"Directed and choreographed by Jo Kreiter, it features a cast of queer, transgender, and female performers, original songs by Melanie DeMore and a film by Leila Weefur. A total of ten 35-minute shows are scheduled over the course of the run: October 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. each night. Audiences are invited to gather on the Southeast corner of Turk and Taylor. All shows are free with no reservation required."
""The collective resistance to police oppression that unfolded at the intersection of Turk and Taylor in 1966 and the subsequent involvement of 101-121 Taylor Street in the prison system are not unrelated. Both are rooted in the Tenderloin's historic function as a containment zone - its contours shaped by racial segregation, its borders enforced by often-corrupt law enforcement - in which abjected populations and criminalized behaviors, specifically those related to sexuality and gender expression, have been confined.""
Down on the Corner is an aerial dance honoring the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot and reimagining the site at Turk and Taylor. The piece is directed and choreographed by Jo Kreiter with a cast of queer, transgender, and female performers, original songs by Melanie DeMore, and a film by Leila Weefur. Ten 35-minute shows run October 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., with audiences gathering on the Southeast corner of Turk and Taylor. All performances are free with no reservation required. The work critiques 111 Taylor's operation by GEO Group and draws on Susan Stryker's scholarship linking police containment of marginalized populations to the prison system. The production continues Kreiter's long-term exploration of prison-system change, following the Decarceration Trilogy launched in 2017.
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