Celebrating its 28th season, the San Francisco-based Robert Moses’ KIN (RMK) is known for eclectic movement vocabulary, demanding choreography, ferocious dancing, and provocative themes. RMK returns to the Presidio Theatre with a program choreographed entirely by Artistic Director Robert Moses, including a world premiere, a west coast premiere, and the revival of Moses’ classic, The President’s Daughter, a work about the double standards of race, gender, and power upheld by various men of American political prominence.

Dance Mission, Loco Bloco, and PODER SF are coming together once more to celebrate Women’s History Month. Join us for this outdoor dance and music festival featuring work by Loco Bloco, La Mezcla, Karen Smith, Shahrzad Dance, La Familia Peña-Govea, Meche Ita, F.A.L. Dance, and Fredrika Keefer. It is recommended to bring a blanket and a chair. Donations are encouraged. All donations go directly back to the artists.

Delight in two programs of captivating works, including two world premieres: Collision, Collapse and a Coda by ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way and Witness by guest artist Amy Seiwert. The exhilarating lineup also includes Impulse, Dexandro Montalvo’s audacious quartet for four women, and two repertory favorites, Triangulating Euclid, a bracing three-way collaboration created by Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kate Weare in response to the restoration of the 1482 printing of Euclid’s “Elements of Geometry,” and Something About a Nightingale by Way, a whimsical delight, set to the enticing music of the Tin Hat Trio.

Guest choreographer Marlayna Locklear creates new work from her extensive contemporary and jazz dance background. Acclaimed dance faculty choreographers ArVejon Jones and Ray Tadio present new works.  For assuage means to soften, Jones dedicates his piece to those who have spent their entire life as the foundation for others, giving without being asked. Loving without expectation. To those who have forgotten who they are, what they’ve done, and who they have affected. Alzheimer’s disease affects 5.8 million Americans and is one of the most difficult conditions to witness. Tadio's new work Roxy pays homage to prolific pop artist Keith Haring. The choreography features late1980s music from Haring’s NYC club hangouts and a short film directed by Dance and Cinema major Johan Casal. Joining the program is Master of Arts in Theatre Arts student Aikaterini Bousleli, who hails from Greece. Based on the tragedy The Suppliants by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, her new work is titled Iketis (pronounced hikétis). She examines the undying hope of each Hiketis or migrant/refugee to create a new life under dire circumstances. University Dance Theatre 2023 comprises an ensemble of 19 dancers in this exciting new choreography showcase. There will be a talkback following the performance on April 2.

Celebrate Diablo Ballet’s 29th Anniversary with a special one–night only performance featuring Diablo Ballet’s premiere of the festive Confetti by Gerald Arpino, the former Artistic Associate of the Joffrey Ballet, in honor of his 100th Anniversary celebration; the classical ballet Paquita featuring the whole company; and Elevator Operator, by company dancer Amanda Farris, Diablo Ballet’s first Dance Laboratory choreographer winner. A virtual link of an edited recording of the live performance will be available Fri-Sun, Apr 7-16 for on-demand viewing.

Celebrating its 20th season, the 17th Annual Festival of Dance & Music features two weeks of world premieres, performances, master classes, and celebrations at venues in San Francisco.  The first weekend features performances of Mouth of a Shark,  a world premiere work choreographed and directed by CubaCaribe Artistic Director and Co-Founder Ramón Ramos Alayo and performed by Alayo Dance Company. A reflection on the lives of immigrants, Mouth of A Shark is inspired in part by Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem,  Home. It will incorporate the choreographer’s extensive knowledge of Afro-Cuban dance forms into a conceptual framework of the dual identities of immigrants. It is also informed by the time Alayo spent in his birthplace of Santiago, Cuba in 2020 and 2021, working with young professional dancers from Danza del Caribe, the company he danced with before immigrating to the US.  Opening night will also feature a Post Show Q & A and Reception with choreographer Ramón Ramos Alayo and award winning filmmaker, producer and cinematographer Reinier Charòn Morales from Santiago de Cuba.