“Ashes & Ancestry” is a new outdoor dance theatre production featuring dancers and live percussion. It explores how Carnival’s street theatre and participatory ritual can be translated into an immersive performance engaging themes of liberation through embodied remembrance.

“Roohozi in Motion” is a new interdisciplinary dance performance translating the improvisational Iranian Roohozi tradition into contemporary choreography featuring dancers, narration and archival imagery.

“MAZE: Where We Be Now?” is a world-premiere play exploring the impact of the exploitation of communities left behind by social and technological upheaval, and the oppression of women through violence and misogyny.

“Entre Machismo No Hay Machos” is a world-premiere, full-evening dance theater performance featuring five Bay Area Queer Latine dancers, exploring Queer Latine immigrant experiences.

“De Mangangá” is an original Afro-Brazilian dance-theatre piece that tells the story of Besouro Mangangá, a legendary Capoeira fighter and freedom figure from early 20th-century Bahia, Brazil. It features a multidisciplinary ensemble of dancers, actors and musicians integrating Afro-Brazilian dance, Capoeira and an original score drawing from R&B, Afro-diasporic and Latin traditions.

San Francisco Recovery Theatre (SFRT) will present five free, public theatrical performances in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Civic Center over 12 months. Drawing on community listening sessions, original scripting and local artists with lived experience, each production advances SFRT’s experimental practice of testimony-as-theater—reflecting the real lives, resilience and histories of underserved communities.

“PITCH” is a new dance-theater work exploring and documenting Bay Area dyke herstory and culture played out on the cultural arena of the softball field. The work will be presented September 2027 at Rikki Streicher Field in San Francisco and Bushrod Park in Oakland.

“Myth & Marrow: An American Drama” is a new participatory theater piece with an accompanying exhibit of body maps featuring an ensemble of Bay Area afro-folkloric dancers, musicians and a storyteller, premiering fall 2026 in East Oakland.

“DENSITY” is a new intercultural theatrical work written for Theatre of Yugen’s ensemble by Peru-born Japanese playwright Yudai Kamisato. Drawing on Nohgaku and contemporary migration narratives, it is developed through residencies and community dialogues and will premiere in fall 2027.