Epiphany Productions

Epiphany Productions is a performing arts company that erases the traditional boundaries between dance, theater, and music and fuses together different themes in innovative and surprising ways to tell stories on the stage and in the street.

Our mission is to develop dynamic, cutting-edge work that is accessible, relevant, and engaging, and that communicates through dance, theater, music, emotion, and intellect. In addition to providing free and low-cost public access to live art, we strive to expand and educate audiences for dance and to foster inter-cultural communication through artistic collaboration. 

Epiphany Productions is known for the excellent quality and highly theatrical nature of its work and for its commitment to building community through art-making.

Artistic Director Kim Epifano founded Epiphany Productions in 1997 to aid her work in sonic dance theater, a genre-bending blend of dance, theater, and vocalization in which dancers, musicians, aerialists, and actors work together to weave a story on stage. Epiphany Productions's programs include an annual Home Season; San Francisco Trolley Dances (SFTD), a free annual festival presented since 2004 along the City's trolley lines, which features new site-specific works by Bay Area choreographers; and educational outreach activities in the Bay Area and around the world. The company's artistic focus is on large-scale multi-disciplinary collaborations, and since its inception, Epiphany Productions has produced 20 major large-scale works of this nature. The company's work has been seen all over the world, including a recent U.S. State Department-supported tour to Tunisia, North Africa in March 2010 to be the featured performers at an international dance festival hosted by Mad'Art Carthage. Epiphany Productions's work has been recognized by several Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (IZZIES) and nominations, received the SF Weekly's Black Box Award for Best Dance Ensemble, and placed first in Mexico's Bi-National Competition. Epiphany Productions has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, California Arts Council, and others.

Cross-cultural collaboration has been an important factor in many of the 20 major works that Epiphany Productions has created over the years. Recent examples include Speaking Chinese, which brought together a team of internationally-renowned Chinese and American artists, was developed in Shanghai, Beijing, and San Francisco, and premiered in the San Francisco International Arts Festival at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and Fears of Your Life, a two-year collaboration with the developmentally disabled community and Creativity Explored, author Michael Bernard Loggins, and the physically integrated AXIS Dance Company, which was supported by the Irvine Foundation and Dance/USA's Dance: Creation to Performance program and a prestigious Creative Work Fund grant. Epiphany Productions's repertoire reflects the artistic director's exposure to different perspectives on community art-making and diverse cultural norms from her dance-making experiences around the world with villagers in Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, and Nicaragua, as well as her ongoing interest in exploring the role of community in artistic expression.