A new site-responsive, immersive LGBTQ+ walking tour. OUT of Site: SOMA will focus on San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood, celebrating its new status as the first LGBTQ+ and Leather Cultural District. It will combine contemporary dance, live music, and spoken word with virtual reality, oral history and sound collage to recover stories of […]

A multidisciplinary, multimedia, full-length work written by Brenda Wong Aoki and scored by Mark Izu. Drawing on the artist’s family’s 122-year history in San Francisco, OurTown will incorporate stories about real people and events, using text, film, alternative media, dance and live music. The work will premiere as part of The Center for Asian American […]

The second piece in a trilogy of performances exploring the effects of prison on American citizens. MERCY seeks to highlight the historic intersections between the Black and Jewish experience with issues of race and capture.

Investigates what is possible when trans, gender non-conforming, and queer communities are encouraged to think expansively and optimistically about their futures, at a time when threats to these communities have escalated.

A new site-specific dance creation rooted in a dialogue in dance between traditional Congolese movement, Afro Urban dance styles, and Hip Hop. The project is a collaboration between Oakland-based Fua Dia Congo and Paris-based Ambiance Facil and seeks to tell a story about the resilience of African movement across space and time by bridging the […]

A new experimental performance piece grounded in research of the intersections of movement, culture, sensory difference, and physical diversity in live performance. (in)Visible will address the disproportionate prevalence in our culture of sight as a tool of perception and will explore more diverse modes of perceiving.

Explores the fluid boundaries between self and other, fostering tolerance for difference as well as rapid change catalyzed by new technologies. Synthetic Nature will combine oral traditions, Magical Realism, music and 3D projection mapping to tell the story of human evolution in three acts, guiding audiences through the diversity and progress of human history, probing […]

An immersive multimedia bharatanatyam dance production which explores increasing income disparities within the local South Asian community.

An interactive and immersive performance which explores the issue of activist burnout through the story of a disabled, gender non-conforming, burnt-out activist. The production will use immersive theater technologies to engage the audience as co-creators and interventionists in the story’s unfolding.

A site-specific, interdisciplinary play which examines the commodification of spirituality and enlightenment. The play, by Jon Bernson, takes the form of a guided meditation, set in a futuristic corporate high-rise and uses Bernson’s immersive storytelling techniques to guide the audience through a quest for individual awakening and truth.