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A dance project that will physicalize and synthesize the prayer, divination and offerings of the Ose Tura ritual, creating a movement odyssey spanning physical and ancestral worlds and presented in four chapters at site-specific San Francisco locations.

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A dance that explores intersectional, intergenerational and diverse Latinx identities and politics as lived by the artistic team and found in the lyrics of Chicano singer El Vez’s songs._

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A multimedia dance theater project exploring the seismic changes in our lives due to the global pandemic and ongoing world and national crises. The project is a collaboration choreographer Deborah Slater and culture curator/equity consultant Tammy Johnson in conjunction with five choreographer/dancers, spoken word creators/performers from Youth Speaks and composer Marcus Shelby.

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A live site-responsive performance that explores sanctuary spaces and rebuilding from the wreckage caused by the displacement of queer and people of color communities from San Francisco. The project blends devised theater, contemporary dance and drag to create a fully immersive experience.

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A new collaboration between theater company Eye Zen Presents, writer/pastor Marvin K. White and community partner San Francisco Heritage. The project explores the hidden history of queer ancestor, Sylvester, providing an understanding of racial equity within the queer liberation movement in the Haight of the ‘60s and ‘70s against the backdrop of civil rights, anti-war, student uprising, feminism and Gay liberation.

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A dance performance that asks how women’s beds hold what is messy, tragic and grueling. Responding to the question, “How is your Bed an Antidote?” the project features site-specific dances and a visual art exhibit by incarcerated women artists, organized in collaboration with Rahsaan Thomas of Empowerment Avenue and the Museum of African Diaspora.

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A year-long collaboration among dance artist-activists Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr and Karla Quintero that explores shared leadership through dance to develop practices for sharing choreographic power resulting in performance, dialogue and installation.

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An evening length performance and extended reality project choreographed by Yayoi Kambara that uses Japanese American history as a tool for learning. The dance performance explores unjust Japanese American incarceration, struggles for reparations and healing and current/future solidarities with communities facing the violence of xenophobic policies.

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A new ensemble work instigated by Jess Curtis in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of Blind, Low Vision and sighted artists and consultants, which will examine cultural and phenomenological experiences of darkness and light. Into the Dark addresses the physical, subconscious and literal effects of Western thought’s binary mobilization of darkness and light in societal and individual creations of meaning.

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A new project commissioned by the Asian Art Museum that explores the talismanic power of dance through a multidisciplinary ritual performance. Over the next year, a series of workshops examining a cross section from the Museum’s collections will offer the rare opportunity to critically reassess the ways these pieces have been interpreted, renegotiate our relationships to the institution and explore how Pilipino Americans might build artistic tools to unravel the wounds of colonialism.

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A multidisciplinary, Black-centered no-holds-barred exploration of race and equity. The performance engages evolving legal policies, public sentiment and lived reality to consider how the boundaries and public perception of Black life are constructed and maintained and the ongoing effect of such policies.

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A arts festival that represents the global community in the Bay Area and celebrates new works centering Black, Indigenous and people of color and LGBTQ+ voices. The festival will feature work by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Crowded Fire Theatre Company, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco Recovery Theatre, African Art Academy and Dimensions Dance.

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A feminist thriller by playwright Anna Moench about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along, and decide they are going to do something about it. Inspired by a real-life incident at a Christian mission in Southeast Asia, the play delves into the lives of four young Korean American women faced with a choice.

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An interdisciplinary ecofeminist theatrical production for vocalists and dancers celebrating the beauty of Black American women while acknowledging the limits of human resilience. The work is built upon previously published poetry of Black American women to create a loose, thematic story arc that will honor ancestral wisdom and invite women to claim agency over their own bodies

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An interdisciplinary project that explores Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) Deaf homelessness and Bay Area gentrification. Utilizing American Sign Language (ASL), spoken text, modern/ballet dance, silence and original music composed by local hard of hearing musician, Radha Mehta, this project will educate audiences about the exponential risk of gentrification and homelessness in BIPOC, Deaf, Disabled and marginalized communities in the Bay Area.

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A live theater experience of Jimbo’s Bop City, an iconic mid-20th century diner and jazz venue where some of the most innovative jazz musicians played in San Francisco and where the movement for racial justice, music and urban planning collided in a dramatic and instructive way. During this immersive theater experience, audiences will explore a recreation of Bop City at a venue in San Francisco’s Fillmore District and learn about the roots of today’s housing crisis.

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Aperformance project celebrating imagination as a powerful form of resistance. Towards Opulence engages San Francisco Tenderloin residents—often living without access to essential services—to envision one’s most opulent self that grows from and feeds community-wide change.

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A performance ritual film by artist Sammay Dizon that seeks to de-stigmatize and elevate mental health in the Filipinx diasporic community. Memorya will use a multi-modal approach of movement, song and spoken word to explore ancestral remembering and intergenerational healing.

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A multi-media performance piece by jose e. abad and co-choreographers Styles Alexander, Gabriel Christian, Clarissa Dyas and Stephanie Hewet that explores the potentialities of Black life in the Diaspora. The work will be presented at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.