Events
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Pop-Up Motion-Capture Workshop by Cie Gilles Jobin
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The San Francisco Dance Film Festival presents the Pop-up Mocap Lab, a 3-day motion-capture workshop led by cutting-edge Swiss dance company Cie Gilles Jobin. This workshop is designed for artists interested in real-time motion capture and digital performance. Participants will experience dancing inside a digital environment and develop skills for performing in virtual spaces. Session […]
Latin Night Social Dance Party
Motion Arts Center
Join us for our monthly Latin Night Dance Party filled with Salsa, Bachata, and Cumbia music at the Motion Arts Center in San Mateo! Get ready for an unforgettable night of dancing and fun on the dance floor. Come, bring your friends, and let’s make an incredible night! Thursday Schedule (Last Thursday of every month): 7pm Bachata […]
Latin Night Dance Party in San Mateo
Motion Arts Center
Come dance at our monthly Latin Night Dance Party filled with Salsa, Bachata, and Cumbia music! Wether you're just starting out, you have some experience or just looking for a great time, join us in our dance classes and then stay for the party! So, bring your friends, and let’s make it an unforgettable evening on […]
Queering Dance Festival Presents FROLIC!
Queering Dance Festival
The Queering Dance Festival returns with FROLIC!, an electrifying weekend of Queer and Trans dance featuring eight LGBTQ+ Bay Area artists at CounterPulse (80 Turk St., San Francisco). Showcasing bold, experimental choreography, this year’s lineup includes Trans-Queer dabke honoring Palestinian resistance, Jewish anti-Zionist grief rituals, Afro-Caribbean Filipinx improvisation, Mexican charro storytelling, and more. Accessibility: ASL […]
Pop-Up Motion-Capture Workshop by Cie Gilles Jobin
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The San Francisco Dance Film Festival presents the Pop-up Mocap Lab, a 3-day motion-capture workshop led by cutting-edge Swiss dance company Cie Gilles Jobin. This workshop is designed for artists interested in real-time motion capture and digital performance. Participants will experience dancing inside a digital environment and develop skills for performing in virtual spaces. Session […]
Practice as Performance+ with Sara Shelton Mann
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
Participants train the mind and body to see through the eye of the heart. They listen to the body as our guide and progress through the inner and outer touchstones of breaking up patterns, until they hold a high frequency, knowing where they are, what they are doing and are aware of everything else in […]
Diablo Ballet celebrates 31st Season Swan Lake Suite
Diablo Ballet
Diablo Ballet celebrates its 31st Season with Swan Lake Suite choreographed by Lauren Jonas, Sean Kelly, and Christopher Lam after Marius Petipa. This iconic ballet set to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s majestic score highlights white and black swan pas de deux, a flurry of swans, exhilarating divertissements and a grand finale. Ticket holders are invited to special […]
Dance Sanctuary: Free-Form Somatic Dance for Wellness + Community
The Vortex Bay Area
Dance Sanctuary is a conscious dance gathering that invites you to dance in community for wellness. Free form dance - along with a curated mix of eclectic, nature-inspired music - will be accompanied by intention sharing, reflecting, earth based ritual, drumming, call and response singing, poetic meditation, and more. We will have a short warm-up […]
Queering Dance Festival Presents FROLIC!
Queering Dance Festival
The Queering Dance Festival returns with FROLIC!, an electrifying weekend of Queer and Trans dance featuring eight LGBTQ+ Bay Area artists at CounterPulse (80 Turk St., San Francisco). Showcasing bold, experimental choreography, this year’s lineup includes Trans-Queer dabke honoring Palestinian resistance, Jewish anti-Zionist grief rituals, Afro-Caribbean Filipinx improvisation, Mexican charro storytelling, and more. Accessibility: ASL […]
Songs From a Sinking Ship
Flamenco Arts International
A mysterious siren's warning sets off a chain of events that transforms a routine voyage into a supernatural battle between ego and redemption— told through the passionate art of flamenco. Thunder cracks, and the ship veers off course. Will the crew rise above their own demons, or be lost to the depths forever?
