A multidisciplinary, mobile performance-art installation on Alcatraz Island. Through the collaboration of Northern California First Nations artists and community members, “GROUNDWORKS” will explore native cultural stories .

Explores gender-based sexual violence and challenges today’s pervasive rape culture through dance, theater, music and video. Drawing from specific dance forms pioneered by gay men and women of color and engaging with intergenerational, racially diverse stories of survivors, CUNTI seeks to add complexity to narratives of sexual violence.

A biennial festival that brings together local and national performing artists for performances, panels and workshops. The festival provides participants with unique opportunities for artistic exchange and cross-pollination.

Confronts racial politics and hierarchical structures in dance. The project will examine Neil Greenberg’s seminal work Not About AIDS Dance and Bill T. Jones’ Still/Here, both of which premiered in 1994 in the midst of the AIDS crisis.

Inspired by Kurosawa’s 1950s masterpiece that explored the intersection of memory, perspective and fact. Told through the stories of five main characters, this contemporary adaptation will use theatrical design, dance and a layered sound scape to conjure our present economic and political divide along with our society’s inability to grapple with objective truths.

This performance draws its title from an emancipation era African-American expression, which revealed the reality that while slavery had been abolished, the promise of freedom was not real. Using physical theater, site specific performance and experimental movement, the work will comment on the state of African American theater today and its lack of freedom from […]

Explores human connection and relationships through a unique investigation of individual and collective heartbeats. Through dance, data visualization, poetry and music, CHAMBER celebrates human connection and explores the asynchronous aspect of human relationships and our individual and collective state of mind.

A new play commissioned by National Performance Network, La Peña Cultural Center and El Teatro Campesino that chronicles the preservation of Rabinal Achí, an ancient Mayan dramatic text performed annually in the rural village of Rabinal, Guatemala. The project will examine the text’s creation, preservation, and survival in the 21st century and will be informed […]

Challenges reductive discourses of female identity and undermines masculinist power by exploring the feminine in everyone. Through drag, dance and vocalization the project considers the performance of femininity as a powerful, vulnerable and subversive act.

Examines the interdependence of humans, animals and the physical environment amidst the pressures of climate change.