Community Calendar
September 2019
The Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center's first annual Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC, six performances featuring twelve Bay Area LGBTQ+ artists who are doing innovative work in movement-based performance. Program A: Thursday, Sept 19 at 8pm; Saturday, Sept 21 at 5pm; Sunday, Sept 22 at 7pm jose e abad, Jesselito Bie, Audrey Johnson, Melissa Lewis, Aiano Nakagawa, pateldanceworks Program B: Friday, Sept 20 at 8pm; Saturday, Sept 21 at 8pm; Sunday, Sept 22 at 4pm Stephanie Hewett, Cynthia Ling Lee, Frances Sedayao, Mark…
Find out more »PUSHfest Dance Festival
PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic Mothership III by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies…
Find out more »PUSHfest Dance Festival
PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic Mothership III by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies…
Find out more »The Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center's first annual Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC, six performances featuring twelve Bay Area LGBTQ+ artists who are doing innovative work in movement-based performance. Program A: Thursday, Sept 19 at 8pm; Saturday, Sept 21 at 5pm; Sunday, Sept 22 at 7pm jose e abad, Jesselito Bie, Audrey Johnson, Melissa Lewis, Aiano Nakagawa, pateldanceworks Program B: Friday, Sept 20 at 8pm; Saturday, Sept 21 at 8pm; Sunday, Sept 22 at 4pm Stephanie Hewett, Cynthia Ling Lee, Frances Sedayao, Mark…
Find out more »“Sunset Dances II” Lizz Roman & Dancers
Lizz Roman & Dancers premiere a new site specific journey, engaging a home’s architecture with performance, music and film. Revealing, engaging and immersive, Roman's newest project “Sunset Dances II” draws audiences into an intimate experience that unfolds in multiple locations simultaneously as audiences at 3 locations migrate throughout the home performance environment. The production includes 8 dancers, academy award winning filmmaker Pete Litwinowicz, award winning lighting designer Clyde Sheets, musician/composer Jerome Lindner and percussionist Malcolm Lee with vocalist Tamsin Black…
Find out more »INHERITED BODIES: How do movement artists in different traditions contend with, honor, and resist the past?
HMD's Bridge Project and SFMOMA's Open Space present INHERITED BODIES: How do movement artists in different traditions contend with, honor, and resist the past? FEATURING a series of lecture demonstrations by Sara Shelton Mann, Jarrel Phillips, Nadhi Thekkek, and Snowflake Towers. Through language and movement, the featured artists will respond to the following questions: - How does history/the past operate in your work? - Who or what are the giants in your tradition (whether forgotten or celebrated) and how do…
Find out more »SAFEhouse ARTS presents Peri Trono
Peri Trono explores space, shape, and order in her new dance work “fold,” inspired by Origami, the art of paper folding. Trono has presented her work in New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Southern California. She received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently dancing with The Fyber Vision: Dance/Artist Collective and pateldanceworks.
Find out more »Fall Performance Salon
Join us for the Fall edition of the Performance Salon! A seasonal event where performing artists experiment, get feedback and hang out with other artists and art lovers. Curated and produced by Miriam Wolodarski, Cathie Caraker and Diana Lara. Featuring new work by: Amelia Uzategui and J Spagnolo Gizeh Muniz and Amy Wasielewski Molly Rose-Williams Juliet Paramour Showings are followed by feedback in small groups. Arts, dialogue, and community: come take part!
Find out more »Samarpanam: A Dedication to Art
Join us for the inaugural performance of Vishwa Shanthi’s new series, “Samarpanam: A Dedication to Art”. Smt. Shreelata Suresh takes the stage to perform Bharatanatyam in its traditional and pure form in an intimate chamber setting for connoisseurs and serious students to enjoy. The one-hour performance will be followed by Q&A with the dancer.
Find out more »Journey Along the Silk Route
Join the Simorgh Dance Collective and Eastern Arts for a dazzling concert that celebrates the diverse cultures, music, and dance traditions of the Silk Road. Featuring ethnic dances of Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Turkey, and more performed by the Simorgh Dance Collective, Eastern Arts, members of the Aylan Dance Goup, and live music by Homerya Banejad and Ensemble.
Find out more »Stop, Drop, Drink
This site-specific dance-theater performance invites an audience of 30 people to experience a 'radically different Saturday night-out.’ Directed by Tara Pilbrow, with music by composer Heather Love, “Stop Drop Drink” follows a group of intrepid performers as they delve into the whys and wherefores of the human desire to gather, to connect and more often than not... to drink. "Stop, Drop, Drink" is performed by Julie Crothers, Colin Epstein, Becky Leviton-Robinson, Hannah Westbrook, Tara Pilbrow, Jeff Raz and Heather Love.
Find out more »SAFEhouse ARTS presents Peri Trono
Peri Trono explores space, shape, and order in her new dance work “fold,” inspired by Origami, the art of paper folding. Trono has presented her work in New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Southern California. She received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently dancing with The Fyber Vision: Dance/Artist Collective and pateldanceworks.
Find out more »GALA 50th Anniversary Concerts
The Cashion Cultural Legacy invites you to Los Lupeños de San José's 50th Anniversary GALA Concerts. Under the artistic direction of choreographer Samuel Cortez, you will experience a deep-dive into distinct regions of México showcasing the past, the present, and the future - all with live musical accompaniment. Over 100 performers will share the stage including Los Lupeños Juvenil, Los Lupeños Legacy, Mariachi de la Bahia, Madrigal Musical, and Ensamble Folklórico de Veracruz.
