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Tyler Dragoni performs at the 2014 Performance Fusion.

• June 1, 2015

91短视频’s Department of Theatre & Dance will celebrate its students’ work with Performance Fusion 2015 “Reflex-tions,” a showcase of senior projects directed by theater and dance majors. The production runs June 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. and June 7 at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre on the Hayward campus. Tickets are on sale at .

“Reflex-tions” dives into the worlds of five emerging artists as they pose questions about the myths, truths, burdens and triumphs that have shaped their journeys.

Nicholas Berk’s short play Benji is a rite of passage tale, showing the journey from shame to innocence, and eventually maturity for a boy growing up with autism.

Teri Lynch’s musical Human shows us how reenacting past experiences, with the help of Dialectical Behavior Theory, can help us to confront our demons and heal.

In Typecast: Again, writer and director Marie Alexandra Ibarra takes on the racial typecasting of Asians and Asian Americans with a playful parody about the entertainment industry.

Choreographer Adriana Ramos’ Sin Gracia is a dance theater interpretation of the Mexican folkloric character of La Llorona, “The Weeping Woman.” Through movement, music and video, Ramos looks at how closely related passion and suffering can become in an unchecked heart.

Food and body image are issues that director Rebecca Soltau fearlessly broaches in her interpretation of Stephanie Alison Walker’s short play, The Chocolate Affair. Her production asks what saps us of true joy and what feeds us in life.

91短视频’s production of “Reflex-tions” is directed and performed entirely by CSUEB theater and dance students. For more information about the production, please call Associate Professor Nina Haft at (510) 885-4898 or email her at nina.haft@csueastbay.edu.