Johnny Huy Nguyễn: BURN Sunday, August 30, 2026, 4:30pm: Dragons Dance/Erin Yen & Johnny Huy Nguyễn - ASL Interpretation Provided Get Tickets How do you burn? Reclaiming fire as a regenerative force for rebirth, BURN (Work In Progress) envisions dance as a transformative act of self-immolation. How do we set ablaze inherited legacies of war, forced displacement, and violence passed down through family to create ash for new growth? Johnny Huy Nguyễn is a Vietnamese multidisciplinary dance artist and son of refugees based in unceded Ramaytush - Ohlone territory. He weaves together movement, theater, multimedia, spoken word, ritual, and installation to create body-based works characterized by sweeping physicality and dramaturgical depth. His works deal with themes of masculinity, spirituality, lineage, loss, and inheritance while interrogating the social, political, and cultural forces that shape us. Nguyễn is a 2025 Walter & Elise Haas Creative Power Award Finalist, 2025 Caldera Artist-in-Residence, 2023 United States of Asian America Festival Featured Artist, 2022 Isadora Duncan Dance Award recipient, and 2021 APAture Festival Featured Artist. @johnny.huy.nguyen This project is generously supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation (New Experimental Works Grant) and San Francisco Arts Commission (Arts Impact Endowment).