Strike & Release reimagines waacking, a street dance stemming from underground Los Angeles queer clubs in the 1970s, by placing it in a longer-form theater context to highlight the storytelling elements of this dance. As a series of interconnected vignettes punctuated by full cast pieces, Strike & Release examines how waacking can be a conduit to folks loving and liberating the parts of themselves that others want to erase – particularly in times of sociopolitical turmoil.