Wanting Memories

Wanting Memories is an original short film featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus Premier Ensemble, Chorus Essentials, and PUSH Dance Company. The Wanting Memories video was conceived of and created as a collaborative project between the San Francisco Girls Chorus, PUSH Dance Company, and the Bayview Opera House. This project is tangible evidence that creative collaboration thrives even when we cannot be together physically. Near the beginning of Shelter in Place order, The San Francisco Girls Chorus, The Bayview Opera House and Push Dance Company came together with a mission to develop a work where the component parts were performed in isolation and would be sewn together into a cohesive artwork, reminding us all that together we are greater than the sum of our parts. Wanting Memories: Composed by Ysaÿe Maria Barnwell San Francisco Girls Chorus, Artistic Director: Valerie Sainte-Agathe PUSH Dance Company: Choreographer, Raissa Simpson Bayview Opera House: Technical Direction

Wanting Memories is made possible by: San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, Invest in Neighborhoods, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, San Francisco Foundation, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation, California Arts Council, the Morris Stulsaft Foundation, the Nicholson Family Foundation, and many other generous donors.