The rolling world premiere of Taylor Mac’s fantastical production, featuring 40 actors, dancers, musicians, and videographers, a collaboration with many Bay Area arts organizations.
A collaboration with multi-media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer to premiere in November 2011.
To develop six new works by PlayGround alumni in partnership with Bay Area theaters.
A vertical dance with choreographer Amelia Rudolph, sculptor/set designer Todd Laby, lighting designer Jack Carpenter, musician/composer Dana Leong, and media artist Austin Forbord to premiere in fall 2011.
A new play by Mark Jackson weaving together several stories in the life of a puritanical American community whose religion and politics vie for their values.
World premieres by local and national choreographers aiming to expand conceptions of what ballet is and can be.
A play by MacArthur Genius Award Winner Luis Alfaro, inspired by August Strindberg’s The Road To Damascus, exploring seven stops on California’s Highway 99.
The world premiere of Josh Costello’s “Little Brother,” adapted from the New York Times bestseller by Cory Doctorow
World premieres of “Tenderloin and Tontlawald”; a new translation of Strindberg’s “The Black Glove”; early support of Paul Walsh’s translations of five Strindberg plays; and two new plays by Bay Area playwrights Christopher Chen and Anthony Clarvoe.
For scholarships to enable 35 Bay Area dance artists and administrators to attend the 2012 Annual Conference in San Francisco.