
July 2021
YBG ChoreoFest 2021
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…
Find out more »YBG ChoreoFest 2021
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…
Find out more »August 2021
YBG ChoreoFest 2021
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…
Find out more »May 2022
Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Sudamala at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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…
Find out more »July 2022
Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest (Day One)
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…
Find out more »Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest (Day Two)
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 an array of distinguished local dance companies of extraordinary performances 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…
Find out more »September 2022
Joti Singh: Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink
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…
Find out more »October 2022
Alleluia Panis: Nursing These Wounds (preview)
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…
Find out more »Yerba Buena Gardens: SF Indigenous Peoples Day
A celebration of San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples Day at Yerba Buena Gardens with Native American art, music and vendors. The program highlights the vastly diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists in the Bay Area, California and beyond. Artists and Participants: Morning Star Gali (Emcee) DJ Cutz Round Valley Dancers Cody Blackbird Band Big Valley Pomo youth dancers All Nations Singers and Powwow Dancers Kumeyaay Bird Singers Hawaiian Dance Group Aztec Dancers And more TBA!
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