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A ritual performance featuring Korean dance, contemporary dance, music with acoustic and electronic elements, video projections, and community participation. ARA will develop over the course of 2 years, through monthly community workshops with 100 multi-generational immigrant women from 11 Asian backgrounds, in collaboration with Community Health for Asian Americans in Oakland.

A new site-specific outdoor and indoor traveling dance journey, celebrating Epiphany Productions’ 20th Anniversary. The new work will acknowledge the transformation taking place in San Francisco, with displacement and rejuvenation occurring side by side and profoundly altering the city.

An admission free site-specific dance festival and educational program. Bay Area choreographers will perform at 6-7 sites, and tour guides will ensure a safe journey for festival viewers along the MUNI Metro Train from Castro to Montgomery Station.

An experimental drama inspired by the life of the playwright’s great grandmother, about a madam and single mother who tries to raise her daughter right, amidst the struggles of her Barbary Coast Chinatown brothel. The play is a survival tale and will be available in English, with Chinese narration; accessible in either language.

A queer history performance walking tour unearthing and elevating San Francisco’s LGBTQ community. The work will feature dance, theater, drag, poetry, and live music while sharing the stories of San Francisco’s unsung queer ancestors.

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.