Soft Power

Uncomfortable sweat drips under my arms, my cheeks burning as I speak up on the panel. I challenge an application because it’s unclear how the applicant belonged to a marginalized BIPOC community and why they share stories of this community as a cis-white person.

From Containment to Expansion: A Tenderloin Meditation

With From Containment to Expansion ABDProductions /Skywatchers Ensemble marks a decade of radical community-centered art making in the Tenderloin.

slow, sticky, sustainable

I am ready for a different world. I am ready for a world where care leads practices of policy-making. I am ready for a world where we abolish not only systems of physical incarceration, but punitive and carceral thinking and culture as well.

FACT/SF: Diffusion

Join FACT/SF for our return to live and in-person performances! Created by Charles Slender-White and a cast of 7 performers, Diffusion takes audience members on a guided, 45-minute walking tour through one […]

SF Dance Film Festival Spring Fling

Bringing live performance from the stage to the screen, San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Spring Fling Festival pays tribute to all the dancers who were prevented from performing live for the […]

Megan Lowe Dances & APICC present “Maw Jaw”

Megan Lowe Dances and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center team up to present Maw Jaw, as part of the 24th Annual United States of Asian America Festival 2021: Forging Our Futures. USAAF showcases some […]

FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL – 20th Anniversary

The 20th annual FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and queer performance, showcasing dance, theater, music, poetry, and comedy – expands to two weeks of FREE online performances, presented from […]

Emergence Dance Festival

Emergence Dance is proud to present our first virtual dance festival of the 2021 season. This love themed festival centers around the movement in falling into the true passion of […]

In Conversation: Claudine Naganuma and Selma Apara

You are reading excerpts from Claudine Naganuma and Selma Apara’s recorded conversation. Listen to the conversation. Transcript of the full conversation

FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL – 20th Anniversary

The 20th annual FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and queer performance, showcasing dance, theater, music, poetry, and comedy – expands to two weeks of FREE online performances, presented from […]