“The Mvila Project: Initiation” is the first installment in a dance-centered series exploring Kongo cultural identity across the global diaspora. Developed in Oakland/East Palo Alto, with research in New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, the project unfolds through community inquiry and embodied practice, culminating in a performance premiering in spring 2028.
Translated and adapted by Torange Yeghiazarian and commissioned by Golden Thread Productions, “Khosrow & Shirin” fuses Iranian storytelling and live music with an epic re-telling of the classic Persian poem of the love between a Sasanian king and an Armenian princess in a public developmental workshop in early 2027.
“Long Covid: It’s. Not. Over.” is a high-impact dance-on-film piece and community wellness campaign featuring Grown Black dancers and Long Covid survivors. It amplifies survivors’ voices and critical public health information via dance and multi-generational community arts and wellness gatherings in Oakland, East Contra Costa County and via social media, supporting those isolated and left […]
“REBEL BODIES: Medea / She Is the Monkey King” is a new interdisciplinary dance-theater piece by Jia Wu, Emiko Saraswati Susilo and Lydia Greer. Merging Asian traditional dance forms, dance theater, Balinese shadow puppetry and animation, this work explores immigrant displacement. It will premiere at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco in spring 2028.
Kearny Street Workshop, with Lead Artist Kim Acebo Arteche and collaborating artists Joshua Icban and Transcriptions01, presents “pact: proto-calls of belonging”–transforming Queer Filipinx oral histories into embodied chant, song and dance. Developed through community research, it culminates in site-based community rituals across San Francisco in 2028 that honor the history of the Filipino Task Force […]
“Ahualulco,” in development by Choreographer Vanessa Sanchez, is a 60-minute percussive dance and music work featuring 12 artists across dance and musical tradtions exploring the cultural, historical and rhythmic connections between Veracruz [Mexico] and Cuba.
“Requiem for the End of Empire” is a new performance inviting the public–through participatory performance ritual–to craft a new social contract for the United States during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
“Glamputee’s LEGacy Ball” is a multimedia performance featuring an ensemble of five Black, queer, trans and disabled artists that celebrates accessible art through Drag performance.
“Journey to Home” is an immersive, site-responsive, interactive intervention in the form of participatory performances staged inside a residence in San Francisco’s Sunset District by Golden Gate Park. A light meal will be served.
“GH: 456” is Episodes 4, 5 and 6 of “Government Housing,” a ten-episode AfroFuturist multidisciplinary work written and directed by Dr. ayodele nzinga, featuring an ensemble of Black Bay Area artists and produced by the Lower Bottom Playaz.
