UPCOMING
PERFORMANCES
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.
Photo by: Austin Forbod
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 Megan will be jose e. abad and Melissa Lewis Wong.
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Photo by: Henrik Kam
Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
HOME(in)STEAD
June 24th-26th, 2022
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
Megan Lowe Dances
Presented by de Young Museum
for Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) - Closing Day
August 6th, 2022
Saturday from 11am-3pm (Public Creative Process)
Saturday at 4pm (Performance)
de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco, CA 94118
Megan Lowe Dances will be performing at de Young Museum for the closing day of Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門). This site specific dance will have a live public process that will lead to a performance at the end of the day.
Hung Liu's site-specific installation combines existing and new work in Wilsey Court, Liu highlights international and domestic narratives of migration. Reimagining some of her most iconic paintings, such as Resident Alien, through the lens of her personal trajectory, she places herself among and celebrates the people who arrived in California from both land and sea.
Postponed
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
And the Community Will Rise
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
September 9th-27th, 2020
Thursday - Sunday
Ping Yuen Center
838 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
"And the Community Will Rise” includes a series of 12 site-specific, multimedia, immersive performances, transforming selected common spaces, courtyards and apartments in Ping Yuen into performance sites with live contemporary dance, media design, recorded original music, and voiceover from interviews with former and current residents, advocates and historians.
Photo by: Brooke Anderson
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
as part of Dance Mission's Taiko Festival
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
October 23rd-24th, 2021
Saturday and Sunday evening (time TBD)
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to perform excerpts of our 2020 sold out shows of Butterfly Effect, as part of Dance Mission's Taiko Festival. Featuring a live musical score by Bruce Ghent, Butterfly Effect pays tribute to the devastatingly large number of activists that have been silenced, often brutally, because they have spoken truth to power. Hear Megan sing!
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PERFORMANCES
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
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: RJ Muna
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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Compelation by: ODC
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!
Photo by: RJ Muna
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram
December 9th-12th, 2021
Thursday/Sunday at 7:00pm,
Friday/Saturday at 8:00pm,
+ Saturday matinee at 5:00pm
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tangram is a dynamic partnering duet between Megan Lowe and noted dance artist Brenton Cheng. This project challenges traditional ideas of male/female duets, which are frequently portrayed romantically and often displayed as a man lifting a smaller woman. By using physics/momentum, Brenton and Megan lift/are lifted by each other equally, leveling the playing field and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. As dance artists with Chinese ancestry, Brenton and Megan deconstruct tropes often associated with Chinese heritage. In a time with particularly strong anti-Chinese sentiment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making work that contributes to the visibility of Chinese American artists feels especially urgent.
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
as part of Paseo Artistico "History Matters in the Mission"
October 23rd, 2021
Saturday, 12:00pm-6:00pm (Dance Brigade goes on at 4:30pm)
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to perform excerpts of our 2020 sold out shows of Butterfly Effect, as part of Paseo Artistico "History Matters in the Mission". Featuring a live musical score by Bruce Ghent, Butterfly Effect pays tribute to the devastatingly large number of activists that have been silenced, often brutally, because they have spoken truth to power. Hear Megan sing!
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Photo by: RJ Muna
Megan Lowe Dances
Tangram Project
Presented by Upswell Summit 2021
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Artist Talk at 7:45am-8am PST (10:45am-11am EST)
Meet the Artist at 8:55am-9:55am (11:55am-12:55pm EST)
Megan Lowe Dances has been invited to discuss our project Tangram at Upswell Summit's 2021 virtual event. Megan is incredibly honored to be preceding and proceeding an amazing talk with LaTosha Brown, Angela Davis, and Angela Glover Blackwell.
"This year, the Summit is all about building a racially just and healthy society—and that’s a commitment that requires extraordinary ambition and inspired vision from each of us. Throughout the experience, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with passionate changemakers from every kind of mission and geography. Enhance your skills. Build deeper connections. Care for your wellbeing. Transform society."
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
October 14th-17th, 2021
Thursday - Sunday at 7:00pm and 8:30pm (two shows a night)
+ Saturday matinee at 5:00pm
CounterPulse
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Flyaway Productions premieres MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY, the second in a trilogy of outdoor public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration. Meet Us Quickly is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora, Bend The Arc Jewish Action, Prison Renaissance, and through CounterPulse’s curated co-production program. It will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse and the Dahlia Hotel next door. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Maddy Lawder, Megan Lowe, Sandia Sexton, and Helen Wicks.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Julie Phelps and Marc Kate
Radius
September 11th, 2021
Saturday at 2:00pm-3:00pm
The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
1150 25th Street, Building B
San Francisco, CA 94107
Performed by a group of experimental dancers and electronic musicians, the work aims to create a temporary zone governed by collaboration, mutability, and fluidity rather than hierarchy, power, and structure. Dancers and musicians are both responsive and generative in turn with inspiration and influence moving in both directions. The composition is collectively devised, continuously revealing emergent poetics within the stream of images, movements, and sonics. Responding to both harmony and discord, Radius is a rehearsal of being with – with other people, with the land, with whatever comes next.
