Summer 2024 Residency Performance - In-Person

Featuring work by Kat Lin and Nico Maimon, the evening of performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists and Residency Mentor Deborah Slater

This ticketing page is for in-person tickets only. To reserve a livestream ticket please visit the

July 26th & 27th 2024 @7pm PDT
Doors open at 6:45pm
Suggested $15 - $50
Livestream & Limited In-Person

In-Person Performance at Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez. #210
San Francisco, CA 94110

The twice-yearly Studio 210 Residency selects two artists or ensembles to explore the performance-making process and receive rehearsal space, mentorship, an artist stipend, and culminating performance.

Learn more at deborahslater.org/residency.

This event will be a hybrid event, with a livestream and a limited in-person capacity. Tickets to this event are by donation (suggested $15 - $50 for in-person). Proceeds support the Residency program and Studio 210, helping us continue to offer this opportunity to performing artists throughout the greater Bay Area. If you are unable to donate at this time, but would like to attend, please email [email protected] to arrange free attendance.

Studio 210 will offer 30 tickets per night for in-person admission, PRE-SALE ONLY. TICKETS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. Ticket sales will close at 7am PDT on the day of the performance.

• Wearing a mask is strongly encouraged, but not required.
• Studio 210 is located at 3435 Cesar Chavez, #210, San Francisco. Please see below for accessibility details.

The performance event will be live-streamed to YouTube, where attendees can chat and comment on the performance. Ticketholders will be emailed a link to the livestream 30 minutes prior the performance and at the performance start time.

An account is not required to view the livestream; however, to participate in the comments, users must have a google account and be signed in when accessing the livestream. Auto-captions will be available for the livestream.

About the work from Kat Lin: Through the Studio 210 Residency, Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? Through movement and visual puns, this choreography is inspired by anything that misses or hits the point - the gesture of pointing, garden path sentences, pointe shoes, laser pointers, philosophy, mathematical points on a line, bullseye targets. The piece is all about the point of art—how we miss it, how we don't, and why we try to find it.

Kat Lin is a freelance dancer/choreographer based in the Bay Area. She’s been a featured artist with East Bay’s Performance Primers and shown work as a resident artist of Safehouse Arts. As a dancer, she has worked with Kinetech Arts on several shows over the past few years. Her choreography is an outlet for her curiosity - where she explores random topics - and an excuse to hang out with friends. She believes in letting curiosity guide her piece-making and is often inspired by scientific mechanics - whether it’s the double-slit experiment or telomere shortening.

About the work from Nico Maimon: Through the Studio 210 Residency, Nico Maimon (in collaboration with Kim Ip,) will begin to develop dance-theatre work, THIRTEEN, inspired by the 2013 film of the same name. "Blending themes and aesthetics from the film with our own coming of age, we will explore themes of dark suburbia, mother-daughter complexities, substance abuse, and class divide. I hope to reveal the gut wrenching complexity of teenage girlhood, specifically as it is used as a tool for American assimilation."

Originally from Mexico City, Nico Ortiz Maimon is a queer Bay Area performer, choreographer, educator, and community organizer. She also works with children, performs drag, and plays drums in a punk band called gutfux. Nico has had the pleasure to work with Estrellx Supernova, Nina Haft, Bianca Cabrera, David Herrera, Christine Cali, Kim Ip, Eric Garcia, Cookie Harrist, and others. Her solo and collaborative film and live works have been supported by the QTBIPOC HIVE, PLATAFORMA, Joe Goode’s GUSH Fest, Queering Dance Festival (with Zoe Huey,) FRESH Festival exchange and others. An experimental improviser//alchemist at heart, their artistic journey revolves around joy as revolution, where love is the driving force. Ultimately, Nico perceives her work as prefigurative queer activism, striving to construct a new world within the confines of the old.

Studio 210 is on the second floor of the building, only accessible via stairs (20 steps). The building is undergoing construction and is currently NOT wheelchair accessible. Seating is armless chairs. There is one gender neutral bathroom down the hall from Studio 210 (~100 feet from the studio).

Directions will be sent to ticketholders prior to the performance.

There is no parking lot or designated parking.
Studio 210 is approximately 1/2 mile from the 24th St. BART station and there is extremely limited street parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

Please email [email protected] with accessibility questions.

Host or Publisher Deborah Slater Dance Theater