The Derailleurs

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  • The Derailleurs

  • 27 / Female
  • San Francisco/Oakland, California, US
  • Last Login: 10/6/2009

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  • General

    Roll Call:





    Agent Chaos began her career in bikedance five years ago as a co-founder of The Sprockettes, in Portland, OR. A year ago she moved to the Bay Area to achieve the "next level" of artistic and social experiments. After constant urging from roommate Agent Verve, they together began another chapter of the bicycle-dance phenomenon. Agent Chaos sees the first roots of a worldwide participation in this new avenue of expression and hopes it continues and graduates to many levels of difficulty and excellence.








    Agent Verve, born and raised in the deep South, was always searching for something MORE in the performance world. Getting her degree in Performing Arts was not enough. She traveled the U.S. and abroad looking for home and found it in the Bay Area. She has taken an active role in the evolution of the Dérailleurs by choreographing, coordinating, and crafting this unique alter-genre to introduce to the world bike dance and create more bike advocacy in a car-infested country.







    Agent Flux is an avid bicyclist who moved to San Francisco from Portland, OR one year ago. She thrives on art and social change, all forms of dance and creative expression, travel, nature, whiskey, spontaneity and unconventionalism. She fell in love with The Sprockettes when she first landed in PDX, and was thrilled to realize the bike dance revolution would be spreading down the west coast. She joined The Dérailleurs at the very beginning and can't wait to see where they end up.







    Agent DoubleOO loves bikes, loves dancing, and loves the ladies! With an enormous appreciation for the lucky lives that we live, Double OO is constantly in search of ways to maximize the daily fun, inspiration, and motivation. Referred to at home as the Polymath, she attempts to sponge up as much information possible on widely varying topics. In addition, she will double dutch jump rope any time and anywhere, rescue and plant as many plants as possible, and eat the hell out of some tamales. When DoubleOO met the Sprockettes and B:C:Clettes in SF the summer of 2007, her life was changed forever in one of the best ways imaginable.







    Agent Contrary started with the Derailleurs in March of 2008. Her spicy Latina background has influences from Capoeira, breakdancing, and fire dancing. She lights up the crowd with the fire in her eyes and in her sass. She spends her week teaching Anatomy and taking care of plants for a nursery. She thrives on community, friendships, family, art, and alternative ways of thinking. She looks forward to influencing people to become more envoriomentally educated through the medium of bikedance and performing for varied audiences.







    Agent Joke Star! rides a unicycle and loves to dance. So when she heard The Dérailleurs were interested in having her dance with the troop she was all like, "hail-zzz yeah!!" She felt so honored. The very thought of having beautiful, powerful women of all types incorporating bikes of all sorts into a spectacular whirlwind extravaganza was pure genius.







    Agent Agitator began dancing with the Dérailleurs in June 2008. Agitator believes in the power of artists coming together as a collective creating new work in the fields of dance, music, and art. She is a dedicated bicycle enthusiast and supports the cultural bicycle community through service and advocacy. The Cyclecide bus journey to PDX to perform and converse with like-minded groups gave her a sense of clarity and heightened her determination to move forward with the bicycle dance movement.







    Agent Take the Lane! witnessed the very first Sprockettes performance at the Multnomoah County Bike Fair in 2004 while living in Portland. She moved to San Francisco spring 2008 and saw The Dérailleurs first San Francisco performance at ArtSF and wanted to become part of this inspiring bike phenomena. As a bicycle activist and urban planner she is proud to be part of what she sees as a way to strengthen the bicycle community by building bike culture and the image of the bicycle/cyclists as fun and sexy machines!







    All photos not possible without the gracious donation by Alicia Sangiuliano.
    ALICIASANGIULIANO.COM
  • Heroes

    The Sprockettes and Busby Berkley.

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  • Status: Single
  • Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About me:

Hello! We are the Bay Area Dérailleurs, a bicycle inspired dance team. We are part of the growing movement in bicycle dancing, founded by our friends, The Sprockettes. There is a written history of bicycle dancing:
http://agentchaosproductions.blogspot.com/2008/06/modern-history-of-bike-dance-team.html

Also check out "Small Movements", a documentary on the Sprockettes, the founders of the bike dance movement.



The Bay Area Dérailleurs are an ensemble of artists on a mission to create bold and relevant bicycle-dance entertainment. We believe in the power of bicycles as a mechanism through which we and our community unite.
Our goal is to educate and entertain audiences with the possibilities of alternative transportation. Our performances embrace critical inquiry that reaches beyond conventional thought and action.
We promote radical self reliance and mine local talents to unearth their strength. Through teamwork with the community we are building space within for this art.


UPDATE: Our Community has been very apparent recently with the unfortunate accident of co-founder Agent Verve, or Hollis Hawthorne. While traveling in India, she was struck on a motorcycle and fell into a coma. Through the bikedance-bike-burningman-DIY community we enabled a worldwide effort to raise $100,000 and arrange for her arrival to Stanford and then to St. Lukes, both donated through family friends. There is really something magical about the way our friends can mobilize for the greater good with benefit FUNdraisers in Portland, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Ottawa, Gerlach, Antich, KY, Oakland, Seattle, Austin, New York, again. The far reaches of the planet have closed the gap for Hollis to be escorted within Mission walking distance to visit her in her sweet apartment. She is slowly making progress. Such a tragedy has kept us working through the misfortunes. In essence, we are dancing our hearts out to yin-yang' it.
Inch by inch is a cinch. Yard by yard is hard.

More info on Hollis: FRIENDSofHOLLIS.com


THANKS to Spy who made this awesome video!!




Small Movements from Nickey Robo on Vimeo.

Who I'd like to meet:

Steel thighs. Fun Movementarians. Bike Geeks. Greenwashers. Sponsors. Vegi oil bus rigs. Tour managers. Fabricators. Masssge school students. Tailors. Dreamers. You.

Comments

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  • Jul 31 2009 8:50 AM


  • Jul 1 2009 9:20 PM

    Totally enjoyed your half time show at the Oakland Outlaws vs. SF ShEvil Dead bout!  Can't wait to see your next performance. 
  • May 8 2009 1:58 PM

    I had a delicious time with you girls. Thank you!!!
    And if you ever decide to come over on the boat, look me up. I will help make the derailleur Japan tour explode.
  • Apr 26 2009 12:21 AM

    I luv you ladys!!
    XoXoX
  • Mar 27 2009 10:17 PM

    You make me swoon with your wild antics! :-)