Check with theaters for performance, dates and times.

March 23- April 2 Gala special program March 24. See schedule for balcony talks.	ODC Dance Downtown Two world-premieres: Blink of an Eye (Nelson) and What we carry What we keep (Way) Live music, and the reprise of Brenda Way's Walk Back the Cat and Kate Weare's Giant.	Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
March 30-31, 8:00 p.m. April 1, 2:00 & 7:30 p.m. April 2, 2:00 p.m.	LEVYDance and ODC The Invitation LIES AND OTHER TRUTHS Choreography by Sara Shelton Mann in collaboration with performers: Abby Crain, Alexander Diaz, Dag Andersson, Keanu Brady, Michaela Burns, Chinchin Hsu, Yu Reigen. Composer: Richard Marriott Musicians: Richard Marriott and Carla Fabrizio.	ODC B'Way Theater, San Francisco
March 31-April 12	San Francisco Ballet SWAN LAKE Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson, Black Swan Pas de Deux and Act II Choreography: Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa. Casting	Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
April 5 - April 18	San Francisco Ballet MADE FOR SF BALLET TRIO Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Composer: Michael Nyman, Choreographer: Myles Thatcher WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR Composers: Ezio Bosso and Antonio Vivaldi, Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon	Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
April 8, 8:00PM April 9, 4:00PM & 7:00PM	ODC Pilot 68: Wild Bodies Topics from female empowerment to exploring "free choice" within the body. Choreography by Kristin Damrow, Peter Cheng, Garth Grimball, Alyssandra Katherine Wu, Carly Lave, Lili Weckler	ODC Dance Commons, Studio B, San Francisco
April 20-22, 8:00 pm	ODC Theater David Gordon and Pick Up Performance Co(s) LIVE ARCHIVEOGRAPHY Featuring live performances from Valda Setterfield, Karen Graham, and Scott Cunningham, his scripted storytelling interlaces with projected collage, photographs, and videos. Gordon reexamines the artifacts of his past to demystify the relationship between life, family, and work.	ODC Theater, San Francisco
April 20-29, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00pm	CounterPulse 2017 Edge Residency Performance The Bell in the Blood by Scarlett Cushion weather // body by Arletta Anderson & Adam Smith. Artist reception on Friday 21 after the show. Artist Opportunities Mixer April 21, 6:00pm-7:30pm: Learn about current artist opportunities for choreographers and community artists. Meet the CounterPulse curatorial group to ask questions about your project and get tips on applying.	CounterPulse, San Francisco
April 21, noon	Dancers' Group Bay Area Dance Week Kick-Off Event A 10-day celebration of dance featuring hundreds of FREE classes, performances, open rehearsals, lecture demonstrations at locations throughout the Bay Area from April 21-Aril 30. The Kick-Off event acknowledges the 2017 Dancers Choice Awardees and Della Davidson Prize recipient.	City Hall, San Francisco
April 21 to April 29, 7:30 p.m. April 21-22, 27-28 & 29 2:00 p.m. April 23, 7:30 p.m.	Sonoma State University Department of Theatre Arts & Dance Waiting in Seoul Walking in Tokyo A collaborative, contemporary dance piece exploring Japanese, South Korean and American Contemporary Dance aesthetics - "Waiting in Seoul Walking in Tokyo" - is performed by 21 Sonoma State University Dance Program students.	Evert B. Person Theatre, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
April 22, 7:00 pm	Best of Diablo Ballet Carnival of the Imagination (Saint-Saëns/ Robert Dekkers) Pas de Deux and Coda from Raymonda Three to Tango (Sally Streets) short film Aeterna XXI by Walter Yamazaki	Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, Yountville
April 23, 10:00am to 5:00pm	sjDANCEco Festival @ Santana Row Celebrating National Dance Week, sixty to seventy Bay Area dance organizations present many styles of dance. Admission and parking is FREE.	Santana Row Park, 368 Santana Row, Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose
April 26-29	San Francisco Performances Paul Taylor Dance Company Program A April 26: Spring Rounds, New Work, Szyygy Program B April 27-28: Book of Beasts, Lines of Loss, Black Tuesday Program C April 29-30: Danbury Mix, Insects and Heroes, Esplanade	Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
April 27, 11:00am to 1:00pm	Smuin Ballet Open Rehearsal Open studio rehearsal. Observe Smuin’s 16 dancers during a typical day in the studio, working in conjunction with ballet master and choreographers. Also livestream on Smuin’s Facebook page at 11:00 am.	Smuin Dance Studio, San Francisco
April 27 - 30, Thurs. - Sat. at 8:00 p.m., Sun. at 3:00 p.m	Risa Jaroslow + Dancers Touch Bass World premiere. A collaboration with Bay Area bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa	ODC Theater, San Francisco
April 28-30	Menlowe Ballet FLORAISON World Premiere by Michael Lowe & Sarah-Jane Measor to music of Philip Glass. Choreographic debut by company dancers Stefanie Maughan & Ali McKeon. Return of Measor’s Portraits Selected works by accomplished young artists	Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, Atherton
April 28 - May 7	San Francisco Ballet CINDERELLA Composer: Sergei Prokofiev, Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon	Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
April 29, noon to 4:30 pm	Dancing in the Park SF Mark Foehringer Dance Project's annual outdoor dance event featuring dance companies from the San Francisco Bay Area. Schedule courtesy MFDP: (times and running order subject to change) 12:00pm - Mark Foehringer Introduction to Dancing in the Park SF 12:03pm - SJSU University Dance Theater MFDP Ensemble 12:31pm - Conservatory for Contemporary Dance Arts 12:39pm - LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican University 12:47pm - The New Ballet School 12:51pm - LINES Ballet Training Program 1:03pm - San Francisco Ballet School 1:07pm - David Le 1:14pm - Carly Lave 1:30pm - sjDanceCO 1:34pm - Stanford University 1:42pm - Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble 1:48pm - sjDANCEco 1:53pm - FACT/SF 2:02pm - Katharine Hawthorne 2:10 pm - Post:Ballet 2:17pm - Kinetech Arts 2:27 pm - Printz Dance Project 2:33 pm- burnsWORK 2:40pm - Dance Theatre of San Francisco 2:45 pm - Ktdavisdance 2:55pm - Tanya Bello's Project. B. 3:05pm - The Anata Project 3:15pm- Rogelio Lopez and Dancers 3:23pm - AXIS Dance Company 3:33pm - MFDP Ensemble 3:40pm- Carnaval King 2016 Carlos Venturo & Natalie Elaine Terry 3:48pm- Folklorico Nacional Mexicano 3:57pm- Nemenzo Polynesian Dance Group 4:07pm- Sambaxé Drum and Dance Company	Band Shell Music Concourse off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
April 29, 2:30 – 5:00	San Francisco Dance Film Festival Dances for Camera 2017 Highlights from the 2016 festival, including award-winning screendance shorts and the documentary film Kick Ball Change, which offers a window into the creative, crazy, and inspiring mind of Maxim Kozhevnikov, five-time professional world champion in latin ballroom dance. Free and open to the public.	Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
April 29, Doors Open: 11:30 am, Class Viewing: 11:45–1:00 pm	San Francisco Ballet Open Company Class In celebration of Bay Area Dance Week, San Francisco Ballet will hold an open Company class onstage led by one of the Company's Ballet Masters. This is an open seating free event. RSVP.	Memorial Opera House, San Francisco

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