July 2022
Kiandanda Dance Theater: Religion Kitendi-Dress Code
An SF International Arts Festival Summer Series World Premiere Religion Kitendi uses haute couture fashion as a point of departure to examine the prevailing legacy of the slave trade and European colonization of Africa. The piece invokes the worldview of Congolese sapeurs, dandily dressed men and women who endeavor to survive economic hardship and political turmoil by feeling good in their attire. There is an ironic humor in the sorrowful trend of people spending large sums of hard-earned money to…
Find out more »SFDanceworks: Season FIVE
SFDanceworks presents the best of contemporary dance in a mixed repertory format. The program for the company's fifth season includes world premieres by Bay Area stars Babatunji Johnson, Laura O’Malley and Dani Rowe; West Coast premieres by internationally renowned choreographers Edward Clug and Yin Yue; and a revival of Martha Graham’s classic solo work, Deep Song. This season's dancers are Dores Andre, Katerina Beckman, Sarah Chou, Caroline Dahm, Erik Debano, Brooke Corrales, Stella Jacobs, Babatunji Johnson, Nick Korkos, Marusya Madubuko,…
Find out more »SFDanceworks: Season FIVE
SFDanceworks presents the best of contemporary dance in a mixed repertory format. The program for the company's fifth season includes world premieres by Bay Area stars Babatunji Johnson, Laura O’Malley and Dani Rowe; West Coast premieres by internationally renowned choreographers Edward Clug and Yin Yue; and a revival of Martha Graham’s classic solo work, Deep Song. This season's dancers are Dores Andre, Katerina Beckman, Sarah Chou, Caroline Dahm, Erik Debano, Brooke Corrales, Stella Jacobs, Babatunji Johnson, Nick Korkos, Marusya Madubuko,…
Find out more »SFDanceworks: Season FIVE
SFDanceworks presents the best of contemporary dance in a mixed repertory format. The program for the company's fifth season includes world premieres by Bay Area stars Babatunji Johnson, Laura O’Malley and Dani Rowe; West Coast premieres by internationally renowned choreographers Edward Clug and Yin Yue; and a revival of Martha Graham’s classic solo work, Deep Song. This season's dancers are Dores Andre, Katerina Beckman, Sarah Chou, Caroline Dahm, Erik Debano, Brooke Corrales, Stella Jacobs, Babatunji Johnson, Nick Korkos, Marusya Madubuko,…
Find out more »SFDanceworks: Season FIVE
SFDanceworks presents the best of contemporary dance in a mixed repertory format. The program for the company's fifth season includes world premieres by Bay Area stars Babatunji Johnson, Laura O’Malley and Dani Rowe; West Coast premieres by internationally renowned choreographers Edward Clug and Yin Yue; and a revival of Martha Graham’s classic solo work, Deep Song. This season's dancers are Dores Andre, Katerina Beckman, Sarah Chou, Caroline Dahm, Erik Debano, Brooke Corrales, Stella Jacobs, Babatunji Johnson, Nick Korkos, Marusya Madubuko,…
Find out more »Re-Visioning: a Conversation on Arts and the Environment
“Time rushes on, in ways that humans have never before contemplated. That famous picture of the earth from outer space that Apollo beamed back in the late 1960s — already that’s not the world we inhabit; its poles are melting, its oceans rising. We can register what is happening with satellites and scientific instruments, but can we register it in our imaginations, the most sensitive of all our devices?” - Bill McKibben for Grist “And to imagine other forms of…
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