BOYS IN TROUBLE: A Conversation with Sean Dorsey

Sean Dorsey is a dance-maker, activist, and trans advocate based in San Francisco. A founder of the Sean Dorsey Dance, Fresh Meat Productions and the Fresh Meat Festival, Dorsey and […]

Traveling and Touring

2017 was a big year for us, with our first large-scale domestic tour. Together with choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener we premiered Tesseract at EMPAC in January and went […]

OUT of Site: Haight-Ashbury

Saturdays and Sundays, June 12-July 25, 11am and 3pm OUT of Site, San Francisco’s performance-driven queer history tour, returns this summer with a dazzling new edition starring award-winning stage, television […]

Welcome

I am a child of the 60’s — the “make love not war” era, and therefore as a young man I recoiled from graphic images televised nightly of the Vietnam […]

Did You Know? Studio Grand

Did You Know? Studio Grand Oakland’s Studio Grand is a nonprofit, multi-use space that supports local families, youth, and emerging and established artists by hosting a mix of music, performance, […]

Welcome

Bodies are perfect. They are also complex, colorful and filled with tons of cool applications. Each body is the ultimate super computer, efficiently organizing 37.2 trillion cells that are in […]

From Streets of Oakland to World Stage: A Conversation with Johnny Lopez

For many, Friday signals the end of a work week, but for Johnny Lopez, founder of TURFinc there are no days off. From managing day to day operations to talent […]

Building a House of Culture: Jesús Cortez’s Journey to Create Cuicacalli Dance Company

Photo by Sam Rodar How many times has a dancer dreamed over a cup of tea at La Boheme? The cafe beneath Dance Mission Studio at 24th and Mission streets […]

Did You Know?: Dasha Chernova

In 2017 Bay Area-based and Russian-born Dasha Chernova began Telaboratoria (in Russian, “telo” means body and “laboratoria” means laboratory), a program offering dance and theater improvisation classes and workshops designed […]

Tango Con*Fusión: Not Your Mother’s Tango

“While remaining true to its heritage, this is not the tango of yesteryear; it is not even the tango of yesterday; it is the tango of today.”  Ted Viviani – Producer, […]