Just a Shadow
Program - 2025
Photo by: RJ Muna, of Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv
Megan Lowe Dances
Presents
Just a Shadow
(Back by Audience Demand and Adapted to ODC Theater with a New Live Music Set)
A performance journey of duets that celebrate life and honor memories of lost loved ones
April 4-6, 2025
Fridays/Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 3:30pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Director's Note
Just a Shadow is a performance journey in service to artists who have lost loved ones.
The title is inspired by a poem my mother wrote shortly before she died.
I am just a shadow
Walking in the moonlight
Just a shadow, wishing for a lost life
Just a shadow, wanting to make things right
Just a shadow, waiting for mornings light
This project stems from my desire to process the loss of my mother and sister through art, and co-create a space of mutual support with collaborators who are also dealing with recent loss. This project aspires to nourish the soul, support healing, acknowledge resilience, celebrate life, and honor the memories of loved ones. It welcomes diverse perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds, recognizing that the narratives surrounding death and processing grief are multifaceted and deeply personal. Through dance performance, this project aims to provide a platform for catharsis, empathy, and collective understanding, fostering connections that transcend individual stories and unite us in a shared journey toward solace and healing.
Thank you so much for sharing space with us, and coming to see this show! Please feel empowered to express how you are feeling during the performance. There is room for laughter, curiosity, tears, excitement, deep thinking, and smiles. We are honored to share this work with you!
- Sincerely, Megan
About MLD
With an affinity for dynamic places and partners, Megan Lowe Dances (MLD) shifts your perspective. Since 2013, MLD has been creating dances that demonstrate the "intensely-physical, curiously-playful, delightfully-weighty rigor of physicality” (Life as a Modern Dancer) in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. Directed by a choreographer of Chinese and Irish descent, MLD explores explores complex identities and experiences with dynamic place-making, playful partner-work, and generative rigor, paying particular attention to stories from AAPI, BIPOC, and mixed-race communities. MLD’s recent choreographic works, commissions, and collaborators have been seen at de Young Museum, Legion of Honor Museum, Fort Mason, ODC, 500 Capp Street Foundation, and Joe Goode Annex, as well as in SF Aerial Arts Festival, SF Trolley Dances, CAAMFest, United States of Asian America Festival, and on KQED Live. Our artistic process thrives via collaboration, prioritizing creating relationships of respect, generosity, and gratitude. MLD teaches invigorating dance workshops that empower movers from all backgrounds to try new things, embrace strengths, grow skill-sets, and build community.
Artistic Team
Artistic Direction by:
Megan Lowe
Creation & Performance by: AJ Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Megan Lowe, Marica Petrey, Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, and Shira Yaziv
Music by:
Megan Lowe and Marica Petrey / Girl Swallows Nightingale, including songs by Sade, Doris Day, The Meters, Radiohead, Rexx Life Raj, Loscil, and Josh Icban
Lighting Design by:
Ray Oppenheimer
ODC Technicians:
Del Medoff and Taylor Rivers
Rigging Design by:
Dave Freitag
Artistic Director
Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent. In addition to her works via MLD, Megan has performed with Flyaway Productions, Lenora Lee Dance, Dance Brigade, Scott Wells & Dancers, Lizz Roman & Dancers, Epiphany Productions, and more. She teaches for Joe Goode Performance Group, Bandaloop, and Flyaway, as well as for schools/youth programs, contact improvisation gatherings, and her alma mater Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where she currently works as the Program Associate. Megan recently won an Izzie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance, and was the Featured Artist of United States of Asian America Festival. Art is her heart!
