In Dance

Smuin Contemporary Ballet kicks off its 29th season, featuring a long-awaited World Premiere by brilliant Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado, whose work Bay Area audiences will experience for the first time in The Turntable. Also on the bill is Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s hit Requiem for a Rose. Finally, the music of jazz legend Dave Brubeck will come alive in Take Five by former Company member Rex Wheeler.

Smuin Contemporary Ballet kicks off its 29th season, featuring a long-awaited World Premiere by brilliant Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado, whose work Bay Area audiences will experience for the first time in The Turntable. Also on the bill is Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s hit Requiem for a Rose. Finally, the music of jazz legend Dave Brubeck will come alive in Take Five by former Company member Rex Wheeler.

A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs’ iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities.

ASL will be provided for Saturday shows of the 2022 Fall Season. Additional Wheelchair seating will be available for Sunday shows of the 2022 Fall Season.

A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs’ iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities.

ASL will be provided for Saturday shows of the 2022 Fall Season. Additional Wheelchair seating will be available for Sunday shows of the 2022 Fall Season.

San Francisco Ballet returns to the Stanford Live Arts Festival to present Starry Nights, following the success of the Company’s Frost Amphitheater debut in 2021.

Featuring Jerome Robbins’ In the Night, Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight, and concluding with the South Bay premiere performances of William Forsythe’s Blake Works I (“it will explode your ballet prejudices,” wrote the San Francisco Chronicle), SF Ballet’s two-evening residency will highlight audience favorites from the 2022 Repertory Season.

SF Ballet will also co-present Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s Stanford Live debut on August 3 at 8:00 pm, presenting STAR DUST: From Bach to David Bowie, featuring two exhilarating dance pieces inspired by musical masters.

the NETWORK project addresses human survival and what we truly need– from sustainable living practices to communal engagement and empathy, as we recognize and build our resilience. Considering climate change, and the many other crises we face, the project is inspired by systems of communication, resource-sharing, and survival employed by tree communities, as a lens to consider human community building.

Based on experiential research in the environs of the Djerassi land and trees our team of performers, scientists, land stewards and designers create a multi-media, audience-interactive, site-specific, experience–working with the trees, land, and site; dance, theater and installation design. This part hike, part performance journey is a tactile, embodied and we hope transformative experience that connects participants directly with trees, nature and their own bodies. Beyond this experience, the project aims to create a greater social impact by sharing research and resources with our audience participants in ways that may support their local communities.

ID: NETWORK collaborators: Heidi Erickson, Amy Cranch, paige sorvillo spread out on a grassy hilly landscape overlooking a sunset.