Coastal Belly Fest Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Cruz
to experiment on the edge of what is known. This year they present works that activate the entire building with shamanic healing gardens and manipulated realities. Thu-Sat, Sep 12-14 & 19-21, 7:30pm, Free-$35. counterpulse.org Arielle Cole & SevanKelee Boult SAFEhouse ARTS, SF In Phone, Keys, Wallet Arielle Cole’s ArcTan- gent Dance explores society’s transition from analog to digital through the lens of the mil- lennial experience. SevanKelee Boult (Lucky 7), presents a work exploring the history of the scarecrow and its relationship to slavery. Fri- Sat, Sep 13-14, 8pm, $15-$20. safehousearts.org CONCEPT series: 26 Green Room at SF War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, SF RAWdance and guest artists Kim Ip/Krimm’s Dance Party, randy reyes, Red Brick Company/ Nick Korkos, Robert Woods-LaDue & Sarah Woods-LaDue, and Virginia Matthews. Fri, Sep 13, 8pm; Sat, Sep 14, 3pm & 7pm, $10-$25. rawdance.org
Come and enjoy the 4th Annual Coastal Belly Fest. Doors open at 10am for dance work- shops, shopping the extensive bazaar, henna tattoo, Festival Dancing all afternoon and a spectacular evening Gala Show featuring the workshop teachers and special guests. Sat, Sep 21, 10am-10pm, $15-$155. coastalbellyfest.com
FROLIC, Sep 19-22 / photo by Robbie Sweeny
Hope Mohr Dance's Bridge Project The Women’s Building, SF
provide education to empower impoverished youth through dance. DanceFAR features works from today’s top choreographers with international artists from companies repre- senting the diverse Bay Area dance commu- nity. Sat Sep 7, 7-9pm, $100. danceFAR.org Alyssa Mitchel ODC Dance Commons, Studio B, SF How do we learn? Alyssa Mitchel draws upon her background in education as she explores that question in an hour-length dance pro- duction, The Classroom . Each section of work examines a particular element of the learning process. Mitchel integrates the recorded interview responses and written reflections of students, teachers and professors. The work features seven dancers: Jessica Bozzo, Jessica DeFranco, Sierra Heller, Tayler Kinner, Nicole Maimon, Katherine Neumann and Frankie Lee Peterson III. The creative team includes lighting designer, Daniel Weiermann, Chicago-based jazz composer Jacob Fisher and videographer Mark McBeth. Sat Sep 7, 8pm: Sun, Sep 8, 6pm, $20. alyssaevemitchel.weebly.com Black Choreographers Festival: Summer Series Malonga Casquelourd Center, Oakland Saturday's program will feature works by Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, Gregory Dawson and Reginald Savage, among others. Sunday’s show features more than half a dozen pre- professional youth dance groups from around the Bay Area, including Frankie Lee Peterson III, New Style Motherlode, Oakland School for the Arts, On Demand, Sweat and Zaccho Youth Dance Company. Sat Sep 7, 8pm: Sun,
HMD's Bridge Project and SFMOMA's Open Space present INHERITED BODIES : How do movement artists in different traditions contend with, honor, and resist the past? Featuring a series of lecture demonstra- tions using language and movement by Sara Shelton Mann, Jarrel Phillips, Nadhi Thekkek, and Snowflake Towers. Following, join Claudia La Rocco, Director of Community Engagement and Editor-in-Chief, SFMOMA's Open Space, for a moderated group discussion. Thu, Sep 26, 6-8pm, FREE. hopemohr.org Peri Trono SAFEhouse ARTS, SF Peri Trono explores space, shape, and order in her new dance work fold , inspired by Origami, the art of paper folding. Trono has presented her work in New York, San Fran- cisco, Santa Barbara, and Southern California. Fri-Sat, Sep 27-28, 8pm, $15-$20. safehousearts.org Join the inaugural performance of Vishwa Shanthi’s new series, Samarpanam: