An interactive and experimental theater piece narrating a return journey to Africa and highlighting the voices of artists from the Bay Area in vibrant conversation with their counterparts in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. Comprising two live physical venues – one in San Francisco and one in Accra, Ghana, audiences will engage with this multimedia performance […]

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 […]