PARA.MAR Dance Theatre is thrilled to premiere creations from phenom choreographers Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Robyn Mineko Williams, and Stephanie Martinez .

Influenced by Elizabeth Lesser’s Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes, PARA.MAR founder and director Stephanie Martinez explores and interrogates the same question of “how the stories we tell, the stories we hear and see, become the culture we know”.

When Lesser proposes “what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human” Martinez curates an evening to interrogate what else is imposed on each of us based on “other” factors, like age, race, sexual preference, status, and ability.  

Simply, how does the experience of being “other” alter and define who we are – and how we find and assert power, our voice, within an imposed structure designed to keep you quiet?