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The People's Palace
Zaccho Dance Theater

(2024) The People’s Palace, directed by Joanna Haigood, was a large scale aerial dance installation set in San Francisco City Hall.  The project was an artistic intervention with City Hall’s Beaux-Arts architecture, systems of colonization and whiteness, and the government's relationship to the people it governs. 

Ciarra D'Onofrio performed a breathtaking vertical dance duet, with dance partner Veronica Blair, on a floating plexiglass platform suspended in the 200 foot tall dome of City Hall. As the platform descended above the audience, the dancers explored themes of equity, balance, and reworking racist social systems to work for everyone.

(2024) This unique aerial dance project was set on a first-of-it's kind apparatus: a 12x12 foot square of truss filled with taut net made of climbing rope and paracord. Within this distinctive landscape, the dancers explored themes community, human connection with nature, and asked the question of what it truly means to belong. Performance Video available here.

(2023) Site specific, multimedia, installation dance project focused on gender, self expression, and the surveillance of queer bodies. Choreographed, directed, and performed in collaboration with Saharla Vetsch. Through the use of old TVs and camcorders that cast projections of the live dance from different perspectives,  the project manipulated the audience's visual perspective and encouraged the audience to engage with the project as active participants. The piece was choreographed in the lobby of CounterPulse, using mezzanines, under stair nooks, and street side windows to explore urban space and identity. The audience was invited to follow the dancers and move throughout the space during the performance. 

2023 San Francisco Trolley Dances
Epiphany Dance Theater

(2023) Site specific dance performance with Epiphany Dance Theater at the Fisherman's and Seaman's Memorial Chapel at Fisherman's Wharf.

Come Home
Music Video with Thrown Out Bones 

Film featured in the 2024 San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival

(2023) Choreographed and performed contemporary dance and trapeze focused on longing, release, and return for a music video with band, Thrown Out Bones.

Film available here.