Events
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Events
FREE Rhythm & Motion Fusion classes Wednesdays at Yerba Buena Gardens
Rhythm and Motion Dance Program
Rhythm & Motion and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival invite you to join us for FREE Rhythm & Motion Fusion classes at the beautiful Yerba Buena Gardens. 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. […]
Butoh classes SanFrancisco: Rewilding Our Creative Body for Shapeshift
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Mary Power leads us in Rewilding Our Creative Body, art making explorations in Butoh dance. Expect Butoh practices for shapes, balances, rolls, walks, crawls, spins; and directed Butoh improvisations and choreography for Shapeshift 2026. Our Butoh classes support centered awareness of both the internal and external spatial environments of our own self in space time […]
Cat’s Corner – Live Music Swing Dance Party & Classes every Wednesday
Cat’s Corner San Francisco
Cat’s Corner is San Francisco’s Wednesday night home for dancing Lindy Hop and Swing, now at On Broadway (435 Broadway St., SF). Each week includes classes, a beginner lesson for newcomers, live music, social dancing, and classic cocktails at the bar, all in a beautiful historic ballroom. It’s a welcoming midweek spot for dancers, music […]
Water Moves
ARMA
WATER MOVES is an intimate vertical dance experience directed by Amelia Rudolph, exploring water as element, resource, and life force. Rudolph is joined by creative collaborators: composer Luke Mombrea, sculptor Todd Laby, and artist/animator Andrew Lyndon, lighting designer Tristan Fabiunke with rigging design by David Freitag and Derrick Lindsay. Dancers Faith Elder, B Dean, Clarissa […]
AXIS for ALL
AXIS Dance Company
AXIS for ALL is a collaboration between AXIS Dance Company and UC Berkeley’s Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department providing accessible dance workshops for disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent, and non-disabled individuals. Each class will explore a different movement style led by our company members at no cost! Discover dance that is accessible, collaborative, and empowers each […]
Water Moves
ARMA
WATER MOVES is an intimate vertical dance experience directed by Amelia Rudolph, exploring water as element, resource, and life force. Rudolph is joined by creative collaborators: composer Luke Mombrea, sculptor Todd Laby, and artist/animator Andrew Lyndon, lighting designer Tristan Fabiunke with rigging design by David Freitag and Derrick Lindsay. Dancers Faith Elder, B Dean, Clarissa […]
Steamroller Dance Company with The Singers of the Street in “Bespoke”
San Francisco International Arts Festival
An immersive musical that envelopes the viewer from the beginning in an auditory, visceral experience with dancers guiding the audience in a pastiche of musical genres where the audience is able to participate in a playful tribute to the American musical. This performance also spotlights the first time collaboration between the company and local community […]
Pulp Dance Co in “Pick a Side, Babe”
San Francisco International Arts Festival
A dance-theater work that unpacks the social and internal walls people build—what it means to be a woman, bisexual and human in a world that is obsessed with categories. Using physicality and irony, the piece wrestles with masking, perfectionism, and the exhausting performance of fitting in. What happens when we finally let our contradictions dance? […]
Angel Island
Oakland Ballet Company
Angel Island first premiered in 2025 and based on Huang Ruo’s composition of the same name, which took its inspiration from the poems carved into the walls by detainees held at the immigration station between 1910-1940. Oakland Ballet is bringing this production to Herbst Theatre with Del Sol Quartet, Volti, and conductor Robert Geary. Friday, […]
Melissa Cruz Flamenco in “Tablao Flamenco 2 at Abanico”
San Francisco International Arts Festival
Returning to Abanico, Melissa Cruz presents a second tribute to the most popular flamenco performance format, the tablao. A tablao is an improvised show between all artists, who come together with distinct voices to magically create moments by connecting and conversing. This impromptu alchemy makes for a unique performance, never to be repeated. Abanico offers […]
6 week intro Drumming series: Brazilian Rhythms
ODC School
Step into the rhythms of Bahia at ODC! This series introduces Afro, Samba Reggae, and Vassi (6/8)—three essential rhythms that express the heart, culture, and ancestral roots of Bahia. instruments, including surdos, repiques, caixa, tamborim, and agogô. Stay for our social 8:30 pm-9:00 pm, free snacks and drinks.
