In an intimate and wide-ranging portrait of maverick choreographer Jane Comfort, “Breaking Form” explores a creatively rich chapter in New York City’s downtown dance scene and its legacy today. Beginning in the late 1970s and spanning her 40-year career, Comfort fused text, rhythm, and movement to craft experimental works of bold political satire and irreverent […]
Experience provocative and moving stories told through movement, poetry, and music in nine short films from a range of artists who harness dance as a means of cultural expression, self-empowerment, and community activism. Dancers deepen into self-knowledge and forge connections to support physical well-being, heal from trauma, confront urgent social issues, and engage with intergenerational […]
Drawn from a broad swath of the local dance community, these films put classical Indian dance, ballet, contemporary, Afro-Brazilian, and aerial dance into dialogue with modern issues and identities. With these artists, audiences are invited to embark on an Afrofuturist expedition, probe an enigmatic mythology, explore the purest beauty of movement, and delve into moving […]
Weaving Spirits’s fourth year responds to ecological and societal wildfires. Fire allows us to imagine what needs to be ignited, cleansed and turned into ashes. We celebrate the many sparks of two-spirit creativity and anti-colonial resistance popping off throughout the Bay. It’s so much more than we could have imagined a decade ago! We are... […]
Weaving Spirits’s fourth year responds to ecological and societal wildfires. Fire allows us to imagine what needs to be ignited, cleansed and turned into ashes. We celebrate the many sparks of two-spirit creativity and anti-colonial resistance popping off throughout the Bay. It’s so much more than we could have imagined a decade ago! We are... […]
