ZiRu Dance is a Redwood City-based, 85% BIPOC nonprofit dance company that prioritizes centering BIPOC perspectives in our dance performances, cross-cultural collaborations, and youth mentorships. Our collaborative contemporary dance work emphasizes international exchange, curated festivals, mentorship, and community engagement. ZiRu’s intentional and inclusive actions, focused artmaking, and active role in our community enable our small but growing organization to achieve broad impact as we seek, through dance, to uplift our BIPOC communities. Our programs are presented in collaboration with community partners in Silicon Valley that share this commitment. Each partner offers a different access point—education, social work, mental health, homeless advocacy, community services—to our programming, and each provides particular organizational and networking capabilities for advancing ZiRu’s priority of using dance as a catalyst for social change. Our 2022 season prioritizes this relational organizing in engaging BIPOC communities, embedding our artistic initiatives within our community’s history and their desire for change, and tackling social/racial justice issues through performing new works, festival curation and education programs. Annually, the company reaches an average of 5,000 unique people.