UPCOMING
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: RJ Muna of Melissa Lewis Wong, Malia Hatico-Byrne, Megan Lowe, and Clarissa Dyas
Megan Lowe Dances
Gathering Pieces of Peace
September 1st-2nd and 7th-9th
Fri. 9/1 at 7:30pm
Sat. 9/2 at 7:30pm
Fri. 9/8 at 7:30pm
Sat. 9/9 at 7:30pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Gathering Pieces of Peace, explores mixed-race Asian American experiences, with an artistic team composed of folks who identify in this way. Through thoughtful text, soulful song, and dynamic dancing, MLD invites collaborators to share stories of fractured selves and longings to belong, and co-create a supportive environment for connection that radiates out into our communities.
Choreographed and Performed by:
Clarissa Dyas, Malia Hatico-Byrne, Melissa Lewis Wong, and Megan Lowe
Music by:
Peekaboo/transcriptions01, Zachary Abelson, Megan Lowe, Marica Petrey/Girl Swallows Nightingale, and Emma Tome
Register for Gathering Pieces of Peace Workshop #1, which will be on June 17, 2023 at Bancroft Studio, UC Berkeley.
Respond to our Call for Mixed-Race Asian American Experiences for Gathering Pieces of Peace! The first 20 people to complete the survey have the opportunity to receive a $30 stipend for their time and contribution.
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RECENTLY PAST
PERFORMANCES
Still by: Peggy Peralta and Kristine Willemse of Johnny Huy Nguyen and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
HOME(in)STEAD - Dance Film Premiere
in Being, Belonging & Beyond - SF Bay Area AAPI Dance Film Festival
in partnership with APICC's United States of Asian America Festival, CAAMFest 2023, and 500 Capp Street Foundation
May 14th, 2023
Sunday at 2pm-8pm
*HOME(in)STEAD will premiere at 6pm
Kapwa Gardens
967 Mission St,
San Francisco, CA 94103
500 Capp Street, Asian Pacific Cultural Center (APICC), and Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) co-presents Being, Belonging & Beyond - SF Bay Area AAPI Dance Film Festival on May 14 at Kapwa Gardens in San Francisco. Curated by APICC and Megan Lowe Dances, screenings will include dance films by Lenora Lee Dance, Sammay Dizon, Melissa Lewis Wong, Alleluia Panis, and culminates in the world premiere screening of HOME(in)STEAD, a site-specific dance work by 500 Capp Street artists-in-residence Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen—a performance that utilizes the historical David Ireland House as a visceral canvas for exploring means of feeling, finding, creating, and healing home through dynamic architecture-oriented movement and intimate contact partnering supported by live music, text, and installation.
The finale screening will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A with all participating artists and their collaborators, celebrating the lineage of AAPI performing artists in the Bay Area that are documenting dance and movement in film/video as a way to create conversations about the experiences of AAPI communities and the ways they are reflecting upon and honoring their cultural heritages.
This film festival is also part of CAAMFest and APICC’s 26th United States of Asian America Festival (USAAF).
Photo by: Jeremy Snowden
Megan Lowe Dances
Invisible Skin - (Tangram Excerpt)
in Shawl-Anderson Dance Center's
AAPI Heritage Month Performance Salon
May 6th, 2023
Sunday at 8:00pm
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
2704 Alcatraz Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
Please join us for a performance salon to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, featuring: Emma Quan Dewey, Megan Lowe, Johnny Nguyen Meghana Ravikumar, and Chingchi Yu. Join us after the show for a Q & A, moderated by Melecio Estrella.
Photo by: Christine Solomon
Consulate General of Ireland
Double: body as source
March 8th, 2023
Wednesday at 12pm
Digital Premiere on YouTube
via Consulate General of Ireland, Los Angeles
Double: body as source is a meeting of minds between Violinist-Composer Emer Kinsella, Dancer-Choreographer Megan Lowe, and Visual Artist Mary Little. Devised and created by Emer & Megan, this experimental duet of movement and sound responds to both Mary’s series Double, and Eavan Boland’s poem Anna Liffey. In celebration of International Women’s Day, this we invite you to step into this multidisciplinary collaboration, created by Irish artists in the Western US.
Photo by: Henrik Kam of Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
as part of Oakland Chinatown's
Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival
February 5th, 2023
Sunday at 6:30pm-7:00pm
(full festival runs from 3:00pm-8:00pm)
Pacific Renaissance Plaza
388 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Celebrate Lunar New Year and the Chinese Lantern Festival with us on Sunday, February 5th, 2023 from 3-8pm in Oakland Chinatown!
Hosted by AAPI Healers for Liberation, Cut Fruit Collective, Oakland Bloom, and Civic Design Studio, this event is designed to celebrate the diversity of the Asian diaspora and promote joy and healing in our community.
There will be family-friendly activity booths, light installations, a "night market" with traditional foods, performances, and a maker market.