Greg Angelo Museum
Lost Interiors
August 26th, 2021
Thursday at 6:00pm-7:00pm
Virtual Premier Registration Online
The Gregangelo Museum presents Lost Interiors, a video poem that uses site-specific dance to explore how the body experiences a lost attachment to a familiar daily place. Featuring poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Miah Jeffra, and Nazelah Jameson and dance by Megan Lowe, this virtual premiere features a screening of the film followed by a live Q&A.
Still by: Benjamin Friedman
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Maw Jaw
Presented by Upswell Pop-up
as part Let’s Talk About Money
July 27th, 2021
Tuesday at 11:00am-1:30pm PST (2:00pm-4:30pm EST)
Megan Lowe Dances has been invited to share our film Maw Jaw at Upswell Pop-up's Let's Talk About Money virtual event. "Our culture likes to pretend that it’s impolite to talk about money and yet, as nonprofit, movement, or foundation leaders, it rules our every waking moment. So, let’s talk about money. Do we actually have enough resources in this sector? Are they getting to Black, Native, Latinx, and other communities of color? How well are we accounting for our ongoing crises? And what are our data telling us about whether we are moving in the right direction or need a major course correction? There are a ton of questions, and leaders from all levels of the charitable community have different paths toward solutions. In Pop Up #3 we’ll make sense of how organizations and movements should be resourced to achieve the healthy and antiracist world we’re striving to create."
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
And the Community Will Rise - Excerpts
as part of the Ping Yuen-Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party
July 17th, 2021
Saturday at 12:20pm
(The day’s events will take place from 11am - 3pm)
Ping Yuen Center
795 Pacific Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Lenora Lee Dance is thrilled to be participating in the “Ping Yuen-Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party”, an event promoting unity and solidarity within our communities, with an emphasis on our Black and Asian community. Chinatown Community Development Center celebrates the rainbow of cultures within the Ping Yuen Properties as well as provide a day of enrichment, showcasing cultural dancing, food, spoken word, performances, games, inviting pillars of the community such as Norman Fong, Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, UNITED PLAYAZ, Community Youth Center and the Street Violence Intervention Program. “Say it Loud, I’m Ping Yuen and I’m Proud,” embodies the spirit of what the “Peaceful Garden Summer Block Party” will emit into the Ping Yuen residents, Pride in Togetherness, Solidarity and Peace within our communities.
Photo by: Austin Forbod
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Portland, Oregon)
Presented by Boom Arts in Act Out Festival
June 25th-27th, 2021
Friday at 5:00pm
Saturday and Sunday at 11:00am
Zidell Yards
3121 SW Moody Ave, Portland, Oregon
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.
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Maw Jaw
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival
Sunday, May 30th, 2021
Portsmouth Square - Chinatown
Clay Street and Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Saturday, June 5th, 2021
Kapwa Gardens - SoMa
976 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Megan Lowe Dances and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center team up to present Maw Jaw, a free outdoor dance event at Portsmouth Square, featuring a site-specific dance film journey and live excerpts from MLD’s Tangram project. Maw Jaw rehearsals will occur outside in public spaces around San Francisco’s Chinatown—activating benches, railings, poles, stairs, and play structures—inviting passersby to witness the creative process, enhancing community engagement, sparking conversations, and inspiring interest in dance as a tool to engage with the environment/people around us. This project is in solidarity with the API community.
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy – Virtual Open Rehearsal
December 5th, 2020
Saturdays at 6:30pm (PST)
Available Online
RSVP to jo@flyawayproductions.com for Watch Party link!
Join Flyaway for our upcoming watch party, and get a behind the scenes glimpse of Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy. Chat with the dancers about the making of the piece, and hear about our plans for its premiere in 2021.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Photo by: Mark Guthrie
Megan Lowe Dances
Action Potential (Excerpts)
Athletic Playground 12th Year Anniversary
November 21st, 2020
Saturday at 7pm
Available Online via Zoom
"It's Athletic Playground's 12th Anniversary and we wouldn't dream of missing it - even though we are very much missing all of you! Join us for a night of virtual performances and shenanigans followed by a virtual Thai Massage class for you to take with your family and podmates." - Athletic Playground
Megan Lowe Dances will be sharing excerpts of Action Potential, a site-specific dynamic dance and live music adventure created for Emeryville's Athletic Playground in 2019. Wathc Megan, Sonsherée Giles, and Shira Yaziv artfully activate ladders, planks, bars, mats, blocks, walls, and each other, channelling their inner superheroes, climbing, lifting, assisting, jumping, and flying in celebration of movement, trust, strength, resilience, and the ability to take action.