Photo by: RJ Muna
Performers
AJ Gardner
AJ “Dopey Fresh” Gardner (he/him) is a Turf dancer/teacher, born and raised in San Francisco. He’s won many all styles jams and dance tournaments. In the entertainment industry, he’s worked with Mikey Disco from Knuckle Neck Tribe, Sony, Men’s Wearhouse, Trademark Inc, Souls of Mischief, E-40, Kanye West, Schoolboy Q, YG, and H.E.R. Dopey was the first Black Turf dancer to be featured on an SF billboard. Over the years, Dopey Fresh has shared his talents by teaching adult classes at City Dance Studio (first Black Turf dance instructor) and by teaching 1st graders at an all-Black, Oakland after-school program for 4 years under the Ujimaa Foundation. You can find him today throwing dance battles as CEO of UNKNOWN CHAMBERS and with his dance group UNKNOWN. AJ and Megan first worked together in 2023 with Mud Water Turf Theatre. Just a Shadow is his first project with MLD.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Sonsherée Giles
Sonsherée Giles (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and costume designer. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she moved to the SF Bay Area to attend Mills College and received an MFA in performance/choreography. She enjoys making dances based on observations of animals, landscapes, art history, and daily life. From 2005-2021, she worked for AXIS Dance Company as a performing/ teaching artist, rehearsal director and associate director. She has shared her choreography, taught dance and performed for audiences in the United States, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Russia, Scotland, Canada, China, and Japan. Sonsherée received an Izzie Award for ensemble performance, and a Homer Avila Award for Excellence in the field of integrated dance. Sonsherée and Megan have been co-creating dances together since 2016.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Marica Petrey
GIRL SWALLOWS NIGHTiNGALE
Girl Swallows Nightingale is the heartchild of multidisciplinary artist and producer Marica Petrey, who brings a fresh blend of ethereal synth wave, dream-art-pop, and dance music from Oakland, California. Her live performance delivers a big cinematic sound, otherworldly vocals, and lyrically explores the realms of science fiction, fantasy, and folklore. GSN is nearing completion of her second LP and her newest single 炎 “Honō” is featured as the credits song in the upcoming movie release, "Owl," (2025). GSN has headlined a number of shows up and down the West Coast, and recently debuted her solo set in Tokyo, Japan. Just a Shadow is Marica/GSN's 5th collaboration with Megan Lowe Dances.
Photo by: Rudit Cruz
Frances Teves Sedayao
Frances Teves Sedayao (sya/she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. She has performed with many Bay Area notables in the US and abroad over the past 25 years. Frances was an SF APAture Featured Artist, an Art resident of NY OMI International, a Serpent Source Grantee, and a recipient of the distinguished Jefferson Awards. She has presented original works for SF Queer Arts Festival, Shawl Anderson’s Frolic, Bindlestiff Studios with Kreatibo, and Vancouver Asian American Theater Festival. She is currently in collaboration with San San Kwan, Sarah Bush Dance Project, Moon Rope, and Crescent Moon Theater Productions. Frances first worked with Megan Lowe Dances in 2022, and is grateful to be working again with MLD.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Roel Seeber
Roel Seeber (he/they/any) is an Oakland based artist who graduated cum Laude from Purchase College, State University of New York, and holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington. From 2008-2020, Roel was a company member of vertical dance organization BANDALOOP, dancing, performing, stage directing, and teaching with them. Roel currently works with BANDALOOP in performance projects and as Lead Teacher. As a solo artist, Roel collaborates with other vertical dance artists, including a creative partnership with Magalie Lanriot in Lisbon Portugal. He has taught workshops for Il Posto, Vuela, Danza Area, Dimegaz, Sparrow Dance, and Gravity & Levity. From 2001 to 2008, Roel danced with The Límon Dance Company. Roel first fell in love with dancing through contact improvisation. Roel and Megan started exploring vertical dance partnering together in 2023, and they have created/performed 4 gravity defining duets since then, including in MLD's Just a Shadow.
