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SFDFF 2025 | Tiler Peck: Suspending Time
Dance Film SF
A world premiere documentary, Tiler Peck: Suspending Time offers a raw and deeply personal look at one of ballet’s most celebrated artists as she faces a career crossroads. Following a series of life-altering events — a major injury, a pandemic, a personal loss — New York City Ballet prima ballerina Tiler Peck is forced to reckon […]
SFDFF 2025 | Farewell, Opéra
Dance Film SF
What does it mean to leave behind the only stage you’ve ever known? Farewell, Opéra follows three Paris Opera Ballet dancers as they face compulsory retirement at age 42. With breathtaking grace and quiet vulnerability, the film captures their final rehearsals, backstage rituals, and personal reflections on artistry, aging, and reinvention. A tender meditation on change […]
SFDFF 2025 | Screendance and Bay Area Avant-Garde Cinema 1940s-1950s
Dance Film SF
This screening and presentation features works that synthesize the languages of dance and film that emerged from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “Art in Cinema” screenings in the mid-1940s. The screening takes audiences on a journey into post-World War II San Francisco, illuminating how early dance film evolved alongside the West Coast experimental […]
SFDFF 2025 | Wicket, with live performance, Q&A, and reception
Dance Film SF
After winning over audiences at Frameline 2025, Wicket returns to San Francisco for an encore screening and powerful conversation with Bboy Wicket himself. Once a global breakdancing icon, Wicket (Gabriel Jaochico) spent decades hiding his true identity. This documentary traces his rise to fame and his long journey toward coming out, revealing a story of love, […]
SFDFF 2025 | The Dancer, with post-screening Q&A
Dance Film SF
From a refugee camp in Damascus to the world’s most prestigious ballet stages, The Dancer (North American Premiere) traces the extraordinary journey of Ahmad Joudeh, a courageous artist who risked everything to move freely, both in body and spirit. Condemned for being gay, threatened by extremists for dancing, and abused by those closest to him, Ahmad […]
Water Changes Rock. We Are Here.
Mary Power
Our new exhibition opens on November 9, from 2pm-6pm at the San Francisco Lodge of the Theosophical Society to premier "Water Changes Rock. We Are Here." Together we'll celebrate and bear witness to 21st century art produced by two women artists and Lifetime Members of the San Francisco Theosophical Society: featuring San Antonio based guest artist Courtney Wynn Sheets with original […]
SFDFF 2025 | Raising Voices
Dance Film SF
Engaging and deeply emotive storytelling centers the fem perspective for the 7th Annual Raising Voices program. These nine films blend movement with poetry, testimony, and activism to spotlight a spectrum of lived experiences from trans joy and queer identity to carceral systems and cultural reclamation. Come experience stories that move the body and speak from the heart. […]
Practitioner Exchange: Teens and Dance
Luna Dance & Creativity
During this roundtable, peer-led discussion, we’ll ask ourselves: What issues are we currently facing as teachers of teens in our current, challenging world? How can we structure dance classes that support teens to express and create while also building skills and meeting them where they are? Co-hosted by Luna alums and Dance Teaching Artists Edwin […]
DRAG @ The Annex: Diva Dudes Live Audience Podcast
Joe Goode Performance Group
Join us for an evening of hilarious hair, riveting relationships, and stimulating storytelling in this live audience podcast with the divine DIVA DUDES! Kochina Rude and God’s Lil Princess present Diva Dudes: the Worst of Both Worlds! A podcast from the “Beavis & Butthead of San Francisco Drag,” with subject matter ranging from bawdy storytelling to […]
The Art of Re-membering || SP 10th Anniversary Celebration
SAMMAY
Join us for an intimate evening of performance, reflection, and celebration as we look at the last decade of work by Filipinx American choreographer and cultural steward SAMMAY Peñaflor Dizon. All donations will support us in reaching our $10k for 10 years campaign goal. Registration is required. Space is limited. Visit www.sammay.art for more information. […]
Outstation a Diaspora Story
Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers
We present “Outstation”, the Malaysian and Singaporean term for being away from home, with all the nostalgia and heartbreak that comes with it. As east & southeast artistes performing traditional arts outside their home countries, we'll tackle what that means in practise. Are we simply an echo of art in the motherland, or do we, […]
Practitioner Exchange: Honoring Culture & Linguistic Diversity
Luna Dance & Creativity
