Events
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Kathak Youth Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Noorani Dance School & Antara Asthaayi Dance are coming together for the first time to offer a Kathak Youth Summer Program Aug 4-8, 2025 Menlo Park, CA Give your child the gift of grace, rhythm, and cultural expression! Our week long immersive summer program for youth, is designed to build confidence, discipline, and creativity! Ages: […]
Salsa on 1 Levels 1, 2, and 3
Golden City Dance Collective
Start your week with passion and rhythm! 🔥 7PM Bachata | 8PM Salsa 🎶 Levels 1, 2, & 3 – whether you’re new or leveling up, we got you
Kathak Youth Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Noorani Dance School & Antara Asthaayi Dance are coming together for the first time to offer a Kathak Youth Summer Program Aug 4-8, 2025 Menlo Park, CA Give your child the gift of grace, rhythm, and cultural expression! Our week long immersive summer program for youth, is designed to build confidence, discipline, and creativity! Ages: […]
Deaf Dance Workshop with Antoine Hunter
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival presents a special Deaf Dance Workshop with Urban Jazz Dance Company's Artistic Director Antoine Hunter. This workshop is for Deaf and Hearing people. All are welcome, any experience.
Kathak Youth Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Noorani Dance School & Antara Asthaayi Dance are coming together for the first time to offer a Kathak Youth Summer Program Aug 4-8, 2025 Menlo Park, CA Give your child the gift of grace, rhythm, and cultural expression! Our week long immersive summer program for youth, is designed to build confidence, discipline, and creativity! Ages: […]
Summer Butoh Dance Classes
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Explore Butoh dance movement, group connection, improvisation, and, choreography for Water Shapes Rock. Registration required, Click here for Eventbrite link. Move with your creative body to learn ghost body Qi for the vagal system; ground with Butoh dance walks, stumbles, skips, balances; learn soft rolls to floor/to stand; use vocals; use the walls for inversions. Dance […]
Argentine Tango Classes with Marcelo Solis – Discover the Art of Connection
Marcelo Solis
Discover the art of Argentine Tango with Marcelo Solis of Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Learn Tango as it’s danced in Buenos Aires—an embrace, a language, a way to be present. Classes are open to all levels and focus on connection, musicality, and expression. Join us weekly in San Francisco and San Jose to […]
Kathak Youth Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Noorani Dance School & Antara Asthaayi Dance are coming together for the first time to offer a Kathak Youth Summer Program Aug 4-8, 2025 Menlo Park, CA Give your child the gift of grace, rhythm, and cultural expression! Our week long immersive summer program for youth, is designed to build confidence, discipline, and creativity! Ages: […]
PopUp PlayDate at Lake Merritt
WildFiya
Anyone missing the good ole days of summer break? 🙋🏽♀️Yeah us too. Meet us outside in August for a camp themed PlayDate at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Come to chill. Come to play. Come to release at the end of your day. We can’t bring back school breaks but we can give you a break at our […]
Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival at the CA Academy of Sciences
Urban Jazz Dance Company
The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival is excited to collaborate with NIGHTLIFE REMIX at California Academy of Sciences. Join us for live Deaf performers, champ music, Deaf DJs, Deaf interpreters, Dance Workshops and more!! Free with admission.
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Kathak Youth Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Noorani Dance School & Antara Asthaayi Dance are coming together for the first time to offer a Kathak Youth Summer Program Aug 4-8, 2025 Menlo Park, CA Give your child the gift of grace, rhythm, and cultural expression! Our week long immersive summer program for youth, is designed to build confidence, discipline, and creativity! Ages: […]
Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival presents Dance Workshops taught by Deaf Artists
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Join Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival Workshops taught by Deaf Artists. Ballet in ASL with Zahna Simon at 10-11am; Rhythm of Life Through the Joropo with Luis Felipe Rodriguez Moya (Colombia) at 11:15-12:15pm; and African Dance with Bianca Ware Time TBA. Deaf, Hearing, all are welcome, any experience welcome.
