DIASPORADICA unfolded as a journey through three acts: ‘Kickback,’ an invitation to leisure and gameplay establishing intimacy between performers and audiences; ‘Performance,’ featuring collective choreography and improvisation from diasporic storytelling traditions; and ‘Function,’ transforming the space into a club environment positioning dance as communal spiritual technology. The work combined contemporary dance, immersive installation, ritual practices, and community engagement to explore themes of Black kinship, belonging, and artistic embodiment.

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CAC hosted RUPTURE workshops from August 25-27, 2025, featuring conversations between RUPTURE’s creators and guest artists including Joanna Haigood, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Maurya Kerr, taisha paggett, and amara tabor-smith. Sessions expolored themes including ‘Poetics of Place,’ Hauntology 101,’ and ‘Black Grammar.’

RUPTURE is an experimental performance collective founded by five Bay Area and New York artists: josé e. abad, Styles Alexander, Gabriele Christian, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Stephanie Hewett. The collective brings together expertise in dance, visual arts, sound design, and community engagement to center Black and Queer experience, vernacular, and aesthetics as wellsprings for radical futurity. RUPTURE’s work explores layered encounters possible when artists assemble and build together.