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Dance Generators is an intergenerational dance company housed at the University of San Francisco. With participants ranging in age from 17-89 and representing a mix of undergraduate students, elders and professional dancers, Dance Generators works to shatter stereotypes about aging, celebrate life histories, reduce social isolation and encourage dance as a tool to manage anxiety.
We love these gorgeous photos taken by Hillary Goidell at a recent rehearsal for a performance on June 5 that will explore the nuclear family and communication between generations. It’s being choreographed by Liv Schaffer, the director of Dance Generators and a CoGenerate Gen2Gen Innovation Fellow.
“Our bodies hold the experiences and stress of the past two years with limited social connection,” Schaffer says. “Now we are returning to live and in-person performance with a vibrancy informed by awareness of what we’ve been missing. The power of the Dance Generators lies not only in our ability to facilitate connections across generations, but to infuse our audiences with a connection to the ephemeral and precious nature of both dance and the human experience.”
Learn more at dancegenerators.com and purchase tickets to the upcoming event at https://odc.dance/bigred.
Heidi (age 21) and Yope (age 89)
Zoë (age 21) and Katheleen (age 62)
Cecilia (age 76) and Zoë (age 21)
Kathleen (age 62) and Sebastian (age 21)
Toni (age 22) Zoë (age 21) and Valeria (age 59)
Laura (age 62) and Kate (age 22)
Mari (age 21) and Erik (age 56)
Members rehearse for an upcoming performance