Marin Dance Festival
Inside Out Contemporary Ballet
JOIN US FOR THE INAUGURAL MARIN DANCE FESTIVAL FEATURING THE BEST OF MARIN’S CONTEMPORARY DANCE, KATHAK, JAZZ, LATIN RHYTHMS, BALLET, BELLYDANCE, URBAN STYLES & CIRCUS ALL CHOREOGRAPHED & PERFORMED BY LOCAL PROFESSIONALS. GREAT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY. August 8th at 7:00pm & August 9th at 3:00pm at Dominican University of CA's Angelico Concert […]
13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Urban Jazz Dance Company presents the 13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF), featuring performances and workshops highlighting the artistry of Deaf and Hard of Hearing artists from around the world, such as CDK’s Deaf Dance Beyond Collective from Jamaica, Corporación Cultural y Artística Sin Límites from Colombia, The Wild Zappers from NY […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Merde Project
Merde Project
Merde Project supports choreographers making daring new dance. Each year, we present a cohort of artists in a curated series of live works. August 8 + 9, 8pm @ Joe Goode Annex Featuring: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison Cauveri Suresh REYES Dance / Jocelyn Reyes Emma Andre Kelly Del Rosario Tickets visit: www.merdeproject.com Merde Project is a program […]
EARTH BODY: An Eco Somatic Workshop
WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog)
Women Eco Artists Dialog presents Rulan Tangen, founding artistic director/choreographer of Dancing Earth, shares her eco-somatic practices through movement and words that compel people of all ages, backgrounds and capacities to find connection to their inner dreamscape and outer landscape in profound ways. We will come together to embody the relevance of Eco Somatic movement […]
Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival Meet the Artists Panel
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Meet Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival performers from Botswana, Colombia, Jamaica, Italy, and the US and learn about their stories, culture, victories, struggles, and their identities. Sign language interpreters in multiple languages will be available, including but not limited to Colombian Sign Language, Botswana Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language BAIDDF, produced by Urban […]
Yallah Arts Festival
Suhaila Salimpour
The weekend of August 9-10 plans to be a vibrant weekend of belly dance and SWANA arts and culture with the Yallah Arts Festival and Bal Anat performance. Directed by Suhaila Salimpour, the festival includes workshops and performances at Ashkenaz in Berkeley and culminates in a concert performance Sunday evening at the Le Fevre Theater […]
Marin Dance Festival
Inside Out Contemporary Ballet
JOIN US FOR THE INAUGURAL MARIN DANCE FESTIVAL FEATURING THE BEST OF MARIN’S CONTEMPORARY DANCE, KATHAK, JAZZ, LATIN RHYTHMS, BALLET, BELLYDANCE, URBAN STYLES & CIRCUS ALL CHOREOGRAPHED & PERFORMED BY LOCAL PROFESSIONALS. GREAT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY. August 8th at 7:00pm & August 9th at 3:00pm at Dominican University of CA's Angelico Concert […]
Chillonga: a chill mixed-music Milonga
Golden City Dance Collective
3:30PM - 6:30PM: social dancing with DJ Chi Co-hosted by Chi with Golden City Dance Collective, join us for a monthly Milonga Dance Party on 2nd Saturdays! At Chillonga, we are committed to foster a relaxing, inclusive, emotionally and physically safe environment, in which everyone feels valued and respected. All are welcome to lead, follow, […]
13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Urban Jazz Dance Company presents the 13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF), featuring performances and workshops highlighting the artistry of Deaf and Hard of Hearing artists from around the world, such as CDK’s Deaf Dance Beyond Collective from Jamaica, Corporación Cultural y Artística Sin Límites from Colombia, The Wild Zappers from NY […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Merde Project
Merde Project
Merde Project supports choreographers making daring new dance. Each year, we present a cohort of artists in a curated series of live works. August 8 + 9, 8pm @ Joe Goode Annex Featuring: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison Cauveri Suresh REYES Dance / Jocelyn Reyes Emma Andre Kelly Del Rosario Tickets visit: www.merdeproject.com Merde Project is a program […]
Youth Dance Workshop presented by Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Kids are invited to join the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival for this youth workshop (for kids ages 4-12). Deaf, Hearing, CODA, HOH youth of all ages are all welcome. ASL Interpretation provided.
