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Events
Queer Pop! Jazz Funk Dance Class Series
Fresh Meat Productions
During this jazz funk class, the focus is on feeling your fantasy, baby. Jazz Funk is an industry-style dance form that pulls from many movement styles including hip-hop, jazz, heels, commercial dance, and contemporary performance. This class is all about feeling hot in your body, whether that’s soft, sharp, sultry, silly, powerful, or all of […]
Introduction to Ballet: A 4-Week Series for Beginners
Soul Speak Dance
Tone your muscles, gain flexibility, and learn the basics of ballet technique! A supportive 4-week workshop for beginners. No dance experience necessary! You will learn foundational ballet moves along with proper alignment. This is a supportive, small group class. This workshop is perfect for total beginners or experienced dancers looking to refine their technique. Open […]
Modern Natya PUSHLab Performance Workshop
PUSH Dance Company
Modern Natya fuses the expressive fluidity of post-modern dance with the structured technicality of traditional Indian dance lineages. Each class teaches fresh choreography that explores contemporary themes while experimenting with Bharatanatyam-based technique drills, improvisation, and contemporary movement vocabulary. This class is a space for cultivating your most authentic movement expression. Thursdays from 6-7:30pm for eight […]
Modern Jazz PUSHLab Performance Workshop
PUSH Dance Company
Join us for a performance workshop that will blend the dynamics and funk of Jazz with the flow and breath of Modern. Dancers can expect a technique-based warm-up and stretch followed by rhythmic choreography. This workshop is geared for dancers of all levels. Whether you are returning to dance or just beginning, treat yourself to […]
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 […]
🔥BTS K-Pop All Levels Workshop with Chloe!
Motion Arts Center
Join Chloe for our upcoming BTS K-Pop All Levels Workshop Saturday August 22nd at Motion Arts Center in Downtown San Mateo! This workshop is designed for BTS fans, ARMY, K-Pop fans, dance lovers, and anyone looking for an exciting dance and fun time! Students will learn choreography from BTS (like Swim and Anpanman), musicality, K-Pop […]
Embodied Narratives through Movement Exploration (Laban-Bartenieff movement analysis)
Diana Lara
Embodied Narratives through Movement Exploration with Mihyun Lee Explore the relationship between movement and personal narrative through structured improvisation and guided creative process rooted in Somatic Psychology and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. www.movementflow.org, www.koreantherapist.com This class is provided by as part of Somatic Explorations by Migrant Women, a collective of migrant women and Registered Somatic Movement Educators offering different […]
Int/Adv Contemporary Series with Kristin Damrow- Mondays 6:00pm @ Bandaloop, Oakland
Kristin Damrow & Company
Mondays 6:00-7:30pm (June-August) Bandaloop Studios, Oakland Class is designed to challenge your body and deepen your practice in a fun, supportive environment. We start by tuning in, build heat through dynamic movement and improvisation, then move into floorwork, soft acrobatics, and expansive choreography phrase work. Expect to get fully embodied, creatively engaged, and moving with […]
Bhangra Fundamentals Dance Class
Vina Verman
This class focuses on the FUN in fundamentals! Designed for all levels, all ages—no prior experience needed—you’ll build confidence in the basic footwork, arm movements, and body rhythms that make up Bhangra. More than just a dance class, this is a welcoming, judgment-free space to try something new, immerse yourself in Punjabi culture, and connect […]
Weekly, Wine-Inspired Tap Classes!
Casey Tessier
Rooted in African American vernacular traditions, learn tap dance fundamentals and study jazz music in the structure of horizontal and vertical wine tasting methodologies Mondays in Oakland; blocks from the BART Coliseum station or free gated parking 7:00pm Intro Level, tap shoes/experience not required 8:00pm Open Level 9:00pm Free Community Jam (wine provided) Online class […]
Filipino Folk Dance PUSHLab Performance Workshop
PUSH Dance Company
Workshop participants will dive into Indigenous dance of The Philippines through a dance form that has risen in popularity. Pangalay/Igal/Pansak are dances that historically connect the Archipelago with other parts of Southeast Asia, sharing similar movements and music showing us how dance connects across culture. Expect a short warm up, skill based drills, historical context […]
Hip Hop Modern Fusion PUSHLab Performance Workshop
PUSH Dance Company
This class combines old school hip hop with pockets of modern dance. Dancers of all ages and backgrounds can expect a soulful class that culminates in a professional performance. Wednesdays from 6-7pm for eight weeks, beginning on August 12th - Performances Oct 3rd + 4th The first 3 weeks you may drop-in, afterwards full registration […]
Introduction to Ballet: A 4-Week Series for Beginners
Soul Speak Dance
Tone your muscles, gain flexibility, and learn the basics of ballet technique! A supportive 4-week workshop for beginners. No dance experience necessary! You will learn foundational ballet moves along with proper alignment. This is a supportive, small group class. This workshop is perfect for total beginners or experienced dancers looking to refine their technique. Open […]
Modern Natya PUSHLab Performance Workshop
PUSH Dance Company
Modern Natya fuses the expressive fluidity of post-modern dance with the structured technicality of traditional Indian dance lineages. Each class teaches fresh choreography that explores contemporary themes while experimenting with Bharatanatyam-based technique drills, improvisation, and contemporary movement vocabulary. This class is a space for cultivating your most authentic movement expression. Thursdays from 6-7:30pm for eight […]
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 […]
🔥Salsa All Levels Workshop with Jewell!🔥
Motion Arts Center
Ready to make your Salsa dancing feel smoother, more expressive, and more connected to the music? Join Jewell for a fun and welcoming Salsa Body Movement & Musicality Workshop on Saturday, August 29th! This all-levels workshop is open to both leads and follows and is designed to help you move with greater confidence, control, and […]
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 […]
FREE Rhythm & Motion Fusion class at Noe Valley Town Square
Rhythm and Motion Dance Program
Rhythm & Motion invites you to join us for dance classes at Noe Valley Town Square in the heart of SF's Noe Valley neighborhood. For over 40 years, Rhythm & Motion has provided the joy, intensity and skill of dance to the public in welcoming atmospheres through its classes, events and community-minded programming. We are […]
FREE Rhythm & Motion Fusion class at Noe Valley Town Square
Rhythm and Motion Dance Program
Rhythm & Motion dance workout classes are open to all students of all levels and abilities. Taught by experienced dancers and performing artists, the class features a broad range of movement styles with choreography inspired by popular music from around the globe. Balancing the challenge of learning choreography and movement techniques with the dance-floor euphoria […]
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: 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 […]
Embodied Narratives through Movement Exploration (Laban-Bartenieff movement analysis)
Diana Lara
Embodied Narratives through Movement Exploration with Mihyun Lee Explore the relationship between movement and personal narrative through structured improvisation and guided creative process rooted in Somatic Psychology and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. www.movementflow.org, www.koreantherapist.com This class is provided by as part of Somatic Explorations by Migrant Women, a collective of migrant women and Registered Somatic Movement Educators offering different […]
