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IDENTIFICATION AND BIO: San Francisco choreographer Jesselito Bie, a former member of The High Risk Group, creates dances examining the ways in which language and mass media shape individual and collective ideas of race, gender, body image, and sexuality. As an openly HIV-positive artist, Bie has danced for a number of companies in the Bay Area and was a founding member of STEAMROLLER, which was established in 1993 specifically to create guerrilla performances addressing the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst under-represented communities. Bie became artistic director of STEAMROLLER in 1996 and, under his leadership, the company has become known for irreverent references to popular culture—as related to issues of ethnicity and sexual identity—as well as an athletic physical vocabulary. Maintaining a connection to its origins in street performance through participation in five consecutive In The Street Festivals (1996-2000), STEAMROLLER has been presented at such venues as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Festival of Bay Area Dance, Asian American Dance Performances, and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. STEAMROLLER was awarded a Goldie Award in 1999 from the San Francisco Bay Guardian for Outstanding Local Discovery in Dance.
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PARTIAL LIST OF WORKS
Babes in Toyland (1996)—In The Street Festival, San Francisco Into the Drift and Sway (1996)—Bay Area Dance Series, Laney College, Oakland Burning Down the House (1997)—In The Street Festival, San Francisco Siamese Dream (1997)—ODC Theater, San Francisco Monster Trucks (1998)—Asian American Dance Performances, In the Street Festival, Yerba Buena Festival of Bay Area Dance, San Francisco Barebacking (1998)—SF Lesbian & Gay Dance Festival, San Francisco Young Gods (Premier) (1999)—ODC Theater, San Francisco Khaki Nation (1998)—In The Street Festival, San Francisco Sticky (1999)—Post Modern Pilipino Performance Project, The Forum at Yerba Buena, San Francisco THE MAN WITCH PROJECT (1999)—various San Francisco locations. Pink (2000)—In The Street Festival, San Francisco Siamese Dream (Director's Cut) (2000)—Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco Flaunt (2001)—SF Lesbian & Gay Dance Festival, San Francisco Young Gods (Revisited) (2002)—ODC Theater, San Francisco Box (2002)—Fresh Meat Performance Festival, San Francisco Catch (2003)—Fresh Meat Performance Festival. San Francisco
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