Two Performances:
Sunday September 29, 8 PM at Mitchell Park Community Center, Palo Alto.
Tuesday, October 1, 6 PM at the San Francisco Main Library's Koret Auditorium. Duration 60 minutes.

BAHAYA means "Danger" in the Indonesian language, and in this multicultural, multimedia opera, it refers to the rise of sea level caused by the melting of the Polar Ice. Island countries throughout the world are gravely threatened by the rise of the sea level caused by climate change. BAHAYA is composed by Richard Marriott, with a libretto by Ruth Margraff.

BAHAYA is devised from ocean tales from Indonesia, Greenland and 12th century poet Farid Ud-Din Attar with a story of two sisters who have drifted apart as glaciers melt, one to the South and one to the North. They command a Wayfarer to make his way across seven seas with an ancient stolen comb, and to then descend to the polluted ocean floor on a mysterious quest for purification. ;

 BAHAYA will be performed by Balinese virtuoso Dewa Berata, Gamelan Sekar Jaya musicians Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, Club Foot Orchestra musicians Beth Custer and Chris Grady, and Russian Telegraph bandleader David James. Voice by Emiko Susilo

 Experimental video by Clemencia Macias, Bob Pacelli and Liz Walsh. Video editing by Steve Mobia. Production by Circuit Network.. 

Pandora's Box

Music by Club Foot Orchestra with SF Conservatory of Music LIVE at the Paramount on Saturday, May 6!

On May 6, 2023, the Club Foot Orchestra will join forces with San Francisco Conservatory of Music to accompany G.W. Pabst’s 1929 masterpiece Pandora’s Box at Oakland’s magnificent Paramount Theatre. 

 San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen the restoration by Angela Holm and David Ferguson in a DCP from the Deutsche Kinemathek.

 The film stars the radiant Louise Brooks whose mesmerizing performance as the sexually adventurous Lulu catapulted her to worldwide fame. 

Here is praise for Brooks through the years: 

 An actress who needed no directing, but could move across the screen causing the work of art to be born by her mere presence.—Lotte H. Eisner 

 Those who have seen her can never forget her. She is the modern actress par excellence. . . . Her art is so pure that it becomes invisible.—Henri Langlois 

 Her youthful admirers see in her an actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality, and a beauty unparalleled in film history.—Kevin Brownlow 

 One of the most mysterious and potent figures in the history of the cinema . . . she was one of the first performers to penetrate to the heart of screen acting.—David Thomson