ODC’s Pilot Program offers emerging and mid-career choreographers 3-months of residency and mentorship in choreography and...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet (Smuin) is a marvel, not just surviving but seemingly thriving through good times and bad.  Now in its...

A woman possessed; an audience entranced; this is what remains at the end of a tempestuous hour with Fanny Ara’s Lilith. Is Ara actually...

It’s Sunday, February 18, 2024, Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall (2,000 seats) is packed to the gills for the final of three performances....

The ODC Theater looks like it is still in rehearsal mode. Bright fluorescent Post-it notes form a patchwork design on the rear...

International exchange, including multiple points of artistic engagement, is essential to the Kathleen Hermesdorf Fresh Festival...

The KH Fresh Festival starts off with a bang with forever failing (work-in-progress #1) created and performed by Clarissa Rivera Dyas and...

Per the Chinese calendar, it is New Year’s Eve. San Francisco’s Chinatown is cacophonous with explosions celebrating the passing from the...

The Stories of the People Next to Us is a project of The Straw Dogs, a collective of Bay Area dance makers comprised of Mauelito Biag,...

New Ballet brings its 7th annual presentation of new works, Fast Forward, to the Hammer Theatre at San Jose State University for one...

A raucous standing ovation greets the world premiere of San Francisco Ballet (SFB) and choreographer Aszure Barton’s Mere Mortals on...

“The future of ballet begins now”, declared San Francisco Ballet’s (SFB) new Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo, during her front of curtain...

What would you do for love? How does a connection to one true love compare to the unconditional love of parents, children and siblings?...

Pandemic venue closures and isolation protocols forced us all to change plans, but the most creative among us turned prohibitions into...

Nutcracker productions abound each holiday season.  Families seeking entertainment often choose a classical ballet production of “The...

San Francisco’s own homegrown circus, Circus Bella has pitched a big top tent downtown this December.  Family friendly fare has never...

Loving relationships between same-gender people have always existed, but bringing them out into the open has taken time.  Inspired by...

Urban Bush Women (UBW) is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a visit to CAL Performances Zellerbach Playhouse, on the UC Berkeley...

It’s 2029, climate change has taken its toll. Rain falls incessantly. London is permanently flooded, unhabitable but for the animals,...

Concert dance performance comes with heavy expectations of performative perfection: dancers, with ideal bodies and otherworldly...