World AIDS Day at Grace Cathedral featuring Mobile

1100 California Street,San Francisco CA 94108

01 December, 2021

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Mark World AIDS Day at Grace Cathedral. Featuring a filmed dance performance of Tomm Ruud's Mobile. Mark World AIDS Day at Grace Cathedral. Our doors will be open from 12 to 4 p.m. Featuring A dance performance of Mobile (5 minutes) filmed in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s Doors of Paradise, choreographed by Tomm Ruud and set to Aram Khachaturian’s Adagio from Gayane Suite. Presented in partnership with Kansas City Ballet. Exhibit of eleven panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, including Tomm Ruud’s block. Triptych Altarpiece by Keith Haring From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., we will be screening Mobile on the façade of the cathedral. Open to all. From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., join us at The Vine, our contemporary worship service with great music, progressive theology and new connections. Tonight’s service will feature an opening ceremony at Tom Ruud’s Quilt block in the AIDS Memorial Chapel, and readings and a sermon by people touched by the AIDS pandemic. Following the guidance of public health officials and our Bishop, we require that everyone 12 years and older show proof of COVID vaccination before entering the cathedral. Masks are also required at all times. You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today. Click here to give or text Think to 76278. More About Mobile Tomm Ruud created MOBILE while pursuing an MFA in Ballet at the University of Utah in 1969. A renowned ballet dance partner himself, in MOBILE he explored the movement possibilities created by one man with two women. He had always been fascinated by the mobiles of Alexander Calder, and thus evolved his human mobile—an early collaborator sub-titled the work “Moving Objects Behaving In Linear Equipoise”. The music Ruud chose came to him from the soundtrack for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey; ironically, it was ballet music, the Adagio from the Gayane third suite, by Aram Khatchaturian. MOBILE is found in the repertories of dozens of ballet companies world-wide. Raised in a western Wyoming village, Tomm was a charter member (1963) of Salt Lake City’s Ballet West, where he began his career as a choreographer and performed as a principal dancer until relocating to San Francisco in 1975. At San Francisco Ballet he was acclaimed as a romantic lead in the ballet classics and as a strong principal in the wide-ranging contemporary and neoclassical repertoire. As the AIDS crisis deepened in the late 1980s, and Tomm was diagnosed with HIV, he joined the congregation at Grace Cathedral and became active in the Men of Grace service ministry. He was baptized at the Great Vigil of Easter in 1993. His memorial service at the cathedral on March 7, 1994 was attended by nearly 500 people, and included MOBILE, performed by San Francisco Ballet dancers in front of the High Altar. He is in repose in the Columbarium at Grace Cathedral, and his AIDS Memorial Quilt panel is frequently on display in the AIDS Memorial Chapel there.