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A duet of choreographed and contemporary dance, drag artistry and live full body tracking in Virtual Reality (VR) featuring Cy Berspace that explores how mixed reality can serve as an integration tool for people inhabiting a trans/queer body and how we can build socially diverse digital worlds.

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Choreographer Deborah Slater and playwright Eugenie Chan unite with a multigenerational collective of diverse women storytellers/artists to create a series of devised dance/theater vignettes around loss, grief and hope using movement, film and acting based on intergenerational legacy in both a western Chinese-American family and the gathered collaborators.

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A four-part theatrical series offering four unique and intimate Black experiences, inspired by four visionary African American artworks – Jacob Lawrence’s “The Great Migration”; Romare Bearden’s “Sunday After Sermon”; Kehinde Wiley’s “We Want Peace” and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s “Hollywood Africans.”

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An immersive performance-exhibit exploring and exploding gender, race and spirituality through a Black Queer and Trans lens. “Suga'” will spark vital conversations within the SF Bay Area LGBTQIA+ communities and beyond, empowering folks to envision a gender-liberated future powered by Black joy.

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An immersive dance theater experience that uplifts marginalized communities by addressing the impact of climate change on Black and BIPOC neighborhoods, thereby offering a unique opportunity for self-discovery through nature and the arts that ultimately aims to transform the relationship between the community and the environment.

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“Dance House” transforms CounterPulse into an immersive world blending vertical dance, drag, modern dance, and queer nightlife, inviting audiences to participate in joyful, norm-defying movement and interdisciplinary connections. Creator Saharla Vetsch builds on her bridging of these disparate forms and communities to forge new interdisciplinary work and connections.

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A new piece by Shefali Shah drawing on Shefali’s expertise in Puerto Rican Bomba that explores the emotional transition to womanhood, self- awareness and strength of identity.

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An evocative performance piece delving into the intricate journey of healing a body burdened by unprocessed generational trauma. Incorporating elements of dance, song, spoken word and architecture, “may we heal?” strives to embody a deeply human experience, inviting audiences to connect from an open-hearted space.

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A fully immersive production exploring the displacement of QTBIPOC communities from San Francisco, the preservation of our legacies and the rebuilding of our sanctuaries. “Pompeii” will be a celebration of our community’s boundless potential through contemporary dance, devised theater and drag.

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Utilizing vibrant genres such as Haitian, Funk and Hip Hop music and dance, “Healing to Joy” will explore the intricate connection between historical pain and joy, highlighting the resilience of our cultural heritages. This multi-genre approach will foster community healing, encouraging participants to discover joy through movement and rhythm.

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This danced ritual will incorporate a blend of movement languages that reflect the diverse backgrounds of the dancers of the Malonga Arts community. Using research on family histories, the study of epigenetics and foundational Rites of Passage Ritual Dance, “Asogwe – Rites of Passage” aims to reveal profound insights into the beauty, power and resilience of the human spirit.  

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Trans and queer communities endure constant trauma, loss and grief. Sean Dorsey Dance’s “THE OPPOSITE OF GRIEF IS” asks, “What is the opposite of grief? What is an embodied antidote? Joy? Rest? Connection?” in a new piece featuring contemporary dance, theater, storytelling and queer partnering.

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A one-person show using theater, sample-based sounds, video and found text to explore the historic, economic and cultural relationship connecting the Bay Area and Panama through the lens of one Black Panamanian-American family’s story of forced displacement, world building and (dreams of) return.

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An unapologetically political and satirical comedy collage featuring feminist stories from “A Thousand and One Nights,” epic storytelling, puppetry, music and personal stories shared by community circles.

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A heart-felt plea, prayer, rally, fist up for our communities slowly dying. Through survivor interviews, the beauty and resistance of Black concert dance, music, vocals and public health collaborations, “I’m.Still.Here” will caution the community and celebrate our survival.

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Chorographer Hector Jaime’s first full-evening original dance composition expressing and sharing the culture of shamanic animal shapeshifting abilities with Mexican Indigenous roots.

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A community-engaged dance project that combines the traditional practices of Daoist internal arts with inkBoat’s theater and performance-devising traditions, rooted in Japanese avant-garde performing arts.

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A multicultural cabaret that explores the commonalities between traditional presentations of South Asian art in the court and salon setting, the cabaret of Europe and the Americas, and the queer balls of the United States and now the world.

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A multi-linear, intimate, personal narrative dance piece that uses visual projection, ice sculpture and contemporary dance to offer a sonically immersive and emotionally nurturing dance space for the Bay Area Queer Asian Community and first generation immigrants.