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.

A new group work exploring assumptions humans make about each other in regards to gender, sexuality and race.

A showcase of a early to mid-career artists who are developing their unique creative voices and seeking to make a working home in the Bay Area. Artists curated by Artistic Director Jess Curtis for Beyond Gravity 2020 include IndiaSky Davis, Gabriel Christian and jose e. abad, Abby Crain, Rachael Dichter and Allie Hankins, Silk Worm, […]

A multi-site-specific dance theatre performance which explores important sites of the Haight-Ashbury and interrogates the complex legacy of the late 60s/early 70s. This project explores omitted stories and dynamics of erasure, including LGBTQ+, individuals of color, those with disabilities and those from lower economic circumstances within the Haight-Ashbury movement.