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 […]

It’s Hard To Say

This is the story of a dancing banana. Try saying it out loud: “Dancing banana.” On the first syllable of “dancing” and the second syllable of “banana” your mouth turns up into a smile.

The Christmas Ballet

Smuin kicks off the holiday season with the first-ever virtual edition of its ever-popular The Christmas Ballet program. Featuring the best of both worlds—breathtaking classical ballet as well as festive contemporary numbers—this season’s […]

Cid Pearlman Performance: (home)Body

Cid Pearlman Performance announces new immersive dance/poetry/video/installation, home(Body), which is now viewable at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, as part of the Rydell Fellows’ exhibition. (home)Body was […]

The Show Goes On

Join us for this special year-end free online event celebrating the people and events that have established our work over the past three and half decades. Come be inspired and […]

Breathing at the Boundaries

Available to view online Now – Wed, Jan 6. Breathing at the Boundaries has been at the center of our activism these last few months. This new performance – with the MJDC […]

Sean Dorsey Dance 2021 AT-HOME Season

Sean Dorsey Dance brings our 2021 home season INTO YOUR HOME! Join us for a FIRST LOOK at Sean Dorsey Dance’s new multi-year project: THE LOST ART OF DREAMING explores and […]

Burn Scars

You can still see the burn scars that dot the hills near the campus where I live, which is on the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi tribe and the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

Welcome

I’ve been reading, reading, reading. It’s a lovely part of my job. I get to read grant proposals, budgets (numbers tell a story, too), research studies, emails and numerous articles […]

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 […]