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Sept. 9 - Oct. 30 |
Split
by FACT/SF
Charles Slender White's "peep show meets escape room" continues in CounterPulse's Project Space for a total of 300 one-on-one dance performances that explore the relationship between dissociative episodes and identity formation. |
CounterPulse,
San Francisco
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Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m. |
Hope Mohr Dance
Bacchae Before World premiere of a dance theater project inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson's Bakkhai. |
Joe
Goode Annex, San Francisco
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Sept. 30-Oct. 4 |
Smuin
Contemporary Ballet
Zorro! by Michael Smuin The adventures of the California folk hero created by author Johnston McCalley. Set to an engaging original score by composer Charles Fox. |
Streaming on Demand
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October 1, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm |
Opening Night—South
Slope Cinema
“pop-up drive-in movie includes two dance films: ARTWorks, Part 1, Drea Cooper, Robert Rosenwasser of Lines Ballet Fire in the Mountain, Eric Koziol |
Alemany Market Plaza,
100 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco
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Oct. 2, 10:00 AM |
ODC Theater
Funsch Dance Experience EPOCH In-person and virtual. Subverts conventional performance models by pushing the limits of duration. EPOCH unfolds over 12 hours, in a gratuitous surplus of movement, interrupted by moments of nothingness, to challenge the valuing of acquisition and excess. Is endurance political? What bonds does an unlikely scenario forge? |
ODC
Theater, St San Francisco
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Oct. 3, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
San Jose Dance Theatre
San Jose Movement Festival Features dance companies from San Jose and around the Bay Area. Over 30 professional dancers including Ballet22, Fermata Ballet Collective, sjDanceCo, Abhinaya Dance Company, Cambrian Symphony, and the San Jose Dance Theatre Company. |
St. James Park, San Jose
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Oct. 4, 11:30 AM
& 1:30 PM Oct. 5, 12:00 PM & 3:00 PM |
Garrett + Moulton
Productions and the
Jewish Community Center of SF ROLL OUT A Free To The Public Performance Event Celebrating our Return to Live Performance |
Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco: Pottruck Family Atrium, San
Francisco
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Oct. 14-17 |
Flyaway
Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy Choreographer: Jo Kreiter, Composer: Jewlia Eisenberg and Shazad Ismali. Acknowledging the complicated, problematic, and honorable history of solidarity between Black and Jewish movements for social change. |
CounterPulse,
San Francisco
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Oct. 15-24 |
San
Francisco Dance Film Festival
125 international dance films across 18 programs |
Bay Area locations and
online
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Oct. 16 - 17 |
Epiphany
Dance Theater
San Francisco Trolley Dances From the Castro to the East Cut with site-specific performances by Babatunji & Charmaine, Epiphany Dance Theater, Joe Landini & Dancers, La Mezcla, Parangal Dance Company, and Rising Rhythm. |
Admission to SFTD is
free, but reservations
for the in-person tours will be limited.
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Oct. 30, 12:00 - 2:00 pm |
Oakland Museum of
California
Oakland Ballet Company Lunchtime Sessions: Music, Dance, and Storytelling in the Garden Free and open to the public. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own blankets to sit on as they lounge on the lawn. |
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Oct. 18 - 24 |
SF
International Arts Festival
Includes Sha Sha Higby, SISK Dance, STEAMROLLER Dance Company, and others. |
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Oct. 21, 5:30 pm |
2021 Arts Medallion
Reception & Ceremony
Honoring Helgi Tomasson San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson will be presented with the San Francisco Arts Medallion for his outstanding leadership in the arts. |
Saint
Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco
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Oct 21–22 |
Cal Performances
Pilobolus BIG FIVE-OH! 50th anniversary program ranges from signature works from vintage classics to the company’s trendsetting innovative work in shadow. |
Zellerbach
Hall, UC Berkeley
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Oct. 22-Nov. 5 |
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
and ODC Theater
SKETCH 11: Interrupted October 22 digital streaming of Amy Seiwert’s “By Any Other Name” and Ben Needham-Wood’s “Waiting for…” or on-demand access through November 5. Pays homage to the worldwide disruption of the pandemic and reconceives Imagery’s original plan on a smaller scale. |
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Oct. 22 - 23, 8:00 pm |
AXIS Dance
re:surge Features three world premieres by prolific disabled and non-disabled choreographers: Roots Above Ground by Marc Brew Flora Hereafter: how flowers survive by Neve Mazique Bianco Hold Fast by Sonsherée Giles |
Z
Space Theater, San Francisco
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Oct. 22 7:30 PM Oct. 24, 5:00 PM |
San
Francisco Performances
PIVOT Festival Post:ballet and The Living Earth Show Lyra This take on the age-old story of Orpheus and Eurydice features music by Samuel Adams, choreography by Vanessa Thiessen, and the cinematography of Benjamin Tarquin, and is a highly collaborative synthesis of dance, projected film, live music, and new spatial sound technology. |
Taube
Atrium Theater, San Francisco
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Oct. 23, 7:00 PM
& 8:15 PM Oct. 24, 2:00 PM & 3:15 PM Oct. 23 In-person and virtual Oct. 24 In-person only |
Kinetech Arts and
ODC Theater
Passage |
ODC
Theater, San Francisco
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Oct. 24, 7:00pm-9:00pm |
San Francisco Dance
Film Festival
Bay Area Shorts Features seventeen dance films and a performance from LINES Ballet dancer Babatunji Johnson. |
Brava
Theater, San Francisco
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Oct. 29, 6:00 PM
Oct. 30, 5:00 PM |
RAWdance and ODC Theater
TAKE 3 RAWdance’s three Co-Artistic Directors offer an evening of dynamic digital dance, created for the stage and re-envisioned for film. |
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