upcoming
Co-Dreaming: Improvisation toward Liberatory Worlding
October 16 - October 19
San Francisco Bay Area
organized by Petra Kuppers and Bhumi B Patel
participants include: Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Bhumi B Patel, and additional local participations
Please reach out if you are interested in participating in the event: bhumi.b.patel@gmail.com
Virtual Screening of fault lines: the edge of the continent
September 17th 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
On September 17, 2023, pateldanceworks will present a virtual screening of fault lines: edge of the continent, a live site specific performance presented at Fort Funston in San Francisco, California in May 2023. The screening will take place at 4:30pm PST/7:30pm EST and after the live screening, the film will be available to view for one week until September 24, 2023. You can get free tickets here.
fault lines is a multidisciplinary collaboration with queer and Asian performance artists, experimental composers, and a visual artist. In this unprecedented moment, we witness the ongoing pandemics entrench inequality and erode the already brittle infrastructure we stand upon. As seismologist Nicholas van der Elst explains “seen from above, [faults] appear as broad zones of deformation, with many faults braided together.” The tectonic forces of xenophobia, orientalism, homophobia and transphobia collide with climate catastrophe - leaving us dancing on unstable ground. Fort Funston is uniquely positioned upon a bluff that is made up of sedimentary rocks that formed along the San Andreas fault line over the last two million years.
past performances
fault lines: witness
August 2023
fault lines: witness is the second of several ongoing iterative, multidisciplinary performances and experiential activations. Each offering emerges from its last evolution and includes different constellations of members involved with pateldanceworks. In witness, we journey with water memory, like the path of a river’s serpentine flowing through wide valleys or flat planes to loop and curve making an exploration of the in-between spaces of identity and geography, with Patel exploring her own Asian-American identity and queerness as in-between. In this piece, Patel brings together lineages of displacement, alienation, transnationalism, and hybridity in her existence, reconciling through the river’s haunting in the body.
fault lines: edge of the continent
May 2023
This past May, pateldanceworks presented fault lines, a site specific performance at Fort Funston in San Francisco, California. fault lines is a multidisciplinary collaboration with queer and Asian performance artists, experimental composers, and a visual artist. In this unprecedented moment, we witness the ongoing pandemics entrench inequality and erode the already brittle infrastructure we stand upon. As seismologist Nicholas van der Elst explains “seen from above, [faults] appear as broad zones of deformation, with many faults braided together.” The tectonic forces of xenophobia, orientalism, homophobia and transphobia collide with climate catastrophe - leaving us dancing on unstable ground. Fort Funston is uniquely positioned upon a bluff that is made up of sedimentary rocks that formed along the San Andreas fault line over the last two million years
pateldanceworks
and
Byb Chanel Bibene/Kiandanda Dance Theater
divisions the empire has sown: to leave the land
June 3-5 and 10-12, 2021
performance as part of the Performing Diaspora Residency program at CounterPulse
