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July 5 - July 7, 2013

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1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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We Are Still Here is a contemporary take on the Perceval legend developed by an international ensemble in Sonoma County, CA. Featuring eclectic music for percussionists and singers, documentary video shot around Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, Zen koan work, and scenes created by the ensemble. These elements combine to create a music–theater essay set after Perceval, in which the themes of the legend illuminate the lives of the ensemble and the world around them. Co-directors Lukasz Korczak (Poland, collaborator of Krystian Lupa and Stary Teatr) and Asa Horvitz (USA) lead the Koans and Performance Project ensemble, composed of Nini Julia Bang (Denmark, Teatr ZAR), Trevor Wilson (NYC-based composer and singer), Gedney Barclay (director and performer, No Face Performance Group, Philadelphia), Jes Sledge (San Diego-based designer) Robert Hope (actor, CSC), and Kyle Farrell (NYC-based multi-percussionist).  We Are Still Here was born from the observation that, like the medieval Perceval, each of us has missed something crucial in our lives, an opportunity to ask a question or to reach a genuine understanding of ourselves and of the world. It might be a missed career opportunity, a lost lover, something we could have said to a friend who died young, or the simple feeling that something is lacking. Each of us has something. Recognizing the lost opportunity may be a long and painful process, but, like Perceval, once we become aware of what we have lost, we have the possibility of asking the question we have failed to ask – as long as we are still alive.