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San Francisco-based Taiwanese dancer Xu Qingqing used Taiwanese rice given to her by her grandmother as inspiration to create “Every Grain of Us Rice” and expanded her ideas on immigrant memory, cultural heritage, and sense of belonging through community co-creation projects.
san francisco Dance artist Xu Qingqing recently created a new dance “Every Grain of Us Found”. This dance work begins with the daily diet and explores how food is passed down through generations and regions, carrying with it memory, cultural continuity, and people’s sense of belonging to “home.”
Xu Qingqing was born in Taiwan and settled in San Francisco. She is a dancer, choreographer and art teacher. Her works use the body and movement as media to explore memory and belonging, and through individual and collective life stories, she considers how time and social environments influence relationships between different communities and generations.
She said her family specially put a bag of rice in my luggage when she left Taiwan. Her grandmother (grandmother) asked her to add some Taiwanese rice to her daily meals so that she could adapt to the American food life while maintaining the taste of her hometown. Years later, this memory became the starting point for the creation of “Every Grain of Us Found”, and he began to rethink the meaning of rice through dance. Rice is not only a life-sustaining food, but also a medium that connects family, cultural roots and a sense of belonging.
In addition to stage performances, Xu Qingqing also developed a community co-creation project “Improvrice” through a series of community gatherings, inviting people from different backgrounds to listen and share their memories, life experiences, and emotional connections with rice.
These conversations are not only an exchange of stories, but also become echoes of the dance, allowing individual life experiences and the collective voice of the community to participate in the creation of the work. Xu Qingqing said she hopes the piece can spark more discussion about the life experiences of immigrants and how different generations preserve and change their culture. A seemingly simple grain of rice can actually hold rich history, emotions and life stories.
Task: Every particle of ours Milli
Timings: November 14 at 3 pm and 7 pm, November 15 at 3 pm
Location: Geneva Car Barn Powerhouse
Address: 2301 San Jose Avenue, San Francisco, 94112
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The inspiration came from the bags of rice his family packed in their luggage when leaving Taiwan and the memory of his grandmother telling him to include Taiwanese rice in his daily diet. This experience forced him to reconsider the meaning of rice and his hometown, culture, and emotional connection.
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The work begins with daily meals and explores how food transcends generations and regions, carrying with it memory, cultural continuity and a sense of belonging to home. Xu Qingqing hopes audiences will see that a grain of rice is not only food, but also a medium that connects life stories.
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They developed the community co-creation project “ImprovRice”, which invited people from different backgrounds to share rice-related memories. The performances will take place on November 14 and 15 at the Geneva Car Barn Powerhouse in San Francisco.
