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. […]
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Cal Performances
From its first public performances in 1958, to the premiere of the masterpiece Revelations in 1960, through the struggles of touring during the Civil Rights Movement, to the tragic loss of its founder in 1989—across much social upheaval and cultural change, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has thrived as a model of Black resilience and unparalleled artistic […]
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Cal Performances
From its first public performances in 1958, to the premiere of the masterpiece Revelations in 1960, through the struggles of touring during the Civil Rights Movement, to the tragic loss of its founder in 1989—across much social upheaval and cultural change, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has thrived as a model of Black resilience and unparalleled artistic […]
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 […]
Free Breaking based Contemporary Floorwork class with Bodies of Empowerment (BOE)!
Bodies of Empowerment
Intermediate/Advanced "Floorworkshop" with Babatunji Friday, April 10 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at the Joe Goode Annex in SF This class will help build floorwork techniques for contemporary dancers with the movement approach being heavily influenced by breakdancing. Bodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a free class program brought to you by Kristin Damrow & Company. BOE […]
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RAWdance
RAWdance shares a fresh dose of contemporary dance with its celebrated CONCEPT series salon, bringing a welcoming, living room vibe to the opulent SF War Memorial Green Room. RAWdance will be joined by The Straw Dogs, Natalya Janay Shoaf, Monique Jenkinson, Pearl Street Dance Collective, and A(laj)a Badalich.
LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival
Lenora Lee Dance
Lenora Lee Dance, Asian Improv aRts & API Cultural Center present LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival Interdisciplinary dance works & film by choreographers from the Bay Area, NYC, and London, including Lynn Huang, Amber Julian, Flora Hyoin Kim (NYC), SanSan Kwan, Lenora Lee & Moyra Silva Rodríguez (London / Lima), Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Catalina O’Connor, […]
20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music
CubaCaribe
The 20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music presents a retrospective of the last 20 years of moving forward in community, resistance and joy. This anniversary season features seven dance companies performing and participating in community engagement and educational outreach activities over the course of the festival’s 14 days, April 8 through 19. The […]
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Cal Performances
From its first public performances in 1958, to the premiere of the masterpiece Revelations in 1960, through the struggles of touring during the Civil Rights Movement, to the tragic loss of its founder in 1989—across much social upheaval and cultural change, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has thrived as a model of Black resilience and unparalleled artistic […]
SUR
gizeh muñiz y Samuel Melecio-Zambrano
We want to share with you our performance SUR. SUR is a practice. Each performance is one of many midpoints of an ongoing process in which we, Samuel y gizeh, explore how our identities intersect with the world we live in: presence, intimacy, grief, culture, mud, perreo, y más. Join us for an open level […]
the CONCEPT series: 34
RAWdance
RAWdance shares a fresh dose of contemporary dance with its celebrated CONCEPT series salon, bringing a welcoming, living room vibe to the opulent SF War Memorial Green Room. RAWdance will be joined by The Straw Dogs, Natalya Janay Shoaf, Monique Jenkinson, Pearl Street Dance Collective, and A(laj)a Badalich.
the CONCEPT series: 34
RAWdance
RAWdance shares a fresh dose of contemporary dance with its celebrated CONCEPT series salon, bringing a welcoming, living room vibe to the opulent SF War Memorial Green Room. RAWdance will be joined by The Straw Dogs, Natalya Janay Shoaf, Monique Jenkinson, Pearl Street Dance Collective, and A(laj)a Badalich.
LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival
Lenora Lee Dance
Lenora Lee Dance, Asian Improv aRts & API Cultural Center present LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival Interdisciplinary dance works & film by choreographers from the Bay Area, NYC, and London, including Lynn Huang, Amber Julian, Flora Hyoin Kim (NYC), SanSan Kwan, Lenora Lee & Moyra Silva Rodríguez (London / Lima), Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Catalina O’Connor, […]
20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music
CubaCaribe
The 20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music presents a retrospective of the last 20 years of moving forward in community, resistance and joy. This anniversary season features seven dance companies performing and participating in community engagement and educational outreach activities over the course of the festival’s 14 days, April 8 through 19. The […]
Brazilian Dance Class
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Weekly Brazilian Dance Classes led by Master teacher Stephanie Emmanuela accompanied by Live drumming led by Will Bates at the Palomar Ballroom in Santa Cruz. This class explores a wide array of different dance styles from North Eastern Brazil, originating from Salvador. Through her extensive dance residency there, Stephanie creates high energy dance combinations inspired […]
Dance Generators Drop-In Practice
Dance Generators
In-person movement based gatherings exploring dance as a pathway to intergenerational connection.
Human Shakes’ ChoreoTalk.
Tim Rubel Human Shakes
Human Shakes cordially invites you to our very first ChoreoTALK: An open forum for working choreographers of any dance genre who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area or any of the five boroughs of New York City. This bi-coastal virtual gathering will bring choreographers in any stage of their career together around the subject of […]
Moving with Nature
TDPS Dance Program at UC Berkeley
This workshop invites participants to enter a creative embodied state through slowing down, cultivating awareness, and exploring the self in relationship with the natural world. Through simple improvisational movement explorations and somatic practices based on Anna Halprin's work in the environment, participants will be invited move with curiosity and discovery. This workshop is offered in […]
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Family Experience
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Join us on Sunday, April 12, 2026, from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. You'll move, groove, and create dances with LINES Ballet's Teaching Artists, connecting with Alonzo King’s profound work. Plus, get an exclusive sneak peek of our company dancers in rehearsal on stage!
Introduction to Balinese Dance
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
This class will be led by Gamelan Sekar Jaya Guest Dance Director, Ida Ayu Wayan Arya Satyani. Students will be introduced to the foundational movements of classical Balinese dance, with a focus on dance styles classified by basic postures known as Agem. Students of all movement levels and experiences are welcome. These classes may sometimes […]
LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival
Lenora Lee Dance
Lenora Lee Dance, Asian Improv aRts & API Cultural Center present LLD’s 1st NEW WORKS Festival Interdisciplinary dance works & film by choreographers from the Bay Area, NYC, and London, including Lynn Huang, Amber Julian, Flora Hyoin Kim (NYC), SanSan Kwan, Lenora Lee & Moyra Silva Rodríguez (London / Lima), Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Catalina O’Connor, […]
20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music
CubaCaribe
The 20th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music presents a retrospective of the last 20 years of moving forward in community, resistance and joy. This anniversary season features seven dance companies performing and participating in community engagement and educational outreach activities over the course of the festival’s 14 days, April 8 through 19. The […]
Filipino Folk Dance(ADULT)-Sala Sundays: Igal + Open Session
MPWRD Artists Collective
Join us for MPWRD’s Filipino Folk Dance Series as we travel across the archipelago, learning about the rich communities of the Philippines! Each month, we focus on a different dance form taught over the span of multiple workshops. This month we will be hosting our FIRST set of Sala(dance) Sundays! a mixture of class freestyle/play, […]
Emerging Choreographers Forum Showing
Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF
Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF (MFDP|SF) holds an annual mentoring program for choreographers ages 16-26. A panel of professionals in the field of choreography provide feedback on the work each participant is creating. This two session forum culminates with a free works showing in which the participants can showcase the works that they have been working […]
Beginner AND Intermediate Reggaetón Performance Workshop
Rae Studios
This 8-week workshop is designed to refine dancers’ skill in reggaetón while building a fun performance piece to premiere at the S.F. Palace of Fine Arts Theater on 5/31. The piece will be built with sections for both beginner AND intermediate dancers, as well as unison sections for all. During this workshop dancers will deepen […]
