Rice on Repeat: An AAPI Circus

Friday, June 19th - Sunday June 28th | Show Times Vary | All Ages

Duration 90 Minutes

$10 - $70

Tickets

12th Avenue Arts Studio Theatre, Seattle, WA

Six Asian American Circus artists perform an acrobatic family dinner in Rice on Repeat: An AAPI Circus.

There are 3 bowls of rice served throughout our lives: one served to us, one served to ourselves, and one served to others. For many, dinner with family is about connecting and sharing experiences. A bowl of rice is a simple dish that we each flavor to our own tastes. Still, that bowl of rice is also the foundation of a meal and our cultures.

Acrobats will set the table, serve the rice, and share their life stories through dance and circus arts. It's an ordinary routine full of extraordinary acts: handstands on the lazy susan, bowls of rice served from a flying pole, and a chosen family celebrating their shared experiences through movement. The relatable moment when you forget to set the rice, is suddenly a game of partner acrobatics as we wait for dinner to be ready.

Circus arts has its place in theater as a medium for storytelling. Oroki Productions was established to give voices to our artists through this medium that gives us freedom, community, and a way to bring representation into performance art spaces.

This production was made with support from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

2026 Cast

KC Fong

Aerial Straps

KC works as an Art Director for Prime Video during the day and loves learning all forms of movement. He enjoys dancing and giggling a bit too much.

Abigail Leong

Cyr Wheel

Abigail Leong is the cyr wheel coach at SANCA Seattle. She can be found spinning through Seattle's parks and basketball courts, knitting at cafes, and advocating for political change at her day job.

Ivanna Wei

Aerial Cube

Ivanna started her performing career in theatre and dance before being introduced to aerial arts. She has always been drawn to the ability to simultaneously tune in and get lost inside the expressiveness of movement. She was delighted to find that same connection in aerial, just with a different set of boundaries. She now performs on various aerial apparatus and loves to create art that tells a story.

Amy Li

Flying Pole

Amy is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist excited for the opportunity to be taking her performance art back for the first time to the Seattle area where she grew up. Aside from her aerial practice, she is also a vocalist, helps out behind the scenes with stage management and tech, teaches/tutors, petsits, and is pursuing a producer fellowship. She is interested in creative and unique pieces/works and in advancing the profile of circus arts and the benefits they bring to society.

Hana Sambe

Partner Acrobatics & Hand Balancing

“A winner is a loser who tries again.” I am a winner in some things for sure but I can never win handbalancing… as a result now I have two dogs to console me.

Lucky

Partner Acrobatics & Aerial Straps

Oroki is a Seattle-based aerial instructor, performer, and producer, currently teaching at ECTA/SANCA. As a burlesque artist, Oroki has performed in Seattle Vice '76, Moisture Festival, What the Funk Fest, the Seattle Boylesque Festival, ECTA’s Mardi Gras, the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, and Broho Takes Flight. Oroki creates works such as Alice in Shadowland and A Circus of Steam & Shadows which will remount in 2026.

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