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A collaboration between Afro-Cuban choreographer Susana Arenas Pedroso and Guinean arts organization, Duniya Dance and Drum Company, illuminating the cultural and political

A series of site-specific works presented and produced by Epiphany Dance Theater and Deaf Choreographer Antoine Hunter and directed by Kim Epifano, inspired by Hunter’s Blackfoot heritage. Native Land, Native Hands will feature ASL-choreography, Hand Talk (the first language of Deaf Native Americans), text, original music and other forms of dance to illuminate narratives surrounding […]

A series of live, theatrical, site specific rituals by performance collective For You (Erika Chong Shuch, Ryan Tacata and Rowena Richie), in collaboration with elders from Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly. The Welcoming will serve as a historic reentry into a distant world in the wake of COVID-19.

A community art and research project that explores the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx health outcomes in San Francisco’s Mission District. The project will feature a multimedia performance and video installation to address health disparities and high COVID-19 infection rates in the Latinx day laborer and domestic worker communities.

A dance performance that unites ancient traditions with emerging technologies to explore humanity’s fragile relationship to our waters and oceans.

An Afrofuturistic theatrical adventure that takes place in a newly divided United States. Follow the Ibeji (twins) Kehinde and Taiwo as they negotiate freedom, love and happiness in a new independent Black nation.

A multi-media theater collaboration between lead artist videographer/photographer Joan Osato, writer Sunhui Chang, director Ellen Sebastian Chang and Story Center. To be presented as a part of San Francisco Magic Theater’s New Performance Program, the boiling centers a search for home, identity and redemption in America amidst a history and tradition of violence.

A new collaboration between deaf choreographer Antoine Hunter, Capacitor Performance and Gallaudet University’s TinkerLab. In Cross-Polliination an interdisciplinary cohort of deaf and deaf-blind electrical engineering and dance students will deconstruct and apply strategies of deaf communication through dance, design and interactive technologies to explore new modes of communication.