AADF2025 Collaborative Residency Showcase

AADF2025: COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY SHOWCASE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23RD @7PM

LIGHT BOX THEATER
Liberty Station
2590 Truxtun Rd #205, San Diego, CA 92106

AADF2025 Collaborative Residency: Dance, Spoken Word & Community is a 5-month cohort residency for early to mid-career AAPI choreographers that runs April - August 2025. The choreographers spent the first two months paired with AAPI spoken word artists for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange and collaboration, creating joint work through community engagement and storytelling. During the final three months, the choreographers dove into independent research on their own questions of identity. They explored themes of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces, how to navigate conflicting expectations, and what it means to live in that liminal place of being both Asian and American.

After months of research and exploration, the choreographers' work culminates in a final presentation held as part of AADF2025. The format of this showcase is left open to each choreographer - they may present finished works, they may present their research in the form of a lecture/demonstration, or they may choose an audience participation format. For each, this is a presentation of what they have excavated for themselves so far, and serves as a starting point for deeper work in the future.

This event is offered at three ticket tiers:
     Support the Artists - $35
     General Admission - $25
     Artist/Student/Low-Income - $15

Learn more about AADF2025 Collaborative Residency program and see what the residents have already done- https://tiltshiftdance.org/aadf-collab-residency

Learn more about AADF2025 and all festival events - https://tiltshiftdance.org/aadf

MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHERS

Adie San Diego (she/her) is a Filipina-American artist residing in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Modern Dance from Point Park University, and in May 2025, Adie received an MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). As a dancer, Adie has had the honor to work with renowned artists including Helen Simoneau, Joanna Kotze, Yin Yue, Beth Gill, and more. Adie’s choreographic work has been presented in Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Durham, and Los Angeles, and she is excited to share with the San Diego dance community in AADF. Additionally, Adie is a freelance photographer/videographer working with artists from the greater communities of Raleigh, NC and Los Angeles, CA.

Smrithi Suresh (she/her) has been learning Bharatanatyam for the past 17 years under the tutelage of her Gurus Smt. Suganda Sreenath and Smt. Shreya Iyer of Jayendra Kalenkendra. After coming to San Diego for university, she pursued further training under Smt. Radhika Karandikar. She has performed in numerous locations across the world including Dallas, Bay Area, Cleveland, and India. She is also an IndianRaga Fellow. Passionate about choreography, she co-founded Fuchsia Dance, a platform for dancers to collaborate and innovate. Notably, they have performed at TedXBerkeley and the Erasing Borders Dance Festival in New York. She recently graduated from UCSD with a degree in nanoengineering.

TILTshift Dance and AADF2025 are fiscally sponsored by San Diego Dance Theater. AADF2025 is funded in part by City of San Diego Cultural Affairs.