Dance All Day
CubaCaribe
Dance All Day is an all-day workshop bringing together an amazing faculty of the top Cuban dance, percussion, and song instructors. It will focus on varying Cuban genres including: Cuban Salsa, Modern, Folkloric, and Rumba. It will include also include a free Rumba open to the public with registration with live music and dancing by […]
ASL Dance and Choreography Workshop with Fred Beam
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Join Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival us for a special workshop with visiting artist Fred Beam. Learn how to use ASL in a dance setting with ABC Dance Choreography, a new form of Deaf Literature/ Arts. ABC Choreography is a dance using ASL signs/Hand shapes. Participants will come up with their own choreography after learning […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
Bollywood Dance Class and Party
Rang De Bollywood Dance Company
Join us for a joyful, energetic, all-levels Bollywood dance class in the heart of San Francisco by our beloved instructors Manpreet and Amit. Whether you’re dancing for the first time or just love the rhythm of Bollywood music, this class is designed to lift your mood and move your soul. Bollywood Masti is more than a […]
The Watering Hole: Find Your Flow
WildFiya
Find Your Flow is a four-part workshop designed to help you get out of your head, get out of your rut, and get in motion towards what you seek . Join us to explore the ways that your mindset, tools, and routines all work together to help you remove blocks, bounce back from setbacks, and […]
Youth Dance Workshop presented by Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Kids are invited to join the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival for this youth workshop (for kids ages 4-12). Deaf, Hearing, CODA, HOH youth of all ages are all welcome. ASL Interpretation provided.
Yallah Arts Festival
Suhaila Salimpour
The weekend of August 9-10 plans to be a vibrant weekend of belly dance and SWANA arts and culture with the Yallah Arts Festival and Bal Anat performance. Directed by Suhaila Salimpour, the festival includes workshops and performances at Ashkenaz in Berkeley and culminates in a concert performance Sunday evening at the Le Fevre Theater […]
13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Urban Jazz Dance Company
Urban Jazz Dance Company presents the 13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF), featuring performances and workshops highlighting the artistry of Deaf and Hard of Hearing artists from around the world, such as CDK’s Deaf Dance Beyond Collective from Jamaica, Corporación Cultural y Artística Sin Límites from Colombia, The Wild Zappers from NY […]
Filipino Folk Dance
MPWRD Artists Collective
Join MPWRD Collective for vibrant Filipino Folk Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and movement. Explore traditional dances like Tinikling, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, and more, while learning the history and meaning behind each step. Whether you're a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Filipino heritage, build confidence, and […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Bal Anat
Suhaila Salimpour
Bal Anat gathers 50 artists from around the world who have been studying with belly dance artist Suhaila Salimpour. Created in 1968 by Suhaila’s mother Jamila, Bal Anat is the longest running concert belly dance show in the world. It is a dynamic theatrical production that celebrates folkloric dance, music, and rituals of the Middle […]
Fall 2025 Enrollment!
Contra Costa Ballet Centre
We are thrilled to announce that enrollment for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 is now in full swing! This exciting time marks the beginning of a new academic journey, as our dedicated faculty members diligently prepare engaging classes and comprehensive syllabi to inspire and equip our students for success. Please visit our website at Contra Costa […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
Fall 2025 Enrollment!
Contra Costa Ballet Centre
We are thrilled to announce that enrollment for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 is now in full swing! This exciting time marks the beginning of a new academic journey, as our dedicated faculty members diligently prepare engaging classes and comprehensive syllabi to inspire and equip our students for success. Please visit our website at Contra Costa […]
Women’s Summer Dance Circles
Temple of Dancing Wholeness
Explore through intention, imagination, and free-form ecstatic dance to catalyze, energize and ground your body, being, intentions and prayers. Join other authentic, juicy, wondrous women dancing in darkness and light, beauty and sisterhood! Includes witnessing circle and music journey. Credits available for classes you are away. We acknowledge these challenging times AND celebrate all that […]
Salsa on 1 Levels 1, 2, and 3
Golden City Dance Collective
Start your week with passion and rhythm! 🔥 7PM Bachata | 8PM Salsa 🎶 Levels 1, 2, & 3 – whether you’re new or leveling up, we got you
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
Fall 2025 Enrollment!
