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A full-length work for eight dancers—all women aged over 40—featuring an original score written and performed by composer Gretchen Jude, and a set designed and constructed by visual artist Cybele Lyle.

Lenora Lee Dance’s first underwater multimedia dance experience premiering in the beautifully renovated San Francisco YMCA swimming pool on Sacramento Street. This under water work for eight dancers will integrate contemporary dance, original music, and video projection.

An evening-length immersive performance integrating an installation that engages the audience and a broad range of people from the community in a letter writing project and a performance installation inside the theater.

Will consist of assembling shards, vignettes and full ensemble choreography from 45 of the 80 works choreographed for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company since 1973 along with the creation of a new work informed by that history.

A multi-disciplinary theatre piece that combines the editorials, plays, and rare poems of groundbreaking Cuban-American writer Dolores Prida with original playwriting, music, and choreography to address issues of immigration, feminism, and racism relevant to Bay Area audiences today.

A performance exploring hope, access, and justice through work that integrates dance and new media tools. The project integrates movement and creative technologies while building bridges between African American communities and new tech industry residents who have been set against one another in San Francisco’s tech boom and affordability crisis.

A new program that will provide mentorship and professional development to a cohort of queer performance makers to curate, produce and promote a weekend-long festival of multidisciplinary performance at SOMArts.

A literature, performance, art, and sound project that refuses traditional audience/maker/performer relationships. La Rocco will write the third book in her experimental trilogy, which will then be re-performed by artists in various forms and media.

Chronicles the effect of these political times on individuals, their personal stories, and the personal reaction of artists to these stories.