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Dracula: A Dance Between Love and Darkness
HaoExpression
Step into a world of passion, seduction, and darkness this Halloween. Choreographed and directed by Augusto Silva, Dracula was world premiered in 2023 with San Jose Dance Theater. Reimagined for 2026 with new choreography, staging, and perspectives, this haunting production brings the timeless story of Dracula to life through the expressive power of dance. Due […]
Luna Mexicana
Oakland Ballet Company
Luna Mexicana is one of the Bay Area’s most elaborate and inclusive Dia de los Muertos events. Like the celebration that inspires it, Luna Mexicana is a beautiful blend of exuberant dance, joyful music, colorful costumes, flowers, candles, food, and – most of all – celebration of family. Friday, October 30 - 7:30pm Sunday, November 1 - 2:30pm
Dracula: A Dance Between Love and Darkness
HaoExpression
Step into a world of passion, seduction, and darkness this Halloween. Choreographed and directed by Augusto Silva, Dracula was world premiered in 2023 with San Jose Dance Theater. Reimagined for 2026 with new choreography, staging, and perspectives, this haunting production brings the timeless story of Dracula to life through the expressive power of dance. Due […]
Dracula: A Dance Between Love and Darkness
HaoExpression
Step into a world of passion, seduction, and darkness this Halloween. Choreographed and directed by Augusto Silva, Dracula was world premiered in 2023 with San Jose Dance Theater. Reimagined for 2026 with new choreography, staging, and perspectives, this haunting production brings the timeless story of Dracula to life through the expressive power of dance. Due […]
Haunted Reverie
We Build Cathedrals
new site specific works inspired by Edgar Allan Poe featuring joe.landini.dance, Pocket of Joy Collective, FLIGHT Dance Collective and Xochipilli Dance Company and Black Benatar https://thethirdplace.is/event/haunted-reverie
Family Matters: A Next Gen Series
ODC Theater
A new, 1 hour Sunday-afternoon performance series to be offered free and designed to cultivate ODC’s next generation of arts patrons while providing accessible and joyful entry points into dance for families through direct access to artists and the creative process. Programming blends performance, participation, and “behind-the-scenes” insight. Sunday, October 4, 2026 @ 1:00pm - ODC Theater Home […]
Viva La Vida with Excerpts from P1N0CCH10 & Carmilla
Oceánica Ballet
Join Oceánica Ballet for an evening of autumn-themed story ballets! Act 1 premieres selections from P1N0CCH10, exploring humanity, AI, and our relationship with nature through Carlo Collodi's classic tale. Carmilla stages a mysterious masquerade ball from Sheridan Le Fanu's groundbreaking sapphic vampire novella. Act 2 features the return of Viva La Vida, the original story of […]
Luna Mexicana
Oakland Ballet Company
Luna Mexicana is one of the Bay Area’s most elaborate and inclusive Dia de los Muertos events. Like the celebration that inspires it, Luna Mexicana is a beautiful blend of exuberant dance, joyful music, colorful costumes, flowers, candles, food, and – most of all – celebration of family. Friday, October 30 - 7:30pm Sunday, November 1 - 2:30pm
Viva La Vida with Excerpts from P1N0CCH10 & Carmilla
Oceánica Ballet
Join Oceánica Ballet for an evening of autumn-themed story ballets! Act 1 premieres selections from P1N0CCH10, exploring humanity, AI, and our relationship with nature through Carlo Collodi's classic tale. Carmilla stages a mysterious masquerade ball from Sheridan Le Fanu's groundbreaking sapphic vampire novella. Act 2 features the return of Viva La Vida, the original story of […]
San Francisco State University School of Theatre & Dance presents h*llo k*tty syndrome, an original play by brian dang
San Francisco State University School of Theatre and Dance
SF State REP breaks the boundaries of theatre and challenges audiences’ expectations with this partially devised production that highlights trans-centric voices. h*llo k*tty syndrome asks the audience to examine their own expectations and assumptions about identity, visibility, and performance.
San Francisco State University School of Theatre & Dance presents h*llo k*tty syndrome, an original play by brian dang
San Francisco State University School of Theatre and Dance
SF State REP breaks the boundaries of theatre and challenges audiences’ expectations with this partially devised production that highlights trans-centric voices. h*llo k*tty syndrome asks the audience to examine their own expectations and assumptions about identity, visibility, and performance.
