May 2018 In Dance

calendar VISIT THE ONLINE COMMUNITY CALENDAR to find additional events and to submit a performance. dancersgroup.org MAY 2018

Bay Area Dance Week A 10-day festival of dance featuring hundreds of classes, performances, open rehearsals, and lecture demonstrations. Fri, Apr 27-Sun, May 6, FREE. bayareadance.org

Marika Brussel ODC Studio B, SF

Falls Like Rain is a contemporary ballet about disconnection, love, caretaking and caregiving. Fri, May 4, 7:45pm, FREE. marikabrussel.com Lucia August Cal State Main Theater, Hayward The standingOUTstanding variety show features three dance stories that speak of a lost love reappearing in a new form. Fri, May 4, 7pm, $10-15. luciadances.blogspot.com

RAW presents Lynea Diaz-Hagan SAFEhouse Arts, SF

THE VISIT tells the story of an an unexpected ICE raid of a domestic violence shelter. RAW is SAFEhouse Arts’ Resident Artist Workshop. Fri-Sat, May 4-5, 8pm, $15-20. lyneadiazhagan.com

High Release Dance Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto

By member-dancers and inspired by historical themes, daily frustrations, faith and redemp- tion, and the sheer joy of pattern and move- ment. Fri-Sat, May 4-5, 8pm, $15-40. highrelease.org CIty College of San Francisco Dance Department City College of SF’s Diego Rivera Theater, SF New choreographic work of faculty, student, and alumni choreographers in styles like Modern, Contemporary, Tap, Hip Hop and Salsa, as well as Afro Haitian and Tango. Fri- Sat, May 4-5, 8pm, $15. ccsf.edu

Sha Sha Higby, May 25-27 / Photo by Neil Girling and ShadowDance

Theatre of Yugen Theatre of Yugen at NOHspace, SF Power Plays : four satirical plays rooted in civil rights, community, and social justice. Fri-Sat, May 4-5 & 11-12. 7pm; Sundays, May 6 & 13, 4pm, $20-50. theatreofyugen.org

Saint Mary’s College Dance Company LeFevre Theater, Moraga Radical/Rituals features work by faculty per- formed by the student company. Thu-Fri, May 10-11, 8pm; Sat, May 12, 3pm & 8, $5-15. stmarys-ca.edu San Francisco Conservatory of Dance San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, SF An in-studio showing features new work being developed by the SFCD dancers and faculty members Christian Burns, Tristan Ching, Marlie Couto, Alex Ketley, Courtney Mazeika, and Eli SMUIN Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek & Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View Dance Series 02 features work by Val Canipa- roli, Helen Pickett, and Amy Seiwert. Lesher Center: Fri, May 11, 8pm; Sat, May 12, 2pm, $57- 73. Mountain View Center: Thu-Sat, May 24-26, 8pm; Sat-Sun, May 26-27, 2pm, $56-72. smuinballet.org Nelson. Fri, May 11, 8pm, FREE. sfconservatoryofdance.org

Kularts Bindlestiff Studio, SF

Kularts, May 16 / Photo by Wilfred Galila

INCARCERATED 6x9 is inspired by accounts of young Pinoy and Asian Americans incarcerated between 1966 and 2008. Fri-Sat, May 4-5 & 11- 12, 7:30pm; Sundays, May 6 & 13, 3pm, $20-50. kularts-sf.org Molissa Fenley and friends SAFEhouse Arts, SF Work by Molissa Fenley, Garth Grimball, Aisan Hoss, House of Lauren, Erik Lee and Joslyn Mathis-Reed. RAW is SAFEhouse Arts’ Resident Artist Workshop. Sun, May 6, 7pm, FREE. safehousearts.org Transform Fest: Okwui Okpokwasili YBCA Theater, SF Inspried by Nigerian political history, Poor People’s TV Room integrates movement, song, text, and visual imagery. Wed-Thu, May 9-10, 7:30pm, $15-20. ybca.org

Transform Fest: Printz Dance Company & DJ Spooky YBCA Theater, SF DJ Spooky presents an acoustic multimedia ex- perience of the Arctic world, while Printz Dance moves through a landscape of our transparent existence. Fri-Sat, May 11-12, 7:30pm, $35. ybca.org

AXIS Dance Company Z Space, SF

Radical Impact by Marc Brew with JooWan Kim; The Reflective Surface by Amy Seiwert; and Nadia Adame's Historias Rotas . Fri-Sat, May 4-5, 8pm; Sun, May 6, 2pm, $20-75. zspace.org/radicalimpact

Chlo & Co Dance Joe Goode Annex, SF

The Drove IV is an evening of Bay Area artists unpacking the nuance of human need. Features guest work from: bananarama, Call It Art, Jaq H. Dalziel, ReadyMaids, and STEAMROLLER Dance Company. Fri-Sat, May 11-12, 8pm, $15-30. chlocodance.com

project agora, May 12 / Photo by Austin Forbord

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