 Almost ThereA dynamic duet commissioned for "Eve, and Opera" at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. |  Community Hub: Enduring VitalityA site-specific dance by by Megan Lowe Dances, created for a beloved community center that has served SF Chinatown for nearly hundred years, and presented as part of the 19th Annual San Francisco Trolley Dances. |  No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You MightMegan Lowe Dances presents No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might, a process to performance experience at de Young Museum, inspired by the Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) exhibition. |
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 HOME(in)STEADBay Area dancers Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen investigate the meaning of home in a new, site-specific performance work developed during the duo’s 16-week residency at The David Ireland House. |  Piece of Peace: Part OneMegan Lowe Dances presents "Piece of Peace (Part One)", a dance theater work that explores mixed-race Asian American Pacific Islander experiences, with an artistic team composed of folks who identify in this way. Through thoughtful text, soulful song, and dynamic dancing, we will gather pieces of fractured selves in support of wholeness and connection. |  Tangram (Excerpts)Excerpts from "Tangram" in James Graham Dance Theater's "Dance Lovers" and CounterPulses' "Innerspace:Homecoming" |
 Em)broidery/bodyMegan Lowe Dances presents "Em)broidery/body", as the first ever live dance performance in the Court of Honor at the Legion of Honor Museum for the opening day of Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy. |
Photo by: Jeremy Snowden
Megan Lowe Dances
Ancestors in my bones, I can feel
as part of Que Vivan los Muertos
EastSide Community Procession and Art Festival
November 12th, 2022
Saturday at 2:00pm-4:00pm
(Megan goes on at 3:30pm)
East Side Arts Alliance - Garage Lot
2310 E 12th St, Oakland, CA 94606
Que Vivan los Muertos is a community art festival. Join us for a celebration of music, dance, and poetry to commemorate our ancestors.
Saturday, Nov. 12 Line-up
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Cristina Suarez Lopez: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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HouseFull / Amara Tabor-Smith: 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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NAKA- MUA: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Megan Lowe: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez of Megan Lowe, and Shira Yaziv
Megan Lowe Dances
Almost There
as part of Athletic Playgrounds 14th Anniversary Show
November 5th, 2022
Saturday at 7:30pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Unit E, Emeryville, CA 94608
"Come celebrate Athletic Playground's 14th anniversary with us! We've had so much fun over the years sharing skills and building community and we'd love to party with you! Join us for live performances from current AP staff and students."
Megan and Shira Yaziv will be performing the duet they created for Eve, an Opera, that originally premiered the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez of Megan Lowe, and Shira Yaziv
Andrea Densmore
Eve, an Opera
October 28th, 2022
Friday at 7:30pm
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123
Chamber musicians from San Francisco Opera and Ballet, New Century Chamber Orchestra, and major Bay Area symphonies will perform in Eve, an opera about women's exploitation and liberation. The opera premieres October 28th, 2022 at the Palace of Fine Arts, in collaboration with aligned Bay Area organizations during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Created by Bolinas composer Andrea Densmore and her son, Tony Owen, Eve weaves a compelling personal story. In addition to exquisite chamber music, this multi-genre contemporary work with a cast of over 60 performers includes members of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir Ensemble, multiple vocalists, a jazz/blues combo, with aerial, ballet and modern dancers. Megan Lowe Dances will be presenting a duet and a solo in this performance.
Performing with MLD are: Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv
Photo by: Amani Wade of Brenton Cheng, Megan Lowe, and Shira Yaziv
Megan Lowe Dances
Community Hub: Enduring Vitality
As part of San Francisco Trolley Dances
Kids on Track: October 21, 2022
Friday, Times TBA
Public: October 22nd-23rd, 2022
Saturday and Sunday
Tours start at 10:15am, 11:00am, 11:45am, 12:30pm, and 1:15pm
SoMa and Chinatown
San Francisco, CA
MLD will be performing at Willie "Woo Woo" Wong Playground
830 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94108
A site-specific dance by by Megan Lowe Dances, created for a beloved community center that has served SF Chinatown for nearly hundred years.
"Presented by Epiphany Dance Theater, SF Trolley Dances is the most delectable moveable dance feast of the season. Using the city as both a backdrop and unpredictable character, the peripatetic event ushers many of the bay area’s top dance companies off the stage and onto the street.” - ANDREW GILBERT East Bay Times
Performances by: Ballet22, Grrrl Brigade, Charya Burt, Flying Angels Chinese Dance Company, Megan Lowe Dances, and Epiphany Dance Theater
Performing with MLD are: Brenton Cheng Melissa Lewis Wong, Megan Lowe, and Shira Yaziv
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
Apparatus of Repair
New York Tour
October 6th–8th, 2022
Thursday – Saturday at 7:30PM
Bethany Arts Community
40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562
Flyaway Productions presents the world premiere of Apparatus of Repair, the final project of The Decarceration Trilogy, a series of site-specific aerial dance and public art performances exploring the devastating effects of mass incarceration. Apparatus of Repair transforms the intimate healing process of restorative justice into a public performance, danced in the air and on the vertical surfaces of buildings. It is designed for presentation in proximity to prisons and communities disproportionately impacted by prisons. Performing are MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Alayna Stroud Duarte, and Saharla Vetsch.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
Apparatus of Repair
September 15th – 25th, 2022
Thursdays – Sundays at 8:00pm
UC Hastings College of the Law
333 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
(accessible entrance)
Flyaway Productions presents the world premiere of Apparatus of Repair, the final project of The Decarceration Trilogy, a series of site-specific aerial dance and public art performances exploring the devastating effects of mass incarceration. Apparatus of Repair transforms the intimate healing process of restorative justice into a public performance, danced in the air and on the vertical surfaces of buildings. It is designed for presentation in proximity to prisons and communities disproportionately impacted by prisons. Performing are MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Alayna Stroud Duarte, and Saharla Vetsch.
