Episode 37: Joe Goode Performance Group

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SFArtsEd Summer Workshop - Inspired Bodies Youth Program, Grace Dancers Marit Brook-Kothlow, Felipe Barrueto-Cabello, Marc Morozumi, Molly Katzman, Nobody Lives Here Now, Reprise of Wonderboy, Andrew Ward, Wonderboy, Doris in the Dustbowl -Margo Moritz, Joe Goode and Liz Burritt, Mythic Montana, Big Linda in the Skies of Montana,Liz Burritt, Joe Goode, Poetics of Space, Patricia West
Photo Credits: J Muna, Margo Moritz, JGPG Staff

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“We're hoping that we can spread the wealth if you will, as far as possible”

In this episode, our featured voices are Michelle Lynch Reynolds the Executive Director, and Joe Goode the founder and artistic director, of Joe Goode Performance Group. Over the last thirty-plus years, Joe Goode Performance Group has promoted understanding, compassion, and tolerance among people through innovative dance.

We conducted this interview in December 2020 at the beginning of the City of San Francisco’s latest shelter in place which has now been extended indefinitely. Our interview includes Michelle discussing their end of the year fundraising campaign to support the development of upcoming creative work, their ongoing virtual educational programs, and the funding needed to cover basic overhead to help sustain the theater’s operations through the pandemic

Michelle Reynolds

Executive Director Michelle Reynolds (she/her) has worked with the dance sector in the Bay Area for 15 years, first as a performer and then in arts management. Until 2019, she was Program Director at Dancers’ Group, a service and presenting organization where she produced site-specific dance and supported dance-makers with administrative and financial services. Previously, she worked in institutional fundraising and served as a curator of dance at Meridian Gallery. She received a Bachelor's degree from Goucher College and her Masters in Dance Theatre from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.

Joe Goode

Founder and Artistic Director Joe Goode (he/him) is a choreographer, writer, and director widely known as an innovator in dance for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. Goode was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and the United States Artists Glover Fellowship in 2008. Goode is also known as a master teacher and integrates his studies on Buddhism and meditation into a teaching methodology centered on mindfulness and acceptance. He is a member of the faculty of the UC Berkeley in the department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.

Joe Goode Performance Group

Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) promotes understanding, compassion, and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater.

In 1979 Joe Goode pioneered a genre of dance theater that combined text, gestures, and humor with highly physical dancing that often-centered LGBTQ stories. JGPG performs annually in the Bay Area and has toured widely across the U.S. and abroad. Goode’s artistic work centers on the accessibility of deeply felt movement and expression, embodied by a world-class roster of collaborators, and shared further via a growing portfolio of educational programs. In 2011, JGPG acquired a 3,200 square foot facility, the Joe Goode Annex, which has become a vital resource for local performing artists.

In 2019, JGPG was nominated by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to be designated a Legacy Business by the SF Office of Small Business and the Historic Preservation Fund for its history of creating new work centered around voicing the queer experience. To find out more about the Time of Change show

Movement for Humans: https://joegoode.org/event/m4h-company-2020/
Dance for Parkinson's: https://joegoode.org/education/dance-for-parkinsons/
Virtual Events: https://joegoode.org/calendar/

Donation/Volunteer

Your donation will help support JGPG programs like the Resilience Project, where participants who have suffered from trauma witness their story of resilience come alive on stage; our Inspired Bodies youth program that uses our creative methodologies to teach young dancers that their ideas matter and that they can collaborate with other thinkers to create something meaningful; and our new Embodied Leadership workshop where our creative process provides tools for working leaders to slow down, listen, and connect with their physical selves.

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