Name: forever failing with Clarissa Rivera Dyas and ainsley tharp
Start: 2025-04-24T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-26T21:30:00-07:00
Location: 221 Washington St

forever failing with Clarissa Rivera Dyas and ainsley tharp

In forever failing Clarissa Dyas and ainsley tharp are molting and reimagining their corporeality as failure, as explicit, as queer.
About this Event

Through its Dance Up Close/East Bay series, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center is pleased to present artists Clarissa Rivera Dyas and ainsley tharp in forever failing, April 24-26, 2025 at the Parker Electric Foundation in Oakland. The duo highlights failure as a form of protest, as a way to negate capitalism’s obsession with the perfect product, and uncover new mythologies of becoming.

Please note that this performance takes place in a building with a small ramp to enter the space and a small ramp to get to the seating area. Seating is limited to 50.
Write to [email protected] about tickets or access needs. No one turned away due to lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).