Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ChoreoFest 2021 highlights the spectacular strength, diversity, and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene. Curated by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors Wendy Rein, Ryan T. Smith and Katerina Wong, the fourth annual YBG ChoreoFest is reimagined as safe artistic gatherings in response to San Francisco’s return to live, outdoor performances. Spanning three Saturdays this summer, on July 10, July 31, and August 14, nine local companies will activate and enliven the beloved downtown park…

Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ChoreoFest 2021 highlights the spectacular strength, diversity, and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene. Curated by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors Wendy Rein, Ryan T. Smith and Katerina Wong, the fourth annual YBG ChoreoFest is reimagined as safe artistic gatherings in response to San Francisco’s return to live, outdoor performances. Spanning three Saturdays this summer, on July 10, July 31, and August 14, nine local companies will activate and enliven the beloved downtown park…

Sekar Jaya will be presenting the premiere of Sudamala, a musical prayer composed by world famous musician and composer, I Dewa Putu Berata. Sudamala is inspired by the lifelong journey of creating and maintaining harmony: between universes, communities, and artistic genres. This performance features all new music created in collaboration with Gamelan Sekar Jaya's Spring 2022 Guest Music Director I Dewa Putu Rai, and Bay Area artists Rashidi Omari of Oakland's Destiny Arts Center, Carla Fabrizio, Peter Steele, and Joseph…

Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest highlights the strength, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area contemporary dance scene through a two-weekend mini festival of site-specific work. Curated by RAWdance’s Artistic Directors, the fifth annual YBG ChoreoFest features local dance companies throughout the Gardens’ lawns and architecture. ASL interpretation will be provided for this event. This program moves across multiple locations and seating is very limited. Personal stools or portable chairs are welcome.   Day One Artists: Fact/SF is a San Francisco-based contemporary…

As the co-artistic director of Duniya Dance and Drum Company, San Francisco choreographer Joti Singh has forged a singularly powerful body of work combining Bhangra with West African rhythms. She continues to explore this dazzlingly fertile hybrid with Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink, a site-specific outdoor performance merging live Punjabi folk music, Bhangra dance and recitation. The guiding narrative delves into the little-known story of the San Francisco-founded Ghadar Party, a revolutionary group of political activists from India fighting for…

Nursing These Wounds explores the ongoing impact of colonization, and the American medical education that accompanied it, in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, as well as the prominent role Pilipinx nurses play in healthcare in the United States today. Informed by the work of historian and UC Berkeley professor Catherine Ceniza Choy, who, along with California Nurses Association union organizer Ginger Faustino, advised the project’s development, Nursing These Wounds incorporates both indigenous Filipino ritual and contemporary dance, as well…