Joe Goode Performance Group

Programs

1. Are You Okay? is a new site-responsive, immersive dance theater work that set to premiere in San Francisco in August 2025. Responding to US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthys urgent call about the public mental health crises of loneliness and isolation, Are You Okay? asks how we manage in a world personally and collectively unstable. When our lives, health, and jobs are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity is not a privileged luxury, but a critical survival technique. Are You Okay? activates the social techniques and cultural infrastructure developed by LGBTQ+ communities, who have out of necessity crafted nourishing sub-cultural bonds and methodologies. Are You Okay?, will blur boundaries between audience and performers by creating an immersive walk-through performance that allows for audience volition. Intertwining dance, theater, and music in a site-specific setting, the performance will guide audiences through overlapping narratives that illuminate the complexity of mental health.

   $272,100 spent$33,986 earned by the program
   79% of program spending

2. Community Engagement. Through its Community Engagement, JGPG creates and maintains substantive opportunities for QTBIPOC artists, veterans, elders, and youth, to further advance access and equity in our community. Since 2010, through deep listening and centering the stories of the community which allows for trust to develop over time, JGPG has built partnerships based on collaborative design and sharing of values and learnings.

   $57,656 spent$37,286 earned by the program
   17% of program spending

3. Gush Festive -Gush Festival is a four-day festival of dance-theater performance and artistic exchange where artists engage with each other and the audience in between pieces for connection and discussion.

   $16,231 spent$9,838 earned by the program
   5% of program spending

4. Joe Goode Annex- The Joe Goode Annex is the home of the JGPG Performance Group artistic and programming activities as well as providing the Bay Area community with an affordable studio rental program for classes and performances serving annually over 8,000 audience members, 90 renting artists, with hundreds more artists involved as performers, designers, and teachers.

5. As We Go- As We Go is a site-responsive, immersive dance theater work that contemplates the body in all its idiosynchronicity and miraculous unpredictability as we are collectively confronted with our mortality once again in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed in partnership with medical professionals in the field of chronic-illness and end-of-life care and community members identifying as elders and/or with chronic health challenges. Premiering in San Francisco, CA, As We Go invites participants to journey through a dynamic, multi sensory,interactive and queered environment that transforms from intimate audience-performer exchanges to abundant community ritual.

   $410 earned by the program

6. Inspired Bodies JGPGs Youth Education program holds residencies throughout the school year in high schools and one middle school program, introducing JGPGs creative methodologies to create performances based on students' stories and experiences. Serves 200 students directly per year 10-15 sessions per residency 4 residencies within the year

7. The Resilience Project emerged in 2016 as a community based performance process in which directors interviewed Veterans and their families and used their individual responses and stories about resilience to develop text for a staged work that collides words and movement, gesture and song into a visceral experience of the participants profoundly moving stories. Today, The Resilience Project doesn't only take shape as performance but exists as workshops and classes. In these sessions, JGPG teaching artists, Veterans and/or Veterans care providers join together as a community to practice shared storytelling and mindful movement. Serves 50-60 people per session 20-30 sessions held per year April 2023: Catalyst Event, JGPG partnered with Access Institute- 5075 people attended and participated in workshops

8. Movement for Humans is a gentle accessible movement class for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Weekly classes serve 10-20 people per session 40 classes are held per year

9. Spring Workshop- A weekend workshop with Joe Goode designed to revitalize and nourish your creativity. Have you asked yourself lately What matters to me now, in this stage of my life? Part of the Starting Now methodology is to embrace the materials that may be drawn from your life at any given moment, to realize that making something with those materials is a way of waking up to your life and its possibilities. You will leave this workshop with tools, practices and inspiration to inhabit your life, your work and your relationships in a deeper and more deliberate way. No dance or performance background necessary. 15-20 people attended our Starting Now workshop on April 28 and 29 9 hours total

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $345,987.