Contra Costa Ballet Centre
We are thrilled to announce that enrollment for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 is now in full swing! This exciting time marks the beginning of a new academic journey, as our dedicated faculty members diligently prepare engaging classes and comprehensive syllabi to inspire and equip our students for success. Please visit our website at Contra Costa […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
Summer Butoh Dance Classes
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Explore Butoh dance movement, group connection, improvisation, and, choreography for Water Shapes Rock. Registration required, Click here for Eventbrite link. Move with your creative body to learn ghost body Qi for the vagal system; ground with Butoh dance walks, stumbles, skips, balances; learn soft rolls to floor/to stand; use vocals; use the walls for inversions. Dance […]
Community Study Hall: Riding the ebbs and flows of the creative process
Emily Hansel
Come join this collective brainstorming session for dancers and choreographers! We’ll chat about: Are there obstacles that prevent your ideal creative cadence (how often you make work) from occurring? How do you sustain your creative practice when there isn’t consistent funding or you’re in between projects? How transparent should a choreographer be with their dancers/collaborators […]
Argentine Tango Classes with Marcelo Solis – Discover the Art of Connection
Marcelo Solis
Discover the art of Argentine Tango with Marcelo Solis of Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Learn Tango as it’s danced in Buenos Aires—an embrace, a language, a way to be present. Classes are open to all levels and focus on connection, musicality, and expression. Join us weekly in San Francisco and San Jose to […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
FREE Creative Movement Class with Bodies of Empowerment!
Bodies of Empowerment
Bodies of Reflection: Creative Movement and Concept Exploration with Amelia Eisen All levels class on Friday, August 15 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at the Joe Goode Annex Exploring creative tasks prompted by the questions, 'What does Water Reflect?' and 'What does Humanity Reflect?' from Amelia's artistic research. Bodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a free class […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Rhythm & Gestures: An All Levels Bharatanatyam Workshop
Nadhi Thekkek/Nava Dance Theatre
This is a one day 3 hour intensive format for dancers and movers from any style of dance, or dancers who have been attending Nava classes regularly. Use bharatanatyam inspired technique, music, and narrative building to inform your creative process and find new ways to move! Class will include working with live music with Rohan […]
25th Year Gala Celebrations
Vishwa Shanthi Dance Academy
The 25th Year Welcome Back Gala is a joyful, family-friendly celebration marking a special milestone — 25 years of shared memories and community spirit. Guests can look forward to an exciting afternoon filled with interactive games and creative activities, from Dance Trivia and Adavu Freeze to beautiful mehendi, tattoos, and a lively dance-themed photo booth […]
Megan Lowe Dances – Public Rehearsals at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Witness MLD in rehearsal at the Legion of Honor, while they create a site-specific dance in celebration of the Legion of Honor’s 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through […]
Wedding First Dance Workshop in San Mateo
Motion Arts Center
Planning your big day? Already married but want to relive the magic? Just love dancing with your sweetheart? Join us for our Wedding First Dance Workshop on Saturday, August 16th from 2–4PM with our fantastic and professional instructors, Gustavo & Jesica. This joyful 2-hour workshop is designed for ALL couples—whether you’re tying the knot, part […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
2025 World Arts West Dance Festival
World Arts West
The 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival will focus on the theme “Dance as Health and Healing,” exploring what constitutes a healthy community. It aims to showcase dance and art forms rooted in cultural traditions, including sacred, social, and contemporary. The festival features movement workshops, artist dialogues, and new activities like Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music […]
Junction80 Mixer – Dance Teams x Street Dancers
DAM Events
1up Crew and DAM Events are teaming up to plan a large scale dance showcase meets dance convention for the Northern California dance community and want YOU, the dance community, to be a part of our pre-production conversations. Our goal with Junction 80 is to showcase + connect the NorCal dance community as a whole: […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Fall Session 2025 – Kathak Dance Classes!
