Based in San Francisco since 1979, Joe Goode is a choreographer, writer, and director widely known for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. He works in various genres, earning distinction as a playwright and an opera director, and he has been commissioned by a number of museums to create performance installations. The oldest piece in a Pillow program that was billed as a Fifteenth Anniversary Retrospective, Doris in a Dustbowl was originally presented as part of a full evening entitled The Disaster Series. The genesis for this work was Goode’s desire to put the AIDS epidemic into perspective, juxtaposing natural disasters with the struggles of our daily lives. Goode once said about this particular section, “The dustbowl is the natural disaster, and the personal disaster is the failed expectation of love and romance.”
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