RBP began in 1998 in San Francisco as an experimental collaboration between dancer Jennifer Gwirtz and solo artist John Baumann. Described by Nicole Gluckstern of the SF Bay Guardian as creating a “quirkily cerebral brand of performance art,” Gwirtz and Baumann assembled like-minded artists to create full length works for the stage, site specific and alternative venues that speak fluent performance art in the style of circus, with the occasional ballet reference and enthusiastic nods towards traditional western theater forms. This ensemble of dancers, theater artists and musicians, blended their disciplines to explore humanity and existence by way of metaphor.
In their two decades of making strange and wonderful things, Right Brain Performancelab performed at many venues in the Bay Area, including ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, NOHspace, Dance Mission, The Jewish Theater, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, in private homes and site-specific locations.
RBP had its final performance in 2017.
A brief history
2015, 2016, 2017 - "The Elephant In The Room"
(video) “Introduction”
2014, 2013 - "What Stays"
(video) 2013 Promotional
2012 - "Gravity (and other large things.)"
2010 - "The Elephant In The Room" (work-in-progress)
(video) “The Legal Bits”
(video) “Bunnypants”
2006 – “Objects In Mirror Are Stranger Than Fiction”
2005 – “State Of The Union/Anonymous Sources”
(video) “Sundial”
(video) “Improper Nouns”
(video) “Electron”
2002 – “Tempest In A Teapot", "The Bank Tour"
2001 – “Drifter”
1999 – “First Story,” “CAN”
SMALL SCALE/ALTERNATIVE SITE
2011 – (video) “Spies”
2003 – “The New World Ergonomy”
2002 – “The Bank Tour”