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San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival 2026
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture proudly present the Seventh Biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of contemporary aerial dance, circus arts, and site-responsive performance. Experience breathtaking performances from internationally recognized aerial artists alongside the next generation of innovative performers. Set against the spectacular waterfront backdrop of […]
San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival 2026
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture proudly present the Seventh Biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of contemporary aerial dance, circus arts, and site-responsive performance. Experience breathtaking performances from internationally recognized aerial artists alongside the next generation of innovative performers. Set against the spectacular waterfront backdrop of […]
San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival 2026
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture proudly present the Seventh Biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of contemporary aerial dance, circus arts, and site-responsive performance. Experience breathtaking performances from internationally recognized aerial artists alongside the next generation of innovative performers. Set against the spectacular waterfront backdrop of […]
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
An exceptional line up of six contemporary dances by Bay Area locals Karla Quintero, Ishami Dance Company, and FACT/SF, alongside visiting artists Megan O’Brien (Salt Lake City), Sarah McCullough & Shannon Hummel (Minneapolis), and Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhye (Seattle). Now in its seventh year, the FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival is curated from a highly competitive pool of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area […]
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
An exceptional line up of six contemporary dances by Bay Area locals Karla Quintero, Ishami Dance Company, and FACT/SF, alongside visiting artists Megan O’Brien (Salt Lake City), Sarah McCullough & Shannon Hummel (Minneapolis), and Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhye (Seattle). Now in its seventh year, the FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival is curated from a highly competitive pool of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area […]
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival
FACT/SF
An exceptional line up of six contemporary dances by Bay Area locals Karla Quintero, Ishami Dance Company, and FACT/SF, alongside visiting artists Megan O’Brien (Salt Lake City), Sarah McCullough & Shannon Hummel (Minneapolis), and Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhye (Seattle). Now in its seventh year, the FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival is curated from a highly competitive pool of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area […]
Bound Bloom
Artease Dance Collective
Begin the evening with a curated cocktail hour inviting guests to settle into an atmosphere of beauty and anticipation. We will be offering decorative shibari ties designed to accent and enhance your chosen attire. As the night unfolds, witness a salon-style performance fusing dance, shibari, sculpture, and live music inspired by connection, harmony, and balance. […]
The Emerging Artist Series
Vishwa Shanthi Indian Dance Theater
The Emerging Artist Series aims to spotlight upcoming stars in the field of Indian Classical Dance. This edition features Janhavi Pillai who will be presenting Kathakali - a major classical Indian dance-drama from Kerala, India, known for its vibrant makeup, massive headgear, and intricate facial expressions. The 45 minute performance will be followed by a […]
World Arts West Dance Festival
World Arts West
Three powerful weekends of global movement and cultural celebration! World Arts West is proud to announce the return of their annual Dance Festival! Presented over three weekends in July, August & September, this year's theme is “Legacy of Liberation!” The festival will feature film screenings, artist dialogues, performances and community dance workshops across San Francisco—uplifting […]
State of Play 2026: Kick-Off Party
ODC Theater
836M Gallery hosts the State of Play Kick Off Party featuring performances by ODC Home Company Kinetech Arts and 2022-2024 resident curator Maurya Kerr, with remarks by creative director Chloë L. Zimberg and ODC Founding Artistic Director, Brenda Way.
