Uses multimedia video, soundscape and scenic magic to tell the stories of three young black men as they journey across the unknown. Co-Produced by Custom Made Theatre and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Esai’s Table addresses the crucial need for representation and identity in the era of #blacklivesmatter.
Set in a climate-ravaged San Francisco and challenges the patriarchy and classism present in Strindberg’s original Miss Julie. This is the inaugural play in Cutting Ball Theater’s new commissioning program, which is committed to ethical, progressive alternatives to antiquated masterworks in the field of theater.
A new choreography by Leyya Mona Tawil in collaboration with local dancers, visual artist Dena Al Adeeb, and composer Sholeh Asgary. Noise & Nation will be featured as part of the Arab.AMP festival, which focuses on experimental live art from the Arab diaspora, celebrates the plurality of Arab voices, and challenges identity legibility.
A festival featuring unique collaborations between artists, healers, scientists, and community. The festival, which consists of performance, talk, and ritual, examines the stark realities of health disparity and trauma, specifically in how the two relate to HIV/AIDS acquisition and transmission, looking both at the challenges we face as a community and at the beauty that […]
A program that fosters risk-taking, rigor and radical critique on the role of political activism, cultural work and art in society. LAIR focuses on supporting primarily artists of color to look beyond traditional art practices to expand their vision, creating a space for artists and audiences to engage in meaningful dialog on some of the […]
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.