Find out more »African Arts Festival
Join this family-friendly event that showcases live dance and music from Africa and the African diaspora. Inspired by the diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area’s African arts scene, Duniya Dance & Drum Company will present its third African Arts Festival. The festival will feature traditional performing arts groups representing different regions of Africa and the African diaspora. The lineup will include some of the Bay Area’s premier dance companies, including Chinyakare Ensemble, Fua Dia Congo, Duniya Dance and Drum…
Find out more »GALA 50th Anniversary Concerts
The Cashion Cultural Legacy invites you to Los Lupeños de San José's 50th Anniversary GALA Concerts. Under the artistic direction of choreographer Samuel Cortez, you will experience a deep-dive into distinct regions of México showcasing the past, the present, and the future - all with live musical accompaniment. Over 100 performers will share the stage including Los Lupeños Juvenil, Los Lupeños Legacy, Mariachi de la Bahia, Madrigal Musical, and Ensamble Folklórico de Veracruz.
Find out more »October 2019
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Fall Season
Two jazz luminaries return to San Francisco for a world premiere collaboration with Alonzo King. Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran perform their second commissioned score for LINES Ballet, again placing their distinct signatures on the evolution of modern jazz. The work also features a light installation designed by Jim Campell, the internationally renowned electronic artist whose work crowns the San Francisco skyline atop Salesforce Tower An NEA Jazz Master and inductee to the Memphis Music Hall of…
Find out more »Alonzo King LINES Ballet Fall Season
Two jazz luminaries return to San Francisco for a world premiere collaboration with Alonzo King. Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran perform their second commissioned score for LINES Ballet, again placing their distinct signatures on the evolution of modern jazz. The work also features a light installation designed by Jim Campell, the internationally renowned electronic artist whose work crowns the San Francisco skyline atop Salesforce Tower An NEA Jazz Master and inductee to the Memphis Music Hall of…
Find out more »Zaccho Dance Theatre presents “Between me and the other world”
Choreographer, director, and Bay Area performance innovator Joanna Haigood explores issues of race and identity in her performance installation, Between me and the other world, Thursday through Sunday, October 3-6, 2019 at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco. All performances are free, except the Thursday October 3rd VIP Preview Performance. Between me and the other world is a dynamic exploration of scholar and civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois’ seminal work The Souls of Black Folk. This performance installation has been created in collaboration with composer…
Find out more »Tattooed
Sintonía (in harmony, in Spanish), a new Oakland-based flamenco dance troupe founded in 2018 by Fanny Ara and Marina Elana, presents its inaugural production, Tattooed, an experimental flamenco dance performance about survivors’ strength and resilience. Guest artist and local flamenco great, Yaelisa, and some of Spain’s foremost flamenco artists and musicians will join Sintonía the historic and newly renovated 600-seat Presidio Theatre in San Francisco. DG Member Discount
Find out more »Alonzo King LINES Ballet Fall Season
Two jazz luminaries return to San Francisco for a world premiere collaboration with Alonzo King. Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran perform their second commissioned score for LINES Ballet, again placing their distinct signatures on the evolution of modern jazz. The work also features a light installation designed by Jim Campell, the internationally renowned electronic artist whose work crowns the San Francisco skyline atop Salesforce Tower An NEA Jazz Master and inductee to the Memphis Music Hall of…
Find out more »Zaccho Dance Theatre presents “Between me and the other world”
Choreographer, director, and Bay Area performance innovator Joanna Haigood explores issues of race and identity in her performance installation, Between me and the other world, Thursday through Sunday, October 3-6, 2019 at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco. All performances are free, except the Thursday October 3rd VIP Preview Performance. Between me and the other world is a dynamic exploration of scholar and civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois’ seminal work The Souls of Black Folk. This performance installation has been created in collaboration with composer…
Find out more »Alonzo King LINES Ballet Fall Season
Two jazz luminaries return to San Francisco for a world premiere collaboration with Alonzo King. Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran perform their second commissioned score for LINES Ballet, again placing their distinct signatures on the evolution of modern jazz. The work also features a light installation designed by Jim Campell, the internationally renowned electronic artist whose work crowns the San Francisco skyline atop Salesforce Tower An NEA Jazz Master and inductee to the Memphis Music Hall of…
Find out more »Tattooed
Sintonía (in harmony, in Spanish), a new Oakland-based flamenco dance troupe founded in 2018 by Fanny Ara and Marina Elana, presents its inaugural production, Tattooed, an experimental flamenco dance performance about survivors’ strength and resilience. Guest artist and local flamenco great, Yaelisa, and some of Spain’s foremost flamenco artists and musicians will join Sintonía the historic and newly renovated 600-seat Presidio Theatre in San Francisco. DG Member Discount
Find out more »Zaccho Dance Theatre presents “Between me and the other world”
Choreographer, director, and Bay Area performance innovator Joanna Haigood explores issues of race and identity in her performance installation, Between me and the other world, Thursday through Sunday, October 3-6, 2019 at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco. All performances are free, except the Thursday October 3rd VIP Preview Performance. Between me and the other world is a dynamic exploration of scholar and civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois’ seminal work The Souls of Black Folk. This performance installation has been created in collaboration with composer…
Find out more »Stop, Drop, Drink
This site-specific dance-theater performance invites an audience of 30 people to experience a 'radically different Saturday night-out.’ Directed by Tara Pilbrow, with music by composer Heather Love, “Stop Drop Drink” follows a group of intrepid performers as they delve into the whys and wherefores of the human desire to gather, to connect and more often than not... to drink. "Stop, Drop, Drink" is performed by Julie Crothers, Colin Epstein, Becky Leviton-Robinson, Hannah Westbrook, Tara Pilbrow, Jeff Raz and Heather Love.
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