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The Intersection: Art & Money 101
Intersection for the Arts
Led by Vicky Cassis-Silyan, Intersection for the Arts’ Director of Finance & Operations, The Intersection: Art & Money 101 is a 4-session live online cohort series designed to help you build financial systems that meet you where you are and support where you’re going. Through this series, you’ll learn to: ✨ Get organized ✨ Plan […]
Relationship and Movement
Mihyun Lee
Join the group to enhance emotional well-being and self-awareness through embodiment practice. Explore movement patterns, discover new possibilities for growth, and strengthen connections with yourself and others. The closed group offers a supportive environment for examining relationship dynamics and fostering personal change. Drawing on Somatic Psychology and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, participants explore the intersection of […]
Learn to Dance Bachata in this 4 Week Progressive Series!
Motion Arts Center
Join David Phan & Jewell Claudio for a 4-week Bachata Beginner Series this November! Learn the signature three steps and tap, basic turns, body movement, and partner connection in a relaxed, supportive setting. Each week builds on the last so you can bring it all together on the social dance floor! ✨ 7PM - 8PM […]
Cue the Music: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
A music-driven night of rhythm, soul, and screen-shaking visuals at the SHACK15 social club. Get ready for a high-energy evening where the music takes center stage. Cue the Music at SHACK15 transforms San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building into a dynamic celebration of sound and movement on screen. With the chance to mingle with festival filmmakers, this […]
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 […]
Doc Shorts: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
Doc Shorts features five compelling documentaries that reveal how dance carries memory, identity, and cultural legacy across the globe. From a martial art form kept alive by one woman in rural Bangladesh to a near-forgotten ritual dance revived by a new generation in Colombia, several of these films capture communities working to ensure their traditions […]
In Other Words: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
In Other Words brings together five story-driven films where feeling takes physical form, featuring an impressive roster of talent, including Emmy-nominated choreographer Chris Scott (Wicked, In the Heights), Czech National Ballet’s Jakub Rasek, and Romina Contreras of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. With expressive cinematography and carefully crafted choreography, this collection of short films proves […]
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 […]
Latin Dance Pop-Up classes
ODC School
Join us for our Latin Pop-Up class with Mitzi Ulloa for Afro-Cuban folkloric dance, exploring the movements, rhythms, and techniques associated with Oya, the female warrior orisha, and Palo.
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.
Filmmaking Masterclass: Behind the Sound & Music of “SO CLOSE”
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The 2026 San Francisco Dance Film Festival is thrilled to offer a FREE masterclass by the sound/music team behind the short dance film, SO CLOSE. Skywalker Sound’s Shelley Roden (Foley Artist) and Pete Horner (Sound Designer and Mixer) join SO CLOSE Composer-Director Katy Jarzebowski for an in-depth look at their distinctly musical collaboration. The team […]
Lives Beyond Motion
Urban Jazz Dance Company
This is an award-winning feature documentary film about an intergenerational group of cisgender men who've devoted their lives to contemporary dance. Interspersed with archival performance footage, they discuss their beginnings, the challenges they face(d) following their passion, the support they did or didn't get and why they dance. The Bay Area dancers include FRANK SHAWL, […]
Body Language – Screendance Shorts: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
Body Language: Screendance Shorts showcases a full slate of international screendance work, spanning nine countries across four continents. From the shores of Lake Michigan to a South African weaving mill, the program moves through ritual and reclamation, isolation and connection, labor and tenderness. Whether meditative or explosive, each of these evocative short films explores what […]
Baroque Dancing in Person: Essentials of 18th century ballet
ODC School
Two 3-hour intensives with emphasis on guiding each student toward their own experience of Baroque dance, no matter the level. This is a somatic class with emphasis on ergonomic movement tailored to each student’s ability. We will explore the interpretations of 18th century ballet aesthetics and learn choreographies from an early form of dance notation created […]
Bryan Arias Rep with Isaac Bates-Vinueza
SFDanceworks
Beginning with a 30-minute warm up, this class will feature highly physical repertoire from Bryan Arias’s ‘The Broken Glass’ (2023). These excerpts involve highly detailed, intensely physical full-body movement that blends gesture, floorwork, isolation, release, and flow. Arias’s choreography challenges dancers to balance specificity with individuality and to refine their movement textures. Modification and individual […]
Barefoot Boy: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
Barefoot Boy traces the extraordinary life of Bill Evans, a trailblazing choreographer who transformed early adversity into a lifetime of dance innovation. Born in 1940s Lehi, Utah, Bill found in dance an escape from isolation, a form of self-expression, and eventually, a career. He danced his way from the U.S. Army to the Joffrey Ballet […]
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 • […]
These Violent Delights: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival
Dance Film SF
These Violent Delights reimagines “Romeo and Juliet” as a kaleidoscopic journey of queer belonging, defiance, and self-discovery. Juliet awakens in The Apothecary, surrounded by the wreckage of a story already ended — daggers, spilled poison, Romeo’s body — before the film rewinds into a fevered hallucination that blurs memory and nightmare, cinema and dance. Produced […]
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 […]
