THEYFRIEND Festival 2022

Now in its second year, THEYFRIEND is the worldโ€™s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! This year, the festival will expand to five events over four days […]

Zaccho Dance Theatre: Ancestral Awakenings: An Afrolistic Documentary Screening & Community Workshop

Join Black Futures Resident Artist Nekia Wright for a special communal experience at the Zaccho Studio on Motherโ€™s Day. The event will begin with an opening ritual followed by a […]

THEYFRIEND Festival 2022

Now in its second year, THEYFRIEND is the worldโ€™s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! This year, the festival will expand to five events over four days […]

Queering Dance Festival: Queering Cultural Forms Workshops

Join us for our workshop series following our Queering Cultural Forms – Panel Discussion. Sat, May 4 Title: HYE TIME! – Queering Up Traditional Armenian Dance Time: 1-3pm Instructor: VERA!/Vera […]

No Dancer Left Behind: Chasing the Dance Credential

Did you know that before the Ryan Act of 1970 there was a Dance Credential in the State of California? With a Dance Credential, a dance educator could receive a […]

Welcome, Nov 2010

โ€œIt gets better,โ€ the current phrase and theme to an online video campaign seeks to help lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth understand the choices and support structures […]

Welcome, Oct 2010

I was recently confronted with the saying, โ€œIf you can spot it, you got it,โ€ which I took as this: the faults I so easily point out in others are […]

Welcome, Sep 2010

Everything is set to launch another rich dance season and September marks the return of new productions, programs and renewed theaters that reflect our robust growing community. Iโ€™ve purposefully used […]

SPEAK By Patty Berne

โ€œA performance project on disability and sexuality? Really? Why? I mean, I never really thought that handicapped people have sex!โ€ โ€” anonymous observation #132 Blunt truth be told, we do […]

Bold New Strokes: The Inauguration of the Performing Diaspora Festival

California has a very rich traditional dance and performance community. The Bay Area alone has over 300 ethnic dance groups. Along with this rich diversity comes support for traditional art […]