A Dedi- cation to Art . Smt. Shreelata Suresh takes the stage to perform Bharatanatyam in its tradi- tional and pure form in an intimate chamber setting for connoisseurs and serious students to enjoy. The one-hour performance will be followed by Q&A with the dancer. Sat, Sep 28, 4-5:30pm, $30. vishwashanthi.com Los Lupeños de San José School of Arts and Culture, San Jose The Cashion Cultural Legacy invites you to Los Lupeños de San José’s 50th Anniversary Gala Concerts. Under the artistic direction of choreographer Samuel Cortez, experience a deep-dive into distinct regions of México showcasing the past, the present, and the future – all with live musical accompaniment. Over 100 performers will share the stage including Los Lupeños Juvenil, Los Lupeños Legacy, Mariachi de la Bahia, Madrigal Musi- cal, and Ensamble Folklórico de Veracruz. Sat, Sep 28, 8pm; Sun, Sep 29, 2pm, $20-$35. cashionculturallegacy.org Vishwa Shanthi Cubberly Community Center, Palo Alto
SOULSKIN Dance, Sep 6 / photo by Annabelle Denmark
featuring twelve Bay Area LGBTQ+ artists. Program A: jose e abad, Jesselito Bie, Audrey Johnson, Melissa Lewis, Aiano Nakagawa, pateldanceworks. Thu, Sep 19, 8pm; Sat, Sep 21, 5pm; Sun, Sep 22, 7pm, $15-$25. Program B: Stephanie Hewett, Cynthia Ling Lee, Fran- ces Sedayao, Mark Travis Dance, Janpistar, Snowflake Towers. Fri, Sep 20, 8pm; Sat, Sep 21, 8pm; Sun, Sep 22, 4pm, $15-25. shawl-anderson.org Kickbal = Emma Lanier & Ky Frances. Evening includes SF premiere of Anagama , Emma’s solo about healing from pain and finding your voice again, previously shown in St. Louis and New York. This is also a rare chance to see Emma and Ky onstage together in their “lol-worthy” duet 11 Options for Beginnings of Various Dances . Fri-Sat, Sep 20-21, 8pm, $15. safehousearts.org PUSHfest Dance Festival ODC Theater, SF PUSH Dance Company kicks off its four- teenth season with PUSHfest, a mixed genre showcase of dance works by mid-career to emerging choreographers. The season will feature a final installment of the Afro-futuristic Mothership III by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and a world premiere work by guest choreographer Gerald Casel. Local choreog- raphers Yayoi Kambara, David Herrera and Joslynn Mathis Reed join the lineup as well as SF debuts by visiting companies and artists. Fri-Sat, Sep 20-21, 8pm; Sun, Sep 22, 4:30pm & 7:30pm, $20-$100. pushdance.org Kickbal SAFEhouse ARTS, SF
Bliss Dance Company Ohlone College Dance Studio, Fremont
Bliss Dance Company presents Sugar Baby . An evening length performance that will carry you through unexpected twists and turns using modern and contemporary jazz movement (For Mature Audiences). Sat, Sep 14, 8pm:
Sun, Sep 15, 2pm, $15-$20. blissdancecompany.org
FROLIC Waterfront Theater, Berkeley
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s first annual Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC,
Sep 8, 3pm, $10-$25. bcfhereandnow.com
Combustible Residency CounterPulse, SF CounterPulse is back with year three of Combustible, their highly-acclaimed dance/ technology residency that carves a place
DanceFAR , Sep 7 / photo courtesy of the artist
Duniya Dance & Drum Company Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, SF
The festival will feature traditional performing arts groups representing different regions of Africa and the African diaspora. The lineup will include some of the Bay Area’s premier dance companies, including Chinyakare Ensemble, Fua Dia Congo, Duniya Dance and Drum Company, and The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts World Music + Dance de- partments. Sun, Sep 29, 11am-4pm, FREE. duniyadance.com
AXIS Dance Company, Sep 5 / photo by David DeSilva
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