Joe Goode Performance Group Video

A quick look at who we are and what we do.

...explored the contrasts between darkness and light in Ann Hamilton's double-helix tower. Located within the private collection at the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County, two winding staircases which never meet acted as "stage" and "auditorium" for performers and audience.

Goode collaborated with the San Francisco Girls Chorus to create a unique soundscape intended to heighten the sense of dislocation by creating an aural and kinetic environment.

A performance installation piece celebrating more than 20 years of collaboration with lighting designer Jack Carpenter.

Goode wanted to create a work that played with/against the architectural demands of a raw, unfinished space. He stumbled upon The Mint, an architectural treasure, which offered antiquity and a stately (and perhaps shameful) grandeur as a monument to money. Both the performers and audience members moved from room to room challenging the traditional theater experience.

small experiments in song and dance joined the artistry of Joe Goode and guest singer/songwriter Holcombe Waller. In separate vignettes, their work collided music and movement in unusual ways, testing tried forms and re-framing perceptions about sound and theater.

A dance theater work created in collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist, with music by singer and violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist/drummer Matthias Bossi.

In this collaboration with Twist, Goode integrated yet another art form into his innovative cross-disciplinary work. Goode's attraction to the puppet world of Twist is the great humanity and sensitivity embodied in his puppets.

Humansville was a theatrical installation where video, dance and music wrapped around you in an exploration of the flailing, absurd condition of "human being."

With live performance by acclaimed composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and video design by Austin Forbord, this immersive performance installation blurred the distinction between audience and stage.

Presented as the highlight of the company's 20th anniversary season, Stay Together was set to music by Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony.

How do we "stay together" in a world that moves so fast and threatens to leave us behind?

Created with award winning composer Beth Custer, the Joe Goode company artists, and four inner-city teen videographers from TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literary Tools), Hometown offered a fascinating and diverse look at what "hometown" is, or is not.

Hometown was the final installment of Goode's groundbreaking Folk trilogy, and also represents the culmination of a three-year Meet the Composer residency with Custer.

...explored the way our bodies perceive and intuit knowledge, and how we pay attention (or don't) to what our bodies know. The work centered on private, interior perspectives on very human stories, and featured original music by composer Mikel Rouse.