Noorani Dance
Registration is OPEN! 🌟 Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your skills, join us this fall to experience the beauty and rhythm of Kathak. 🗓️ Starting: August 2025 📍 Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Classes for children (ages 5+), teens and adults Why Join? 🌟 Expert Instructors 🌟 Comprehensive Curriculum 🌟 Cultural Enrichment🔗 […]
Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
One week intensive with Sara Shelton Mann and gizeh muñiz in San Francisco August 10, 12, 14 10am-1pm florwerk with gizeh August 11, 13, 15 10am-1pm practice as performance with Sara August 16 2-5pm practice as performance with Sara August 17 10-11:30am florwerk with gizeh 11:45-12:45pm lunch conversation with Sara and gizeh 1-4pm practice as […]
The Watering Hole: Find Your Flow
WildFiya
Find Your Flow is a four-part workshop designed to help you get out of your head, get out of your rut, and get in motion towards what you seek . Join us to explore the ways that your mindset, tools, and routines all work together to help you remove blocks, bounce back from setbacks, and […]
2025 World Arts West Dance Festival
World Arts West
The 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival will focus on the theme “Dance as Health and Healing,” exploring what constitutes a healthy community. It aims to showcase dance and art forms rooted in cultural traditions, including sacred, social, and contemporary. The festival features movement workshops, artist dialogues, and new activities like Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Filipino Folk Dance
MPWRD Artists Collective
Join MPWRD Collective for vibrant Filipino Folk Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and movement. Explore traditional dances like Tinikling, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, and more, while learning the history and meaning behind each step. Whether you're a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Filipino heritage, build confidence, and […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Salsa on 1 Levels 1, 2, and 3
Golden City Dance Collective
Start your week with passion and rhythm! 🔥 7PM Bachata | 8PM Salsa 🎶 Levels 1, 2, & 3 – whether you’re new or leveling up, we got you
Summer Butoh Dance Classes
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Explore Butoh dance movement, group connection, improvisation, and, choreography for Water Shapes Rock. Registration required, Click here for Eventbrite link. Move with your creative body to learn ghost body Qi for the vagal system; ground with Butoh dance walks, stumbles, skips, balances; learn soft rolls to floor/to stand; use vocals; use the walls for inversions. Dance […]
Argentine Tango Classes with Marcelo Solis – Discover the Art of Connection
Marcelo Solis
Discover the art of Argentine Tango with Marcelo Solis of Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Learn Tango as it’s danced in Buenos Aires—an embrace, a language, a way to be present. Classes are open to all levels and focus on connection, musicality, and expression. Join us weekly in San Francisco and San Jose to […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
dance writing workshop
pateldanceworks
pateldanceworks' Artistic Director Dr. Bhumi B Patel will lead a workshop on dance writing for dancers/writers/dance writers at all stages! In the workshop, we'll discuss the state of dance writing, look at samples of published writing, and craft a short piece to workshop with other participants. The event is geared toward those interested in learning […]
DIASPORADICA
RUPTURE
Bay Area Experimental Performance Collective RUPTURE, in collaboration with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, present the world premiere of DIASPORADICA, a mesmerizing 3-hour immersive experience at the Pier 3 Festival Pavilion. This theatrical takeover reshapes this massive waterfront venue into a barrage of all-consuming rhythms and explosive movement, and dares audiences to reckon […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Historical Dance at Play: Which way to Parnassus?
The New York Baroque Dance Company
“What comes first, style, steps, or spirit?” Online conference of 8 presenters from diverse dance backgrounds discuss their process of bringing lost dances to life through the modern dance body. Students can ask questions and sessions are recorded. Faculty includes: Lori Belilove/ The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Bruno Benne/ la compagnie Beaux-Champs, Caroline Copeland/ The New York Baroque Dance Company, Shireen […]
Bolivian Dance Classes
BCA Dance Company
Join the BCA Dance Company family for vibrant Bolivian Folkloric Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and history. Explore traditional dances like Tinku, Caporales and more, while learning meaning behind each style. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Bolivian heritage, build confidence, and express yourself […]
Luna Dance & Creativity Open House
Luna Dance & Creativity
Visit California’s only dance center dedicated to creativity, community and equity for all children and the caregivers who support their lives and learning–parents, teachers, and artists. Spend the morning dancing with your family and friends at Luna’s Open House! Join us for free family dance classes for all ages, a creative dance class just for […]
Megan Lowe Dances – Public Rehearsals at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Witness MLD in rehearsal at the Legion of Honor, while they create a site-specific dance in celebration of the Legion of Honor’s 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through […]
Salsa “Footwork & Partnerwork” Workshop with Dennis and Danielle!
