The Farallonites Official Film Trailer
The Farallonites premiered September 2022 at the Cowell Theater, San Francisco. It was also performed in October 2022 at the Arts and Cultural Center in Bangkok, Thailand and at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara in February 2023.
This collaborative, multi-disciplinary work will investigate the tenacity, resilience, and strength of the human spirit in an evening-length performance exploring the lighthouse keepers and their families who lived on the Farallon islands starting in the mid-1850s to the early 1900s. The full length film version of The Farallonites can be viewed here.
Dancers: Olutola Afolayan, Michael Armstrong, Leah Curran, Garth Grimball, Leah Hendrix-Smith, Katie Lawson-Gill, Colin McDowell, Robin Nasatir, Eduardo Rivera-Garcia, Vera Schwegler, and Jennifer Smith.
Costumes by Olutola Afolayan.
Sets by Jon Altemus.
Poetry by Jennifer Kulbeck.
Sound score by Thomas Edler.
Videography and editing by Nina and Sean McCue.