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Event Category: Panels/Discussions

  • SFDFF 2025 | Tiler Peck: Suspending Time

    Dance Film SF

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    Lucasfilm Premier Theater 1 Letterman Drive, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 […]

    $30 – $150

    SFDFF 2025 | Farewell, Opéra

    Dance Film SF

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    Delancey Street Screening Room 600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 […]

    $25 – $45
  • SFDFF 2025 | Screendance and Bay Area Avant-Garde Cinema 1940s-1950s

    Dance Film SF

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    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 […]

    $20 – $40

    SFDFF 2025 | Wicket, with live performance, Q&A, and reception

    Dance Film SF

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    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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, […]

    $25 – $40

    SFDFF 2025 | The Dancer, with post-screening Q&A

    Dance Film SF

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    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 […]

    $20 – $40

    Water Changes Rock. We Are Here.

    Mary Power

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    San Francisco Lodge of the Theosophical Society 809 Mason St., SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States

    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 […]

    Free

    SFDFF 2025 | Raising Voices

    Dance Film SF

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    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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. […]

    $20 – $40

    Practitioner Exchange: Teens and Dance

    Luna Dance & Creativity

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    Zoom

    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 […]

    $15