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 […]
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 […]
