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A provocative burlesque-style program that pushes against expectations of what hula should be. Inspired by the musical “Cabaret” but with hula and without the Nazis, this will be an adult-themed show that cheekily reflects the impacts and realities of our ever-evolving multicultural world.

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A devised theater piece that explores intergenerational silences left in the wake of migration. Through relationships with their parents and local community members, Erika Chong Shuch and Sharon Shao will devise an immersive performance that uses theater and food to facilitate intergenerational conversations and stories.

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An evening-length dance-theater experience that immerses audiences in the sacred and spiritual traditions of Indigenous Filipino culture, integrating dance, music, attire, songs, chants and narrative to create a more holistic representation of Filipino culture.

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A queer, multidisciplinary evening-length double-bill program with a full queer/BIPOC creative team exploring asianfuturist performance that engages with the riskiness of hope so that we may enact change.

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A multidisciplinary dance theater piece exploring Candomblé and Pentecostalism; as these venerable expressions of faith and culture – similar, yet distinct – took root and evolved in Brazil and throughout the Americas.

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This new play by Reed Flores is a Sailor Moon-esque adventure through the Bay Area pitting unlikely, nunchuk-armed heroes against a slew of wild villains. “Cuckoo Edible Magic” explores themes of Bay Area Asian American Pacific Islander life, Queer love and complex family dynamics–both “born” and “chosen.”

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A site-specific devised dance theater re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” that deconstructs the fairytale in the context of the daunting questions that come with generative AI seeping into our everyday experience.

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A community-engaged dance-theater project highlighting the stories of Indian immigrant women, created through a collaboration with Bharatnatyam artists and domestic violence recovery nonprofit, Narika.

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A new play and modular community performance by poet and activist Yosimar Reyes created through a participatory storytelling process with Teatro Visión’s community in East San José. The piece blends local history and music to elevate community voices and inspire neighborhood civic engagement.

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A three-day theatrical production that explores self-love and self-acceptance through monologues, poems and dance collaborations by Black Trans emerging artists.

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A raw and compelling interdisciplinary work by UJDC and Choreographer Antoine Hunter exploring the experiences of Deaf children navigating the education system, pulling from interviews with Deaf students, educators and families.

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This project will work with leaders and members of the Black community in the Bay Area to shine a light on the troubling reality of police interactions. Through community workshops and performances in neighborhood-specific locations, this piece will blend improv techniques and real-life stories to educate and foster conversation around this critical topic in the Black community.

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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