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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 cultural liberation practice.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 healing ourselves, one another and the land we share

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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 performance.

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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 Arts (SOTA).

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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.

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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 access and eliminate language barriers.

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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 building of societies and economies at large.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A contemporary evening-length dance work that will dismantle the toxic side of Catholic dogma in the Latinx/BIPOC community and present a vision for positive change.

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A new theatrical work based on the stories, lives and performances created by women from UCSF’s Women’s HIV Clinic in collaboration with The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle. Delving into themes of forgiveness, joy, friendship and sisterhood, this piece explores and dramatizes HIV clinic participants’ pivotal childhood memories while creating space for healing and transformation.

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A dance/music/language collaborative project by Risa Jaroslow, Rinde Eckert, Margaret Jenkins, Jon Kinzel and Vicky Shick. All artists of several different disciplines, all fully “emerged,” all over 55, most over 70, “Unstill Life” is an experiment in shedding the director role and coming together as equal partners to investigate the changing body, beauty, endurance, loss and joy that inevitably surround the aging process.