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.

The Bay Area’s largest celebration of new plays and new writers. The festival will feature more than 40 performances and over a dozen readings of short and full-length works, including the world premieres of Patricia Cotter’s “The Daughters” and Ruben Grijalva’s “Anna Considers Mars.”

Combines clockwork choreography, rhythmic fugue and ice art into a fantastical tale that urgently asks: What are the costs of living in a technologically accelerating world? The play examines the challenges and opportunities we face in a highly stratified society and world of unbridled growth and dwindling resources.

By Bay Area playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. This play explores the challenges of and need to find solidarity in an age of growing polarization in American society.