Photo by: RJ Muna
ShirA Yaziv
Shira Yaziv (she/her) is a dancer, teacher, bodyworker, facilitator, and mother. She enjoys encouraging people to connect with their bodies, learn new skills, be creative, and listen/adapt to the changing present moment. Shira co-founded Athletic Playground (tapgym.com) in 2008, a dynamic indoor space that inspires physical play through a variety of movement classes. She offers private lessons, group classes, workshops, bodywork sessions, and retreats. Her dance journey began in 2010 with Scott Wells and Dancers (SW&D), where Megan and Shira started dancing together. Shira has been dancing with MLD since 2018.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Additional
Collaborators
Ray OppenHeimer
Ray Oppenheimer is a San Francisco Bay Area based lighting designer, educator, scenographer, technologist, and creator who has been bringing his boundless curiosity, chimerical aesthetic, and Sisyphean perseverance to performance design and education since 2005. Ray graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in lighting design from San Francisco State University in the Fall of 2017. He also is an active company member with Mugwumpin and Shotgun Players. As a lighting designer, Ray has worked with Word For Word, Z Space, piecebypiece productions, ACT, The Magic Theatre, Mugwumpin, Shotgun Players, Center Rep, New Conservatory Theatre Company, Crowded Fire, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Company, Debutants and Vagabonds, David Herrera's Dance Company, and Red Rooster. He has created the original lighting designs for the world premieres of A Tale of Autumn by Christopher Chen, Grandeur by Han Ong, Pen Man Ship by Christina Anderson, Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon, The Virgin with 10k Arrows by Jason Tremblay, Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World by Yussef El Guindi, and Blockbuster Season and In Event of Moon Disaster by Mugwumpin.
Dave Freitag
David Freitag is an aerial rigging designer who is somehow lucky enough to still be based in San Francisco. Dave has spent the past 20 years (and hopefully the next 20 more) striving to perfect his craft as a rigger, and making his peace with Sir Isaac Newton. Along the way, he has held the honor of being one of the lead riggers on a wide range of site specific dance productions performing on walls and theaters both internationally and across the Bay Area, including Sens Productions, Zaccho, Capacitor, Flyaway, and Printz Dance Project. Dave spent 8 years touring internationally as lead rigger for Cirque Mechanics USA, and currently bides his time between aerial gigs as the house rigger at the Masonic Auditorium on Nob Hill. A master's graduate of UC Santa Barbara and SFSU, Dave holds rigging certifications in SPRAT, ETCP, and is a journeyman member of IATSE Local 16. When not holding the other end of the circus ropes, he can be found pursuing his habits of of off-beat adventure, exploring new places to climb, sea kayak, camp, fish, build treehouses, or soak in a remote hot spring. Currently, Dave is looking up, and always stands under his work.
ODC THeater
ODC is dedicated to the lifecycle of the artistic process. Through our company, school and theater, we aim to inspire audiences, cultivate artists, engage community, and foster diversity and inclusion through dance.
ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community. This 170-seat venue is the site of over 150 performances a year involving nearly 1,000 local, regional, national and international artists. Since 1976, ODC Theater has been the mobilizing force behind countless SF artists and the foothold for national and international touring artists seeking debut in the Bay Area. The Theater, founded by Brenda Way has earned its place as a cultural incubator by dedicating itself to creative change-makers, those leaders who give the Bay Area its unmistakable definition and flair. Nationally known artists Spaulding Gray, Diamanda Galas, Bill T. Jones, Eiko & Koma, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Karole Armitage, Sarah Michelson, Brian Brooks and John Heginbotham are among those whose first San Francisco appearance occurred at ODC Theater.
ODC Theater is currently under the Creative Direction of Chloë L. Zimberg, and is a proud member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Western Arts Alliance, and Dance/USA.
Land Acknowledgement
ODC is on the ancestral lands of the Ramaytush People in Yelamu. We pay respects to elders past and present, who are still here and part of our community. We recognize that regenerative land management is not new, but is a continuation of practices from Native cultures and from our own ancestors. It is our responsibility to steward the land with care, as our elders did before us.
ODC is donating $.50 for each in-person ticket (seat) sold to all performances in the Theater. ODC will donate these funds to the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone land tax fund.
Program Notes
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Silhouette by Frances Teves Sedayao and Megan Lowe
Music:
- Just a Shadow (by Megan, inspired by a poem by Kathy Lowe)
- Silhouette (by Megan Lowe)
- The Sweetest Gift (original song by Sade; cover arranged/sung by Megan Lowe)
- Que Sera, Sera (original song by Doris Day; sung live by Frances Sedayao and Megan Lowe)
A Note from Frances: What happens in that liminal space between? What happens to us when we are called to be companions in that space when the inevitable is goodbye? When the physical body betrays the persons we most love, the earth crumbles underneath as if our pleas for protection deceive us. Are we to embrace the idea that whatever will be is where we are meant to live? Yes. The veils between worlds constantly ebb and flow. It's like a fog that may clear and then roll in, and we realize that it matters not that we can't tell the difference.