Dance Heals: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
As part of the ongoing Raising Voices series, Dance Heals gathers eight films that meet some of life’s hardest realities and answer them with movement. Co-curated by laura elaine ellis and followed by a panel discussion, the screening is presented alongside a concurrent exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk, whose work confronting history, justice, […]
SFDanceworks Season 9
SFDanceworks
SFDanceworks returns to Z Space for Season 9 with a dynamic program celebrating the legacy of modern dance and bold contemporary voices. Featuring three solos by Merce Cunningham, world premieres by Jermaine Maurice Spivey and longtime collaborator Brett Conway, and the return of Yin’s A Measurable Existence, the season brings together established artists and fresh […]
SFDanceworks Season 9
SFDanceworks
SFDanceworks returns to Z Space for Season 9 with a dynamic program celebrating the legacy of modern dance and bold contemporary voices. Featuring three solos by Merce Cunningham, world premieres by Jermaine Maurice Spivey and longtime collaborator Brett Conway, and the return of Yin’s A Measurable Existence, the season brings together established artists and fresh […]
The Madness of Lady Bright
Mannakin Theater & Dance
The Madness of Lady Bright is a play about Leslie Bright, an aging Drag Queen living alone in a NYC rooming house. Over the course of one evening, a series of encounters force him to confront loneliness, isolation, and the fear of growing old. Blending humor with heartbreak, the play explores the universal need for […]
On the Floor
Maria Silk
On the Floor by Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk November 6 and 7, 8 pm at Joe Goode Annex On the Floor marks the first collaboration between Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk. In this duet, these two friends attempt to piece together traces of 70s and 80s queer San Francisco. Exploring the legacies carried by […]
Robert Shields – My Life as a Robot: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot celebrates the extraordinary, and often invisible, impact one artist can have on the world. In the 1970s, Robert Shields began performing his signature robot routine outside the Hollywood Wax Museum before later moving to street performances in SF's Union Square. Within a few short years, he and his […]
SFDanceworks Season 9
SFDanceworks
SFDanceworks returns to Z Space for Season 9 with a dynamic program celebrating the legacy of modern dance and bold contemporary voices. Featuring three solos by Merce Cunningham, world premieres by Jermaine Maurice Spivey and longtime collaborator Brett Conway, and the return of Yin’s A Measurable Existence, the season brings together established artists and fresh […]
Ase, Axe, Ashe
Arenas Dance Company
Afro-Cuban folkloric culture bearer, Susana Arenas Pedroso, joins forces with Afro-Brazilian culture bearer, Dandha da Hora to explore the similarities and differences between Cuba and Brazil, specifically where Lucumi and Candomble diverge and converge. The show also explores what it is like for two women to live in the Diaspora.
Abhinaya Dance Company’s premiere of Kolam: At the Threshold
Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
Abhinaya Dance Company, an Indian classical dance company founded by Artistic Director Mythili Kumar announces the premiere of Kolam: At the Threshold choreographed by Abhinaya Principal Artist and Choreographer Rasika Kumar. This new work is a full-length 80-minute Bharatanatyam dance piece that explores ritual, inheritance, and cultural memory through the South Indian practice of kolam—daily […]
¡¡¡Flamenco Nights at El Lopo!!!
CarOlé Flamenco’s Compañía FSDT
¡¡¡Flamenco Nights at El Lopo!!! CarOlé Flamenco's Compañía FSDT Select Saturdays 5:30 PM El Lopo, 1327 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA Artists of large theaters, up close in an intimate bodega. Delicious tapas and beverages. Two-item minimum. Info, tickets, and details at caroleflamenco.com LEGACY 1894 – 1955 – 1995 – PRESENT Survivance • Preservation • […]
Ase, Axe, Ashe
Arenas Dance Company
Afro-Cuban folkloric culture bearer, Susana Arenas Pedroso, joins forces with Afro-Brazilian culture bearer, Dandha da Hora to explore the similarities and differences between Cuba and Brazil, specifically where Lucumi and Candomble diverge and converge. The show also explores what it is like for two women to live in the Diaspora.
The Madness of Lady Bright
Mannakin Theater & Dance
The Madness of Lady Bright is a play about Leslie Bright, an aging Drag Queen living alone in a NYC rooming house. Over the course of one evening, a series of encounters force him to confront loneliness, isolation, and the fear of growing old. Blending humor with heartbreak, the play explores the universal need for […]
On the Floor
Maria Silk
On the Floor by Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk November 6 and 7, 8 pm at Joe Goode Annex On the Floor marks the first collaboration between Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk. In this duet, these two friends attempt to piece together traces of 70s and 80s queer San Francisco. Exploring the legacies carried by […]
SFDanceworks Season 9
SFDanceworks
SFDanceworks returns to Z Space for Season 9 with a dynamic program celebrating the legacy of modern dance and bold contemporary voices. Featuring three solos by Merce Cunningham, world premieres by Jermaine Maurice Spivey and longtime collaborator Brett Conway, and the return of Yin’s A Measurable Existence, the season brings together established artists and fresh […]
