Fact/sf family

The FACT/SF Family Members are our core supporters. They have contributed $50 or more in the last year, and play an essential role in helping FACT/SF survive. If you’re reading this page, you’re almost certainly part of the family. Thank you for investing in our work.

As a way to acknowledge the value and importance of your support, we decided to create a place where we can share with you special photos, videos, articles, and other exclusive content from the FACT/SF archives. Our goal is to update this page quarterly. All of the featured content is available below.

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Charlie Slender-White (Artistic Director) - cslender@factsf.org
Emily Hansel (Operations Manager) - ehansel@factsf.org

featured content for april - june 2021

1. Daybreak

Daybreak premiered in February 2021. The work was commissioned by HAVEN, and created via their dance mentorship program. Over 3 weeks, Slender-White led 15 mentees in technique classes, improvisation tasks, and choreographic exercises. This video is the culmination of that work. In the editing process, Slender-White experimented with montage and collage to explore the compositional ideas of perspective, topography, and counterpoint.

Produced by: HAVEN & FACT/SF

Concept, Direction, & Editing: Charles Slender-White

Original Score: Dan Cantrell

Choreography & Performance: Kelsey Ang, Jessica Brown, Ingrid Ferdinand, Jacque Forman, Mamie Green, Leah Hartley, Chinerye Ibe, Melody Morrow, Kasey Orava, Camryn Pearson, Madison Tanguay, Madison Vomastek, Jason Vu

2. FACT/SF Nutshell - dolls

As part of their production, The Nutshell!, Mannakin Theater & Dance commissioned Slender-White and FACT/SF to create a new version of the Drosselmeyer dolls section from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. This short work was created in fall 2020 and filmed at Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco.

Concept, Direction, Choreography, Cinematography, Editing, & Styling: Charles Slender-White

Choreography & Performance: Emily Hansel, Katherine Neumann, Erin Yen

Videography: Mark McBeth

Costumes: Melissa Castaneda

3. BackstitchBack

BackstitchBack premiered in August 2019 in FACT/SF’s second annual Summer Dance Festival. In this work, Slender-White explores patterns, foreground/background, and point/counterpoint.

Concept & Direction: Charles Slender-White

Choreography & Performance: Keanu Brady, Michaela Cruze, Catherine Newman, LizAnne Roman Roberts, Amanda Whitehead

Music: Philip Glass

Costumes: Sporadic Assembly

featured content for January - March 2021

1. dance party

This excerpt is from our 2018 work, death, and serves as a sort of halftime show and counterpoint to the work’s two larger and more sustained sections. Essentially a 2.5 minute dance routine, this choreography is a loving satirization of the jazz dance routines that Slender-White performed while in college.

Choreography: Charles Slender-White and Performers

Performance: Keanu Brady, Michaela Cruze, Slender-White

Music: Ida Corr

Costumes: Sporadic Assembly

2. detour-19b

DETOUR-19b was created as the final installment of FACT/SF’s spring program, DETOUR-19. In this video, FACT/SF performers generated their own material in response to prompts by Charles Slender-White and to video submissions from members of the FACT/SF community. This video was created in March and April 2020 and premiered in May 220.

Concept, Direction, and Video Editing: Charles Slender-White

Choreography & Performance: Keanu Brady, Michaela Cruze, Emily Hansel, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Katherine Neumann, LizAnne Roman Roberts, Charles Slender-White

Community Members Featured: Hannah Ayasse, Alexander Betka, Hannah DeBois, Jamielyn Duggan, Rebekah Enderle, Mike Fix, Hillary Goidell, Vinnie Jones, Erin Kraemer, Joyce Kushner, Erin Lequereux, Lemoe Mata'itusi, Hannah Reitsma, Hana Rutka, Mark Schaeffer, Yuka Yamasato

3. detour-19a

DETOUR-19a is the first dance film FACT/SF produced during the pandemic. We began working on it in March 2020, and it premiered in April 2020. All of the choreography was adapted from material we had been working on in the studio for our (still postponed) evening-length work, Loop.

Choreography: Charles Slender-White and Performers

Performers: Keanu Brady, Michaela Cruze, Emily Hansel, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Katherine Neumann, LizAnne Roman Roberts

Music: Modeselektor & Flohio

Video Editing: Slender-White

Banner Image: Remains (2017)
Photo by Gema Galina