Small Dances in the Park: A Picnic of Solos, Duets, and Trios creatively unpacks the stops and starts of making and sharing public art through the recent transitionary waning of the pandemic. Valuing process, form, and an ethics of solidarity care, Small Dances was created with an intentional indirection, focusing rather on the dynamics between pause and possibility, the accumulation of heartbreaks and unknowns, and the sometimes surprising gifts found amidst loss.

Co-Creators and Performers: Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, and Phoenicia Pettyjohn

Composer: Clark Buckner

Special thank you to Movement and Text Co-Creator Emma Lanier.

Presented in partnership with SF Rec and Parks Department.