Photo by: Gary Sexton
Megan Lowe Dances
No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might
Presented by de Young Museum
for Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) - Closing Day
August 6th, 2022
Saturday 10am-3:30pm (Public Creative Process)
4pm (Performance)
de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco, CA 94118
Megan Lowe Dances presents No Way You Can Encompass All the Things You Might, a process to performance experience at de Young Museum, inspired by the Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) exhibition. In Hung Liu: Great Granary by Wu Hung (2010) Liu asks, “What kind of thing is history? What kind of thing can bear witness to history? I had the sense that history had its one-sidedness and its mutability. Also history is a very subjective thing. What you choose to include and what you don’t—there’s absolutely no way you can encompass all the things you might.” Witness dancers create and explore these themes live on site throughout the day and reveal the process of dance-making and editing, concluding in an experimental performance of what was discovered—in celebration of the closing of this powerful exhibit.
Performing with MLD are: Melissa Lewis Wong, Megan Lowe, Danny Nguyen, Johnny Huy Nguyen, and Asha Passalacqua, with music by Peekaboo.
Photo by: Henrik Kam of Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
HOME(in)STEAD
June 24th-26th, 2022
+ New Dates Added: July 1st-3rd
Friday and Saturday at 5pm and 8pm
Sunday at 4pm and 7pm
David Ireland House
500 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
This June, Bay Area dancers Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen investigate the meaning of home in a new, site-specific performance work developed during the duo’s 16-week residency at The David Ireland House. HOME(in)STEAD, an hour-long dance experience for intimate audiences of just 12 per performance, moves from front door to salon, utilizing the entirety of late conceptual artist David Ireland’s unique historic house turned work of art to explore themes of home and the intersection of dance, sculpture, and performance. The piece features original music by cello player Peekaboo and lighting by Rico Duenas.
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez of jose e. abad
Megan Lowe Dances
Piece of Peace (Part One)
June 3rd, 2022
Friday at 3:30pm
Studio B - ODC Dance Commons
351 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Piece of Peace, explores mixed-race Asian American Pacific Islander experiences, with an artistic team composed of folks who identify in this way. Through thoughtful text, soulful song, and dynamic dancing, MLD invites collaborators to share stories of fractured selves and longings to belong, and co-create a supportive environment for connection. This dance is a part of ODC's State of Play Festival and APICC's United States of Asian America Festival. Performing with MLD will be jose e. abad, Melissa Lewis Wong, and Megan Lowe.
Photo by: Austin Forbod
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (New Orleans)
Presented by the Contemporary Arts Center
May 27th-29th, 2022
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 7:30pm
+ Saturday Matinee at 2pm
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans – Parking Lot
900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music, and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic, and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe.
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram (Excerpts)
as part of CounterPulses' Innerspace: Homecoming
May 7th, 2022
Saturday at 9pm
CounterPulse
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 9410
Brenton and Megan will be performing excerpts from Tangram in Innerspace : Homecoming, CounterPulse's annual art party and auction.
Photo by: RJ Muna of Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng
Photo by: RJ Muna of Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram (Excerpts)
as part of James Graham Dance Theater's Dance Lovers
May 5th-7th, 2022
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday at 8pm
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
As close dance comrades, Brenton Cheng and Megan Lowe will be returning to the Joe Goode Annex to perform excerpts from Tangram in James Graham Dance Theater's 10th annual Dance Lovers—duets by couples, crushes, and comrades.
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
(Em)broidery/body
Presented by the Legion of Honor Museum
for Guo Pei: Fantasy Couture - Opening Day
April 16th, 2022
Saturday at 12pm and 2pm
Legion of Honor Museum
100 34th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94121
Megan Lowe Dances will be performing at the Legion of Honor Museum as the first ever live dance performance in the Court of Honor for the opening day of Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy. Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, Guo Pei creates a fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past, decorative arts, European architecture, and the botanical world. Performing MLD's new site specific work (Em)broidery/body will be Sonsherée Giles, Megan Lowe, Frances Sedayao, and Shira Yaziv.
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Compilation by: ODC of Megan Lowe, Weidong Yang, Johnny Huy Nguyen, and Wei Wang
ODC Theater Art & Ideas
A Conversation on the Intersection of Art Making and AAPI Identity and Representation
February 21st, 2022
Friday 6:00pm
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tune in to this month's Art & Ideas panel discussion featuring Weidong Yang of Kinetech Arts moderating a conversation between local Asian American and Pacific Islander artists including San Francisco Ballet's first Asian Male Principal Dancer Wei Wang and Bay Area dancer and choreographers Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen on the intersection of art making and AAPI identity and representation. Come to learn, share, ask, and be curious!