Motion Arts Center
On Saturday Aug 23rd, get ready to ignite your passion for Salsa! Join us for a dynamic two-hour all levels workshop with our amazing instructors Dennis and Danielle, where you’ll delve into the heart of this captivating dance. We’ll take you from solid foundations to exhilarating expression, focusing on both individual brilliance and seamless connection. […]
SAMMAY: the way home is an upwards spiral (World Premiere)
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
A dazzling, array of kinetic street dance idioms transforms the Gardens into a liberated movement zone with the world premiere of the way home is an upwards spiral. Commissioned by YBG Festival, Sammay Peñaflor Dizon (she/they) created this experimental, site-responsive work to push the boundaries of street dance forms, challenge Western notions of concert dance […]
VASANTSENA, A MUSICAL
Vaishnavi misra Dance and Music
Vaishnavi Misra Dance & Music proudly present Vasantsena: A Musical. Adapted from the plays Charudatt by Bhasa (500BCE) & Mrcchakatika by Sudraka (500ACE).Witness history unfold on stage. 2 shows only. Vasantsena: The Royal courtesan of the ancient city of Ujjaini in India, falls in love with a commoner, Charudatt. Charudatt: Torn between Vasantsena, his music […]
VASANTSENA, A MUSICAL
Vaishnavi misra Dance and Music
Vaishnavi Misra Dance & Music proudly present Vasantsena: A Musical. Adapted from the plays Charudatt by Bhasa (500BCE) & Mrcchakatika by Sudraka (500ACE).Witness history unfold on stage. 2 shows only. Vasantsena: The Royal courtesan of the ancient city of Ujjaini in India, falls in love with a commoner, Charudatt. Charudatt: Torn between Vasantsena, his music […]
DIASPORADICA
RUPTURE
Bay Area Experimental Performance Collective RUPTURE, in collaboration with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, present the world premiere of DIASPORADICA, a mesmerizing 3-hour immersive experience at the Pier 3 Festival Pavilion. This theatrical takeover reshapes this massive waterfront venue into a barrage of all-consuming rhythms and explosive movement, and dares audiences to reckon […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Historical Dance at Play: Which way to Parnassus?
The New York Baroque Dance Company
“What comes first, style, steps, or spirit?” Online conference of 8 presenters from diverse dance backgrounds discuss their process of bringing lost dances to life through the modern dance body. Students can ask questions and sessions are recorded. Faculty includes: Lori Belilove/ The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Bruno Benne/ la compagnie Beaux-Champs, Caroline Copeland/ The New York Baroque Dance Company, Shireen […]
The Wiggle Room: Release the Cheeks
WildFiya
Are you ready to release? Those cheeks that is! The lovely and talented Saharla Vetsch is back with her energizing and empowering movement workshop – Release the Cheeks. This beloved workshop is all about releasing the tension and stress we carry in our hips (and booty) by connecting our minds to the body through lower body […]
Renewal: a Natural Health and Wellness Fair
Renewal: a Natural Health and Wellness Fair
Renewal: A Natural Health & Wellness Fair Join Us for a Day of Self-Care, Relaxation & Community! Come experience a wide array of natural wellness offerings with sessions and workshops in: massage, bodywork, acupuncture, spiritual counseling, reiki, coaching, tarot, personal growth, sound healing, neuromuscular therapy, and much more! Interested in Participating? If you’d like to […]
SAMMAY: the way home is an upwards spiral (World Premiere)
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
A dazzling, array of kinetic street dance idioms transforms the Gardens into a liberated movement zone with the world premiere of the way home is an upwards spiral. Commissioned by YBG Festival, Sammay Peñaflor Dizon (she/they) created this experimental, site-responsive work to push the boundaries of street dance forms, challenge Western notions of concert dance […]
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
FACT/SF’s Summer Dance Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The first weekend will include works by FACT/SF, Jenna Riegel (Amherst, MA), and The Davis Sisters (Charlotte, NC & Boston, MA). The second weekend will include works by local groups seymour::dancecollective and Claire Evangelho & Ezra LeBank, alongside works by visiting artists Heather Dutton (Brooklyn, NY), Dani […]
Filipino Folk Dance
MPWRD Artists Collective
Join MPWRD Collective for vibrant Filipino Folk Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and movement. Explore traditional dances like Tinikling, Pandanggo sa Ilaw, and more, while learning the history and meaning behind each step. Whether you're a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Filipino heritage, build confidence, and […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
FREE Bellydance class with Bodies of Empowerment!
