Welcome to TASTESalt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami each take over the room before slipping into unexpected combinations. Moving through a series of distinct encounters, Taste brings the dance up close and plays between what you crave, what you reject, and what you can’t get enough of.
Collaborators
Anna Greenberg Gold
Performer
Anna Greenberg Gold received her formative dance training at Pasadena Dance Theater under the direction of Cyntia Young. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has been privileged to study at the Ailey School, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the SF Conservatory of Dance. Ms. Greenberg received her B.A. in Dance and Children's Book Illustration from Hampshire College. Anna has the joy of collaborating with Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Lenora Lee Dance, Paufve Dance, Liss Fain Dance, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater. Anna is a founding member of KDC and is grateful to be dancing with the inspiring artists involved in this work.
Giulia Sales (top)
Performer
Giulia Sales Nascimento da Silva (she/her), originally from São Vicente-Brazil, is a Bay Area-based artist. In addition to training in her country of origin, she created important projects with her sister (Giovana) as a collaborator. In the USA, she took part in the Peridance Summer Intensive and the Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program, where she recently graduated. During her career she has worked with Zack Tang, Micaela G. Taylor, Rena Butler, Laura O'Malley, Brett Conway, Chuck Wilt, Kayla Farrish, David Harvey, Keelan Whitmore, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Mike Tyus, Luca Renzi, Victor Talledos, Daiane Silva, Robert Moses and others.
Giovana Sales (bottom)
Performer
Giovana Sales (she/her) is a Brazilian, Bay Area-based contemporary dancer whose journey is marked by a deep connection to her homeland and the displacement between cultures. Originally from São Vicente and a graduate of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, she has collaborated throughout her career with acclaimed choreographers such as Micaela G. Taylor, Rena Butler, Rosangela Silvestre, and Mike Tyus. In the Bay Area, she has performed with companies including Kristin Damrow & Company, REYES Dance, Robert Moses' KIN, Kinetech Arts, and David Herrera Performance Company.
Ale Preciado
Performer
Alejandra Preciado, from Panama City, Panama, began dancing at the age of three and later continued her training in Salt Lake City, Utah. She earned her B.F.A. from Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Dominican University, where she performed a diverse range of contemporary works. She remained in the Bay Area as a freelance artist before joining NW Dance Project, where she performed works by Sarah Slipper, Ihsan Rustem, Yin Yue, Nicole Von Arx, and Bryan Arias, among others. During her time with NW Dance Project, Ale played a significant role in the organization’s educational intensives while also creating original works on the company dancers. Now back in the Bay Area, she continues working as a performer, educator, and dance maker.
Tai Lum
Performer
Tai was born and raised in San Francisco. Tai received their BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, performing works by Andrea Miller and Jose Limon. Since moving back to the Bay Area in 2025, Tai has performed with Robert Moses’ KIN, Iris Collective, and Tether Dance Project.
AJ Guevara
Performer
AJ Guevara is a Filipino-American multidisciplinary artist, educator, and director based in Berlin & NYC. He holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, with additional training from Accademia dell’Arte (Arezzo, IT) and American Dance Festival. Company and collaboration credits include Company SBB/Stefanie Batten Bland, Pony Box Dance Theater, Tiffany Mills Company, Heidi Latsky Dance, Emursive Productions, AXIS Dance Company, Beth Morrison Projects, Detour Productions, and Company|E, among others. His work with Company|E, in partnership with the US State Department, has allowed him to serve as an Artistic Diplomat for Cultural Exchange, performing and presenting choreography in Tunisia, Qatar, the UAE, Cuba, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Georgia, Thailand, and the Middle East. As an educator, he has led workshops in Armenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Romania, Portugal, Vietnam, and at universities and institutions across the USA. Most recently, AJ has worked with The Metropolitan Opera, DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion, and Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy at The Shed. He is also the Co-Director of BURNTSALADtanz and N/A Dances, the resident company of Festival Internacional De Danza Avant Garde (Merida, MX).
Aaron M Gold
Composer
Aaron M Gold creates visceral music that moves. A composer, sound designer, drummer and percussionist, Aaron has been the resident composer for Kristin Damrow & Company since 2014. Active in the SF Bay Area contemporary dance scene, he's also been commissioned by punkkiCo, Dance Brigade with Sara Shelton Mann, Sonoma State University and Jennifer Meek, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Nol Simonse and Christy Funsch, Human Creature Dance Theater, Fall Fast Dance, Twisted Oak Dance Theater, and Coventry and Kaluza. www.aaronmgold.com
Photo by Robbie Sweeney
Ach Kab
Lighting Designer
Ach Kab (they/them) is a butch arab dyke worker with the Industrial Workers of the World. Their practice is grounded in deep support and collaboration, offering their labor primarily as a technician for live performance, an archivist for the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, and an organizer with CounterPulse Workers United. They love to dance, craft, swim, wrestle, play the banjo, explore secrets and listen.
Production StaffAnnelise Eastes, Hannah Westbrook, Kelly Chen, Nina Sonrisa Grafilo, Searcy Molina
Guides
Kevin Lo
Lighting Technician
Chi Chi Okonmah
Stage Manager
Jes DeVille
Production Manager
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