SF’s Free Dance Mission Theater Festival 2025 (Oct 25-26)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A social-political dance festival addressing our current dystopian times. Two weekends, three distinct programs! At a time when freedom of speech is being attacked, these D.I.R.T. artists are not backing down.

About FUGITIVITY by Naka Dance Theater
Program A
Oct 25-26: Sat-Sun, 2:30pm & 4:30pm
Program A includes the option to see part of the show outdoors. Dress for weather.

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?

The 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.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.