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Events
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 […]
Practitioner Exchange: Restarting & Reimagining
Luna Dance & Creativity
Each month, our virtual roundtable discussions center on a different Dance Education topic of interest and are hosted by Luna Summer Institute (SI) alumni. Join us for our first one of the 2026-27 year: Restarting & Reimagining co-hosted by Stella Kilfoy (SI '25) and Joy Veluz (SI '24) via Zoom As you begin this new […]
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 […]
Repertory Workshop: Don Quixote
Peninsula Ballet Arts
This six-week workshop is held every Thursday and designed for beginner to intermediate adult ballet students interested in learning excerpts from Don Quixote, a beloved work from the classical ballet repertoire. From 6:15-7:45 PM, students will participate in a ballet class taught by Artistic Director Gregory Amato, followed by an hour repertory class led by […]
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 […]
🔥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: 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 […]
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: 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 […]
Free Day of Dance @ GCDC
Golden City Dance Collective
Join us for our GCDC open house with a full day of free community offerings to get your body moving and celebrate the end of summer together! This event will feature introductory group classes, a community dinner outing, social dancing, and board games. See event page to RSVP. OUR SCHEDULE 3-3:50 : Semi-Classical Kathak w/ […]
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 […]