Photo by: John Carnahan
Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles
Meeting Room
Presented by Joe Goode Performance Group in Virtual Open House
October 30th, 2020
Friday at 7pm
Available Online via Twitch.tv
"Meeting Room" is a site-specific duet rooted in contact improvisation and partnering in relationship to a space. In this dance, Megan and Sonsherée must all ways be in contact with an architectural structure in the room, either directly or through each other—an exciting challenge for the dancers to explore, that evolves as they shift from surface to surface. Through this unique rule and limitation, new possibilities of movement and relating to each other are found.
JGPG invites you to the FIRST of their new Virtual Open House series this fall, a new Annex platform for digital performance; an informal & conversational exchange between participants and artists. Artist Lineup: Afia Thompson, Daria Garina / Celia Sagastume, Ali Montgomery, Andréa Spearman / A. Spearman & Co., Megan Lowe / Sonsherée Giles, and Robert Moses.
Screenshot by: Paul Dier
Megan Lowe Dances
Dancing at a Distance
March 15th, 2020 - October 12th, 2020
Ongoing and Available Online
Home and Near Home
Marina Bay, Richmond, CA
Check out a series of dance/art videos Megan is making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most are in response to creative prompts given by Lenora Lee Dance for And the Community Will Rise. Megan will continue to add artistic investigation videos on her website until the physical distancing order is no longer in place. Stay tuned for more!
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Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Presented by RAWdance's CONCEPT Series: Digital Edition
August 14th, 2020
Friday 6pm-7:30pm
Available Online!
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Hosted live by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors, Katerina Wong, Wendy Rein, and Ryan T. Smith, the Digital Edition will focus on dance for camera, including a mix of short dance films completed during the recent months of sheltering-in-place, as well as works-in-progress. The films will be followed by a full on dance party, complete with Jumbotron camera action. RAWdance will be joined by choreographers Marissa Brown, Eric Garcia, Frankie Lee III, Megan Lowe, and Jocelyn Reyes.
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Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Official Selected by Rogue Dancer's FilmFest: OUtBreaK! Edition
Available Online:
June 23rd - July 2nd, 2020
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Rogue Dancer brings you a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dance films. The theme this month is devoted to the work made in, finished in, or related to this confusing PANDEMIC time in history.
Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, & Johnny Nguyen
Through Fire & Water - Dedication to Jory Horn
Produced by Lenora Lee Dance
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
June 13th, 2020
Saturday at 7:30pm (Program B + Reception)
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
“Through Fire & Water” is a series of performance events in dedication to Jory Horn (April 21, 1991 – November 19, 2019). Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, and Johnny Nguyen team up to create work inspired by this profound dance artist and choreographer.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Logo by: The Izzies
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards
The 34th Annual Izzies Awards Ceremony
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
March 23rd, 2020
Monday at 6pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan Lowe Dances is honored to have been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (2018-2019 Performance Season) for:
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble: Action Potential, Megan Lowe with Sonsherée Giles and Shira Yaziv, choreography by Megan Lowe in collaboration with the performers, at Athletic Playground, Emeryville
This year the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee will celebrate 34 years of honoring local dance artists by acknowledging their outstanding achievements in dance. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony this event, and will be free and open to the public.
Photo by: Mogli Maureal
Girl Swallows Nightingale
Shapeshifter - Album Release Party
CANCELLED due to COVID-19
March 21st, 2020
Saturday at 8:00pm
Starline Social Club
645 West Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
UnderCover is proud to present an immersive night of Bay Area arts at its finest! Enter a transformative world of ghostly tales, memory fireflies, all imbued with gauzy soundscapes. A multi-disciplinary experience involving local live music, projections, theater, interactive sculpture, fine art, and memory reaping. Yes. Memory reaping. Megan will play the part of a dancing demon in the pre-show, and join GSN for a little singing.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
January 24th - February 9th, 2020
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 6:00pm
Added Shows:
Thursday, February 6th at 8:30pm
Saturday, February 8th at 5:30pm
Sunday, February 9th at 3pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to announce its latest evening-length dance work, Butterfly Effect, which takes on the climate crisis. Created and directed by Krissy Keefer, the title is a nod to the idea that small actions can have far-reaching consequences. Featuring a live musical score by Bruce Ghent, Butterfly Effect pays tribute to the devastatingly large number of activists that have been silenced, often brutally, because they have spoken truth to power. Megan will be primarily singing in this show, with a little bit of dancing as well.
