October 2018

Check with theaters for performance, dates and times.

Sept. 28-Oct. 6	Smuin Contemporary Ballet DANCE SERIES 01 Blue Until June by Trey McIntyre Merely Players by Nicole Haskins Echo by Ben Needham-Wood Sinfonietta by Rex Wheeler Schubert Scherzo by Michael Smuin Eternal Idol by Michael Smuin	Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Oct. 4-5, 7:30 pm	Stanford Live Dystopian Dream Nitin Sawhney and Wang Ramirez U.S. premiere. a theatrical realization of a concept originated by composer Nitin Sawhney, a collaboration with international hip-hop duo Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, takes the audience on a journey through parallel universes and unreal dreams. Featuring animated projections, flying by wire, and dazzling set design, Dystopian Dream grapples with themes of loss, isolation, surrender, and continuity.	Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University
Oct. 4 – 6, 7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.	Hope Mohr Dance and ODC Theater extreme lyric I (world premiere) An intimate work presented in the round for small audiences, featuring Anne Carson's translations of Sappho. Director and Choreographer Hope Mohr will distill choreographic forms as vehicles for dancers to explore ecstatic states, moments in which the self dissolves.	ODC Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 4-14	San Francisco Dance Film Festival Over 100 films from21 countries, including multiple World, U.S., and West Coast premieres. Special screening of Paul Taylor: Dancemaker, October 13, 6:30pm	San Francisco venues
Oct. 5- 7, 8:00 PM	Dance Theatre of San Francisco Season 6 Fall Program And If It's Still Black Outside World premiere by Sandrine Cassini From: Now On by Robert Dekkers Cooties by Ben Needham-Wood	Z Space, San Francisco
Oct. 5-14	Alonzo King LINES Ballet + Kronos Quartet 35th Anniversary World Premiere Handel	Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
OCT. 11-13, 8:00PM	ODC Theater Sara Shelton Mann Echo / Riding the Rapids What is an echo that resounds from the walls? Is it an invitation to inhabit a spatial interim, the terrain between viewer, performer, composer, and space?	ODC Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 11-13 & 18-20 Thu-Sun, 8:00 pm	Joe Goode Performance Group Girl A work by Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique & Marc Kate.	Joe Goode Performance Annex, San Francisco
Oct. 11-14, 18-21, 8:00 pm	Zaccho Dance Theatre Picture Bayview Hunters Point Free performances over two weekends. This interdisciplinary, site-specific performance centered in, on, and around the historic Bayview Opera House is a celebration of the community in which Zaccho has made its home.	Bayview Opera House, San Francisco
Oct. 12, 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m	TRANSIT DANCES: NIGHT TROLLEY Epiphany Dance Theater and Biederman Redevelopment Ventures. Participating artists include ALTERNATIVA, ODC/Dance, Parangal Dance Company, Robert Moses’ Kin, Tara Brandel.	Salesforce Park, San Francisco
Oct. 19 - 21,	Liss Fain Dance I Don’t Know and Never Will: A Recomposition What are the anchor points in our past that define us? An immersive performance installation based on letters choreographer Liss Fain received decades ago. This is Liss Fain Dance’s 30th anniversary season.	Z Space, San Francisco
Oct. 20 - 21	ODC Dance Gifts of Solace Kimi Okada (World Premiere)	Trolley Dances in Mission Creek Park
Oct. 22, 6:00pm	Stanford Live Andy Warhol and Merce Cunningham: Returning to RainForest A screening of the film of Cunningham's dance piece RainForest (1968), which incorporated Warhol's "Silver Clouds," helium-inflated mylar balloons that work as reflective mirrors and climate barometers on stage, will be followed by a performance demonstration by former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Silas Riener. A panel organized and led by Professor Peggy Phelan, the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute and "Contact Warhol" exhibition co-curator, will follow.	Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Oct 25-27, 8:00 pm	Jess Curtis/Gravity Beyond Gravity Llegends from a future queer revolution and experience new ways of being with each other at a family reunion for a post-human universe. New body-based performance works from around the world by jose e. abad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Abby Crain, Gabriel Christian, Rachael Dichter, and Mira Kautto.	CounterPulse, San Francisco
Oct. 26, 7:00 pm	Axis Dance In Motion A celebratory evening of sharing, connecting and busting a move on the dance floor. Sneak peek of new works by Robert Dekkers and Marc Brew. Hors d'oeuvres and an open bar are included with ticket purchase.	Berkeley Ballet Theater, Berkeley
Oct. 26 -27, 800 pm Oct. 28, 7:00 pm	Sarah Bush Dance Project Spirit and Bones World Premiere choreographed by Artistic Director Sarah Bush, featuring Joanna Haigood, Elvia Marta, Priscilla Regalado, Joan Lazarus, Anne Bluethenthal and Sue Li Jue. An evening-length production highlighting female resilience in times of darkness, the tenacity of the solo woman, and the ferocious love and strength generated by community.	Taube Atrium Theatre at San Francisco War Memorial Building