A new, experimental, site-responsive work by choreographer SAMMAY Peñaflor Dizon that will push the boundaries of street dance, challenge western notions of concert dance and draw attention to ongoing policy battles concerning a woman’s right to choose and ultimately have sovereignty over her/their body.
Z Space will develop two new pieces by Bay Area native Austin Dean Ashford, an emerging solo performer whose work focuses on re-claiming classical euro-centric stories for Black audiences through rap, song, beatboxing and ukelele.
This project will work with leaders and members of the Black community in the Bay Area to shine a light on the troubling reality of police interactions. Through community workshops and performances in neighborhood-specific locations, this piece will blend improv techniques and real-life stories to educate and foster conversation around this critical topic in the […]
Created in response to the California wildfires of 2020, “BURNING WILD” is a devised performance incorporating physical theatre, song, dance, documentary video and puppetry to tell a collaged docu-myth. Born out of a call for growth and transformation, “BURNING WILD” re-envisions the intersection of ensemble theater and radical community care, using arts and wellness as […]
A dance work that redefines ability and embodiment by using robotics technologies to assist disabled dancers, exploring new movement potential and the use of apparatuses for “superhuman” movement.
A Filipino Futurism Punk Rock Sci-Fi Music Play set in a diasporic, dystopian future where creativity is outlawed. “DarkHeart” immerses the audience in speculative futures, Filipino Futurism (influenced from Afrofuturism), explorations of Filipino diaspora and liberation, indigenous sciences and decolonization movements.
A reexamination of the Middle Eastern epic story rumored to have inspired Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet.” Torange Yeghiazarian’s adaptation will experiment with Iranian performance traditions, music and movement in an ensemble-driven creative process. Unlike traditional tellings, this adaptation will center the female character, Leyli, directly challenging the erasure of women’s experience in historic literary works.
A dance-based work of performance grappling with multi-racial collaboration, anti-racist art, queer eroticism and femme power. Using the radical concept of “failure” as a form of protest of purity and perfection, the piece will challenge rigid success notions and create space to reimagine alternatives.
A visual arts installation and performance artwork that utilizes indoor and outdoor spaces, blending traditional ritual, music and dance with visual art and electronic sound through wearable wireless devices and a multi-sensor tracking system. Rooted in deep engagement with Asian diaspora immigrant, refugee and asylee communities, this work will amplify the hopes and intentions for […]
An evening of choreographic experiments conducted in three hour-long parts that integrates contemporary dance, installation, sound production and community engagement to blur the lines between Black sociality, spectatorship and performance. “DIASPORATICA” explores Black gatherings that center collective rest, play, somatic experimentation as resistance and strategies that challenge the insidiously oppressive labor practices in dance and […]