In this roundtable, peer-led discussion co-hosted by Teaching Artists Gabriela Mendoza and Kitty Conlon Macas, we'll ask ourselves: What can we as dance educators do to support linguistically and culturally diverse students? How can we protect and celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity, honoring authenticity and context, encouraging creative exploration, and making space for student voice? We'd love […]
Watch Me: A Lecture Performance with Choreographer Ogemdi Ode
Bridge Live Arts
Bridge Live Arts is excited to welcome choreographer and director Ogemdi Ude to the Bay Area! Fresh off the NYC premiere of MAJOR, a dance theater exploration of majorette dance, Ogemdi presents a lecture performance, Watch Me. Ogemdi’s lecture performance will explore the physicality, history, sociopolitics, and interiority of majorettes and majorette dance, as well […]
Chinatown Shorts: “At the Heart of Barrio Chino” documentary dance film screening
Lenora Lee Dance
Chinatown Shorts returns with its first international episode! At the Heart of Barrio Chino: Tusán Perspectives in Lima, Peru Documentary, 16min, 2026 Directed by Lenora Lee & Moyra Silva Rodriguez We explore Capón Barrio Chino, Lima's vibrant Chinatown and one of South America's oldest Chinatowns. Through dance and personal narratives of fourth-generation Chinese Peruvians, Tusáns, […]
California Dance Education Association Annual State Dance Teachers Conference
California Dance Education Association
California Dance Education Association recognizes the importance of providing a space for dance educators to come together, collaborate, mentor, practice, and dance as a collective. Our 2026 statewide conference, Momentum, will encourage collaboration, community, and advocacy among dance educators across all sectors. Conference attendees will engage in enriching discussions, movement workshops, and presentations aimed at […]
State Dance Educators Conference at Cal State East Bay, Hayward
California Dance Education Association
The California Dance Education Association’s 2026 conference, Momentum, will bring dance educators together to collaborate, learn, and advocate for the field. Through discussions, workshops, and shared movement, participants will explore diverse perspectives, spark creativity, and build community. The conference aims to deepen connections, inspire new ideas, and support educators in developing engaging, innovative teaching practices.
State Dance Educators Conference at Cal State East Bay, Hayward
California Dance Education Association
The California Dance Education Association’s 2026 conference, Momentum, will bring dance educators together to collaborate, learn, and advocate for the field. Through discussions, workshops, and shared movement, participants will explore diverse perspectives, spark creativity, and build community. The conference aims to deepen connections, inspire new ideas, and support educators in developing engaging, innovative teaching practices.
State Dance Educators Conference at Cal State East Bay, Hayward
California Dance Education Association
The California Dance Education Association’s 2026 conference, Momentum, will bring dance educators together to collaborate, learn, and advocate for the field. Through discussions, workshops, and shared movement, participants will explore diverse perspectives, spark creativity, and build community. The conference aims to deepen connections, inspire new ideas, and support educators in developing engaging, innovative teaching practices.
California Dance Education Association Annual State Dance Teachers Conference
California Dance Education Association
California Dance Education Association recognizes the importance of providing a space for dance educators to come together, collaborate, mentor, practice, and dance as a collective. Our 2026 statewide conference, Momentum, will encourage collaboration, community, and advocacy among dance educators across all sectors. Conference attendees will engage in enriching discussions, movement workshops, and presentations aimed at […]
Practitioner Exchange: Dance Visibility & Advocacy
Luna Dance & Creativity
How can we as dance educators make the important work we're doing with our students visible and indispensable? How can we engage with our communities to build relationships and increase support for dance? Join your colleagues from around the country for this roundtable discussion with your own experiences and inquiries. In the face of current […]
Festival Nuestro: Insights from National Latinx Dance Festival Directors
David Herrera Performance Company
Latinx Hispanic Dancers United proudly presents an inspiring gathering of visionary festival directors that elevate Latinx/e dance artists in “Festival Nuestro”—an exciting opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate! Liz Boubion, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (SF/Bay Area) Gabriel Mata, Latinx Movement Festival (Washington D.C.) Licia Perea, BlakTinx Dance Festival (LA) Liliana Gomez, BlakTinx Dance Festival (Phoenix) Adam Castaneda, Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary […]
