Leave Room for Whitney, 2020
DANCE LOVERS 9, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
This duet explores Queerness, Christianity, and Whitney Houston.
The Grass is Sleeping, 2019
Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
A dancetheater piece exploring the health of our minds and American pop culture.
Four Years Later, 2019
DANCE LOVERS 8, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
Roughly four years after creating and performing their evening-length duet “Homeroom,” (2015) James Graham & Sebastian Grubb return to their collaborating relationship. They reflect on their current friendship, while using “Homeroom” as an anchoring point to measure what has changed. JGDT is interested in interpersonal relationships, masculinity and gender.
Do More of That, 2018
DANCE LOVERS 7, Counterpulse Theater, San Francisco, California
This duet between mother and son (Sheila Graham Price and James Graham) was created for JGDT’s DANCE LOVERS 7.
Agony Drag, 2018
Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, California
This piece was created with students inside of UC Berkeley’s Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Department’s Spring Concert the Berkeley Dance Project.
Bit by Bit, 2018
San Francisco City Hall Rotunda, San Francisco, California
This piece was created in James Graham’s Choreography & Performance Workshop through LINES Dance Center February – April, 2018.
Alpha Mouse, 2017
ODC Theater, San Francisco, California
In this evening-length work, JGDT looks at themes of sameness in Queer love, the fantasy vs. reality of a female experience in society, and the Divine Feminine.
Path of Occlusion, 2017
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
This work was created with the students in a one week intensive residency period. We play with set material, improvisational scores, crafted personal solos, and sounding (voice). I valued keeping everyone on stage and having a more or less socialist/non-hierarchical structure.
Ten or Eleven, 2017
Mint Plaza, San Francisco, CA
This piece was created in James Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop through LINES Dance Center February – April, 2017.
Homeroom, 2015
ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
On Top of the Ground, 2016
Mint Plaza, San Francisco, CA
This piece was created in James Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop at LINES Dance Center February – April, 2016.
Thirtysomething, 2015
Daegu International Dance Festival, Daegu, South Korea
“Thirtysomething” was created in collaboration with Hyun Jung Lee and Maree Remalia. Looking at our shared histories and being in our 30s.
Building People, 2015
Union Square, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area National Dance Week
This piece was created in James Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop at LINES Dance Center March – April, 2015.
Michael & Roland, 2015
Dance Lovers 4, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
In his second duet, from a series of three duets, James Graham allows his choreographic and performative choices to stem from looking at control and power as they reside in prisons, colonial/colonized environments and relationships, in the wilds of nature, and in aspects of sexuality…namely S&M. Think: French-artistocratic-Wild-Panthers-in-a-Zoo-Men-With-Beards
We Would Sit Together in Homeroom, 2014
Dance Lovers 3, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
“We Would Sit Together in Homeroom” delves into platonic love between these two men, and deals with what is a healthy dynamic of play, ritual, and raw physicality between a man who loves men and a man who loves women.
Guilty Survivor, 2013
(Nominated for an IZZIE in Outstanding Choreography)
Let Us Compare Chronologies at Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California,
This work pays homage to the gay men who died of A.I.D.S., those who stepped up to help (nurses, families, clergy, etc.), and looks at what it is to be missing an entire generation of mentors for younger men.
Preview by Andrea Pflaumer (SF Examiner) Preview by Irene Hsiao (SF Weekly)
Go Go, Italiano, Americano, Israeliano, 2013
Dance Lovers 2, Kunst-Stoff Arts, San Francisco, California
This duet looks at an interpersonal relationship where they must rely on each other and find common ground in spite of their differences, juxtaposed movement styles and trainings found in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, rectifying being stuck between two places, invested equally in both, feeling pulled apart and fed by these two worlds.
Fraternal Sacrifice, 2011
Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
I asked, “When two men give attention to each other, when is it healthy attention and when does it become a depletion of one’s power? How do we care for one another while taking care of ourselves?”
We explore various ways of relating, from the mundane to the sacred.
Godbody, 2011
SF Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Based on the poem “Dance of the Godbody” by James Broughton
There We Are, 2011
The Garage, San Francisco, California
This work shows aspects of a relationship that sometimes takes, sometimes gives, and sometimes doesn’t know what to do with itself.
Male Duet in J Major, 2010
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
This duet explores various relationships men have with one another.
Separate Panes (excerpt), 2010
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
This quintet was presented as an Installation/ Site-specific dance event in February 2010 in the vacant Sullivant Hall Library at the Ohio State University.
*Final section from a 1 hour piece.
Go To The Center, 2009
Judson Church, New York, New York / Columbus, Ohio
This duet was created with inspiration from William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies.