A performance by Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng that challenges traditional ideas of male/female duets and deconstructs tropes often associated with Chinese heritage. Tangram lifts up the leadership and innovation of Chinese descendent artists in contemporary Bay Area dance and improvisation.
A new evening-length performance piece by My-Linh Le and Mud Water Theatre, an Oakland-based dance collective that centers turfing. Mud Water will explore cross-racial and cultural solidarity, focusing on themes such as belonging in the face of gentrification, deportation and police brutality as well as our individual relationship to land, space and our physical bodies.
A new science fiction shadow theater work created by playwright Eugenie Chan, shadow puppet artist/director Larry Reed and composer/instrument inventor Paul Dresher. Inspired by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu’s work, Heterotopia is a speculative fable that explores vital issues of our time including race, gender, identity and the environmental degradation of the planet.
A process-based dance-form by artist Dia Dear. ∑nake (unlearning) dance centers lived experience with chronic illness and disability and mindfulness practices for trauma healing while exploring the adaptability and intelligence of the physical body. It seeks to develop models of crafting accessibility into the artistic process for chronically ill artists with changing abilities.
A multidisciplinary, collaborative series of performances, workshops and experiential sessions with queer Asian performance, textile and visual artists, experimental composers, and costume designers that generates a ritual portal—a doorway across generations and geography, a metaphorical opening of the earth returning us home.
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.
