A four-part theatrical series offering four unique and intimate Black experiences, inspired by four visionary African American artworks – Jacob Lawrence’s “The Great Migration”; Romare Bearden’s “Sunday After Sermon”; Kehinde Wiley’s “We Want Peace” and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s “Hollywood Africans.”
“Dance House” transforms CounterPulse into an immersive world blending vertical dance, drag, modern dance, and queer nightlife, inviting audiences to participate in joyful, norm-defying movement and interdisciplinary connections. Creator Saharla Vetsch builds on her bridging of these disparate forms and communities to forge new interdisciplinary work and connections.
A devised theater piece that explores intergenerational silences left in the wake of migration. Through relationships with their parents and local community members, Erika Chong Shuch and Sharon Shao will devise an immersive performance that uses theater and food to facilitate intergenerational conversations and stories.
This new play by Reed Flores is a Sailor Moon-esque adventure through the Bay Area pitting unlikely, nunchuk-armed heroes against a slew of wild villains. “Cuckoo Edible Magic” explores themes of Bay Area Asian American Pacific Islander life, Queer love and complex family dynamics–both “born” and “chosen.”
An evocative performance piece delving into the intricate journey of healing a body burdened by unprocessed generational trauma. Incorporating elements of dance, song, spoken word and architecture, “may we heal?” strives to embody a deeply human experience, inviting audiences to connect from an open-hearted space.
A heart-felt plea, prayer, rally, fist up for our communities slowly dying. Through survivor interviews, the beauty and resistance of Black concert dance, music, vocals and public health collaborations, “I’m.Still.Here” will caution the community and celebrate our survival.
Chorographer Hector Jaime’s first full-evening original dance composition expressing and sharing the culture of shamanic animal shapeshifting abilities with Mexican Indigenous roots.
A multidisciplinary dance theater piece exploring Candomblé and Pentecostalism; as these venerable expressions of faith and culture – similar, yet distinct – took root and evolved in Brazil and throughout the Americas.
This danced ritual will incorporate a blend of movement languages that reflect the diverse backgrounds of the dancers of the Malonga Arts community. Using research on family histories, the study of epigenetics and foundational Rites of Passage Ritual Dance, “Asogwe – Rites of Passage” aims to reveal profound insights into the beauty, power and resilience […]
