Community Projects "Art to the People" are an outreach program specifically meant to pair up non-dancers with professionals. The company will work closely with staff and teachers at an organization to develop activities. As an example, in San Francisco, Ca. Push recently worked at 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic with youth ages 12-24in Bayview Hunters Point, the company offered a group comfort dance in order to explore SF’s Multiracial Community. The project brought together a diverse group of teens from various marginalized communities to help create the multimedia video and trained some of the youth to dance onstage in a full production.

The projects are flexible and are meant to encourage school children, teens, senior citizens, different-abled persons to participate in the company’s performance projects.

Mixed Messages
A look into San Francisco’s abundant Multiracial Community, the work brings together marginalized peoples and professional dancers together through dance and panel discussions. The activities draw parrellels for the watcher and listener to draw between interdependence of family, community, and society.

Panel discussions clarify cultural and ethnic studies, Multiracialism, and multi-faceted artists. The Mixed Messages project panel introduces the concepts around mixed race and draws for the listener parallels between contrasts of cultures and communities.