Megan Lowe + Kevin CK Lo

An evening of two performances by Megan Lowe + Kevin Lo

Because You're Young
After the recent death of her best friend from high school, Megan Lowe revisits the sounds and spirit of their youth—metal, psychobilly, and punk rock—to create a wild, tender, and unpredictable performance. Blending aerial and site-specific dance, the work is chaotic yet deeply personal—funny, sad, virtuosic, and real. In a rare solo performance with glimpses of artifacts from her past, this intimate, one-time-only event invites audiences to witness memory in motion.

Second Nature
This dance is constructed of - starlight: grazing room edges, text: contouring predrawn lines, bookends: sonic coruscations preplayed & replayed, questions: how to unravel the market unconscious?, how do the theoreticians become sensuous?

Presented as part of Circo Zero's figure it out (a temporary commune)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Megan Lowe (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent, making dance art in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. Through Megan Lowe Dances, she creates courageous multidisciplinary dance works, rooted in care, that transform spaces with dynamic place-making, playful partner-work, and daring aerial/vertical dance. Megan is a recipient of 2 Izzie Awards, and her recent choreographies have been seen at ODC, Fort Mason, de Young, Legion of Honor, and 500 Capp Street, and in SF Aerial Arts Festival, USAAF, CAAMFest, SF Trolley Dances, and on KQED Live. Megan has performed with Flyaway Productions, Dance Brigade, Lenora Lee Dance, Scott Wells & Dancers, and more. She is a teaching artist for Joe Goode Performance Group, BANDALOOP, Flyaway, and her alma mater Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where she works as the Program Associate. She regularly teaches contact improvisation, vertical dance, site-specific dance, and contemporary dance for organizations, schools, universities, and dance festivals around the Bay Area and California, and has also taught in Singapore, Ireland, and Japan.

~ www.MeganLoweDances.com / IG: @MLoweDanceKitty

Kevin CK Lo is a composer, choreographer, writer, and artist living on Chechenyo Ohlone land, born in New Zealand, with some time after that in Melbourne, Australia. In his compositions and improvisations for live performance and installation, he utilizes instruments, digital sound processing and generative programming environments to examine spatial and auditory sensitivities, topological structure and audience kinesthetic response while seeking to corrupt conventional compositional/performative/installative rationale. He co-organizes the Friday night poetry series at Tamarack, teaches and freelances in the arts, performs nationally and abroad.

ABOUT figure it out

figure it out (a temporary commune) is a community performing artist residency.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is two-months of 24/7 access to a one of a kind warehouse/gallery/studio made freely available to a diverse community of experimental artists who need space to improvise, experiment, fail, and thrive.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is experimental performance research generating dance workshops and aerial labs, public conversations, queered holiday gatherings, and performances.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is togetherness-in-difference, collaborating in an intergenerational, multiracial, cross-class, inter-disciplinary, and equitable creative process.

figure it out (a temporary commune) includes culminating experimental performances guided by Keith Hennessy, created in collaboration during the residency.

Read more: www.circozero.org/figure

♥♥♥♥♥
- Big appeciation to our venue SPACE 124, a project space in Project Artaud
- Megan Lowe photo by RJ Muna, Kevin CK Lo photos courtesy of the artist
- Thank you to So Bad It's Good Productions for the subwoofers
- figure it out (a temporary commune) is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation