Events
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CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2025
CounterPulse
CounterPulse’s 2025 ARC Edge program presents “Trashflower” by Rose and Zoe Huey and “On the Floor” by Maria Silk. ARC Edge is an incubation residency and commissioning program for contemporary choreographers whose work is deeply curious about the intersection of art practice and social change.
DAMoakland at 7th West
DAM Events
DAMoakland returns to 7th West in Oakland on Friday September 5th for a night of performances, vendors and curated vibes to encourage you to move and groove. Hosted by DCisChillin + Prentice Powell With Sounds by Mark Maiden + William Stokes For the first time ever, DAM will be hosting OPEN DECKS FOR DJS from […]
Bolivian Dance Classes
BCA Dance Company
Join the BCA Dance Company family for vibrant Bolivian Folkloric Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and history. Explore traditional dances like Tinku, Caporales and more, while learning meaning behind each style. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Bolivian heritage, build confidence, and express yourself […]
Megan Lowe Dances at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Megan Lowe Dances received a commission to create a site-specific dance that celebrates the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through motion, memory, and presence. This […]
Luna Dance & Creativity Professional Learning Workshops
Luna Dance & Creativity
Half-day and multi-week workshops for Dance Teaching Artists and Classroom Teachers centered on creativity, child development, the elements of dance, culturally-responsive teaching, neurocellular patterning, accessibility, equity, and student agency. Topics include: Dance & TK, K-5 Dance Standards (infusing the state & national standards with life!), Dance & Literacy, Love, Move, Play™, Dance & Math, and […]
Megan Lowe Dances at the Legion of Honor Museum
Megan Lowe Dances
Megan Lowe Dances received a commission to create a site-specific dance that celebrates the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary. Legions and Legacies honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience—and invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through motion, memory, and presence. This […]
2025 World Arts West Dance Festival
World Arts West
The 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival will focus on the theme “Dance as Health and Healing,” exploring what constitutes a healthy community. It aims to showcase dance and art forms rooted in cultural traditions, including sacred, social, and contemporary. The festival features movement workshops, artist dialogues, and new activities like Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music […]
Women’s Summer Dance Circles
Temple of Dancing Wholeness
Explore through intention, imagination, and free-form ecstatic dance to catalyze, energize and ground your body, being, intentions and prayers. Join other authentic, juicy, wondrous women dancing in darkness and light, beauty and sisterhood! Includes witnessing circle and music journey. Credits available for classes you are away. We acknowledge these challenging times AND celebrate all that […]
Community Study Hall: Radical dreaming and reclaiming our attention power
Emily Hansel
Facilitated by gizeh muñiz Let’s question the prohibitive systems that surround us and consider how we contribute to them and how we might escape them. As artists, we have the ability to create unique worlds of performance, and we can harness that same energy to create new patterns in the world. At this event we […]
UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE™ TRAINING FOR BALLET DANCERS: JEDI KNIGHT TRAINING!
Cass Redstone
Universal Intelligence™ Training for Ballet DancersFREE Intro Class — Tues, Sept 9, 7–8:15 PMSmuin Ballet Studios, SF Discover the method set to transform ballet forever. Cass Redstone’s Universal Intelligence™ Training creates Jedi Knight dancers who perform 30% better, last 3x longer, and heal 70% faster. Experience deep-flow consciousness, custom UI Card Decks, and breakthrough artistry. […]
FREE Improvisation class with Bodies of Empowerment (BOE)
Bodies of Empowerment
Writing for Scenario, an all levels improvisation class with Sara Shelton Mann Wednesday, September 10 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at the Joe Goode Annex in SF We will focus on tracking as a method for sharpening perception and changing the foreground and background while exploring our movement through prompts. Bodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a […]
The Axe: a long line of broken white people
Alley Wilde
“Europeans slaughtered their healers and then exported their trauma” - Lyla June writing about the witch burnings Centered around the sacred tree of life Yggdrasil, this performance moves from the fairies to the folk to the fascists building a counter-narrative that combats both the horrors of white pride and the inaction of white guilt Working […]
Edging Sessions
Derek DiMartini
“Edging Sessions” unravels the taut tension between desire, repression, and consumption, channeling the raw volatility of queer experience. Disrupting hetero-linear time, the piece reclaims the body as a sensuous force of resistance, intimacy, and transformation.
