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The word 'RUPTURE' written in red, stylized, graffiti-like text.
A woman with curly hair in colorful clothing and sneakers performing a dance move on stage.
A performance art installation showcasing a person hanging upside down from a chain, above a large, glossy, black spherical sculpture with circular patterns, illuminated by vibrant blue and purple lights in an industrial space with visible structural elements and exit signs.
A person standing on a hoverboard with colorful LED lights, surrounded by moving lights and blurred surroundings, creating a dynamic, energetic scene at night.

  • RUPTURE is a collective of performance artists collectively engaging in and sharing community practices of resistance, revelry, and tactical rest. Instigated by five BlaQ waymakers jose e. abad, Styles Alexander, Gabriele Christian, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Stephanie Hewett; RUPTURE positions the improvisatory nature of Black life, experimentation, and movement as techniques for future crafting.

  • Ice Car Rage
    Fort Mason August 14-16

  • for touring information and teaching request please email: ruptureisnow@gmail.com

A woman in a flowing yellow dress walking past a large reflective spherical sculpture in an indoor space with industrial ceiling. The scene is illuminated with colorful pink and blue lighting.
A shirtless man with curly hair is in a dance or performance pose on a dark stage with dim lighting and blue and red spotlights.
Two people standing on the back of a pickup truck during a neon-lit night, with a pink and purple background, some small trees visible in the distance.

photos by Robbie Sweeny

| solo | in collaboration |

| solo | in collaboration |

RAWHIDE

currently in development with B. Dean premiering late fall 2026

Tyrone
2025 -present

Black Choreographers' Festival 03/01/2025 at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco, CA

Two women are performing a dance on a stage with a wooden floor and a dark background. They are dressed in casual clothing, including white t-shirts and jeans, and are wearing socks instead of shoes. One woman has a headscarf, and the other has voluminous curly hair. They are in expressive dance poses, with one woman pointing and the other leaning forward.
Two women are dancing on a stage with a dark background. Their heads are touching, and they are wearing casual clothing, including jeans and sleeveless tops.
Two women dance closely together on a wooden stage with a dark background, wearing casual clothes, with one woman wearing a shiny satin shirt and the other in a tan tank top and jeans.
Two dancers performing on a stage with a dark background, with one dancer partially covering the other, both dressed casually with loose jeans and a headscarf, striking expressive poses.
Two dancers perform on a stage with one dancer lifting the other in the air, both dressed casually in jeans and t-shirts, under stage lighting.

Tytyrone (2025-present)

Black Choreographers’ Festival
3/01/2026
San Francisco, Dance Mission Theater
Performers: Clarissa Rivera Dyas & Brooke Terry
Sound Design: jose e. abad

Colorful fireworks bursting in the night sky with vivid reds, blues, and oranges, creating a vibrant display of light and motion.

forever failing
in collaboration with ainsley e. tharp
sound design by jose e. abad
2024-present

this piece is available for tour please contact
clarissa.dyas@gmail.com

In forever failing we are molting and reimagining our corporeality as failure, as explicit, as queer, as reverence for the past, and ways to uncover new futures in anti-colonial reimagining in the americanaAMERICANAamericana context. We are embodying the trickster, the cowboy, the slut, the girlfriend, the good girl, the mother, the cow, shapeshifting corporality. Together we highlight failure as a form of protest, as a way to negate capitalism’s obsession with the perfect product and uncover new mythologies of becoming. Proposals deconstruct as we are activate our identities then let go of what is already perceived by the “audience.” How are we failing? How has it all failed us?-- but all is not “failed” beyond metamorphosed reconstruction.

Something Remains (2022)

Directed by Clarissa Rivera Dyas an Jakob Pek as part of the Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency 2022

Performers: Hannah Meleoakaiao Ayasse, Gabriele Christian, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, Julie Moon, Aaron Oppenheim, Jakob Pek, Ainsley Tharp & Jennifer Wilsey

Lighting Design: Jessi Barber

Sound Technician: Jacob Felix-Huele

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baby

Choreography, Collaboration & Performance:
Clarissa Rivera Dyas & Gabriele Christian
Lead Creator: Clarissa Rivera Dyas

"baby" was performed and created for Queering Dance Festival's FROLIC Festival April 1st & 2nd, 2023 at Live Oak Theater in Berkeley, CA

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Two performers on stage, one with a raised arm and the other crouching, in front of a gold, glittery backdrop.