2022; 2024 · Dance – stage work
GUSH Festival (JGPG contributions: 'I Understand, Queer exchange across generations' 2022; 'Are You Okay?' duet 2024)
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Joe Goode, with Molly (Mo) Katzman, Gabe (Gabriel Christian) and Pangaea Colter (2022); Joe Goode and Melecio Estrella (2024) · Joe Goode Performance Group
GUSH is JGPG's festival of performance and artistic exchange at the Joe Goode Annex. Ben composed music for JGPG's pieces there, including the 30-minute intergenerational project 'I Understand, Queer exchange across generations' (2022), for which he scored Joe Goode's section with Pangaea Colter, and an early duet version of 'Are You Okay?' (2024).
- Premiere
- 2022-09-15
- Venue
- Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- GUSH 2022: Sept 15–18, 2022 (JGPG piece 'I Understand, Queer exchange across generations', about 30 min, shown alongside new works by brontë velez and Gizeh Muñiz-Vengel & Ernesto Peart Falcón). Joe and Pangaea's section was later performed at James Graham's Dance Lovers in Feb 2023, with a new ending Ben made (see W169). GUSH 2024: Oct 10–13, 2024, with a new 'Are You Okay?' duet for Joe Goode and Melecio Estrella and selections from As We Go. GUSH 2026: Apr 23–26, 2026, with Ben's music for Joe's performance with Liz Burritt (a reimagining of Doris in a Dust Bowl, 1987) and 'Miss You Now' (see W173).
- Credits
- Music: Ben Juodvalkis (pre-recorded, 2022, for Joe Goode's section with Pangaea Colter; 2024 duet). 2022 JGPG piece: Joe Goode, Molly Katzman, Gabe (Gabriel Christian), Pangaea Colter. 2022 curators: 2020 GUSH artist cohort (Joe Goode, NAKA Dance Theater, GERALDCASELDANCE). 2022 photos: Robbie Sweeny. JGPG staff 2022: David Mack, Melissa Lewis Wong, Jessi.
Press
“just the three of us together making a piece with nobody else is new and is a very special constellation of personalities.”
Elsewhere
- Collaborations Are Key for Joe Goode Performance Group — San Francisco Classical Voice, 2024-10-08
- GUSH 2022 ~ Reflections — Joe Goode Performance Group, 2022-09-15
- The GUSH Festival for Performance + Artistic Exchange — San Francisco Classical Voice, 2022-09-15
- GUSH Festival — Bay Area Accessible Performances, 2022-09-17
Research status: researched – partial. Details on this piece are still being confirmed — corrections are welcome.