An immersive, multimedia work by Flamenco dancer and choreographer Tania Leullieux, artistic collaborators Adrian Arias and Jose Luis de la Paz, and the Presidio Theatre. Solace explores displacement and cultural survival, addressing the rising sea levels resulting from climate disruption.
Explores Black indigeneity, isolation, gendering and connection to time and place through restorative dance practices found in Black Futurism. In partnership with choreographer and Black dance scholar Dr. Halifu Osumare, EMME Ya will draw on traditional dances and feminist rituals of Mali’s Dogon people and expand upon Africanist principles of improvisation.
A theatrical performance work written by A. Smiley, which will take the form of a pseudo-documentary filmed serial podcast. Taking place in Bayview Hunters Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard, DWTMMS will center on the experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Color Native San Franciscans in the face of a devastating pandemic, gentrification and […]
A series of interactive experiences, ceremonies and performances instigated by Snowflake Calvert (Yaqui, Tzotzil Mayan) in collaboration with Yaqui elders Zamora and Pennie Opal Plant, which responds to the needs and interests of relocated and displaced Indigenous people in California who no longer live on their ancestral lands and those who wish to better understand […]
An experimental, multimedia dance film and performance project, which reinforces techno music as an inherently Black American invention by examining its origins and locating its syncopated, complicated and paradoxical rhythms in the Black dancing body.
Indira Allegra’s evening-length dance and installation-based performance exploring the choreography of indecision—the everyday movements, tics, utterances and moments of quiet associated with not knowing what to do next. The multidisciplinary project will be composed of Allegra’s original sculpture and choreography alongside videos and interviews collected by the artist, documenting indecisive moments enacted by people in […]
World premiere production of sAiNt jOaN, (burn/burn/burn), a production by Lisa Ramirez in collaboration with youth-based Youth Uproar Theatre Company and Focal Point Films. This modern retelling of the Joan of Arc story follows several teenage girls in Oakland as they discover and unleash their power through activism as youth uprisings force a national reckoning […]
A site-specific outdoor performance by choreographer Joti Singh. Ghadar Geet will merge Bhangra dance with spoken word and live Punjabi folk music to tell the story of San Francisco’s Ghadar Party, a revolutionary group of political activists from India, fighting for India’s independence from the British in the early 20th century.
A site-specific street theater project written, directed and featuring Mexican and Cuban-American playwright Paul S. Flores. History Matters in The Mission brings to life moments of 50 years of archives from El Tecolote bilingual newspaper, including the impact of rapid transit (BART) and technology on the Mission District’s Latino community.
An examination of the mental health impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies on undocumented families. This loose adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman tells the story of Lorna, the matriarch of a Filipino American family coming to terms with their differing immigration statuses, senses of freedom, and familial estrangement.
