Mixed Bag Productions, Dance Brigade and Dancers’ Group<BR>present<BR>Research/Phase I/Monk at the Met<P><BR>Directed by Sara Shelton Mann<P><BR>When: Thursday - Sunday May 26 - 28; 8pm<BR>Where: Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street, SF, CA<BR>Admission: $15 advance; $17 door<BR>Reservations: 415.826.4401<P> FEATURED ARTISTS<P><BR>Kathleen Hermesdorf ~ Bruce "Mui" Ghent ~ Austin Forbord Closer to<BR>Carbon with Norman Rutherford, Peter Whitehead and Andrew Kushin ~ Abbey<BR>Crain~ Rachel Kaplan ~ Lauren Elder ~ Elaine Buckholtz ~<BR>Elizabeth Bloom<P> ALSO:<P><BR>Dance Brigade ~ Emeryville Taiko ~ José Navarrete ~ Debbie Taylor<BR>~Shannon McCloud ~ Monique Jenkinson Shelley Trott ~ Olive Bieringa<BR>~Gabriel Todd ~ Otto Ramstad ~ April Shen ~ Samantha Black ~ Jarred<BR>Kaplan ~ Wanda Kraikit ~ Shana Stern ~ Rosemary Hannon ~ Melissa<BR>Runnels and Ramon Ramos Alayo<P><BR>Drumming/Dance/Film/Multimedia/Text/Image/Contact/Improvisation/Singing/Chanting/Breathing<P><BR>Research/Phase I/Monk at the Met is a<BR>community performance project<BR>directed by Sara Shelton Mann<BR>with music direction by Norman Rutherford,<BR>Taiko direction by Bruce"Mui" Ghent, and<BR>film sequences by Austin Forbord.<P><BR>Taiko, jazz, songs,mudra, contact improvisation, dance rhythms, text,<BR>story, and image are<BR>woven together into a tapestry on stage with the community experience of<BR>exploring themes of life and<BR>death, the celebration of ancestry, the spirit and the soul, and the<BR>underlying rhythms of the earth and the human heart.<P><BR>------