Community Calendar

Post:ballet: Magma (excerpt) Sneak Peek

The Midway 900 Marin St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Join The Midway’s Company in Residence, Post:ballet, for the unveiling of Magma (Chapter One). Be a part of the genesis of Magma and see a sneak peek into the world of Post:ballet’s first immersive dance theater production. Arrive at 7pm for drinks and food at The Midway’s cafe, Madam Zola’s Fortune, before moving throughout the venue and experiencing Chapter […]

$20 – $40

ODC/Dance: Dance Downtown 2024

Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA 700 Howard Street (at Third), San Francisco, CA, United States

Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the […]

$30 – $250

The Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC!

CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA, United States

QDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic […]

Free – $40

Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble: Gallery

Cubberley Theater 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA, United States

NCDE presents an evening of modern dance based on five centuries of paintings and sculpture. From poignant to hilarious, the dances take their inspiration from artwork ranging from a sixteenth-century study of female musicians to a Matisse collage, the abstract precision of Mondrian, and Op Art, with stops along the way for impressionism and midcentury […]

$15 – $45

The Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC!

CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA, United States

QDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic […]

Free – $40
Event Series ODC/Dance: Dance Downtown 2024

ODC/Dance: Dance Downtown 2024

Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA 700 Howard Street (at Third), San Francisco, CA, United States

Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the […]

$30 – $250

The Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC!

CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA, United States

QDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic […]

Free – $40

Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble: Gallery

Cubberley Theater 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA, United States

NCDE presents an evening of modern dance based on five centuries of paintings and sculpture. From poignant to hilarious, the dances take their inspiration from artwork ranging from a sixteenth-century study of female musicians to a Matisse collage, the abstract precision of Mondrian, and Op Art, with stops along the way for impressionism and midcentury […]

$15 – $45

ODC/Dance: Dance Downtown 2024

Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA 700 Howard Street (at Third), San Francisco, CA, United States

Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the […]

$30 – $250

The Queering Dance Festival: FROLIC!

CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA, United States

QDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic […]

Free – $40

ODC/Dance: Dance Downtown 2024

Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA 700 Howard Street (at Third), San Francisco, CA, United States

Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the […]

$30 – $250

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Spring Season

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater 700 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States

This season LINES Ballet presents a world premiere, a reimagining of The Collective Agreement, and 2013’s Concerto for Two Violins. Originally commissioned by San Francisco Ballet in 2018, The Collective Agreement, Alonzo King’s acclaimed collaboration with jazz pianist Jason Moran, takes on new life in a transformative re-envisioning by King, the LINES Ballet dancers, and […]

$45 – $125

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Nancy Karp + Dancers: 2024 Season Performances

Taube Atrium Theater at the SF War Memorial Opera House 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

Program Part I:  Eppur si muove, world premiere with music by Samuel Adams Part II: Revival of fly through the night, and land near dawn with music by David A. Jaffe Sunday performance:  Q&A/Talkback with the artists, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian, to follow the performance.

$30

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Nancy Karp + Dancers: 2024 Season Performances

Taube Atrium Theater at the SF War Memorial Opera House 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

Program Part I:  Eppur si muove, world premiere with music by Samuel Adams Part II: Revival of fly through the night, and land near dawn with music by David A. Jaffe Sunday performance:  Q&A/Talkback with the artists, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian, to follow the performance.

$30

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Cal Performances

Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA, United States

Continuing a 55-year relationship with Cal Performances, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Berkeley campus for the company’s annual residency with a selection of recent works and Ailey masterpieces. Steeped in the sounds of jazz, blues, and hip-hop, the Ailey repertory celebrates the Black American experience, offering music and movement as expressions […]

$45 – $158

Nava Dance Theatre: Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies

Bankhead Theater 2400 First St, Livermore, CA, United States

Groundbreaking. Indian. Breathtaking. Experience the breathtaking fusion of movement and storytelling in Nava Dance’s performance of Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies. Returning after last season’s moving Broken Seeds Still Grow, Nava Dance Theatre is a bharatanatyam dance company based in San Francisco. Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies by @navadancetheater uses bharatanatyam and experimental movement to examine the labor of South Asian […]

$35 – $65

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Spring Season

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater 700 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States

This season LINES Ballet presents a world premiere, a reimagining of The Collective Agreement, and 2013’s Concerto for Two Violins. Originally commissioned by San Francisco Ballet in 2018, The Collective Agreement, Alonzo King’s acclaimed collaboration with jazz pianist Jason Moran, takes on new life in a transformative re-envisioning by King, the LINES Ballet dancers, and […]

$45 – $125

Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF: Emerging Choreographers Forum SF Showing

Joe Goode Annex 401 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA, United States

Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF (MFDP|SF) holds an annual mentoring program for choreographers ages 16-26 called Emerging Choreographers Forum SF. The first two sessions are for showing/sharing work in process with a panel of professionals in the field of choreography to provide feedback on the work each participant is creating. The third session of the forum […]

Free Admission — Donations Requested

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Spring Season

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater 700 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States

This season LINES Ballet presents a world premiere, a reimagining of The Collective Agreement, and 2013’s Concerto for Two Violins. Originally commissioned by San Francisco Ballet in 2018, The Collective Agreement, Alonzo King’s acclaimed collaboration with jazz pianist Jason Moran, takes on new life in a transformative re-envisioning by King, the LINES Ballet dancers, and […]

$45 – $125