2018 Innovators- Bowstring
For over a hundred years, San Francisco has been known as a center of artistic creativity and innovation. More recently, the City has also become known as the center for technological innovation and progress. 3Girls Theatre’s Innovators Series is an exciting program that is creating opportunities to connect the innovators of the art communities with the innovators of the tech communities.
Bowstring, featuring devisers Emma Shelton, Jena McRae, Siobhan Marie Doherty, Jaime Lee Hart, Molly Benson, Lexie Papedo, Margery Fairchild, and Gabrielle Patacsil, collectively weave personal experiences and family histories into multi-disciplinary performances in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bowstring creates rich, immersive stories that blend music, dance, theater, technology, and comedy to explore the evolution of womanhood over generations.
Bowstring’s newest collaboration, Triple Maven [working title], is inspired by the true story of three teenage siblings in the 1850’s who, to save the family farm, tour the country by steam train as dancers. This fantastical and non-linear narrative will trace themes of sisterhood, dislocation, personal freedom, and the embodied experience of womanhood. Characters in Triple Maven are drawn from Bowstring’s own ancestors. The audience will be invited to invoke their own family, to influence the show’s backdrop, and to share something deeply personal, yet anonymous, onstage.
2018 New Works Festival
STEAM
Bowstring’s fantastical, non-linear work-in-progress Steam is inspired by the true story of three teenage siblings in the 1850’s who, to save the family farm, tour the country by steam train as dancers.
