Check with theaters for performance, dates and times.

Sept. 23-Oct. 1	Smuin Ballet Fall Program World Premiere: Amy Seiwert Stabat Mater: Michael Smuin Tango Palace: Michael Smuin The Eternal Idol: Michael Smuin	Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 8:00 pm	Imitations of Intimacy New Work by detour dance Follows an odd couple who resists our frontal lobes, saying and acting upon those irrational and rhetorical things we normally keep to ourselves.	The Garage, San Francisco
Oct. 1, 6:00 p.m.	Western Ballet Making of a Dancer Former San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre shares key turning points on her journey to the great stages of Europe and America. Dancers from Western Ballet Company will also perform three pieces by renowned Latin American choreographers Vicente Nebrada, Yanis Pikieris and Alexi Zubiria.	Western Ballet, Mountain View
Oct. 2, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm	Art in Nature: The Nature of Art A FREE art festival with live music, dance, sculpture, painting, martial arts, poetry, henna tattoo, circus arts, theater, visual arts, storytelling, arts&crafts and kids activities. Curated by renowned Italian composer and artistic director Laura Inserra, as participants move along the Stream Trail, they experience participatory art in relationship with the natural world, and are invited to partake in the creative process of the artists.	Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park, Oakland
Oct. 6-9, 8:00 pm	ONSITE We Don't Belong Here Katie Faulkners' little seismic dance company Do I belong in this marriage? This body? This religion? This club? This nursing home? This career? Collaborators Katie Faulkner, choreographer and Artistic Director and multimedia artist Michael Trigilio collaborate on a new dance and media response to these questions in a series of free impromptu performances in downtown San Francisco. Commissioned by Dancers' Group as part of the ONSITE series, features 20 Bay Area dancers and explores the relationships between art and commerce, media and the body, and exposes the many questions we carry about our own belonging in the world.	Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco
Oct. 7-8, 8:00 pm Oct. 9, 2:00 pm	Axis Dance Company Debuts Full of Words in 2011 Home Season Choreographed by internationally known choreographer Marc Brew, features three duets/conversations between 3 couples of dancers in everyday settings, each beginning with a dialogue based on the game 'you say a word, I say a word and we will make a sentence.' Only the opening lines are spoken, the rest of the dialogue is performed by the dancers.	Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland
Oct. 9, 11:30am-4:30pm	An Afternoon in the Wine Country ODC’s Annual Celebration in Napa Valley	Rubicon Estate
Oct. 10, 3:00 pm	Moving Arts Dance Final performance West Wave Dance 3 or MORE Featuring Christian Burns, dance ceres, Nhan Ho Project, Nicole Bridgens, BODYTRAFFIC (Alex Ketley), and Anandha Ray/Moving Arts Dance	ODC Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 14-15, 8:00 pm	A Mused Collective BLUE: ebbs and flows Unquenchable An athletic and reflective exploration of our relationship with water, specifically confronting the disparity of safe water access in developing nations, performed with a West African percussion trio. French Toast The role of community and love through loss, recovery and death, performed with a vocalist, accompanied by a four-piece classical music ensemble.	CounterPULSE, San Francisco
Oct. 14-15, 8:00pm	sjDANCEco - 9th Annual Fall Concert Various stages of desires and rejections, spiraling physicality and intimate athleticism, edgy/humorous, fast-paced and sensuous. Three World Premieres by sjDANCEco Choreographer/Dancer, Heather Cooper and awarding winning Artistic Directors Maria Basile and Gary Masters featuring live music in collaboration with the San José Chamber Orchestra. Also José Limón's masterpiece 'Missa Brevis' with Guest Artist, Raphael Boumaila Principal Dancer.	California Theatre, San Jose
Oct. 14-23	Alonzo King's LINES Ballet World Premiere set to music of Sephardic tradition and King's celebrated 1998 work, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, with music by tabla master Zakir Hussain	Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Oct. 15-16, six times a day beginning at 11:00 AM and run every 45 min until 2:45 PM.	Trolley Dances Jodi Lomask performs her popular solo from The Perfect Flower. A geographic and artistic tour of San Francisco, Trolley Dances 2011 welcomes audiences for two days of public, site-specific dance performances. Performances are free, aside from the trolley fare. KT Nelson unveils a 10-minute excerpt of her newest work, Transit. Dancing with two custom-built bicycles by Max Chen, Transit finds beauty in the way we travel through a day: the bustle of the morning commute, the mid-day lull, and the evening journey home.	San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street
Oct. 17, 10:00 am	Alonzo King Interviewed On KQED's Forum	KQED public radio, 88.5 FM (San Francisco) and can be streamed online: kqed.org
Tuesdays, starting Oct. 18, 10:00 am	SPARK: Frontiers of Dance Next on Spark starting October 18, explore the frontiers of the dance world with some of the Bay Area's most innovative choreographers and performers: AXIS Dance Company, Ledoh, & Belva Stone.	KQED TV
Oct 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 8:00 pm Oct 23 and 30, 2:00 pm	ODC Theater Night Falls Physical theater. Peregrine-- played by several performers-- excavates her life for clues: What has she done wrong? What has she done right? What should she do now? And then, an unexpected visitor alters the course of the night. Choreography: Deborah Slater, Written & Directed by: Julie Hébert, Original Music Composition: Bruno Louchouarn	ODC Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 22, 8:00 pm	Stamping Zebra Dance Theatre Selkie Tides Inspired by Scottish and Irish tales and songs of shapeshifting seals, SELKIE TIDES is a unique multi-faceted piece of dance theatre that features a rich cross section of the community, including able-bodied and disabled dancers. Choreographer Sharon Took-Zozaya	San Jose State University’s Hal Todd Theatre in Hugh Gillis Hall
Oct. 26, 2:15–4:05 pm	Rodin and the Dancing Body Open Rehearsal In conjunction with the exhibition Rodin and America, Muriel Maffre, former principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and lecturer in the Dance Division of the Stanford Drama Department, teaches a fall course that explores the intersection between Rodin and dance. Rodin's friendship with local dance artist Isadora Duncan is the starting point for this exhibit, during which students move through the museum's auditorium with their dancing bodies, providing a unique perspective on a significant aspect of Rodin's work. Dance artist and LINES Contemporary Ballet Director Alonzo King joins Maffre and her students for a series of open rehearsals.	Roble Gym, Stanford University
Oct. 28, 5:00 -9:00 pm	POST:Ballet POST:Arts Choreography of founding Artistic Director Robert Dekkers, includes the duet from Milieu, featuring original music by San Francisco's Daniel Berkman, I need to be touched, and a World Premiere with an original score by Bay Area composer Jacob Wolkenhauer.	111 Minna Bar, San Francisco
OCT 31, 7:00 PM	OPEN DANCE REHEARSAL: MINEVENT MERCE CUNNINGHAM REPERTORY DANCED BY STANFORD STUDENTS WITH COMMENTARY BY DANCE CRITIC ALASTAIR MACAULAY The culminating event of a week-long repertory residency. The form is a MinEvent - a shortened version of Cunningham’s innovative Event format, where parts of repertory works are fractured and re-configured into a seamless and singular dance. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC	ROBLE GYM, DANCE STUDIO 38, Stanford University