Chimera explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior, relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language that combines care, wildness, intimacy, and enthusiasm, and centers on a duet between two men. The use of video design describes the often unseen implications of how relationships reveal hidden aspects […]

For A Moment/No Longer(working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. breaking open and re-assembling. about turning towards each other, the necessity of heartbreak, and trusting the pulse as a rhythm to follow home. For A Moment/No Longer studies the physicality of moving from the heartbeat as resist/persist-ence practice through the act of breaking open. […]

Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.

Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.

Bryan Arias’ The Broken Glass premiered during SFDanceworks’ 6th season (2023).  Delving into themes of resilience, fragility, and redemption, The Broken Glass offers audiences a profound exploration of the human condition. Through contemporary dance styles and abstract narratives, personal stories of family and roots are intricately woven. From the vibrant rhythms of Arias’ Puerto Rican heritage to the […]

nefesh sutures generations and genres, bridging the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims millennia old diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by anti-semitism and Zionism to imagine Jewish futures. nefesh invites audiences to inhabit the very fleshy experience of being, and at times the breath and vitality […]

Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the […]

Chimera explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior, relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language that combines care, wildness, intimacy, and enthusiasm, and centers on a duet between two men. The use of video design describes the often unseen implications of how relationships reveal hidden aspects […]

Bryan Arias’ The Broken Glass premiered during SFDanceworks’ 6th season (2023).  Delving into themes of resilience, fragility, and redemption, The Broken Glass offers audiences a profound exploration of the human condition. Through contemporary dance styles and abstract narratives, personal stories of family and roots are intricately woven. From the vibrant rhythms of Arias’ Puerto Rican heritage to the […]

For A Moment/No Longer(working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. breaking open and re-assembling. about turning towards each other, the necessity of heartbreak, and trusting the pulse as a rhythm to follow home. For A Moment/No Longer studies the physicality of moving from the heartbeat as resist/persist-ence practice through the act of breaking open. […]

nefesh sutures generations and genres, bridging the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims millennia old diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by anti-semitism and Zionism to imagine Jewish futures. nefesh invites audiences to inhabit the very fleshy experience of being, and at times the breath and vitality […]

Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the […]