About ​​TEam sunshine performance

Team Sunshine is dedicated to serving as a hub for the imaginative consideration of contemporary American culture and what it means to be a participant in it. Founded by dance and physical theater artists, Team Sunshine has produced dozens of ensemble-created performance works and interactive-gathering events. Spanning a wide range of aesthetic styles, a critical throughline of all of the work has been an intentional inquiry into community participation and creating opportunities for empathy-building and care.

​Each new work builds on Team Sunshine’s rigorous approach to cultivating genre-defying, investigative performance works and events that balance joy with deep investigation, contend with urgent social issues, facilitate critical discourse, and pose creative solutions.

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Regional and national presenters of Team Sunshine include FringeArts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Asian American Theater Festival, Ko Festival, and The Barnes Foundation, with works commissioned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library and by PECO/Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. Funding and production support has been provided by Knight Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Samuel S. Fels Fund, NALAC, The Orchard Project, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Charlotte Cushman Foundation, National Performance Network, Network of Ensemble Theaters, National Endowment for the Arts, and New England Foundation for the Arts.

Team Sunshine Performance is a Network of Ensemble Theaters member, and a 501c3 not-for-profit organization.

Our Values

AUTHENTICITY: We practice supporting ourselves and our collaborators to welcome the full spectrum of each of our identities (experiences, superpowers, curiosities, areas of growth) into the room.

COLLABORATION: We practice building creative processes and products in partnership and on teams, sharing in the rewards and hardships of our collective efforts.

EXPERIMENTATION: We practice building processes and products that are simultaneously healthier and more moving with every iteration, through a commitment to consistent reflection and adaptation.

RESPECT: We practice acknowledging the efforts and time of all collaborators and patrons engaging with the company, while striving to uphold our own responsibilities and agreements with integrity.