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Empowering Creativity with Daria Halprin
Esalen Institute
The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. In this workshop, Daria Halprin will teach the […]
Summer Butoh Dance Classes
MPOWERDANCE PROJECT
Explore Butoh dance movement, group connection, improvisation, and, choreography for Water Shapes Rock. Registration required, Click here for Eventbrite link. Move with your creative body to learn ghost body Qi for the vagal system; ground with Butoh dance walks, stumbles, skips, balances; learn soft rolls to floor/to stand; use vocals; use the walls for inversions. Dance […]
Kathak Summer Program
Noorani Dance
Keep dancing with us throughout the summer! Noorani Dance offers Summer Programs for teens and adults. All levels are welcome! Sign up for a 4-week session, Wednesdays, From July 9th to July 30th. Link for more info: https://nooranidance.com/noorani-dance-school
Empowering Creativity with Daria Halprin
Esalen Institute
The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. In this workshop, Daria Halprin will teach the […]
Black Benatar – Meet Black Benatar
2025 State of Play Festival
Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.
2025 State of Play Festival: gizeh muñiz – FISHBLOD
ODC Theater
Damn, I think this piece is about adoration... and devotion. But also, disobedience. omg and obsession. This piece is about TRUST ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing. To Trust your Wild ness *this piece is the first […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
2025 State of Play Festival: Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective, a dance company – An Immigrant’s Story
2025 State of Play Festival
As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of […]
Empowering Creativity with Daria Halprin
Esalen Institute
The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. In this workshop, Daria Halprin will teach the […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Kira Fargas – Maya
ODC Theater
Inspired by the reality of families torn apart by seas, structures, and policies, this new work researches themes of displacement, captivity, separation, and detachment. Titled after the former national bird of the Philippines, Maya investigates the impossibility of physical togetherness, exploring the anguish, longing for community, and instinct for self-preservation that arise in response to […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective, a dance company – An Immigrant’s Story
2025 State of Play Festival
As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of […]
Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu: KEAO
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu
KEAO ─ An evening of classic Hawaiian music by Ka Hui Hoa and hula by Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu This is a show dedicated to "the classics"—beautiful Hawaiian songs that have stood the test of time—from the Golden Age of Hawaiian music to the Hawaiian Renaissance. Featuring an exciting new trio of young Hawaiian […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Molly Rose-Williams – CRUSH
2025 State of Play Festival
Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life. Molly Rose-Williams (she/they) is a performer, writer, audio producer, and educator. Her work melds dance, physical theater, spoken word, and circus, and […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
Manchapravesh
Ishami Dance Company
Ishami Dance Company presents "Manchapravesh", a reimagination of an Odissi recital from a queer, diasporic perspective and performed by a group of contemporary dancers. This show takes inspiration from the traditional "margam" recital, but recasts six iconic pieces in the Odissi canon. During a time in which dissent and non-normativity are being actively erased and villainized, […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
2025 State of Play Festival
Deepe Darknesse is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, they push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt […]
Nutrition for Dancers: Optimizing Training, Performance, and Recovery
Agile Physical Therapy
Sarah Chan, RD is a dietitian and dancer with experience in clinical nutrition and a strong background in ballet, modern, and contemporary. On Saturday, 8/2, Agile Physical Therapy will be hosting Sarah to talk about nutrition for dancers. This 4-hour course aims to equip dancers and dance educators with foundational knowledge of nutrition science, healthy eating […]
Manchapravesh
Ishami Dance Company
Ishami Dance Company presents "Manchapravesh", a reimagination of an Odissi recital from a queer, diasporic perspective and performed by a group of contemporary dancers. This show takes inspiration from the traditional "margam" recital, but recasts six iconic pieces in the Odissi canon. During a time in which dissent and non-normativity are being actively erased and villainized, […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Kimie Parker – komainu duet
ODC Theater
komainu duet illustrates displacement and belonging through the lens of sisterhood. It follows the journey of an only child seeking direction, guided solely by the presence of a distant sisterly figure. As symbols of sacred ancestry, ‘komainu’ are lion-dog statues found protecting Japanese temples. Though found in pairs, the two are not the same. Unique […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Leila Awadallah – shuhada alive-streamed un-ceased FIRE
ODC Theater
Leila Awadallah’s duet with a unique, self-playing musical instrument confronts and distorts the tropes of the Arab, feminine body often perceived as a seductive other or used as a threat against the State. The music continuously builds into a drone-like soundscape that drives Awadallah’s experimental Baladi movement. While she moves, she speaks Palestinian stories and […]
Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu’s 40th Anniversary Performance: LEGACY ─ The Artistry of Men in Hula
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu
50 years of Hula with Robert Cazimero and the men of Nā Kamalei o Līlīlehua 40 years of Hula with Patrick Makuakāne and the men of Nā Lei Hulu Join Patrick Makuakāne and the men of Nā Lei Hulu, as they celebrate with the titans of hula in a show dedicated to the artistry of […]
Pompeii
Detour
Step into Detour's latest immersive production, Pompeii, where multiple floors pulse with Fosse-inspired choreography, drag, and theater. In here, life is beautiful—but catastrophe is ever near.
2025 State of Play Festival: Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
2025 State of Play Festival
Deepe Darknesse is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, they push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt […]
Black Benatar – Meet Black Benatar
2025 State of Play Festival
Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.
The Watering Hole: Find Your Flow
WildFiya
Find Your Flow is a four-part workshop designed to help you get out of your head, get out of your rut, and get in motion towards what you seek . Join us to explore the ways that your mindset, tools, and routines all work together to help you remove blocks, bounce back from setbacks, and […]