Bridge Live Arts presents Love Language by Preethi Ramaprasad
Bridge Live Arts
Along with her fellow musicians and composers, 25-26 CER Artist Preethi Ramaprasad shares her process of creating “Love Language,” a piece on love rooted in the Bharatanatyam idiom, through a lecture-demonstration style performance. Inspired by her parents’ story of meeting in New York alongside other immigrant interviews, set to the tunes of the iconic Freddie Mercury, […]
State of Play Presents: Laila J. Franklin: BABYBABYBABY
ODC Theater
A dance about dances about love. Interested in the human impulse for connection, BABYBABYBABY (2024) (West Coast Premiere) taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. It calls into question the role of sincerity, earnestness and truthfulness […]
State of Play Presents: Dragons Dance/Erin Yen & Johnny Huy Nguyễn
ODC Theater
Nervous (World Premiere) is a new dance work by Dragons Dance/Erin Yen exploring human interconnectivity and the nervous system’s role in dissociation from the modern world. Created in collaboration with a practicing neurologist and the dancers. How do you burn? Reclaiming fire as a regenerative force for rebirth, BURN (Work In Progress) envisions dance as […]
The Gathering Room Performance Series Part II
Joe Goode Performance Group
The Gathering Room Performance Series is back for one night only! Hosted by Joe Goode Performance Group, join us in an evening to support a mélange of JGPG’s amazing Front of House, Teaching Artists, and Core Staff. Six artists will share pieces reflecting their unique voice, vision and their present moment. After the success of last year's Gathering […]
State of Play Presents: Babatunji: F
ODC Theater
In their new duet, Babatunji and Hadassah Perry work together to create F (Work In Progress), a query of what can come from the quest for freedom. The subjectivity of freedom in America is inescapable. “Freedom” is now synonymous with homogeneity and bigotry, a freedom to hate. F reimagines freedom through experiences of love, frivolity, imagination, and tenderness. What happens when we give […]
State of Play Presents: Laila J. Franklin: BABYBABYBABY
ODC Theater
A dance about dances about love. Interested in the human impulse for connection, BABYBABYBABY (2024) (West Coast Premiere) taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. It calls into question the role of sincerity, earnestness and truthfulness […]
State of Play Presents: gizeh muñiz – Molino for Levitation
ODC Theater
gizeh is a movement, teaching, and performing artist currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a breathing body through movement and stillness. Through their work, they create spaces that allow them to play and divest from concepts of linearity in a creative process, with the intention of practicing freedom. […]
State of Play Presents: Malinda LaVelle and Emmaly Wiederholt: What the Hell Happened in San Francisco?
ODC Theater
What the Hell Happened in San Francisco? (Bay Area Premiere)(2024) is an evening-length work of dance-theater wrestling with idealism, dreams, and disillusionment. Malinda LaVelle and Emmaly Wiederholt met in 2008 in San Francisco while trying to “make it” as contemporary dance artists. They burned that dream bright and fast, living and dancing together for several […]
State of Play Presents: Khala Brannigan: Maura
ODC Theater
Maura (Work In Progress) is a deeply personal psychological thriller and horror work that draws from lived experience and ancestral Native American storytelling connected to choreographer Khala Brannigan’s lineage. Growing up with the knowledge that she has a deceased sister, Brannigan carried an uncanny sense of her presence—questioning whether she heard her speaking or whether Brannigan herself […]
State of Play Presents: Leslie Cuyjet: Blur
ODC Theater
Blur (West Coast Premiere), a solo performance by choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, experiments with visibility and invisibility, and the relationship between performer, audience, and object. Viewers are invited to navigate a choreographic and phonetic landscape through the lens of race and objectification. Written and performed by Cuyjet, Brandon Wolcott’s sound design manipulates text informed by personal […]
State of Play Presents: Leslie Cuyjet: Blur
ODC Theater
Blur (West Coast Premiere), a solo performance by choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, experiments with visibility and invisibility, and the relationship between performer, audience, and object. Viewers are invited to navigate a choreographic and phonetic landscape through the lens of race and objectification. Written and performed by Cuyjet, Brandon Wolcott’s sound design manipulates text informed by personal […]
State of Play Presents: seymour:dancecollective: vernacular
ODC Theater
vernacular is a new work by seymour:dancecollective that embodies theories of “linguistic relativity." The theory addresses whether the languages and cultures in which we are fluent affect the way we think. The collective investigates this question through written, verbal, and physical experiments in search of a shared dialogue with each other, our audience and our larger socio-political context(s).
State of Play Presents: Dragons Dance/Erin Yen & Johnny Huy Nguyễn
ODC Theater
Nervous (World Premiere) is a new dance work by Dragons Dance/Erin Yen exploring human interconnectivity and the nervous system’s role in dissociation from the modern world. Created in collaboration with a practicing neurologist and the dancers. How do you burn? Reclaiming fire as a regenerative force for rebirth, BURN (Work In Progress) envisions dance as […]
State of Play Presents: Malinda LaVelle and Emmaly Wiederholt: What the Hell Happened in San Francisco?
ODC Theater
What the Hell Happened in San Francisco? (Bay Area Premiere)(2024) is an evening-length work of dance-theater wrestling with idealism, dreams, and disillusionment. Malinda LaVelle and Emmaly Wiederholt met in 2008 in San Francisco while trying to “make it” as contemporary dance artists. They burned that dream bright and fast, living and dancing together for several […]
NO FEAR: an evening of dance by alice svetic and friends
alice svetic
an adventurous evening of contemporary dance embodying joy, resistance, and connection. NO FEAR is a collective imagining of what's possible when we take action beyond socially defined parameters.