Bodies of Empowerment
Belly Dance: Sacred, Social, Sensual with Suhaila Salimpour All levels class on August 25 from 6:30 to 8:00pm at BANDALOOP Studios in Oakland Suhaila is a local Belly dance pioneer who combines foundational technique with a focus on presence, intention, and connection to self. Bodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a free class program brought to […]
Salsa on 1 Levels 1, 2, and 3
Golden City Dance Collective
Start your week with passion and rhythm! 🔥 7PM Bachata | 8PM Salsa 🎶 Levels 1, 2, & 3 – whether you’re new or leveling up, we got you
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
Summer Butoh Dance Classes
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Explore Butoh dance movement, group connection, improvisation, and, choreography for Water Shapes Rock. Registration required, Click here for Eventbrite link. Move with your creative body to learn ghost body Qi for the vagal system; ground with Butoh dance walks, stumbles, skips, balances; learn soft rolls to floor/to stand; use vocals; use the walls for inversions. Dance […]
DIASPORADICA Workshop Series August 25th-27th, 2025
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
This workshop series is supported in part by Bridge Live Arts as a pilot for their upcoming Synaptic Series. This is a limited set of Fall workshops that will pair artists to engage in dialogue about their pedagogical philosophies, share leadership strategies, and co-teach a movement-based community class that melds the two of their research […]
Argentine Tango Classes with Marcelo Solis – Discover the Art of Connection
Marcelo Solis
Discover the art of Argentine Tango with Marcelo Solis of Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Learn Tango as it’s danced in Buenos Aires—an embrace, a language, a way to be present. Classes are open to all levels and focus on connection, musicality, and expression. Join us weekly in San Francisco and San Jose to […]
Community Study Hall: Collective knowledge sharing (aka gossiping our way to a better tomorrow)
Emily Hansel
Facilitated by Megan + Shannon Kurashige In our experience, there’s value in hearing dancers and dancemakers dish about their professional experiences. It informs how we assess our own experiences, needs, and desires so we can cultivate better artistic processes and infrastructures to support them. Some things we might touch on: Wage transparency Strategies for a […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
improv workshop
pateldanceworks
arriving, connecting, softening is an improvisational workshop offering to engage with turning our focus both inward and outward to connect with the body as home and with our co-movers. We engage with refusal and anti-urgency as a way to realize different ways of being in and relating to the world. The workshop will begin with […]
DIASPORADICA
RUPTURE
Bay Area Experimental Performance Collective RUPTURE, in collaboration with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, present the world premiere of DIASPORADICA, a mesmerizing 3-hour immersive experience at the Pier 3 Festival Pavilion. This theatrical takeover reshapes this massive waterfront venue into a barrage of all-consuming rhythms and explosive movement, and dares audiences to reckon […]
A Chorus Line
6th Street Playhouse
Dancing, Drama, & Dreams – The Ultimate Triple-Threat Musical! Running 8/29 - 9/28, 2025 Step onto the stage with A Chorus Line, the groundbreaking Broadway musical that captures the hopes, fears, and dreams of 17 dancers auditioning for the chance of a lifetime. Set on a bare stage, the show peels back the curtain on […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
Bolivian Dance Classes
BCA Dance Company
Join the BCA Dance Company family for vibrant Bolivian Folkloric Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and history. Explore traditional dances like Tinku, Caporales and more, while learning meaning behind each style. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Bolivian heritage, build confidence, and express yourself […]
Maculelê Dance Class
Capoeira Collective Bay Area
Join us for a fun warm up and class of Maculelê, an Afro-Brasilian stick dance! We'll demonstrate potential choreography and finish with a round of free play, songs and dance!
Megan Lowe Dances at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Megan Lowe Dances received a commission to create a site-specific dance that celebrates the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through motion, memory, and presence. This […]
Megan Lowe Dances at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Megan Lowe Dances received a commission to create a site-specific dance that celebrates the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through motion, memory, and presence. This […]
DIASPORADICA
RUPTURE
Bay Area Experimental Performance Collective RUPTURE, in collaboration with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, present the world premiere of DIASPORADICA, a mesmerizing 3-hour immersive experience at the Pier 3 Festival Pavilion. This theatrical takeover reshapes this massive waterfront venue into a barrage of all-consuming rhythms and explosive movement, and dares audiences to reckon […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
The Watering Hole: Find Your Flow
WildFiya
Find Your Flow is a four-part workshop designed to help you get out of your head, get out of your rut, and get in motion towards what you seek . Join us to explore the ways that your mindset, tools, and routines all work together to help you remove blocks, bounce back from setbacks, and […]
Are You Okay?
Joe Goode Performance Group
Are You Okay? is an immersive, site specific dance theater work that asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In a precarious time when our lives, health, jobs, governments and the technologies that connect us are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity […]
