With support from the California Arts Council, Robert Moses’ KIN (RMK) will provide ongoing arts, educational, and community programming to Californians and tourists via events in public spaces, community centers, and schools. Programming will also include mentorship for emerging artists through our “ONE Act Dances” program (Formerly “BY Series”), and events in traditional performance venues focusing on cultural, intellectual, and social equity. Additionally, RMK seeks to invest in the arts community via its DRAFT program, scale our Bootstraps program, onboard an Executive Director to support and grow company operations, increase the visibility of California-born artists by extending the company’s performance and educational reach locally, nationally and internationally, and continue providing our employees benefits such as PTO and retirement funds.
Robert Moses’ Kin (RMK) has been an anchor arts institution in the San Francisco Bay Area for 29 years. Since founding the company in 1995, Artistic Director Robert Moses has created more than 100 new works for RMK in collaboration with countless dancers, musicians, choreographers, and community partners.
RMK’s annual home season features the RMK company of performing artists who skillfully showcase politically relevant, culturally transformative, intellectually challenging art. RMK holds free performances throughout the year in public spaces such as Golden Gate Park, and has been included in community festivals, benefits, and lecture demonstrations throughout the city. The company tours nationally and internationally at prestigious events such as Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, OPEN LOOK St. Petersburg International Dance Festival, and more.
RMK regularly commissions artists and community partners of varying cultural, social, and economic statuses and Moses has helped kickstart the careers of hundreds of dancers and performing artists through classes, workshops, DRAFT and BY Series programs.
RMK’s newest education program, “Bootstraps: Lyric Legacies” provides an opportunity for youth and elders of differing backgrounds to explore and self-validate their creative and artistic impulses. Students at multiple SFUSD schools and local community centers in underserved neighborhoods of SF work with teaching artists in disciplines of dance, music, and writing, creating a sense of community and support.

