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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.

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A comedic theatrical drama that brings the multiplicity of socio-cultural and social justice issues to the forefront regarding fentanyl’s besiegement of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a script based on psychiatrist William H. Grier’s 1968 book, “Black Rage,” the piece aims to increase public awareness while giving voice to Black artists to present their own social commentary on such a multi-dynamic issue.

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A fan letter to the poet nun of Mexico whose prolific work as a scholar, poet and playwright in the 17th century garnered her both recognition and censorship. This original bilingual (Spanish/English) script seeks to amplify unrepresented voices and foster dialogue around themes of censorship, identity, body autonomy and whose voices are permitted to center public discourse.

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A multi-disciplinary piece exploring the toll of climate grief, especially on disabled communities who are often on the frontlines of climate disasters and the first to be abandoned or rendered disposable. This performance will explore the complex interconnections and ultimately give rise to a vision for a livable future, shaped by the resourcefulness and resilience that is required of disabled people every day to ensure survival.

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A dance piece taking audiences on a captivating journey through time and perspective, exploring land acknowledgements from an Indigenous viewpoint. This audacious and satirical performance challenges conventional land acknowledgments, urging us to rethink our connection to land and ancestors.

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This piece aims to transcend cultural boundaries and showcase the contemporary relevance of South Asian Dance in the international context. Using movement, poetry, theater, animation and 3D projection mapping technology, this dance work will challenge conventional notions of beauty and the idealization of womanhood while celebrating the simple joys that add vitality and vibrancy to our lives.

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A song-creation and hula project that will celebrate the untold stories of people of African descent who came to Hawaiʻi as a direct result of colonization and enslavement. The piece celebrates the legacies of Hawai’i’s historical figures of African descent to ensure the history of marginalized people are not erased and their stories are told.

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A piece conceived in and for a COVID and post-COVID world, exploring the nature of our relationship to the character of light, home and the passage of time – through the collection of a year-long data time-lapse of spectral footprint (or color) of light in homes worldwide. The data will be transformed into a live visual, music and physical installation piece to answer the question – what is the color of domestic light?