~ To Mikey, kindest of souls, who sang the song of surrender, and Ma, who spoke to the moon for the protection of all. It's an honor to love and cross the gateways with you.
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There’s a Storm Inside by Sonsherée Giles and Megan Lowe
Music:
- Stormy (by The Meters)
- After the Storm (by Megan Lowe)
- There, There (original song by Radiohead; sung live by Megan Lowe)
A Note from Sonsherée: Working on Just a Shadow with Megan is a safe and creative container to reflect on loss and the beauty of impermanence. Grief has become a ghost that accompanies me wherever I go. This process allows for reflection on how transformation is inevitable and making friends with your shadow is possible. We laugh and cry and continue to move—death is only for the living.
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Living in the Now by AJ Gardner and Megan Lowe
Music:
- Conversation with Dark Self (poem by AJ Gardner; song arranged by Megan Lowe)
- New Normal (by Rexx Life Raj)
A Note from AJ: This whole process has been very fun. I really appreciate Megan walking me through this experience—working with both my strengths and my growth interests. This def helps me heal during my grief, and feels like therapy for it. I hope this piece can bring peace in its presence and strength. I dedicate this to Wanda Phillips Gardner, Arthur V. Gardner Sr., and Sandra Philips.
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Us by Shira Yaziv and Megan Lowe
Music:
- Grounded in Silence (by Megan Lowe)
- Before Flight (by Megan Lowe)
A Note from Shira: When we started our rehearsals, we had plenty of wild ideas we wanted to explore. As we continued, we found that what truly fascinates us is sharing the unfiltered, spontaneous moments of the present. This is who we are, right here, right now. Using masks enhances our listening and deepens our trust, encouraging risk-taking without knowing the outcome. Despite what we have lost or may lose in the future, how do we continue to move? We are finding joy in "failing," and we are embracing giggles as a potent medicine.
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A Quiet Space to Dance With by Roel Seeber and Megan Lowe
Music:
- Monument Destroyers (by Loscil)
A Note from Roel
“Give up all fear of being WRONG.
Give up all desire of being RIGHT.
Give up showing what you know.
Give up knowing what you know.
And give yourself over to Orchesis
Curiosity is the antidote to Fear
Use your Enthusiasm to wash away doubt.
And Clean your upper stories daily.
To make way for Imagination and artistry.”
- A poem by Roel’s mother, Sarah Stackhouse
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Echoes of Life on the Otherside by Marica Petrey / Girl Swallows Nightingale and Megan Lowe
Music by Marica Petrey / Girl Swallows Nightingale:
- Gasoline
- One More Son
- Echoes
A Note from Marica: "It's been rewarding to write and record music in the morning, send a rough mix to Megan, then rush to the studio and get to dance to it in the evening. Even just watching the others move to something I made only a few hours prior gives me a warm feeling. I think I'm always searching for something primal in my music and in the way that I move, so I hope that comes across in my performance. The songs that Megan chose to showcase are all from my upcoming 2nd LP as Girl Swallows Nightingale, which I wrote during a long grieving period. This piece feels like both an unearthing and a beautiful send off to the three people that I lost."
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Not Alone by AJ Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Josh Icban, Megan, Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, and Shira Yaziv
Music:
- Not Alone (by Josh Icban)
A Note from Megan: "This endeavor aims to recognize and celebrate our individual and collective resilience, acknowledging the inevitable challenges of death, while embracing the miracle and beauty of life."
After the show, if you are curious to see transcripts of the lyrics sung and text spoken during Just a Shadow click the button below. We would recommend doing this post show, vs. before/during the show.
Audience Survey
Thank you for attending Megan Lowe Dances presents Just a Shadow at the ODC, April 4-6. We had such a wonderful time dancing and sharing this performance, and we are so grateful for each and every one of you.
Surveys like this help us apply for grants, better understand who our art is serving, and improve our future programming. We are excited to hear from you!
