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March 2010

 

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Updated March 8, 2010
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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
March 4-6, 8:00 pm
University Dance Theater of San Francisco State University
Premiere Host
Created by Mark Foehringer
McKenna Theater, San Francisco State University
March 4-6, 8:00 pm
Hope Mohr Dance
Third Home Season
Works by three generations of female dance makers-Hope Mohr, Molissa Fenley and Yvonne Rainer.
Z Space at Theater Artaud, San Francisco
March 5-6
March 5, 6, 12 & 13, 8:00 pm
March 14, 3:00 PM
AscenDance Project
BEYOND GRAVITY
Inspired by the strength and grace rock climbers use to overcome gravity, AscenDance Project's work explores the aesthetics of rock climbing. Dancers perform on a vertical stage without the use of ropes.
The Ashby Stage, Berkeley
March 6, 10:00 AM -4:00 PM
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Family Day
An Open House for the Community
Free 45-minute dance classes every hour. See schedule.
Zaccho Studio, San Francisco
March 9-12, 8:00 pm
March 13, 2:00 & 8:00 pm
March 14, 3:00 pm

Cal Performances
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Wide-ranging program of classics.
March 11, 7:30 pm
The Dance Discourse Project #8: How Do YouTube & So You Think You Can Dance Both Help and Hinder? CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group. FREE. Part panel talk with Eric Kupers, Monique Jenkinson, and Philip Huang, part world cafe with the audience
CounterPULSE, San Francisco
March 12-13
Cubberly Theater, Palo Alto
March 12 - 28
ODC/Dance
39th Annual Spring Season
ODC/Dance Downtown

Includes three different programs of acclaimed works and two world premieres: Labor of Love choreographed by KT Nelson, and Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance) choreographed by ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way.
March 17, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Diablo Ballet
Annual Free Theatre Encounter
Free annual program consists of a one-hour lecture/demonstration performed with stage lighting and piano accompaniment. It offers young people a true theatre experience.
March 17-26,
Dancers’ Group
Intimate Visibility
by LEVYdance
A collision of new media, dance, and flash mob
Performances spontaneously occur in: North Beach, Chinatown, the corner of Castro and Market, the Ferry Building, Pier 39, Union Square, and United Nations Plaza.
March 18, 5:30 PM
ODC/Dance
Something About a Nightingale Quirky piece set to music by the Tin Hat Trio.
River - explores the landscape of domestic turmoil and solace found in nature.
24 Exposures - superhuman leaps and turns and naturalistic gesture
March 20, 8:00PM
Tim Rubel Human Shakes
Bananaritis
Suggests that societies have often become obsessed with the most ridiculous ideas, thus allowing them to be led down a path where sensible communication is no longer possible.
CounterPULSE, San Francisco
March 26-27, 8:00 pm
Cal Performances
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Nearly Ninety
Evening-length work.
March 29, 7:00 PM
Leaders at the Lab
A Conversation with Choreographer Reggie Wilson

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.

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