PUSH Dance Company (PUSH) kicks off its fourteenth home season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers aimed at gathering wider audiences. This new season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic  Mothership III by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by Bessie Award-winning guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Celebrated local choreographers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies…

Drawing on traditions of the African diaspora, Have K(NO!)w Fear: A Bluessical is a work of ritual dance theater, live music and film, an “undoing spell to untie all the knots that choke the future, from natural disasters and systematic oppression to forced migration." Àse Dance Theatre Collective is a neo-folkloric performance ensemble that specializes in Dance Theater from the African Diaspora. Under the artistic direction of Adia Tamar Whitaker, a dancer/choreographer and vocalist from San Francisco, this Brooklyn based…

Drawing on traditions of the African diaspora, Have K(NO!)w Fear: A Bluessical is a work of ritual dance theater, live music and film, an “undoing spell to untie all the knots that choke the future, from natural disasters and systematic oppression to forced migration." Àse Dance Theatre Collective is a neo-folkloric performance ensemble that specializes in Dance Theater from the African Diaspora. Under the artistic direction of Adia Tamar Whitaker, a dancer/choreographer and vocalist from San Francisco, this Brooklyn based…

Drawing on traditions of the African diaspora, Have K(NO!)w Fear: A Bluessical is a work of ritual dance theater, live music and film, an “undoing spell to untie all the knots that choke the future, from natural disasters and systematic oppression to forced migration." Àse Dance Theatre Collective is a neo-folkloric performance ensemble that specializes in Dance Theater from the African Diaspora. Under the artistic direction of Adia Tamar Whitaker, a dancer/choreographer and vocalist from San Francisco, this Brooklyn based…

St Louis-based performance artist, dancer and choreographer Tom Brady, in collaboration with Monica Newsam and videographer Zlatko Cosic, brings what has essentially turned into a 40 year work-in-progress to ODC Theater in San Francisco this fall. After debuting the work under the title of Boxes at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979, he has performed this work (and others) in New York, Milan, Chicago, and in his home base, St Louis. “What started out as a man struggling with the tumultuous…

St Louis-based performance artist, dancer and choreographer Tom Brady, in collaboration with Monica Newsam and videographer Zlatko Cosic, brings what has essentially turned into a 40 year work-in-progress to ODC Theater in San Francisco this fall. After debuting the work under the title of Boxes at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979, he has performed this work (and others) in New York, Milan, Chicago, and in his home base, St Louis. “What started out as a man struggling with the tumultuous…

St Louis-based performance artist, dancer and choreographer Tom Brady, in collaboration with Monica Newsam and videographer Zlatko Cosic, brings what has essentially turned into a 40 year work-in-progress to ODC Theater in San Francisco this fall. After debuting the work under the title of Boxes at Franklin Furnace in New York in 1979, he has performed this work (and others) in New York, Milan, Chicago, and in his home base, St Louis. “What started out as a man struggling with the tumultuous…

Ashrutam – The Unheard Voice is an Indian classical dance production, choreographed and directed by Surabhi Bharadwaj. She is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer and an official dance ambassador for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The 90-minute performance recognizes and honors the contribution of Devadasis to the Indian Performing Arts. Devadasi represents a matriarchal community of women who not only cultivated Performing Arts through the generations but were also progressive women who broke societal stereotypes several centuries ago. With its…

Ashrutam – The Unheard Voice is an Indian classical dance production, choreographed and directed by Surabhi Bharadwaj. She is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer and an official dance ambassador for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The 90-minute performance recognizes and honors the contribution of Devadasis to the Indian Performing Arts. Devadasi represents a matriarchal community of women who not only cultivated Performing Arts through the generations but were also progressive women who broke societal stereotypes several centuries ago. With its…

Ashrutam – The Unheard Voice is an Indian classical dance production, choreographed and directed by Surabhi Bharadwaj. She is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer and an official dance ambassador for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The 90-minute performance recognizes and honors the contribution of Devadasis to the Indian Performing Arts. Devadasi represents a matriarchal community of women who not only cultivated Performing Arts through the generations but were also progressive women who broke societal stereotypes several centuries ago. With its…

Presented by HMD's Bridge Project, Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100 is a bicoastal collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust, ODC Theater and SFMOMA’s Open Space as part of the international celebration of the Cunningham centennial. Signals from the West has commissioned ten Bay Area artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to create new works of art in response to Cunningham's legacy. These commissioned works will premiere at ODC Theater alongside excerpts of Cunningham…