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Updated October 23, 2011

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.
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.
Oct. 9, 11:30am-4:30pm
An Afternoon in the Wine Country
ODC’s Annual Celebration in Napa Valley
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.
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
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

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