calendar MAY 2019 VISIT THE ONLINE COMMUNITY CALENDAR, to find additional events and to submit a performance. dancersgroup.org
Bay Area Dance Week The annual festival of free dance workshops, performances, open rehearsals, classes, and more continues through May 5, across the region. Fri, Apr 26-Sun, May 5, see website for all events and to sign up. FREE. bayareadance.org
SMUIN Ballet YBCA Theater, SF Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Sunset Center, Carmel by the Sea Presenting a world premiere by Amy Seiwert, set to the a cappella soundtrack of Oakland’s own Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble. Also fea- turing the return of Michael Smuin's favorites. Fri, Apr 26-Sat, Jun 1, see website for details. smuinballet.org USF Spring Dance Ensemble Concert Presentation Theatre at USF, SF A concert featuring Hip-Hop, Ballet, Con temporary and West African dances performed by USF students with choreography from: Philip Agyapong, Amie Dowling, Dexandro “D” Montalvo, Eli Nelson, Jennifer Polyocan & Liv Schaffer. Fri-Sat, May 3-4, 8pm, $10. usfca.edu This new dance collective creates work in- spired by the life/art process of Anna Halprin and uses a variety of media to generate cho- reographic material that is relevant and sym- bolic of various themes that arise during the process. Presented by SAFEhouse’s Resident Artist Workshop. Fri-Sat, May 3-4, 8pm, $15-20. safehousearts.org Santa Rosa Junior College Dance Program Santa Rosa High School Performing Arts Center Out of the Box features exciting new dance work by student choreographers and SRJC dance alumni, hard-hitting Hip hop from Auxi- lary Dance Company, pieces by SRJC’s Faculty, and Afro-Brazilian dance by guest choreogra- pher Stephanie DeSilva. Fri-Sat, May 3-4, 7pm; Sun, May 5, 2pm, $10-18. srjcdance2019.brownpapertickets.com Jasmine Yohai SAFEhouse Arts, SF
Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble, May 4 / Photo by Tony Nguyen
Hao Expression Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto A dance recital by its students of all ages and levels. Sun, May 5, 2pm, $15-25. haoexpression.com
Liss Fain Dance Z Space, SF
Close the Door Slowly transforms Z Space into an old-world study imbued with the voyages of a past inhabitant. Fri-Sat, May 3-4, 8pm; Sun,
May 5, 2 pm, $18-35 lissfaindance.org
Jonah Kagen and Reyes Dance SAFEhouse Arts, SF
Farah Yasmeen Shaikh Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose Nazaakat aur Taaqat—A Delicate Power will showcase the percussive beauty of a Kathak, that tells stories via intense dance technique, lush costumes and atmospheric mood-altering music. Sat, May 4, 5:30pm, $45-60. nooranidance.com Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble Rothwell Theater at Mills College, Oakland SADC’s teen modern company performs specially commissioned work by Arletta Anderson & Adam Smith, Miriam Engel, Katie Meyers, Scott McPheeters, and Rogelio Lopez & Dancers and will be joined onstage by each choreographers’ professional company. Sat, Ranko Ogura Dance Theatre of Yugen at NOHspace, SF In Water Pilgrimage , Ranko Ogura explores the divergent evolution in the relationship of all liv- ing beings to water. Fusing Contemporary and Butoh dance, Ogura transforms three women’s bodies into the powerful, mystical and vital essence of water. Sat, May 4, 8pm, $25-50. rodance.wix.com Virginia Matthews Spreckels Center for the Performing Arts, Rohnert Park Dance Mission Theater, SF Approaching 70 - 50 Years of a Life in Dance: A Solo Dance Retrospective explores a 50-year May 4, 7:30pm, $12-15. shawl-anderson.org
Jonah Kagan’s solo Heart is an anti-cynical and earnest dance about love. Reyes Dance per- forms a new work titled In Self , which plays with the distinction between shadows and physical reality. Presented by SAFEhouse’s Resident Art- ist Workshop. Thu-Fri, May 9-10, 8pm, $15-20. safehousearts.org
Sha Sha Higby, May 25 / Photo by Albert Hollander
Lauren Simpson Minnesota Street Project, SF
career with live solos from 1975 to the present with archival footage and narrative which looks at the place of an elder dancer/performer in the field of dance. Rohnert Park: Sat, May 4, 8pm; Sun, May 5, 2pm; SF: Fri-Sat, May 10-11, 8pm; Sun, May 12, 7pm, $15-20. danceartspace.com Lenora Lee Dance Angel Island Immigration Station, SF Re-Staging of Within These Walls & its sequel Dreams of Flight . Inspired by experiences of those detained and processed at the Angel Island Immigration Station, LLD transforms & animates the historic Barracks and Hospital into sites for remembrance. Sat & Sun, May 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 11am & 1pm, $7-80. lenoraleedance.com
DANCE EXHIBIT is a dance within an ex- hibit space. It is a call to embodiment and a subjective investigation inside the world of objects, ideas, and white cubes. Each performance is followed by a short talk. Thu- Fri, May 9-10 & Thu-Sat, May 16-18, 7:30pm, $15-30. laurensimpsondance.com
Dorrance Dance YBCA Theater, SF
A co-presentation with YBCA and San Francis- co Performances, bringing ETM: Double Down in which the performers use “tap instru- ments” created by Nicholas Young dance and create live music. Thu-Fri, May 9-10, 7:30pm; Sat, May 11, 2pm & 7:30pm, $45-70. sfperformances.org
Hao Expression Cubberly Theater, Palo Alto
Academy of Classical Ballet-CALIFORNIA Campbell Heritage Theatre
Excalibur is inspired by the classic tales of king Arthur and his sword. Sun, May 5, 4:30pm, $12-25. haoexcalibur.eventbrite.com
Coppélia is a story ballet of intrigue, magical spells, dancing dolls, love's triumph and the thread of playful comedy woven throughout. Sat, May 11, 2 & 7:30pm, $20-25. aocballet.com
Amy Lewis and Agnes Szelag, May 24-25 / Photo by Robbie Sweeny
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