Echo

This fall, 836M is proud to welcome back RAWdance, a contemporary dance company based in San Francisco and New York’s Hudson Valley. In their third residency with 836M, the award-winning company will complete development of a new evening-length work for premiere December 4 – 6 at Z Space. Their residency kicks off with an opening reception on Thursday, September 17 at 7 p.m. Attendance is free with RSVP.

Founded and directed by Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein, RAWdance has earned a reputation for transforming theaters and public spaces through a mix of performance, curation and collaboration. Founded in San Francisco in 2004, the company expanded bicoastally in 2019, maintaining its home in San Francisco while cultivating new programming in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Their latest major work-in-process is titled Echo. Designed for performance inside a mirrored sculptural set with the audience in the round, Echo explores how technologies like social media and artificial intelligence both reflect and distort our identities, creating feedback loops that can either broaden or narrow our perspectives. With collaboration from set designer Chad Owens and a cast of eight dancers, including Smith and Rein, Echo draws on ancient mythology to examine how modern tools reshape self-perception, relationships and collective experience. The performers include Kelly Del Rosario, Claire Fisher-Mendez, Jonathan Kim, Willow Carly Liebowitz, Madison Lindgren, Rein, Smith and Nick Wagner. Additional collaborators include composer Eric Dietz, costume designer Mary Domenico, lightning designer gg torres and rehearsal assistants Juliann Witt and Stacey Yuen.

Final Performances at Z Space
450 Florida Street
San Francisco