A dance performance choreographed by Keith Hennessy and Ishmael Houston-Jones, will create a queer futurist encounter where race and masculinity are destabilized, creating the ground for new forms of solidarity, desire, and community. A diverse queer cast of Bay Area dancers will chart trajectories of gay liberation, queer visibility, and racial justice through many eras […]
A collage-style play by Charles L. Mee in collaboration with Creativity Explored and RAWdance. Utopia unites artists of dissimilar, rarely intersecting mediums and different abilities in collaboration to craft a dynamic, multi-disciplinary performance.
A dance production which responds to the growing blatant assault and discrimination of communities who dare to speak languages other than English in public. The project explores the use of non-English or mixed-English languages as a tool for community building, cultural perseverance, and as resistance to racism, xenophobia, and toxic nationalism.
A multi-media project which reflects on mental health and self-care through the perspective of artists from throughout the Asian-American community. QUAKE will incorporate contemporary dance and theater with new technologies to explore generational trauma, space making for catharsis and rest, and healing.
A new work developed in a weekly lab that incorporates elements of audience participation, performativity and improvisation. This constantly evolving piece will involve the audience from the beginning of the process through social media, as well as engage members of the Tenderloin community through somatic exercises, visualization and expressive writing.
A free, public art festival presenting dance and multidisciplinary arts performances by 14 local artists of color within Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in Oakland. Local artists of color, predominantly Black and Brown womxn, will activate specific sites throughout the park with live dance and multidisciplinary arts performances.
A vaudevillian exploration of the psychological impact of an American legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of a Chinese American family.
An intimate contemporary dance performance, which explores how dissociative behaviors and altered states of consciousness can be useful for queer identity formation. Split will be performed by one dancer and for one audience member at a time, underscoring the individual experience of dissociation and identity formation.
A dance theater song cycle offered as a site-specific tour that progresses through public and privately-owned spaces of West Oakland. Rules and agreements of space use, spoken and unspoken, are constantly colliding with the very personal but also socially embodied experience of race, gender, sexuality, histories, physical abilities, age, ancestry, and financial inequities. Audiences are […]
2020 FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater, a gathering of performing artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Featuring performances, panels, and workshops, the FURY Factory is a West Coast hub for the ensemble theater movement and works that push the boundaries of what theater can be in the 21st century.