You could choose to remain anonymous if you wish, and all sections are optional. If you are able to forward this survey to others in your party that attended Just a Shadow with you, that would be so appreciated. We want to hear from everyone!
If you would like to share your responses in a more free form way, you can also send an email over to megan@meganlowedances.com.
Thanks for your time and consideration!
Special Thanks
Special Thanks
Josh Icban: for being an essential collaborator of our premiere of Just a Shadow in 2024 at Joe Goode Annex.
Finnish Hall and Sense Object: for additional lighting equipment
Dance Mission Theater: for additional sound equipment
Pilar Marsh: for ASL Interpretation
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley: for staff rehearsal space
ODC Staff: Thomas Bowersox, Chris Chamberlin-Miner, Shayna Ann Howlett, Sophie Leininger, Greg Meyers, Katya Ponomarenko, and Chloë Zimberg
Just a Shadow Supporters (for generous assistance in various meaningful ways): Gary/Donna/Madeline/Jackson Lowe, Paul/Mike/Susan Dier, Iu-hui Chua, Becca Dean, SAMMAY Dizon, Melanie Elvena, Anna Ginchan, Philip Gotanda, Karina Gutierrez, Barbara Hebert, Vita/Bryan Hewitt, Krissy Keefer, Jo Kreiter, SanSan Kwan, David Latulippe, Erik Lee, Nico Protopappas, RJ Muna, Jill Randall, Harry Rubeck, Latanya Tigner, David Wendt, Miriam/Andy Wolodarsk-Lundberg, and Lisa Wymore.
Just a Shadow Community Partners: AAWAA, API Cultural Center, Athletic Playground, AXIS Dance Company, BANDALOOP, Bay Area POC CI Community, Broke-Ass Stuart, Canvas Rebel, Ciarra D'onofrio + Dancers, CounterPulse, Dancers' Group, David Herrera Performance Company, Detour Dance, FACT/SF, Flyaway Productions, Gatherings, Gregangelo Museum, Ishami Dance, Joe Goode Performance Group, Kambara + Dancers, Kinetech, KULARTS, Lenora Lee Dance, Life as A Modern Dancer, Luna Dance and Creativity, NAKA Dance Theater, ODC, Queering Dance Festival, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, SF Fine Arts Museums, Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, Velocity Circus, and Zaccho Dance Theater.
Funders
Megan Lowe Dances is a recipient of ODC's Rental Discount Initiative. MLD was also the featured artist of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s 27th Annual United States of Asian America Festival, which made Just a Shadow possible. This project is also support by California Arts Council, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, FACT/SF Production Grant, and generous individual donors. MLD is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group.
Upcoming in the Community
Megan Lowe + Rose Huey
JinShan: Seams of GolD
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the United States of Asian America Festival
May 2025 (stay tuned for more info)
An outdoor vertical dance duet performance and community gathering, exploring how we create spaces for refuge, healing, and connection for ourselves and our communities in the natural world. Using rock climbing gear, we’ll transform a rock wall into a performance site, creating awe inspiring dance that incorporates ideas of homeland/home, and the power of human connection.
Photo by: Jessica Swanson
Shira YaziV
Weekly Contact Improvisation Classes
Fridays, 12:15pm-1:45pm
Athletic Playground | Emeryville, CA
Contact improvisation is a form of dance and movement practice that emphasizes physical connection and spontaneous interaction between the participants and the space. In contact improvisation, individuals use touch, weight-sharing, and responsive movement to create a dynamic and often improvisational dance experience.
Photo by: Gary Sexton
About MLD
With an affinity for dynamic places and partners, Megan Lowe Dances (MLD) shifts your perspective. Directed by a choreographer of Chinese and Irish descent, MLD explores complex identities and experiences by tackling unusual physical situations and inventing compelling solutions, opening up the imagination to what is possible. Since 2013, MLD has been creating dances that demonstrate the "intensely-physical, curiously-playful, delightfully-weighty rigor of physicality” (Life as a Modern Dancer) in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. MLD’s recent choreographic works and commissions have been seen at de Young Museum, Legion of Honor Museum, Fort Mason, ODC, 500 Capp Street Foundation, and Joe Goode Annex, as well as in SF Aerial Arts Festival, SF Trolley Dances, CAAMFest, United States of Asian America Festival, and on KQED Live. MLD deepens connections with their Asian American Pacific Islander communities through relationships with organizations such as API Cultural Center; the creation of public art in SF/Oakland Chinatown as part of efforts to revitalize these communities during the pandemic; and choreographic commissions celebrating Asian influences on American culture/s.