Groove and Ground: Principles of Afro-diasporic Movement and Rhythm with Samad Raheem Guerra
La Mezcla
Sat, May 9, 10:30am-12pm at Brava Theater In this donation-based workshop, we will explore the rhythmic elements and movement principles of Afro-Diasporic dances. From the Polyrhythmic Layering of Comparsa Rhythms to Embodying Ogun / Ogum Movement across Afro Cuban and Afro Brazilian traditions, this workshop centers cultural background and movement of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Orixa, […]
The Emerging Artist Series
Vishwa Shanthi Indian Dance Theater
Vishwa Shanthi Indian Dance Theater(VSIDT) is proud to pull back the curtain on a new chapter of classical artistry. The Emerging Artist Series is a curated platform designed to spotlight the creative vision of our next generation of classical dance soloists. Discover the depth of a living legacy. This isn't just a recital; it’s a […]
Pompeii Repertory (Intermediate/Advanced)
Detour
Step back into the world of Pompeii and learn a section from Detour’s recent immersive production. This repertory workshop will be led by Hadassah Perry + Kira Fargas, who will guide participants through “Caravan”.
Salsa 4 Week Series with Alejandro & Jewell in San Mateo!
Motion Arts Center
Join us for a rare 4-week progressive Salsa series starting May 9th at Motion Arts Center in San Mateo! Whether you’re brand new or ready to level up, this series is designed to build real confidence, connection, and smooth, social dance skills you can actually use on the dance floor. We offer two levels (Beginner […]
Angel Island
Oakland Ballet Company
Angel Island first premiered in 2025 and based on Huang Ruo’s composition of the same name, which took its inspiration from the poems carved into the walls by detainees held at the immigration station between 1910-1940. Oakland Ballet is bringing this production to Herbst Theatre with Del Sol Quartet, Volti, and conductor Robert Geary. Friday, […]
Postmortem II
San Francisco International Arts Festival
Postmortem II is a 45-minute, utterly absurd new work of physical theatre following a detective role-playing game amongst postapocalyptic ultra-humans. Featuring some all-time favorite sensational elements (Romance, Robots, & Dinosaurs), the show visualizes a post-human world, where survivors clown in the face of extinctions, questions of free will, and the total mechanization of life. This […]
Abhinaya Dance Company announces Trikaala – Then, Now, Becoming
Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
Abhinaya Dance Company, an Indian classical dance company founded by Artistic Director Mythili Kumar, announces Trikaala – Then, Now, Becoming, a new solo performance by Abhinaya Principal Artist and Choreographer Rasika Kumar. Using the margam (a structured, traditional repertoire of a Bharatanatyam dance performance) as a timeless framework, this solo performance weaves personal memory, mythology, and […]
Agnes Szelag and Amy Lewis in “AURA”
San Francisco International Arts Festival
An immersive multimedia work exploring the cycles of the natural and human worlds. Across four 12-minute movements—jungle, desert, mountain, and ocean—the piece synthesizes seasons, lunar phases, time of day, four elements, and the arc of human life. Using sound, video, and movement defined by the texture and color of fabric, Aura translates these ecosystems into […]
The Nudie Nubie Show SF – An Amateur Reveal
Nudie Nubie’s SF
💥NNSF IS BACK!!💥 Nudie Nubie's is a cumulative set of showcases leading to The Nudie Nubie Show SF - Ultimate Reveal SF taking place Saturday, May 9th 2026! Follow us on IG for Cast Announcements https://www.instagram.com/nudienubiessf/ ✨ 2nd Saturdays ✨ January 10th • March 14th • May 9th - Ultimate Reveal 5P Doors | 6-8P Show […]
Water Moves
ARMA
WATER MOVES is an intimate vertical dance experience directed by Amelia Rudolph, exploring water as element, resource, and life force. Rudolph is joined by creative collaborators: composer Luke Mombrea, sculptor Todd Laby, and artist/animator Andrew Lyndon, lighting designer Tristan Fabiunke with rigging design by David Freitag and Derrick Lindsay. Dancers Faith Elder, B Dean, Clarissa […]
We Build Cathedrals
We Build Cathedrals
featuring new choreography Marie Meade-Tatum, Raychel Hatch, Mai Corkins, Danie Way, joe.landini.dance, Ava Shannon & Dancers and MC Black Benatar. 5pm Pilates Mat Class with Danie Way
We Build Cathedrals
We Build Cathedrals
featuring new choreography Marie Meade-Tatum, Raychel Hatch, Mai Corkins, Danie Way, joe.landini.dance, Ava Shannon & Dancers and MC Black Benatar. 5pm Pilates Mat Class with Danie Way
The Blue Light Lounge – May Open House (All levels blues dance lesson)
The Blue Light Lounge
Whether you’re brand new or already part of the blues dance community, this is a space to arrive as you are, connect, and let the music carry you. Join us for our May Open House at The Blue Light Lounge: where fast grooves meet slow-burning blues, soul-searching riffs, and down-home licks, all in a basement […]
What Just Happened
Nina Wise
Daunted by the news of the world? Come relieve your heart and mind as Nina gets up on stage and through movement-infused storytelling conveys the personal, political and social events that have transpired over the past 24 hours with striking insight and her always unpredictable rendition of life on planet earth. Audiences report they have […]
