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IDENTIFICATION AND BIO: A choreographer, theater director, and teacher based in the Bay Area, Joe Goode is the most prominent American choreographer to offer a sustained focus on issues related to HIV/AIDS in his work. Goode earned a B.F.A. in drama from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and subsequently moved to New York City to become an actor, director, and choreographer. In New York he studied dance with Merce Cunningham and Viola Farber before relocating to the Bay Area in 1979, where he danced with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for four years. In 1985 he formed his own Joe Goode Performance Group, which has become one of the Bay Area's premier dance companies with national and international touring schedules, as well as yearly seasons at the Yerba Buena Arts Center. In addition to accolades at home, Goode has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the James Irvine Foundation. By his own description, Goode's work has been deeply influenced by HIV/AIDS, perhaps most evidently in pieces such as Remembering the Pool at the Best Western (1990) and Deeply There (stories of a neighborhood) (1998), the latter of which won a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") award. In all, Goode places seven of his pieces in the "AIDS" category, with a large number of works that have been influenced by AIDS at a substructural level. Virtually all of his choreographic works use movement fused with text, live song, and visual imagery to explore the body as a complex site of vulnerability, fear, memory, and transcendence, and can be thought of in relationship to HIV/AIDS. In 2002 Goode joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as a full professor in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
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VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
Disaster Series (1989) 1 videocassette (VHS)(72 min.); 1/2 in. viewing copy. Part of the Dance Bay Area collection. Remembering the Pool at the Best Western (1991) 1 videocassette (VHS)(115 min); 1/2 in. viewing copy with accompanying press release. 29 Effeminate Gestures and excerpts from Disaster Series as well as a premier titled New Work are on a videocassette (VHS) (113 min.) held under "Joe Goode Performance Group in performance at Laney College Theater," (Feb. 16-18, 1990) 1/2 in. viewing copy, videotaped by Ted Helminski.
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OVERVIEW OF WORKS PERTAINING TO HIV/AIDS
The Disaster Series (1989)—collaboration with artist James Morris, Theater Artaud The Reconditioning Room (1990)—performance installation commissioned by Capp Street Project Remembering the Pool at the Best Western (1990)—collaboration with artist/architect Stanley Saitowitz, with major support from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Cal Performances, Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, California Their Names Must Be Spoken (1991)—performance installation commissioned by the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums in commemoration of World Aids Day. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Maverick Strain (1996)—performance installation in collaboration with visual artist Nayland Blake, composer Beth Custer, and Club Foot Orchestra Quintet, created with major support of the National Dance Residency Program, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens The Widows (1998)—Fort Funston, San Francisco, Calif. Deeply There (stories of a neighborhood) (1998)—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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