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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.

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A new project that takes an experimental and innovative approach to sustaining Pilipinx indigenous ritual and arts through the platform/lens of contemporary performance. “Tubong for Living Ancestors” features and reclaims the tubong, a Philipino Indigenous pre-colonial practice.

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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.