I’m pleased to be performing a solo in-process excerpt of Lost Chinatowns at the Fury Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater on July 17 and 19 at Z Below in San Francisco.  The work will be performed as part of their Raw Materials Series alongside work by A Host of People (Detroit) and The Stations Ensemble (San Francisco).

Lost Chinatowns is a dance-theater work exploring the destruction, lost vibrancy, and historical erasure of Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns from 1860-1955. Santa Cruz, now known for being the ultra-liberal leftmost city of the US, was once the center of virulently xenophobic anti-Chinese racism in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The work’s visuals and texts will draw upon oral histories of former Chinatown residents, as well as historical archives of photographs,19th century anti-Chinese propaganda, and court transcripts of immigration cases. Lost Chinatowns aims to make connections between the historical othering of Asian bodies and current xenophobic regimes in the era of Trump as an act of interracial solidarity between people of color. Lost Chinatowns is being developed in part through Borders Resurfacing, a transnational creative exchange by the Post Natyam Collective.

Raw Materials B

Tues, July 17, 8 pm

Thurs, July 19, 7 pm

Z Below

470 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA

Tickets and Information: http://foolsfury.org/fury/furyfactory/rawmaterialsb2018/