the CONCEPT series: 32
RAWdance
RAWdance shares a fresh dose of contemporary dance with its celebrated CONCEPT series salon, bringing a welcoming vibe to the opulent SF War Memorial Green Room on March 28 (8pm) and March 29 (3pm and 7pm). RAWdance will be joined by Colin Frederick, Tracey Lindsay Chan, seymour::dancecollective, dominique lesleyann, and Amy Lewis in the CONCEPT […]
19th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music presents “A Fire Within”
CubaCaribe
The 19th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music presents A Fire Within, featuring seven Bay Area Dance companies in a celebration of the passion and drive that artists must carry for their art. Held annually, Cuba Caribe Festival of Dance & Music is devoted to folkloric and contemporary dance and music of the Afro-Caribbean […]
A Bridge to Now / Un Puente hacia el Presente
Lenora Lee Dance
A Bridge to Now is a multimedia dance collaboration between U.S. and Peruvian dancers expanding perspectives on immigration in the Americas by looking at the legacies of racialized labor exploitation and anti-immigrant sentiment in both countries. Through dance, video, archival images, and interviews with the descendants of Chinese indentured servants in Peru and the U.S., […]
iLuminate
Livermore Valley Arts
Technology. Dance. Fusion. Welcome to the world of iLuminate, a fantastic fusion of cutting-edge technology and dance that has been wowing the world ever since appearing on America’s Got Talent. Join us for a show for everyone, from the moment the lights fade, you are transported into another world…another dimension, where the music moves you and […]
Vishwa Shanthi presents SAMAVAYA – BHAVA (Emotional Body)
Vishwa Shanthi Dance Academy
Samavāya - The 4-Body Connection in Bharathanatyam Emotions need to be released in positive ways to be able to nurture the emotional body. Asha Ramesh, founder and artistic director of Ragamalika School of music, will show how music nourishes the emotional body, how music becomes movements, and how eventually the dancer becomes one with music. […]
Alma Esperanza Cunningham: Mini Solo Intensive
Alma Esperanza Cunningham
The intensive will begin with a comprehensive warm-up to engage the somatic and technical body. Then, it will focus on generating movement through movement games and strategies exploring duration, repetition, time, energy, and intention. In this two-day process, you will make a three-minute solo. This workshop is for experienced movers looking to explore composition or […]
Practice as Performance+ with Sara Shelton Mann
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
Participants train the mind and body to see through the eye of the heart. They listen to the body as our guide and progress through the inner and outer touchstones of breaking up patterns, until they hold a high frequency, knowing where they are, what they are doing and are aware of everything else in […]
Zimbabwean Traditional Dance Class
Dance Mission Theater
Zimbabwean Traditional Dance class with Kanukai will explore the techniques, rhythms, and traditional dances of Zimbabwe. We will learn and practice dance moves going across the floor and a mini choreography at the end. Kanukai Chigamba is a multifaceted dancer, musician, performer, and burgeoning photographer. She started dancing at a young age in Harare, Zimbabwe, […]
An Introduction to the Angel Island Project
Oakland Ballet Company
The Angel Island Project is based on Huang Ruo’s composition, Angel Island, an oratorio for a string quartet, 16 singers, and a narrator. Experience the magic of dance and hear from the inspired choreographers involved in this ground-breaking preview event on the island itself.
Diablo Ballet celebrates 31st Season Swan Lake Suite
Diablo Ballet
Diablo Ballet celebrates its 31st Season with Swan Lake Suite choreographed by Lauren Jonas, Sean Kelly, and Christopher Lam after Marius Petipa. This iconic ballet set to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s majestic score highlights white and black swan pas de deux, a flurry of swans, exhilarating divertissements and a grand finale. Ticket holders are invited to special […]
Heels Workshop
Motion Arts Center
Join us and treat yourself to an empowering experience in our Heels Workshop with the incredible Sydnie! You’ll dive into the art of dancing in heels with confidence, intention, and sensuality. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your skills, this empowering experience will help you master the fundamentals, unlock your expressive potential, and […]
Intro to Balinese Dance w/Anak Agung Anom Putra
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
Join us for 5-week Intro to Balinese Course. More than “just a dance class”, Intro to Balinese is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, find joy in movement and celebrate YOU! With expert guidance from Dr. Anak Agung Anom Putra, S.S.T and Ayu Sukmawati, S.H., you will learn the foundations to continue studying after course […]
the CONCEPT series: 32
RAWdance
RAWdance shares a fresh dose of contemporary dance with its celebrated CONCEPT series salon, bringing a welcoming vibe to the opulent SF War Memorial Green Room on March 28 (8pm) and March 29 (3pm and 7pm). RAWdance will be joined by Colin Frederick, Tracey Lindsay Chan, seymour::dancecollective, dominique lesleyann, and Amy Lewis in the CONCEPT […]
NACHMOSF 2025
NACHMOSF
NACHMOSF 2025 will showcase works in progress created by several Bay Area choreographers. As part of National Choreographers Month’s January Challenge, these artists used the first month of the year to create a piece. The performance will be held in Dog Patch at Little Boxes Theater.
Queering Dance Festival Presents FROLIC!
Queering Dance Festival
The Queering Dance Festival returns with FROLIC!, an electrifying weekend of Queer and Trans dance featuring eight LGBTQ+ Bay Area artists at CounterPulse (80 Turk St., San Francisco). Showcasing bold, experimental choreography, this year’s lineup includes Trans-Queer dabke honoring Palestinian resistance, Jewish anti-Zionist grief rituals, Afro-Caribbean Filipinx improvisation, Mexican charro storytelling, and more. Accessibility: ASL […]
