EMME YA
PREMIERE
August 2021/The Sanctuary
CHOREOGRAPHY
Raissa Simpson
CAST
Jeremy Brooks, Lydia Clinton, Ashley Gayle, Niara Hardister, Vicki Herrera, Erik K Raymond Lee, Terrence Paschal, Kao Vey Saephanh, Patrick Secrease, Ameia Smith, Danielle Smith
FILM CAST
Jeremy Brooks, Ashley Gayle, Erik Raymond Lee, Terrence Paschal, Patrick Secrease, Ameia Smith, Danielle Smith
MUSIC
jamil nasim
FILM
Jabreel Green
AWARDS
2 WAVE Awards / ACM West
for Best Film and Best Experimental Production
Isadora Duncan Dance Award
Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Ensemble
PUSH Dance Company’s repertoire stands at the cutting edge of contemporary performance, creating bold works that merge dance, technology, and social justice. For over 20 years, this San Francisco-based company has developed an acclaimed body of work that investigates algorithmic fairness, AI bias, and the ways technology reshapes human movement and spatial awareness.
PUSH’s repertoire reflects a commitment to innovation and equity, creating performances that are as intellectually rigorous as they are emotionally powerful—work that asks critical questions about our digital age while celebrating the transformative power of movement.
About
EMME YA: EXPEDITION follows Afronauts on their final voyage to the black planet of Dogon cosmology—a dark companion star in the Sirius system known centuries before modern astronomy. Through live performance and film, this Afrofuturist odyssey traces a journey from San Francisco’s SOMA and Mission Districts to Santa Cruz, California, documenting Earthlings returning to ancestral origins while propelling toward undiscovered Black futurity—past, present, and future converging in movement and time.
DEBUT
at 447 Minna Street between 5th & 6th Streets
August 21 & 22, 2021
TOUR
SF Bay Area Theater Company’s New Roots Festival 2022
UC Santa Cruz SURGE Festival 2022
FILM DEBUT
EMME YA: The Final Expedition
November 18 & 19, 2022
FESTIVAL
SF Dance Film Festival 2024