Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience work by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way as well as a World Premiere by guest choreographer Catherine Galasso.

Audiences are invited to partake in a transformative dining experience crafted from locally sourced, regeneratively grown food and enjoy a unique, open-air ballet from renowned choreographer and former San Francisco Ballet principal Julia Adam and her corps of elite dancers. VISCERĀLIS explores the contrast of the current expansion of Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence with […]

Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience work by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way as well as a World Premiere by guest choreographer Catherine Galasso.

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest showcases the extravagant creativity, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area dance scene. After a thrilling 2023 season, YBG ChoreoFest returns with PUSH Dance Company’s Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and Associate Artistic Director Ashley Gayle serving as co-curators with David Herrera Performance Company’s David Herrera. Designed to offer rising Bay Area […]

Audiences are invited to partake in a transformative dining experience crafted from locally sourced, regeneratively grown food and enjoy a unique, open-air ballet from renowned choreographer and former San Francisco Ballet principal Julia Adam and her corps of elite dancers. VISCERĀLIS explores the contrast of the current expansion of Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence with […]

Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience work by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way as well as a World Premiere by guest choreographer Catherine Galasso.

Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience work by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way as well as a World Premiere by guest choreographer Catherine Galasso.

Audiences are invited to partake in a transformative dining experience crafted from locally sourced, regeneratively grown food and enjoy a unique, open-air ballet from renowned choreographer and former San Francisco Ballet principal Julia Adam and her corps of elite dancers. VISCERĀLIS explores the contrast of the current expansion of Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence with […]

Power Plays is a series of new experimental dances that use contemporary, aerial dance, and drag performance to explore themes of pleasure, power, and play. Project AeriALL, an emerging partnership between Alex Locust/Glamputee and Helen Wicks that reimagines accessibility in aerial dance. “Run-On,” an interactive solo dance by Erin Yen which honors her late grandmother […]

iMPACt Center for Art & Dance presents the culmination and inaugural performance of iMPACt's dance residency program. Presenting new work by Nol Simonse, Alyssa Mitchel, Maxine Düzgüneş, Marina Elana and Erik Wagner! The performances will explore flamenco and the expectations of being a woman, femininity and ballet, athleticism and endurance, queer history and the tension […]

Power Plays is a series of new experimental dances that use contemporary, aerial dance, and drag performance to explore themes of pleasure, power, and play. Project AeriALL, an emerging partnership between Alex Locust/Glamputee and Helen Wicks that reimagines accessibility in aerial dance. “Run-On,” an interactive solo dance by Erin Yen which honors her late grandmother […]

iMPACt Center for Art & Dance presents the culmination and inaugural performance of iMPACt's dance residency program. Presenting new work by Nol Simonse, Alyssa Mitchel, Maxine Düzgüneş, Marina Elana and Erik Wagner! The performances will explore flamenco and the expectations of being a woman, femininity and ballet, athleticism and endurance, queer history and the tension […]

Starting with the poetry of Hafez, one of the most famous Iranian poets of the 14th century, choreographer Parya Saberi considers “every word as a jewel.” During the pandemic, with her mother stranded here in the United States, Saberi and her mother read Hafez’s poetry daily to begin each morning together during shelter-in-place. Each section […]

Starting with the poetry of Hafez, one of the most famous Iranian poets of the 14th century, choreographer Parya Saberi considers “every word as a jewel.” During the pandemic, with her mother stranded here in the United States, Saberi and her mother read Hafez’s poetry daily to begin each morning together during shelter-in-place. Each section […]

Chimera explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior, relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language that combines care, wildness, intimacy, and enthusiasm, and centers on a duet between two men. The use of video design describes the often unseen implications of how relationships reveal hidden aspects […]

For A Moment/No Longer(working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. breaking open and re-assembling. about turning towards each other, the necessity of heartbreak, and trusting the pulse as a rhythm to follow home. For A Moment/No Longer studies the physicality of moving from the heartbeat as resist/persist-ence practice through the act of breaking open. […]

Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.

Interdisciplinary Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña has a long-standing history of collaborating with dancers and choreographers including La Ribot (Spain), Marecela Levi (Brazil), Sara Shelton Mann (San Francisco), and Michelle Ceballos (Colombia). These experimental collaborations explore the interactions and tensions between contemporary dance and performance art; young and aging bodies. Spoken Choreographies is a collaboration between  Gómez-Peña and […]

Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.

Bryan Arias’ The Broken Glass premiered during SFDanceworks’ 6th season (2023).  Delving into themes of resilience, fragility, and redemption, The Broken Glass offers audiences a profound exploration of the human condition. Through contemporary dance styles and abstract narratives, personal stories of family and roots are intricately woven. From the vibrant rhythms of Arias’ Puerto Rican heritage to the […]