/Dance
Down on the Corner
Oct 03 - 11, 2025
October 3-4 and 9-11, 2025. Shows run at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM, with a pre-show historical introduction each night at 7:15
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Flyaway Productions is proud to announce the world premiere of DOWN ON THE CORNER presented near the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. Directed by Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter in partnership with the TurkxTaylor Initiative (TxT), Down on the Corner features a cast of queer, transgender, and female performers, commissioned music by singer and songwriter Melanie DeMore, and a film by Leila Weefur.
Down on the Corner includes live performances by dancers Ai Yin Adelski, Gabriele Christian, Becca “B” Dean, Quinn Dior, laura elaine ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, and Saharla Vetsch.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Flyaway Productions returns to the streets of San Francisco with a new world premiere and its signature blend of aerial choreography and urgent narrative messaging! For “Down on the Corner,” Artistic Director Jo Kreiter and collaborators look to a space of transgender protest and queer power: the Tenderloin’s Compton Cafeteria on Taylor Street. While mining its tremendous historical impact, “Down on the Corner” also seeks to understand that place in the context of the present day. All showings are free to the public.
Heather Desaulniers
Contributing Writer
Flyaway Productions