Groundwork Festival: Cohort A
CounterPulse
A mini-festival within the CounterPules Festival, Groundworks features four new, emerging works raw but ready for an adventurous audience. Groundwork Festival is a new artist initiative from CounterPulse, where CounterPulse offers co-production services at a highly reduced rate to support the development of new works from emerging artists in response to changes in the funding […]
CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2025
CounterPulse
CounterPulse’s 2025 ARC Edge program presents “Trashflower” by Rose and Zoe Huey and “On the Floor” by Maria Silk. ARC Edge is an incubation residency and commissioning program for contemporary choreographers whose work is deeply curious about the intersection of art practice and social change.
201 Salon Series: Adrienne Simms
Sara Shelton Mann/Mixed Bag Productions
201 Salon Series presents... a night of art and activism with Adrienne Simms You're invited to a Salon night featuring artist and illustrator Adrienne Simms, where she will display original oil paintings and drawings, as well as offer a reading from her zine Portraits of Gaza. Adrienne Simms is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator who has […]
EIGHT/MOVES Season 2
EIGHT/MOVES
EIGHT/MOVES, founded by Artistic Director Mia J. Chong, comes to ODC Theater Sept 12–14 with Season 2, expanding its mission to challenge artistic norms, amplify marginalized voices, and explore urgent social issues through collaborative, genre-defying work. The program features Chong’s world premiere Wasteland, a meditation on pollution and cultural decay; THE END, a duet by […]
4 Week Intro-Series Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance: Absolute Beginner – Orisha Fundamentals
ODC School
This four-week class is designed for absolute beginners who want to explore the foundations of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance. Whether you're brand new to this dance form or looking to refresh your skills, this welcoming and accessible space offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of Afro-Cuban movement. 7:30-8:30 pm class 8:30-9:30 pm Social hours (with […]
Mucho Machismo y Pocos Machos with Rogelio Lopez & Dancers
Rogelio Lopez & Dancers
Mucho Machismo y Pocos Machos is a dance theater work that tells the story of a Queer Mexican folklorico dancer on a journey toward self-love in the context of a romantic relationship with a closeted fellow dancer. The work is structured like a traditional romantic dramedy—boy meets boy, boy falls in love with boy, boy […]
As You Are
Shruti Abhishek Dance
As You Are is an intimate, dance-theatre work that invites the audience to show up in their unfiltered selves. Through movement, music, and voice, we create a space for honesty, mess & contradictions of our everyday lives. Collaborators: Nadhi Thekkek, Preethi Ramaprasad, Rasika Kumar, Shruti Abhishek, Sindhu Natarajan & Sri Thina Subramaniam. Directed by: Vaibhav […]
Bolivian Dance Classes
BCA Dance Company
Join the BCA Dance Company family for vibrant Bolivian Folkloric Dance classes that celebrate culture, community, and history. Explore traditional dances like Tinku, Caporales and more, while learning meaning behind each style. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced dancer, these classes offer an inclusive space to connect with Bolivian heritage, build confidence, and express yourself […]
CounterPulse Presents ARC Edge 2025
CounterPulse
CounterPulse’s 2025 ARC Edge program presents “Trashflower” by Rose and Zoe Huey and “On the Floor” by Maria Silk. ARC Edge is an incubation residency and commissioning program for contemporary choreographers whose work is deeply curious about the intersection of art practice and social change.
As You Are
Shruti Abhishek Dance
As You Are is an intimate, dance-theatre work that invites the audience to show up in their unfiltered selves. Through movement, music, and voice, we create a space for honesty, mess & contradictions of our everyday lives. Collaborators: Nadhi Thekkek, Preethi Ramaprasad, Rasika Kumar, Shruti Abhishek, Sindhu Natarajan & Sri Thina Subramaniam. Directed by: Vaibhav […]
Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees: Unfolding, Merging, Marking Time
Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works
Grass, Gravel, & the Space Between Trees: Unfolding, Merging, Marking Time is is a free, public, site-responsive movement installation or “dancescape,” unfolding over three adjacent areas of Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse, and presented by JPMW, in collaboration with SF Rec & Park. The work explores the possibilities of cumulative, ongoing, and sustainable art practices, […]
Chillonga: a chill mixed-music Milonga
Golden City Dance Collective
3:30PM - 6:30PM: social dancing with DJ Chi Co-hosted by Chi with Golden City Dance Collective, join us for a monthly Milonga Dance Party on 2nd Saturdays! At Chillonga, we are committed to foster a relaxing, inclusive, emotionally and physically safe environment, in which everyone feels valued and respected. All are welcome to lead, follow, […]
