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.
A new project commissioned by the Asian Art Museum that explores the talismanic power of dance through a multidisciplinary ritual performance. Over the next year, a series of workshops examining a cross section from the Museum’s collections will offer the rare opportunity to critically reassess the ways these pieces have been interpreted, renegotiate our relationships […]
A multidisciplinary, Black-centered no-holds-barred exploration of race and equity. The performance engages evolving legal policies, public sentiment and lived reality to consider how the boundaries and public perception of Black life are constructed and maintained and the ongoing effect of such policies.
A arts festival that represents the global community in the Bay Area and celebrates new works centering Black, Indigenous and people of color and LGBTQ+ voices. The festival will feature work by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Crowded Fire Theatre Company, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco Recovery Theatre, African Art Academy and Dimensions […]
A feminist thriller by playwright Anna Moench about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along, and decide they are going to do something about it. Inspired by a real-life incident at a Christian mission in Southeast Asia, the play delves into the lives of four young Korean American women […]
An interdisciplinary ecofeminist theatrical production for vocalists and dancers celebrating the beauty of Black American women while acknowledging the limits of human resilience. The work is built upon previously published poetry of Black American women to create a loose, thematic story arc that will honor ancestral wisdom and invite women to claim agency over their […]
