The Evolution of Epiphany
25 Years preserving the heart and stories of SF & beyond
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Join us as we blast through the past 25 years & more!
PERFORMANCE • INTERNATIONAL • EDUCATION
LUNATIC
GIRL

1994 Laney College,
Oakland
by Rita Felciano

Epifano enlisted the help of designer Lauren Elder and Musicians Norman Rutherford, Elaine Buckholtz, Sally Davis, and Gwen Davis, and performers Jo Kreiter and Mirintha Tewsbury. With Epifano writing and signing many of the songs, the team has put together a work that defies and embraces madness.

Epifano uses the human breath as her central metaphor. From the opening image, in which she lies on her back, legs spread, noislessly echoing the wheezing of an accordion's bellows, to the end -- with the poetic fragment "she jumped so high that she could fly but she never came back" -- "Lunatic Gurl" pulsates with energy.
CALIDA
FORNAX

1997 Mexicali, MX
by Hildelena Vazquez, Fernanda Gutierrez, Kim Epifano.

This was a 3 week residency as part of the project "Dance, an open door to intercultural communication," a way to encourage the relationship between artists and intellectuals from the U.S. and Mexico.... A dance union, a merging of two cultures that have been challenged, throughout history.

Working with Kim was for all of us a new and exciting experience... She also received inspiration from meeting and hearing the stories of women from the Cucapa tribe, an Indigenous community that has lived in the Mexicali valley for centuries.
CHILDREN'S STOREFRONT
SCHOOL

1993-2010
Harlem, NYC

Kim Epifano and Sally Davis held a 2 week dance, theater, music residency for 17 years with the 2nd grade classes creating participatory musical storytelling theater events. Students created characters through costumes, music, and set pieces.

Kim and Sally have co-directed many youth programs for the last 40 years traveling locally, nationally and internationally.

Welcome Zoë Klein to the EDT Team!
Zoë joins us as our new Managing Director/Executive Team
Zoë Klein is a choreographer, visual artist, acrobat, lighting designer and activist in the Bay Area and makes work about the importance of origin as an indigenous, international transracially adopted person, born in Colombia.

Zoë co-founded Paradizo Dance in NYC which toured 28 countries over 6 continents, performed for NBA halftime shows and “So You Think You Can Dance.'' Zoë was a top finalist on "America's Got Talent,” and a leader in an international Latin Dance community. In 2014 she founded Zoë Klein Productions and was nominated for an Isadora Duncan “Izzie” Dance Award for best ensemble 2018.

Zoë has been Producing Director at CounterPulse, Communications Manager at Adoption Museum Project, Development Associate at Luna Dance Institute, and Managing Director of FLACC/ Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers.
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