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 […]
A performance experience for teens and young adults about navigating consent and learning embodied skills through the creative process and performance choregraphed by Yayoi Kambara, narrated and guided live by drag queen Black Benatar (aka Mx. Beatrice Thomas) and in partnership with Dance Mission Theater’s Grrrl Brigade and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the […]
A full-length dance performance piece that will explore the storytelling capacity of Kathak from a modern perspective by challenging traditional approaches to the classical dance form and centering a wider range of movement vocabulary and narrative to expand the Kathak form.
A new bilingual play by Tere Martinez, casting light on the exploitative relationship the United States has with Puerto Rico and revealing how colonization processes are still alive and well in our contemporary society. Performed in Spanish, English or Spanglish, depending on the content of the scene, the play will feature projected supertitles to ensure […]
A multi-disciplinary dance project focused on migration from Asia to North and South America and the intercultural mixing of and support between the Chinese and Peruvian communities. Featuring original music, recorded interviews and dance, the piece explores the impact of migrant communities in the Americas on culture, food, music, dance, art, language, spirituality, tradition and […]
The first play by Naomi Izuka to be produced at the Magic Theatre, “GARUDA’S WING” investigates familial and cultural history through intimate human portraits spanning two generations. The piece explores ancestry, privilege, co-optation, colonial effects and global politics.
A new play told through the lens of skateboarders, integrating the traditional Day of the Dead Festival Altars at Potrero del Sol Park with local skateboarding culture. Working with an ensemble of 10 talented skaters, the piece will uplift the annual Day of the Dead altars and honor the circle of life and death.
A site-specific and transdisciplinary work set across San Francisco’s Chinatown exploring queerness, mixed lineages and audience connection through song, movement, food and drag. At its core, it focuses on ancestral healing and the collective relationships we have with our mothers or mother figures.
A dance piece using improvisational techniques to confront white supremacy and catalyze social change by developing methods of inquiry rooted in experimental performance to fuel cathartic, game-changing conversation around privilege, supremacy, economics, immigration and race.
An interdisciplinary work of dance, theater and visual art installations that explores the innate connection between creation/destruction and birth/death through the lens of queer performance and intergenerational Drag ancestry.
