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February 2010

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CANCELLED	Cal Performances Lyon Opera Ballet Duo (Forsythe/Willems) Bella Figura (Kylian/Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini) Grosse Fugue (Keersmaeker/Beethoven)	Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
February 4,	SF Ballet School Trainee Program An Afternoon of Dance at Stanford The international roster of pre-professional young dancers presents excerpts from classical and contemporary repertoire. Free and open to the public.	Roble 38, Stanford University
Thursdays-Sundays, February 4-21, 2010. All performances at 8pm except Sat 2/20 performance at 10pm	Luxury Items Monique Jenkinson Asks us to think about all those things we keep on wanting: that nice car, the perfume, or the nice bottle of champagne.	Counterpulse, San Francisco
Feb. 6-7	ODC DANCE JAM OUT OF BOUNDS ODC’s Teen Company performs works By Kimi Okada, KT Nelson, Amy Foley, Erika Chong Shuch and Amara Tabor Smith	ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco
Feb. 7, 7:00 pm	Bent Spoon Modern Dance Company Annual Winter Show New student choreography and professional choreography.	Roble Gym Studio 38, Stanford University
Feb. 9, 7:00 PM	Leaders at the Lab A Conversation with Choreographer and Director David Gordon Discuss the innovative models and career choices that some of today’s leading artists have developed to endure and flourish in the ever-changing climate of dance-making in our culture. This event is free, open to the public and will be followed by a reception.	Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, San Francisco
Feb. 9–20	San Francisco Ballet Opus 19/ The Dreamer Ghosts Company B	War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Feb. 11–21	San Francisco Ballet All-Balanchine Program Serenade Stravinsky Violin Concerto Theme and Variations	War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Feb. 12, Noon-1:00 PM Feb. 14, 9:00 am and 11:00 am	Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project Love Everywhere A public celebration of love intended to bring strangers together. Live music by Daveen DiGiacomo, performed by a chamber orchestra and conducted by David Möschler.	Feb. 12 San Francisco City Hall Feb. 14 Glide Memorial Church
Feb. 12, 13, 14: Oakland Feb. 19-21, 26-28: San Francisco	6th Annual Black Choreographers Festival Honoring the Legacy – Celebrating the Next Generation Featuring choreographers from around the USA.	Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Feb. 16-17, 7:30 pm	Beijing Dance Academy The Butterfly Lovers (US Premiere) Choreographed by Zhang Jianmin to violin concerto The Butterfly Lovers, by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao. Lead roles danced by Wang Zihan and Shao Junting.	Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco
Feb. 18–20 8:00 pm	San Francisco Performances Akram Khan Company Bahok Explores the ways in which the body carries national identity and a sense of belonging. Eight dancers from diverse cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds act out their attempts to communicate through dramatic dance and spoken vocabulary as they wait out their airport limbo, their destination unknown.	Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Feb. 19-20, 26-27, 8:00 pm Feb. 21 & 28, 6:00 pm	ahdanco - abigail hosein dance company here, look New works choreographed by Abigail Hosein, featuring performances by members of the Oakland Poetry Slam, Aaron Gardner and Nazelah Jamison, and new music by Scott Simon.	Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley
Feb. 20	Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble Athleticism and drama, with modern works ranging from bold and edgy to lyrical and elegiac.	San Jose State University
Feb. 25-28, 8:00 p.m.	Jess Curtis/Gravity Interdisciplinary dance performance works by a team of international movement artists for their 10th Anniversary Season. The U.S. Premiere of Claire Cunningham’s award-winning solo, Mobile, and a preview excerpt of Jess Curtis/Gravity’s Dances for Non-Fictional Bodies.	Counterpulse, San Francisco
Feb. 26-27	Natasha Carlitz Dance Ensemble Aathleticism and drama, with modern works ranging from bold and edgy to lyrical and elegiac.	Stage Dor, Sausalito
Feb. 26, 7:30 pm Feb. 28, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm	Diablo Ballet Inside the Dancer's Studio Innovative program places the audience within yards of the stage, each performance is followed by a Q&A with the dancers, moderated by KDFC Radio’s Jay Styne, and a reception featuring tasty delicacies.	Shadelands Arts Center, Walnut Creek
Feb. 27, 8:00 pm Feb 28, 1:20 pm March 4-6, 8:00 pm March 7, 1:30 pm	Ballet San Jose Romeo and Juliet Choreography by Dennis Nahat, Music by Sergei Prokofiev	Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose