, movement), Ernest Jolly (visual artist) & dance artists: Atasiea, Byb Chanel Bibene, Mary Ann Brooks, Jochelle Elise Pereña & Jasmine Vassar Date: Friday March 30th & Saturday March 31st, 8pm Location: Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th Street, Oakland (between Telegraph & Shattuck) Tickets: $12 in advance @ brownpaperti...

Don't miss my one-time performance in response to Ernest Jolly's window installation site Natural Reaction   with music by Chris Evans. Evening will also include performances by multimedia artist and cellist Chris Evans  and Bay Area Dance Company  andanco  entitled Aftermath.   The details are below:  Date:   Friday, June 17,  8:30pm Location:   155 Grove Street, SFAC Window Installation Site with a reception following the performance at the SFAC Main Gallery in the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Ave The SFAC Gallery presents an evening of music, dance and art in a unique San Francisco setting. Under the early evening sky, we’ll gather on the sidewalk outside Bay Area artist Ernest Jolly's installation,  Natural Reaction , in front of the SFAC Gallery Window Installation Site.  Jolly has created an environment that incorporates elements such as water, wind, sound and light, and is inspired by a post- natural disaster ...

Hello Everyone! I was accepted to the Summer Leadership Institute lead by Urban Bush Women July 22-31 in New Orleans to study dance as a tool for social justice. Exciting!! Though I have received a partial tuition scholarship I still need to raise some funds to pay for lodging and my plane ticket. The goal is $1000!  To raise funds I will be hosting a First Friday Performance Salon (w/ amazing performers) on June 3rd. If you can't make it please consider making a tax-deductible d onation* of $10-$1,000 TODAY : First Friday Performance Salon June 3rd, 2011 6-9pm @ the Joyce Gordon Gallery  406 14th St, Oakland (Near 12th Street BART) Donations $10-$1,000 accepted &  No one turned away for lack of funds.  Donations will help send me to New Orleans to study dance as a tool for social justice with Urban Bush Women   PERFORMERS INCLUDE: Valerie Troutt (vocalist), Chris Evans (cellist), Oluyemi & Ijeoma Thomas of Positive Knowledge (bass...

Freedom Study 1 is a collaboration between SJRH and the multi-talented Chris Evans. The work will premier at the  Black Choreographers Festival   on Feb 26th & 27th at Dance Mission.  Central to the work is the question: When have you felt most free?  Source material for the work includes interviews with people on the question posited and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. MORE ABOUT Chris Evans:  Chris Evans is a cellist, sound artist, video artist and dancer. Her interest is in interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation and the potential for these collaborations to create artistic spaces for the play of imagination between artist and audience. Recent collaborations include the Community Property show, at the  Luggage Store Annex  and In the Loop, at  Space Gallery . She also regularly collaborates with  Ernest Jolly  to create soundscapes for his visual installations –  ...

Women on the Way Festival presents Land / Home                      photo by Seluvaia Fonua, L to R: Sophia Leiby, Jochelle Perena, Nzinga Woods, Sheena Johnson (down center) Choreographed by Sheena Johnson   Performed by Sheena Johnson, Peiling Kao, Sophia Leiby, Jochelle Perena and Nzinga Woods Set Design by Ernest Jolly January 14th, 16th & 27th @ 8pm  The Garage , 975 Howard Street, 5th/6th Streets, SF 94103 $15-20  Reserve in advance limited seats! If you reserve tickets by sending an email to johnson.sheena@gmail.com part of proceeds will go to the SJRH;  Otherwise you can purchase tickets at  www.brownpapertickets.com/ producer/593 0   o r at the door cash/checks only   MORE ABOUT  Land/Home : "Land/Home"  is an excavation of the self in space. As human beings we each seek, crave and create home for ourselves. How do we create a home that holds al...

Left to Right: Sophia Leiby, Jochelle Perena, Nzinga Woods, Sheena Johnson (down center) In early December SJRH played outside on the beautiful Mills Campus and took photos inspired by my new work Land/Home . These photos were taken by photographer Seluvaia Fonua. You can learn more about her work at  www.mysticeyephotography.com .  Check out what we came up with below....