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“The Power of Our Differences” is a new 40-minute multi-generational contemporary dance work commissioned by AXIS, choreographed by Artistic Director Nadia Adame with composer Paul Shapera, dramaturg Mark Swetz and the AXIS ensemble. Drawing from Adame’s lived experience as a disabled artist, the piece moves from solo introspection into collective motion, centering disability as a generative aesthetic force that expands contemporary dance vocabulary through asymmetry, adaptation and interdependence.

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“GATHERING OF FLOWERS: Stories of Solidarity Across Latinx & AAPI Diaspora” is a new play by Kat Evasco and Liliana Herrera, created with Latinx and AAPI community members driven by a clear artistic vision: to create a polyvocal theatrical work that refuses the single protagonist’s arc and instead holds multiple voices, languages and truths on stage while inviting audiences not only to witness these communities, but to see the deep connections between them.

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“Going Out of Business” is a three-part series of site-specific, immersive Drag installations by lead artists Mama Celeste and KaiKai Bee Michaels. It invokes the historical legacy of queer community organizing during times of economic turmoil and political upheaval.

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“What We Carry” is a multidisciplinary, immersive performance exploring the intersecting experiences of US veterans and refugees impacted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, developed through a long-term community-driven process. It premieres in spring 2027.

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“AFTERLANDS” is a site-responsive, three-act theatrical experiment that reimagines the “Great American Play” through a queer, collaborative and process-driven lens.

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“Land and Us–Future Ritual” is a full-length dance and performance art piece exploring land-human connections in Asian mythologies and the complex hope of seeking refuge in a new place.

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“Blue Gold” is an interdisciplinary dance and music work by Duniya Dance and Drum Company and co-choreographers Joti Singh and Kara Mack, exploring indigo’s global histories—connecting colonization, slavery, resistance and climate justice.

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“The Mvila Project: Initiation” is the first installment in a dance-centered series exploring Kongo cultural identity across the global diaspora. Developed in Oakland/East Palo Alto, with research in New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, the project unfolds through community inquiry and embodied practice, culminating in a performance premiering in spring 2028.

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Translated and adapted by Torange Yeghiazarian and commissioned by Golden Thread Productions, “Khosrow & Shirin” fuses Iranian storytelling and live music with an epic re-telling of the classic Persian poem of the love between a Sasanian king and an Armenian princess in a public developmental workshop in early 2027.

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“Long Covid: It’s. Not. Over.” is a high-impact dance-on-film piece and community wellness campaign featuring Grown Black dancers and Long Covid survivors. It amplifies survivors’ voices and critical public health information via dance and multi-generational community arts and wellness gatherings in Oakland, East Contra Costa County and via social media, supporting those isolated and left behind by the ongoing Long Covid crisis.

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“REBEL BODIES: Medea / She Is the Monkey King” is a new interdisciplinary dance-theater piece by Jia Wu, Emiko Saraswati Susilo and Lydia Greer. Merging Asian traditional dance forms, dance theater, Balinese shadow puppetry and animation, this work explores immigrant displacement. It will premiere at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco in spring 2028.

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Kearny Street Workshop, with Lead Artist Kim Acebo Arteche and collaborating artists Joshua Icban and Transcriptions01, presents “pact: proto-calls of belonging”–transforming Queer Filipinx oral histories into embodied chant, song and dance. Developed through community research, it culminates in site-based community rituals across San Francisco in 2028 that honor the history of the Filipino Task Force on AIDS.

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“Ahualulco,” in development by Choreographer Vanessa Sanchez, is a 60-minute percussive dance and music work featuring 12 artists across dance and musical tradtions exploring the cultural, historical and rhythmic connections between Veracruz [Mexico] and Cuba.

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“Requiem for the End of Empire” is a new performance inviting the public–through participatory performance ritual–to craft a new social contract for the United States during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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“Glamputee’s LEGacy Ball” is a multimedia performance featuring an ensemble of five Black, queer, trans and disabled artists that celebrates accessible art through Drag performance.

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“Journey to Home” is an immersive, site-responsive, interactive intervention in the form of participatory performances staged inside a residence in San Francisco’s Sunset District by Golden Gate Park. A light meal will be served.

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“GH: 456” is Episodes 4, 5 and 6 of “Government Housing,” a ten-episode AfroFuturist multidisciplinary work written and directed by Dr. ayodele nzinga, featuring an ensemble of Black Bay Area artists and produced by the Lower Bottom Playaz.

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The Magic Theatre presents the world premiere of “A Rashomon” by Ashley Smiley (Playwright) and Joan Osato (Project Creator & Video Designer). Using elements of environmental and theatrical design, contemporary and ritual dance, a multi-layered soundscape and puppetry, Smiley and Osato adapt Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 masterpiece to current-day Bayview Hunters’ Point.

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The creation and world-premiere of plays written and performed by the Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe, actors who have survived incarceration and who tell stories of importance through theatre that build understanding and compassion and inspires social change.