El Rio: The Wandering Ensemble – Lost & Found (2025, World Premiere)

Lost & Found
Lost & Found is chapter 5 of the Wandering Ensemble’s Wandering in the Wilderness project, created collaboratively by Dandelion Dancetheater and the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble. The larger project will take 40 years to create, with new performance experiments each year along the way. Lost & Found explores multiple perspectives on the many losses of the last five years as well as emerging futures arising out of the wreckage of old systems, institutions, beliefs, and habits. Inclusive Dance, Music, Theatre, Ritual, Storytelling, and Spectacle weave an immersive performance ceremony guiding participants and witnesses towards vibrant aliveness.

The Wandering Ensemble
The Wandering Ensemble sprouted in the wake of the COVID Pandemic to experiment with inclusive, creative, and sustainable ways of collaborating that responded directly to the massive changes rippling through our world. Directed by Eric Kupers, the ensemble is a fusion of Dandelion Dancetheater and the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble. Committed to honoring the complexities of creating work by and for people of all abilities/disabilities, shapes, sizes, cultures, ancestries, body identities, neuro-types, art forms, modes of perception, and walks of life, they collaborate year-round, welcoming new members online or in person.