Love, A State of Grace & futile/gestures

Filmed over four days in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, “Love, A State of Grace” is a multifaceted immersive meditation on vulnerability, courage, and loving attunement to our common humanity, told through the mesmerizing art of aerial dance.

For four days in 2022, Zaccho Dance Theatre transformed San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Amid the cathedral’s towering ceilings, stained glass windows, and cavernous chambers, performers ascend a 100-ft ladder and soar on a 70-foot swinging pendulum, defying gravity with equanimous grace.

Featured Short: futile/gestures

In a fusion of live performance and hand-drawn animation, “futile/gestures” inscribes movement in a dramatic multimedia discourse between flesh, paper, and technology. Learn More

Director: Yolanda Tianyi-Shao (韶天怡), Aaron Holmes
Choreographer: Yolanda Tianyi-Shao
(United States, 2022) 7:44 minutes / Genre: Performance Capture / Experimental