Led by a choreographer of color, MLD empowers movers of color, and we’re committed to making creative spaces with a BIPOC majority, in both our hiring practices and the participants of movement classes we lead. With specific outreach, discounts, and scholarships to our workshops, we create a space of dance study where BIPOC aren’t the minority, de-centering normative white/eurocentric experiences and cultivating diversity in Bay Area dance. A previous workshop participant wrote, “The safe container empowered me to try new things and go beyond my usual notions of what I can and can't do. I appreciated the presence of many POC helping me feel less like an outlier.” Our artistic process thrives via collaboration, prioritizing creating relationships of respect, generosity, and gratitude. This culture of magnanimity is harnessed in the dance classes/workshops MLD leads for movers of all different ages, experience levels, body types, races, cultures, and socio-economic statuses—building community and connection.
About MLD
With an affinity for dynamic places and partners, Megan Lowe Dances (MLD) shifts your perspective. Directed by a choreographer of Chinese and Irish descent, MLD explores complex identities and experiences by tackling unusual physical situations and inventing compelling solutions, opening up the imagination to what is possible. Since 2013, MLD has been creating dances that demonstrate the "intensely-physical, curiously-playful, delightfully-weighty rigor of physicality” (Life as a Modern Dancer) in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. MLD’s recent choreographic works and commissions have been seen at de Young Museum, Legion of Honor Museum, Fort Mason, ODC, 500 Capp Street Foundation, and Joe Goode Annex, as well as in SF Aerial Arts Festival, SF Trolley Dances, CAAMFest, United States of Asian America Festival, and on KQED Live. MLD deepens connections with their Asian American Pacific Islander communities through relationships with organizations such as API Cultural Center; the creation of public art in SF/Oakland Chinatown as part of efforts to revitalize these communities during the pandemic; and choreographic commissions celebrating Asian influences on American culture/s.
Led by a choreographer of color, MLD empowers movers of color, and we’re committed to making creative spaces with a BIPOC majority, in both our hiring practices and the participants of movement classes we lead. With specific outreach, discounts, and scholarships to our workshops, we create a space of dance study where BIPOC aren’t the minority, de-centering normative white/eurocentric experiences and cultivating diversity in Bay Area dance. A previous workshop participant wrote, “The safe container empowered me to try new things and go beyond my usual notions of what I can and can't do. I appreciated the presence of many POC helping me feel less like an outlier.” Our artistic process thrives via collaboration, prioritizing creating relationships of respect, generosity, and gratitude. This culture of magnanimity is harnessed in the dance classes/workshops MLD leads for movers of all different ages, experience levels, body types, races, cultures, and socio-economic statuses—building community and connection.
Berkeley Finnish Hall
Help Finnish Hall Stay Open & Accessible
This is a historical building with lots of quirky features. Improving accessibility is not easy. It took ten years of work to find the right architect, navigate city building codes, get a plan that makes the building ADA compliant, secure the right contractor, and get an actual start date. Help support one of Megan's favorite spaces to dance in!
Photo of: Finnish Hall
Ciarra D'onofrio & Dancers
Heart String
May 30 - June 1, 2025
Zaccho Studios, San Francisco
Through dynamic aerial movement, emotive contemporary dance, and mesmerizing vocal harmonies, Heart String weaves a complex tapestry of death, grief, and resilience. The performance features an ensemble of dancers who have lost someone close to them and the Threshold Choir, a group who sings in small groups when invited to people who are dying. With evocative live music and dancers soaring through the air, Heart String brings us together for an evening of dance, music, and community exploring the bonds between the dying and their loved ones and honoring those we have lost and those who are still here.