A new multidisciplinary performance collaboration between choreographer Nikka Maynard, dance company Diamano Coura, composer Terrance Kelly, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and arts service organization World Arts West exploring the spiritual and artistic connections between African Diasporic culture and the East Bay community.
A cross-disciplinary work in development that creates a new Rainbow Dao Ma Dan through the character of a Chinese opera heroine who transcends time, borders and gender norms to reflect the vibrant and resilient life story of the diasporic Chinese and Chinese immigrant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.
A new multidisciplinary theater piece, exploring the concept of trans Indigenous and two-spirit identity, that will have a developmental workshop culminating in public performances at Z Space.
A boundary-pushing live theater experience that reimagines healing through participatory storytelling, extended reality (XR) and community ritual in a series of play-game sessions.
A multidisciplinary piece blending climate science, vertical dance and audiovisual design to celebrate trans joy. Premiering at the 2026 Trans March, it reimagines public space in San Francisco’s Transgender District.
“Figure it out (a temporary commune)” is a two-month community residency for creative experiments, workshops and performances taking place October-November 2025 at Space 124. Directed by Circo Zero, “Figure it out” creates a context for queer, cross-racial and intergenerational collaboration centering politically-engaged dance.
Hip-hop theater ensemble Felonious explores commodification, ageism and survival, as told through the eyes of an almost washed-up band in this new play.
A new full-length work for dance artists Leyya Mona Tawil and Zari Le’on, with an interactive live score by musician St Celfer, premiering at The Lab in February 2027.
A new multi disciplinary ritual performance experience that utilizes sacred myths, stories, folk wisdom and Yorubá/Lukumí divination technologies to respond to the current environmental climate crisis through a process of community and land listening, prayer and embodied oracle practice.
In collaboration with community class members, company members, artists and Senegalese cultural practitioners, Diamano Coura will design and host a tanebeer to celebrate Senegal’s Independence Day on Saturday, April 4, 2026, to revive Senegalese Sabar in Oakland.
