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February 2012

 

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Updated February 2, 2012
Check with venues for performance, dates and times.
Feb. 3, 7:00 pm
ODC/Dance unplugged
Breathing Underwater
A behind-the-scenes look at Brenda Way's latest work-in-progress set to premiere at Dance Downtown in March explores interactions between four women, from tender to exclusionary to aggressive.
ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco
Feb. 3, 7:00 pm
Mills College Dance Alumni Association
Ebb+Flow
The first annual Mills College Alumni Dance Concert. Featuring artists Alyce Finwall, Bianca Brzezinski, Jose Navarrete, Leyya Mona Tawil, Molissa Fenley, Peiling Kao, Nora Chipaumire and Sheena Johnson, the evening will include an installation, film, duets and solos with live music collaboration as well as a site-specific work.
Feb. 3-4, 8:00 pm
Stanford University Dance Division
Chocolate Heads

Directed by Aleta Hayes
Roble Gym, Stanford University
Feb. 7, 7:30pm
The News
Brontez Purnell Dance Company, with other performers. "Queer performance" by Bay Area artists.
SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
Feb. 9, 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Dancing History: Anna Sokolow's Rooms
And lecture by dance historian Hannah Kosstrin
Free. In conjunction with the photography exhibit Anna Sokolow in Israel. Portrays the "terrifying lonliness that afflicts even people living in the closest proximity to each other."
Feb. 10 – 12, 17 – 19, 24 - 26
The Black Choreographers Festival
Here & Now ~ 2012
Featuring vibrant BCF Concerts and BCF Special Event, Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh
Weekend One, Laney College, Oakland
Weekends Two & Three, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Feb 14 - Feb 25
San Francisco Ballet
Chroma (McGregor)
Beaux
(Morris) World Premiere) NEW!
Number Nine (Wheeldon)
Feb 16 - Feb 26
San Francisco Ballet
Le Carnaval des Animaux (Ratmansky)
Francesca da Rimini (Possokhov)(World Premiere)NEW!
Trio (Tomasson)
Feb. 17-18, 8:00 pm
Feb. 19, 7:00 pm
Want
Holly Johnston/LEDGES AND BONES
World premiere, leads five dancers through a shifting visual landscape as they explore the exhilarating, maddening, and often mysterious terrain of relationships and our instinct for self-gratification. With post-performance Q&A.
ODC Theater, San Francisco
Feb. 17, 7:00pm
Feb. 18, 2:30pm and 7:00 pm
sjDANCEco's ChoreoProject Award's Concert
A low-tech dance series for all dance disciplines (modern, ballet, hip hop, jazz, ethnic dance, etc.) designed to provide emerging and professional choreographers a cost free opportunity to present their work.
Dance Theatre, Spartan Complex SPX 219, San Jose State University
Feb. 17-18, 8:00 pm
Tanya Bello's Project. B. and Alyce Finwall Dance Theater
New work by choreographers Alyce Finwall and Tanya Bello Tanya, reunite afterd 10 years. Having performed together in New York and with the Washington DC based modern troupe Rincones and Company, Bello and Finwall are once again sharing the stage together, but this time as directors of their own companies.
Feb. 17, 8:00 pm
Feb. 18, 6:30 pm
Feb. 19, 3:00 pm
Company C Contemporary Ballet
World to Come (Proia)
Vespers (Grenke)
Akimbo (Anderson)
Footage (Anastos)
Feb. 23-25, 8:00 PM
San Francisco Performances
Batsheva
Max
Expounds and celebrates the potential of the human body and the possibilities of choreography.
Feb. 24-25, 8:00 pm
Cal Performances
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Story/Time
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley

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