5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

13 Threads is part of Event Horizons, a 24-site international collaboration of artists around the world.  The San Francisco contingent presents a live and film installation with a line-up of artists including Afia Thompson (Bayiya Movement), Amanda K. White, Angela Arteritano, Joe Landini, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Raven Malouf-Renning, and Rebekah Enderle. Line-up is subject to change and includes special guests.  RSVP for the event by emailing joe@safehousearts.org    

Photo by Kyle Adler. Alyssa Mitchel is pleased to announce the world premiere of Here. Now. This hour-length outdoor dance production is a partnership with the Exploratorium and a collaboration between Mitchel, her company of ten dancers and her creative team. This collaboration is a fusion of artistic styles by artists of diverse backgrounds. In an outdoor setting, the production brings the artists and the audience together as one collaborative community. Photo by Kyle Adler.   The work features ten…

TRY a queer fantasy of improvised collaboration where body and land meet ancestry and futurity TRY is a performance choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones created in deep collaboration with jose e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor with music by Gabriel Nuñez de Arco and jose e. abad in an immersive installation by Monica Canilao & Kendra Azul~írís and lighting design by GG Torres. TRY explores what Sadiya Hartman calls, “Acts of collaboration and improvisation that unfold within the…

The dance company returns to the stage with a re-envisioned world premiere  A resurgence of energy springs forth from this inspired dance-theatre piece by the Printz Dance Project (PDP) called INK & BONE - a Dancer’s Journal. In their highly anticipated return to the stage, their company invites you to share space with them at Joe Goode Annex to explore collective heartbreak, fortitude and the satisfaction in human tenacity.  INK & BONE is a story-driven dance piece, fusing Stacey Printz’…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

Photo by Kyle Adler. Alyssa Mitchel is pleased to announce the world premiere of Here. Now. This hour-length outdoor dance production is a partnership with the Exploratorium and a collaboration between Mitchel, her company of ten dancers and her creative team. This collaboration is a fusion of artistic styles by artists of diverse backgrounds. In an outdoor setting, the production brings the artists and the audience together as one collaborative community. Photo by Kyle Adler.   The work features ten…

Photo by Kyle Adler. Alyssa Mitchel is pleased to announce the world premiere of Here. Now. This hour-length outdoor dance production is a partnership with the Exploratorium and a collaboration between Mitchel, her company of ten dancers and her creative team. This collaboration is a fusion of artistic styles by artists of diverse backgrounds. In an outdoor setting, the production brings the artists and the audience together as one collaborative community. Photo by Kyle Adler.   The work features ten…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

TRY a queer fantasy of improvised collaboration where body and land meet ancestry and futurity TRY is a performance choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones created in deep collaboration with jose e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor with music by Gabriel Nuñez de Arco and jose e. abad in an immersive installation by Monica Canilao & Kendra Azul~írís and lighting design by GG Torres. TRY explores what Sadiya Hartman calls, “Acts of collaboration and improvisation that unfold within the…

Join us for an inside look at Shadow (part 1), as part of TAKE 3! Whether you’ve seen the film or have yet to watch, there’s nothing like getting the personal behind-the-scenes of a work to deepen the experience. Come for a happy hour with Co-Artistic Directors Ryan and Wendy to hear more about the process and ask any questions. Collaborator/performer Carly Johnson will also be joining to share her experiences developing a role for the stage and translating it…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

TRY a queer fantasy of improvised collaboration where body and land meet ancestry and futurity TRY is a performance choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones created in deep collaboration with jose e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor with music by Gabriel Nuñez de Arco and jose e. abad in an immersive installation by Monica Canilao & Kendra Azul~írís and lighting design by GG Torres. TRY explores what Sadiya Hartman calls, “Acts of collaboration and improvisation that unfold within the…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

5th Annual Film Festival LA Dance Shorts Film Festival is excited to share this virtual program again this year. Last year opened their eyes to the potential of reaching a larger audience of dance film enthusiasts worldwide. View the films on demand anytime during the week! Grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the 2021 program of 16 wonderful films from the comfort of your home. Films: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá by Nancy Fernanda Rivera Gomez (United States) to the bones of this…

TRY a queer fantasy of improvised collaboration where body and land meet ancestry and futurity TRY is a performance choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones created in deep collaboration with jose e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor with music by Gabriel Nuñez de Arco and jose e. abad in an immersive installation by Monica Canilao & Kendra Azul~írís and lighting design by GG Torres. TRY explores what Sadiya Hartman calls, “Acts of collaboration and improvisation that unfold within the…

TRY a queer fantasy of improvised collaboration where body and land meet ancestry and futurity TRY is a performance choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones created in deep collaboration with jose e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor with music by Gabriel Nuñez de Arco and jose e. abad in an immersive installation by Monica Canilao & Kendra Azul~írís and lighting design by GG Torres. TRY explores what Sadiya Hartman calls, “Acts of collaboration and improvisation that unfold within the…

Presenting the live premiere of Hidden Spaces, a contemporary dance performance created and performed by A Pulso Dance Project,  a dance collective based in San Francisco. Hidden Spaces is a contemporary dance piece which explores the curiosities, intrigues and parts of ourselves that we keep hidden from each other as human and social beings, and the process of elucidating the sides of ourselves we choose to show while obscuring the sides we keep in the shadows.

SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts and AIRspace present QTPOCALYPSE & Movement Research with Snowflake Calvert. The performance will feature live works by SevanKelee Boult, Tachíria Flamenco, Kevin Wong & Matthew Ka Git Wong, as well as a film by Sawako Gannon. Each artist brings a unique perspective to the table, allowing the evening to span a wide array of topics and genres. Following the performance, Snowflake Calvert will be hosting a private workshop for movement research. The participants of the workshop…

Micaya is pleased to present the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest Online. This year’s festival will feature pre-recorded performances by six dance companies from around the globe. Audiences will be able to attend an in-person Watch Party at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater or tune into the show from home. For this year’s festival Artistic Director and Founder Micaya asked hip-hop dance companies to create a work beginning with the letter “R.” The six new works…

Micaya is pleased to present the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest Online. This year’s festival will feature pre-recorded performances by six dance companies from around the globe. Audiences will be able to attend an in-person Watch Party at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater or tune into the show from home. For this year’s festival Artistic Director and Founder Micaya asked hip-hop dance companies to create a work beginning with the letter “R.” The six new works…

Paufve Dance values community: the friends of friends who become family over a holiday dinner; the crew you call for a ride home from the airport; the buddy prepared to be your biggest fan or co- conspirator or PR agent at the drop of a hat. For 20 years, Paufve Dance has built community through personal connection and the generosity of good humans. In the spirit of gathering and celebrating artistic community as a form of chosen family, Paufve Dance…