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*Note: This program will move to various sites in the Gardens*

A dazzling, array of kinetic street dance idioms transforms the Gardens into a liberated movement zone with the world premiere of the way home is an upwards spiral. Commissioned by YBG Festival, Sammay Peñaflor Dizon (she/they) created this experimental, site-responsive work to push the boundaries of street dance forms, challenge Western notions of concert dance and draw attention to ongoing policy battles concerning a woman’s sovereignty over her/their body. A Filipinx American choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer of Bikol, Kapampangan and Ilokano descent, Dizon brings together Bay Area artists who are practitioners of Black social dance forms, specifically street dances like popping and krumping, and club styles such as house, whacking, and vogue/ballroom. Centering devotional practice as resistance, this timely work invites audiences to move and shift alongside the Earth and her children. “I believe that art serves to heal, transform and liberate marginalized communities and ultimately our planet,” Dizon says. “As an artist living at the intersection of marginalized identities, I center the practices and people that have the inherent access to the embodied knowledge our world so direly needs.”  

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