Flyaway Productions

Based in San Francisco, Flyaway Productions is an apparatus-based dance company that advances social issues in the public realm and explores the range and power of female physicality. The organization has a threefold mission of performing, teaching apparatus-based dance, and advocating around key social issues through art. Under the direction of founder Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions creates dances on both architectural and fabricated steel objects, with dancers suspended anywhere from two to 100 feet in the air.

Flyaway Productions (Flyaway) is an apparatus-based aerial dance company that has created original performance work in Bay Area theaters and in public spaces for the past twelve years.With Hewlett support Flyaway developed a fully subsidized summer camp program that taught teenage girls from some of the Bay Area’s poorest neighborhoods the basics of aerial dance, critical thinking skills and a process for collaborative art making and community organizing. Based on the success of the Summer 2008 Art & Advocacy program, the company will use renewed project support to partner with Girls 2000 to engage twenty girls living in public housing in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco in an eight-week course culminating in performances for family and friends at Counterpulse, a dance venue also supported by Hewlett.(Renewal, $25,000/1; 70% of project budget) .