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An improvisation-based dance performance by three local dance artists inspired by stories of local Iranian-American immigrants.

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A world premiere play by local playwright Christopher Chen that includes local artists and audiences in an immersive play exploring what it means to be human.

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A radically participatory and collaborative world-premiere play set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s disappearing artist spaces. In this timely struggle, a diverse ensemble of creators fights to save a beloved cultural haven from impending closure.

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A dance-theatre collaboration by choreographer Babatunji Johnson, poet Maddy Clifford and photographer Bethanie Hines that reimagines the Phoenix myth to explore resilience as a collective, relational act.

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A genre-warping, sci-fi Wild Western physical theatre work built for the streets, theaters and abandoned lots of the Bay Area. Loud, unfiltered and unrelenting, this Afro-Indigenous reclamation twists saloons, stand-offs and open ranges into something raw, mythic and untamed.

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A multimedia intergenerational performance engaging formative environments of childhood in connection to layers of memory, weight and possibility presented by interdisciplinary dance artists Isak Immanuel and Marina Fukushima alongside community participants. 

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“BCF: Here & Now” supports emerging and mid-career artists in residencies to cultivate innovative dance works.

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A new dance and music work investigating the influence of Black American protest dance and music on contemporary dance forms like House and Hip Hop through intersecting lenses of Dance Cyphers and Afrofuturism.

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A new multidisciplinary performance blending Turf Dance and spoken word to explore the emotional landscape of potent emotions, offering a powerful expression of loss, joy, memory and healing.

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A new multidisciplinary performance collaboration between choreographer Nikka Maynard, dance company Diamano Coura, composer Terrance Kelly, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and arts service organization World Arts West exploring the spiritual and artistic connections between African Diasporic culture and the East Bay community.

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A cross-disciplinary work in development that creates a new Rainbow Dao Ma Dan through the character of a Chinese opera heroine who transcends time, borders and gender norms to reflect the vibrant and resilient life story of the diasporic Chinese and Chinese immigrant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

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A new multidisciplinary theater piece, exploring the concept of trans Indigenous and two-spirit identity, that will have a developmental workshop culminating in public performances at Z Space.

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A devised theater piece that brings together local community members across generational and cultural divides to theatrically explore critical questions about our existence and provide a space for the community to courageously exchange their thoughts and creative explorations.

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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.