Chinatown Connections

WHAT PEOPLE Wrote

A Secret Journey

Your history together brought us to many unknown lands. You left us feeling we witnessed a secret journey. Cats. Ships passing. String. Sisters. Everyone who has peopled this room. Honoring every moment together. Honoring space. Figurative and literal. Timing of join-ups. Use of room. Start > Finish. Complete.

A Miracle in Nature

"Puzzle-like configurations of two bodies coming together. One body moving another, yet not mechanic, but purely organic. Felt like watching a miracle in nature that happened once in a hundred years; like a waterfall full of glowing stars."

an umbilical cord betweeN

"It was beautiful—a cascading shifting relationship with each other and the space that wasn't quite human, in a world where there wasn't quite verticality. But y'all also managed to be firmly connected—an umbilical cord between you. Thank you for your clarity and simplicity of structure; all felt helpful in these dark days. "

Chinatown Connections

As part of San Francisco Chinatown's Flower Market Fair

and Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival

San Francisco Chinatown's Flower Market Fair: Make Your Own Luck

Pop-Up Performances and Movement Facilitation

February 15th, 2026

Sunday, 12:00pm-2:00pm

Chinese Cultural Center

667 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108

Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival

Pop-Up Performances and Movement Facilitation

March 1st, 2026

Sunday, 3:00pm-4:30pm

3:15pm: Dance-and-Sing-Along

4:00pm: Site-Responsive Performance

Pacific Renaissance Plaza

388 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607

ASL Interpretation Provided

Read Midbrow Review

Read Show Program

These community offerings at SF Chinatown’s Flower Market Fair and Oakland Chinatown’s Lantern Festival are early steps in a longer artistic journey—one rooted in listening, presence, and care. They are part of an ongoing mission to honor and amplify the many stories of Chinatown through movement, gathering, and exchange, allowing dance to emerge directly from place and community. The project has an extraordinary team: oral historian Roy Chan, whose practice of listening grounds this project with integrity and depth, and dance artists Ai Yin Adelski, Brenton Cheng, Mgan Lowe, and Frances Teves Sedayao, whose artistry and lived experiences bring these stories into motion. Together, we begin a process that will continue to unfold, connecting past, present, and future through collective storytelling. Thank you for joining us on this journey.