Inklings Coffee will throw open the doors for an all- ages and all-abilities, swing and lindy hop dance. Doors open at 6:00pm. At 6:30pm there will be a swing dance lesson and shortly after, the Death and Taxes Swing band takes the stage with live, danceable music until 8:00pm. The Death and Taxes Swing Band […]
Featuring work by Residents Kat Lin and Nico Maimon. The evening of performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists and Residency Mentor Deborah Slater. Livestream will be hosted on YouTube. Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? The piece is […]
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 […]
Produced by Carla Service of Dance-A-Vision Entertainment, this showcase will warm your heart & Soul. Dancers from age 5-55 will bless the stage with style and grace. Great for the whole family. Stay and dance with us after the performances.
Featuring work by Residents Kat Lin and Nico Maimon. The evening of performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists and Residency Mentor Deborah Slater. Livestream will be hosted on YouTube. Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? The piece is […]
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 […]
Mondays and Thursdays at 6:00pm Enjoy a full-body workout while learning popular African dance styles. The class focuses on Amapiano, Congolese, Rhumba, as well as street and pop elements, enabling participants to emulate their favorite Afrobeats artists. Take advantage of all of our new class offerings by getting our New Student 5 Class Pass
Classes with the cast of BODYSONNET’s Bay Area production. See the show Thu-Sat, Aug 22-24 at CounterPulse. Thu, Aug 1: Hadassah Perry Sun, Aug 4: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison Thu, Aug 15: Babatunji Tue, Aug 20: Mio Ishikawa Venmo @bodysonnet_ or email to register.
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm There is no prerequisite to attend this class. Sanctuary House blends Hip Hop, House, Street Dance styles, and other high-energy dance forms to create a full-body workout. The class begins with warm-ups focused on flexibility and mobility, then transitions into energetic dance routines featuring techniques designed to create joy and to […]
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 […]
Mondays and Thursdays at 6:00pm Enjoy a full-body workout while learning popular African dance styles. The class focuses on Amapiano, Congolese, Rhumba, as well as street and pop elements, enabling participants to emulate their favorite Afrobeats artists. Take advantage of all of our new class offerings by getting our New Student 5 Class Pass
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.
Allí 0 Allá (There 0 There)– is an archival pursuit and reclamatory study of diasporic bodies, the inquiry into how to define “home” and “motherland.” Through the poetic language of movement, evocative soundscapes, and immersive theatrics, Natalya Shoaf, Chinchin Hsu, Bria Monet Barfield, and Brianna Elyse Torres narrate a journey rooted in culture, community and heart.
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 […]
nefesh sutures generations and genres, bridging the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims millennia old diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by anti-semitism and Zionism to imagine Jewish futures. nefesh invites audiences to inhabit the very fleshy experience of being, and at times the breath and vitality […]
dance.art.music. and so much more! With Featured Performances by Aidan Floresca, Tall Tee, Nebula, 2112 Charlie + more - Open to all ages until 9pm (bring the kids, grandparents, whoever!) - Join and/ or watch the Pregame Dance Battle collaboration with 1up Crew. - Shop the small business vendor curation of tattoo artists, painters, designers […]
Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the […]
Featuring live music by Bay Area garba legends Madhvi and Asim Mehta, a dance lesson, community dancing, and artists to explore! Garba is a Gujarati indigenous and folk dance practiced by all ages to live drumming, singing, and instrumentals during joyous celebrations. Arrive at 5pm for a short garba class dressed in your own cultural […]
