Megan Lowe Dances - 2min Reel (2021-2026)

Megan Lowe Dances www.MeganLoweDances.com Megan Lowe Dances (MLD) creates courageous multidisciplinary dance works rooted in care. They transform spaces with dynamic place-making, playful partner-work, and daring aerial/vertical dance, paying particular attention to stories from AAPI, BIPOC, and mixed-race communities. MLD’s recent choreographies have been presented at Legion of Honor, ODC, Fort Mason, de Young, and 500 Capp Street, as well as in United States of Asian America Festival, SF Aerial Arts Festival, SF Trolley Dances, CAAMFest, and on KQED Live. MLD offers invigorating workshops and classes that empower movers to take risks, embrace strengths, and support one another. Through collaboration, creative exploration, and collective learning, their public programming builds supportive communities and reimagines what dance can be and where it can happen. Featuring Excerpts from (in order of appearance): JINSHAN: Seams of Gold (2025): A outdoor site specific vertical dance film co-created with Rose Huey and filmmaker Nino Fernandez (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and Rose Huey) Chinatown Connections (2026): A performance a community workshop event honoring the histories of SF Chinatown and Oakland Chinatown (dancers in video: Megan Lowe, Ài Yīn Adelski, Frances Teves Sedayao). From the Clouds to the Earth (2024): A site-specific vertical dance co-created with Roel Seeber for the SF Aerial Arts Festival at Fort Mason (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber). Legion and Legacies (2025): A site-specific dance commission for the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and AJ "Dopey Fresh" Gardner). Just a Shadow (2024): An Izzie Award Winning multidisciplinary performance journey that celebrates life, and honors memories of lost loved ones (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber). HOME(in)STEAD (2022): An Izzie Award Winning site-specific dance created in residency at David Ireland House / 500 Capp Street, co-directed with Johnny Huy Nguyen (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen) No way you can encompass all the things you might... (2022): A site-specific sextet commissioned by de Young museum for a free public process to performance for the Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門) exhibit (dancers in video: Megan Lowe, Danny Nguyen, Melissa Lewis Wong, Asha Passalaqua, and Johnny Huy Nguyen) Maw Jaw (2021): A site specific dance film for San Francisco’s Chinatown, created in partnership with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center in solidarity with API communities (dancer in video: Megan Lowe) Community Hub: Enduring Vitality (2022): A site-specific quartet in SF Chinatown, commissioned by Epiphany Dance Theater for free public performance in SF Trolley Dances (dancers in video: Shira Yaziv, Megan Lowe, Melissa Lewis Wong, and Brenton Cheng) Tangram (2021): An evening of dynamic partnering featuring Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng that uses physical puzzles to explore relationship, geometry, and their shared Chinese heritage (dancers in video: Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng) Gathering Pieces of Peace (2023): An evening length dance theater work that explores mixed-race AAPI experiences (dancers in video: Melissa Lewis Wong, Megan Lowe, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Malia Hatico-Byrne) Piece of Peace (2022): An dance theater work that explores mixed-race AAPI experiences (dancers in video: jose e. abad, Melissa Lewis Wong, and Megan Lowe). Music: Fast Alone, Far Together by Megan Lowe, featuring the voice of Flo Oy Wong at the end. Correction: 2:05 "Piece of Peace" was actually created in 2022.