Women on the Way

Venue: The Garage, 975 Howard (btw 5th and 6th), San Francisco
Time: 8pm
Cost: $15-20

Now in its eighth year, the annual Women on the Way Festival is produced by Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry. The festival runs throughout the month of January at Shotwell Studio and The Garage. This year the festival will host a ONE NIGHT, special intermedia event featuring internationally renown experimental artists Laetitia Sonami and Les Stuck on January 18. This event will also feature intermedia performance group DOUBLE VISION.

LAETITIA SONAMI is an electronic composer, performer and sound installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and found sound in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with kinetic and sonic personalities. She is best known for her lady's glove, an evening black lycra glove studded with a myriad of sensors, which allows to track her body's motion and turn movement into sound.

Sonami creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form, transcending the technology with which it's made. The recipient of numerous awards among which the Herb Alperts Awards for the Arts, Sonami has been performing internationally and lives in the Bay Area. "…Experimental music is rarely this visceral and engaging" Los Angeles Times

LES STUCK has composed music for William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Alonzo King, Alex Ketley, David Parsons, Charlie Moulton and Hiroshi Koike; with commissions by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Tokyo National Opera, and the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has created numerous works with dancer-movement-controlled computer music, notably for the Kanagawa Arts Festival and Tokyo's ICC museum. His video "bars + tone" has been shown at six film festivals and received the "Best of Show–Experimental" award at the Berkeley Film Festival.

Intermedia performance group, DOUBLE VISION, creates contemporary performances for dance, music, video and interactive technology. At the heart of our work is a need to experiment and seek meaning in the ever-changing landscape of contemporary culture. The result, is a body of work that is complex, humorous, quirky and continuously evolving.