NAKA Dance Theater’s Fugitivity is an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the theme of fugitivity: Who has lost the ability to move freely? Who is forced to flee? How can we respond creatively to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations? What underground networks are keeping people safe?

PERFORMANCES

Saturday, October 25
2:30pm (ASL Interpretation available)
4:30pm

Sunday, October 26
2:30pm
4:30pm (Haptic Tour at 4pm; Audio Description by Gravity Access Services)

LOCATION
Dance Mission Theater’s D.I.R.T. (Dance in Revolting Times) Festival
3316 24th Street
San Francisco

TICKETS
Through Dance Mission D.I.R.T. Festival

Our project centers the revolutionary capacity of improvisation to challenge and shift structures of power, hierarchy and oppression. An eight-member artistic cohort will engage in an immersive process of experimentation, generating and exploring structures within which movement, sound, visual imagery, video and storytelling interact to interrogate systems of power and imagine new possibilities for the future.

Woven throughout this work is an exploration of the parallels and connections between the Underground Railroad and contemporary networks of people, places, and information that currently exist to support immigrants and other “fugitives”. With the increased dangers of deportation and xenophobia in our socio-political climate, these networks and systems are simultaneously being strengthened and are under threat.

Created and performed by: Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Cristina Lopez Suarez, Krhistina Giles, Music Research Strategies (Marshall Trammell), Oka Ver, Jose Ome Mazatl and Debby Kajiyama, with video and object design by Ian Winters. Lighting design by Jose Maria Francos.

This performance is supported by Dance Mission’s D.I.R.T. Festival, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Initiative, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, California Arts Council.

Photo by Scott Tsuchitani