Radio Vision at RAWdance Concept Series: 35

Times

Saturday, September 12 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 13 at 3:30pm & 7:30pm
*Saturday 7:30pm performance includes ASL interpretation

Popcorn & snacks served.
Beer & wine for purchase.

PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN TICKETS

$10-$30 suggested
Tickets available online and at the door. Additional seats for walk-ups will be available at the door.

Venue

The Green Room
San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
401 Van Ness Avenue, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA

If you have any access needs that you would like to share with us, please email raw@rawdance.org by Monday, September 7.

TICKETS HERE

Radio Vision at Arts on Site, 12 St Marks Place, NYC

April 7 & 8 | 7:30 pm

April 7 @ 7:30 pm (Click this link for tickets)

April 8 @ 7:30 pm (Click this link for tickets)

Radio Vision (26 min). Live music by musicians Lydia Rhea and Amber Scherer. Sound score by Simon Linsteadt

Split bill with Stephanie Saywell

Trailer edit by Clio Gevirtz

About the work:

Radio Vision, choreographed and performed by Helen Wicks, uses expressive acrobatic dance, dramatic black and white movie makeup, acting, Hollywood stories from oral history interviews, dances from 1930s Vaudeville, sound collage, live classical music, and jello to explore technology in entertainment and performance over time.

Radio Vision is a dance that synthesizes a decade of ancestral research on Helen’s great grandfather, Hollywood music supervisor, Joe Gershenson, and a conversation she had with his mentee/colleague, musician Quincy Jones in 2018. The work opens with a live rendition of Nadia Boulagner’s music that frames the impact Boulanger had on both Jones and 20th century music. Radio Vision, an original term for broadcast television, explores how Yiddish Theater, vaudeville, and early westerns influence pop culture. The work uses epigenetics, oral history, fantasy, and memory to contextualize performance and entertainment stage and screen over the past 100 years.

Radio Vision at SF International Arts Festival, 2025. Photo by Robbie Sweeny

Sound deisgn

Simon Victor Linsteadt is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Since 2013 he has composed music for concert, film/tv, and performance art, and released numerous albums. Since 2021 he has composed over thirty pieces for the radio program This American Life. In 2025 Simon created Ionic Order, a music and sound studio working across media and design. His work includes score and sound for a number of Ray-Bay campaign videos along with sonic logos for Stitzlein Studio, a graphic design firm based in San Francisco.